Code Maven: Recent Episodes
Gabor Szabo
Interview with Job van Achterberg, a freelancer in the Netherlands, about implementing accessibility in websites. We got a wonderful list of tools and suggestions on how to make our website accessible to more people!
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Interview with Timi Ajiboye, a great discussion of his view of open source, and his work in Ruby, his favorite Ruby Gems, and his new projects in Sails.js!
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Interview with Moyinoluwa Adeyemi about her Yorùbá Watch Faces app, available on the Google Play Store for Android phones, and her Face Detector work, now on GitHub, but perhaps soon it will be an Android app. Moyinoluwa also tells us about the great developers now available in Nigeria!
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Interview with Jan Henning Thorsen and Marcus Ramberg about Convos, their open source messaging and chatroom app, with many features. It's written in Perl and uses Mojolicious!
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Interview with Prosper Otemuyiwa from Nigeria about Laravel, being a GDE and a lot of other things.
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Interview with Johnny Ray Austin about how changed his major from aerospace engineering to computer science and found the field he loves! He's now the Director of Technology at ISL (formerly called iStrategy Labs), which does a lot of social media AOR (agency of record), website design/development, applications, and content work. The ISL Mo project, available on their GitHub, includes skeletons for static, Django, and Node.js website deployments, to allow developers to get up and running in minutes, with a framework that complies with current best standards.
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Interview with Trung Đinh Quang from Vietnam is talking about GitHub Explorer his showcase for progressive web app and the Windows 7 clone.
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Interview with Randal Schwartz the host of the FLOSS weekly netcast and the most prolific author of Perl books.
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Interview with Mohammad Anwar on his contribution to CPAN. Mohammad has released a Perl module to CPAN every single day in the last 699 day and he still going strong.
Hear him talk about the inspiration.
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Interview with Michael Kennedy, the host of the Talk Python To Me podcast and the author of several Talk Python Training courses.
We talked about a number of project that were discussed on his show: Scrapy, passlib, hypothesis, Pyjithon, and sqlalchemy.
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Interview with Ire Aderinokun about Khaled Bot a Slack-bot, The (Unofficial) CanIUse Embed, and Formhack a configurable form reset.
In which I've also learned what are CSS resets and heared about progressive web apps.
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Interview with Lynn Cyrin Conway about being a project manager at Ruby Together and deal with Bundler and RubyGems.
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Interview with Obinwanne Hill on RestiveJS a JQuery plugin to help create responsive web sites without having to deal with Media Query.
He also told how he got into web programming in Nigeria in the '90s.
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Interview with Tally Barak on how a 13 year old girl inspired her to get into programming. Getting back to programming after a 15 year long break. The impact of GitHub and Open Source.
Our main subject however is GraphQL being the next big thing after SOAP and REST.
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Interview with Lucy Greco about DictationBridge an Open Source tool to connect screen readers and speech-input software to help the blind and visually impaired.
We also talked a lot about accesibility in general and accessibility of web sites in specific.
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Interview with Tom Hudson about gron, the command line tool that makes JSON greppable.
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Mojolicious is a modern, non-blocking Web framework in Perl. Joel Berger member of the development team talks about the project and on how to get started with it.
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Interview with Sawyer X, the current Pumpkin of Perl 5 about the Perl 5 Porters and the programming language in general. He also explains the difference between Amsterdam.pm and AmsterdamX.pm.
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Interview with Jason A. Crome one of the core developers of the Perl Dancer web framework. We talked about how he got involved in the project and how they handled the upgrade process from Dancer 1 to Dancer 2 to avoid breaking any of the plugins.
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