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Susan Adelokiki
Are you a newbie in software development and sometimes feel lost? Or are you a non-technical manager of developers and finding it difficult to navigate some of the conversations in your team? You are in the right place! Here, we simplify topics in software development and share tips to help build a career in technology
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1: 14 - Episode 1 recap
1:26 - Episode 2 recap
2:10 - Episode 3 recap
2:24 - Episode 4 recap
2:46 - Episode 5 recap
3:05 - Episode 6 recap
3:31 - Episode 7 recap
3:55 - Episode 8 recap
4:26 - Episode 9, 10, and 11 recap
5:02 - Episode 12 recap
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00:14 - Introducing Adora
1:10 - The Inspiration behind the name "Big Nenz"
3:30 - How Adora got into tech
25:33 - Startup vs FAANG
26:21 - What Adora would do differently as a newbie
27:33 - Worst advice Adora has gotten
29:25 - How Adora deals with imposter syndrome
34:16 - About Adora's book
35:51 - Top 3 things Adora finds fascinating
39:50 - Adora's last words
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00:26 - Welcome!
Listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of this series
1:14 - Check out my Youtube
2:30 - Create a safe place
2:57 - Face the problem and not the person
5:07 - Encourage dialogue and feedback
6:06 - Don't hesitate in identifying where you might have done things better
7:38 - Be respectful
8:54 - Sometimes sugar coat, sometimes, no coat
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0:24 - Welcome newcomers and OGs
1:31 - Review of last week's episode. Listen to Part 1 of this series here
2:05 - Check out my Youtube
2:16 - Register for ConnectRecharge here
3:01 - Ways to resolve conflicts in software engineering teams
3:37 - Detect them early
4:59 - Bring up the conversation(technical debate) to a bigger group
6:01 - Hop on a call instead of being a keyboard warrior
7:41 - Involve your manager
8:35 - Bring in leadership/HR
9:37 - Say goodbye
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0:25 - Welcome
0:36 - Gist about my bae-cation
1:58 - "Hilarious" response on Quora about handling conflicts in software engineering teams
3:23 - Forms of software engineering team conflicts
5:30 - Benefits of conflicts
6:58 - Pull requests as a major source of conflict
9:38 - Not being aligned with team standards as a cause of conflict
10:01 - Deciding on the app's architecture
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0:24 - Welcome and Introducing Ashikodi
1:23 - How Ashikodi got into tech
2:11 - What work-life balance means to Ashikodi
5:04 - Is work-life balance really a thing?
12:34 - Some signs of burnout
13:15 - What ways can perfectionists get past always getting burnt out?
17:13 - How Ashikodi would identify a team member who is burnt out and how to handle the situation?
20:05 - How do you ensure you meet up with your goals while making sure an area of your life is not suffering?
21:16 - More thoughts on work-life balance
22:35 - Ashikodi's top 3 picks
25:50 - Last words
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0:24 - Welcome and Introducing Chijioke
1:37 - How CJ got into tech
7:31 - How his CS degree helped him as a Programmer
9:24 - The point where CJ decided to start building a product
12:40 - How he found the courage to start building full-time with no "backup plan"
14:46 - First challenges encountered when Remote Africa started
19:00 - How he finds the fine balance between low-level processes and managing big picture stuff
27:15 - CJ's advice for developers with an entrepreneurial streak but "stuck" in their jobs
30:36 - What CJ would do differently if he had to start afresh
33:19 - CJ'S hope for Remote Africa in the next 5-7 years
39:33 - Top three picks
- "The total money makeover" by Davey Ramsey
- "The power of habits" by Charles Duhigg
- Anime
41:10 - Some fasting tips
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0:26 - Welcome, Tolu and Stephen!!
0:52 - About Tolu
1:17 - About Stephen
2:04 - What is Imposter Syndrome?
2:31 - Tolu's first encounter with Imposter Syndrome in tech
4:12 - Stephen's experience with Imposter syndrome in tech
7:31 - Signs that make you identify that you have imposter syndrome
13:41 - Different perceived expressions of the imposter syndrome
19:12 - How can you deal with imposter syndrome?
27:31 - Tolu's interest in Krav Maga
29:58 - Stephen's "passion" for Massage therapy
36:55 - A word of advice!
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00:21 - Welcome welcome!
1:21 - Assumptions about legacy code writer
2:05 - Reasons for changing software
3:18 - Things to keep in mind when making the bold changes
- Take ownership
- Visit code documentation and code comments
- Add tests before making changes
- Ask for help
- Know when to say goodbye
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00:27 - Welcome !
1:05 - console.time() and console.timeEnd()
3:18 - Asynchronous Javascript
5:27 - Destructuring
6:45 - Numbers to String and String to Numbers
7:48 - Short circuit conditionals
9:36 - Sets
10:12 - Equality
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00:27 - Welcome welcome!
00:57 - What you need to do to put your website online
1:19 - Get a custom domain name
1:42 - Why we use domain names - https://www.rewirewithsusan.com/1161119/4733081-what-happens-when-i-visit-google-com
1:59 - Types of domain endings
3:06 - Get a web hosting service
4:03 - Wire up domain and hosting service
4:19 - Now, go live with your website!
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00:24 - Welcome
00:36 - Russia/Ukraine crises
1:49 - Mentorship
4:12 - Constructive criticism
7:50 - Be a part of the why and not just the how
10:01 - Read the documentation
11:17 - Don't be sentimental about your code
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00:26 - Welcome back !!
1:51 - Web 3.0
- 2:42 - What is Web 1.0 & Web 2.0
- 4:23 - What is Web 3.0 doing differently?
- 6:02 - Blockchain
8:38 - AI-Powered chatbots
9:10 - Dark mode UI
10:05 - Immersive technologies
- 10:25 - Information age to Imagination age
- 11:00 - Virtual reality
- 11:31 - Augmented reality
- 12:01 - Mixed reality
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0:40 - Welcome Matt!
0:57 - A peek into Matt's background
1:58 - What made Matt move from being an individual contributor to management?
3:11 - Matt's management style when he started out VS now
4:22 - How Matt stays fresh with fast-changing technologies while actively managing people
7:15 - Matt's thoughts about a non-technical person leading an engineering team
9:41 - What else could Engineers talk about during one on ones with their managers besides status updates?
13:04 - Matt's best part about being a chef
16:38 - Matt's approach to getting sincere feedback from people he manages
18:51 - Resources that Matt uses in building his management skills
21:30 - A word of advice from Matt for newbie Engineering Managers
23:40 - Two truths and a lie - Susan vs Matt!
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Managing humans by Micheal Lopp
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Book free mentorship sessions here 00:27 - Welcome Welcome! 00:48 - Dad joke of the day
1:06 - What is testing in Software development?
1:30 - What is a software bug?
2: 10 - Quick ad on "Wierd developer stories"
2:46 - Unsettling situations in history as a result of software bugs
4:28 - Different types of bugs
- Security bug
- Functional bug
- Performance bug
- Error handling
- Regression bug
8:14 - Things to look out for when testing
8:52 - Levels of testing
- Unit testing
- Integration testing
- System testing
- Acceptance testing
Quick question: Why the use for testers, when software devs can write tests?
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This episode is a rerun of episode 11, Season 1 from September 2021 with a little peek into what's coming up in the final episode. You definitely want to listen till the end!
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1:11 - Welcome Rebecca!
1:33 - A peek into Rebecca's world
3:10 - Rebecca's experience transitioning through programming, design, and management and the hard parts
7:15 - How transitioning between these paths has impacted her values, processes, and decision making as a CEO
8:57 - How to deal with situations where product managers are not aligned with engineers on building solutions.
11:36 - Rebecca's vision for Little Otter
14:31 - Rebecca's thoughts about common issues with being a woman in tech.
20:20 - Rebecca's work-life balance
23:38 - Two truths and a lie - Susan vs Rebecca!
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0:25 - Welcome Welcome!
0:40 - Am I an extroverted introvert or an introverted introvert?
1:38 - What differentiates an introvert from an extrovert?
2:12 - Reasons why Introverted engineers might not contribute much verbally
2:47 - The importance of having a diversity of personalities within a team
3:33 - Why communication is important for the software engineer
6:11 - How to improve your communication skills
- Active listening
- Add structure
- Don't run away from public speaking
- Try not to be the invisible man/woman in the room
- Know your audience
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Join RWS Slack community here0:24 - How is your August going?
1:54 - How did Progressive web apps come about?
4:14 - PWAs give us the best of both worlds - Web applications and native apps
4:55 - Benefits of PWAs
- Could save you the need to build a native app
- Reliability
- Installability
- Always have the most updated version
- Push notifications
6:33 - Companies that have introduced PWAs
8:30 - Criteria for a web application to be a PWA
- Secure context
- Service workers
- Manifest file
11:00 - Drawbacks of PWAs
- Browser support
- Battery life
- They can't do everything native apps can do
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0:48 - Peek into Ugo's bio
1:45 - What remote work is like at Google
4:12 - What Ugo's experience has been so far at Google that's quite different from other companies
7:26 - Most challenging experience so far in Ugo's career
9:24 - What Ugo considers are some ways to create an innovative environment both as an engineer and an employee
12:42 - Best advice Ugo has gotten as an engineer
14:15 - How Ugo handles imposter syndrome
21:28 - Ugo's thoughts on making the decision between working at a FAANG or a startup
25:54 - Ugo's advise on getting a job at a FAANG and acing the technical interview
29:05 - Two truths and a lie - Susan vs Ugo!
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Ugo's GO-TO resources for preparing for his FAANG interviews
- Non-technical topics
- System Design
- Coding interview
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0:29 - Welcome, Welcome
0:37 - Reasons why people switch careers
2:15 - My transitioning-into-tech story
3:40 - 4 things to consider when making the switch
- 3:55 - Look before you leap, figure out why you need the switch
- 5:16 - Research, research, research
- 7:00 - Learn how to learn
- 7:59 - Network
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1:30 - What does accessibility mean?
2:00 - Web accessibility
2:50 - Different types of disabilities
3:52 - The difference between web performance and web accessibility
4:41 - Why should you care about accessibility?
6:09 - Best practices to follow in building with accessibility in mind
9:50 - Tools to analyze the accessibility of your website
- Accessibility developer tools
- Axe
- Colour contrast analyzer
- Wave evaluation tool
- Jaws and NVDA - supported by windows
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0:33 - How everyone feels about slow websites?
2:00 - What is web performance?
2:39 - How can you tell the performance of a website?
3:11 - Why do some sites feel heavy or sluggish
4:15 - Why should you care about your web performance
6:12 - What can I do to ensure a better web performance?
10:06 - Tools to check your web performance
- Page speed insight
- Firefox network monitor
- Performance monitor
- Chrome’s lighthouse
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DeepMind Computer Science Scholarships for Black women: Apply here2:25 - Welcome Yetty!
3:00 - Yetty's experience leaving her 9 to 5 and heading back to the classroom
6:00 - Reasons Yetty went to grad school
9:52- Some things she would do differently if she had to start all over
13:58 - Difference between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Robotics
18:35 - Some factors to consider in deciding to go for a Master's degree or not in the AI/ML space + Other alternatives.
23:34 - Tips for landing a job while still in grad school
28:36 - Two truth and a lie - Yetty vs Susan!
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0:26 - Welcome, Tolu and Stephen!!
0:52 - About Tolu
1:17 - About Stephen
2:04 - What is Imposter Syndrome?
2:31 - Tolu's first encounter with Imposter Syndrome in tech
4:12 - Stephen's experience with Imposter syndrome in tech
7:31 - Signs that make you identify that you have imposter syndrome
13:41 - Different perceived expressions of the imposter syndrome
19:12 - How can you deal with imposter syndrome?
27:31 - Tolu's interest in Krav Maga
29:58 - Stephen's "passion" for Massage therapy
36:55 - A word of advice!
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0:22 - Welcome to the Penultimate episode!
1:03 - Question 1: What times do I reach out to ask for help or struggle with a problem on my own?
03:31 - Question 2: How do I remain relevant in the tech space?
4:51 - Question 3: How do I deal with a difficult co-worker in my team?
6:02 - Question 4: What are some of the mistakes I might be making as a newbie in tech?
- Jumping right into a task without properly clarifying requirements, or thinking about maintainability, scalability, or performance.
- Always waiting to be told what to do
- Communication
- Compromising on your health because of work
- Being emotionally attached to your code
Dealing with burnout
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0:20 - Welcome Welcome!
0:30 - Who is Tosin Akinbitu?
- Final year student at the Department of Zoology, Obafemi Awolowo University
- An education advocate who has worked with different NGOs on kids' education and youth empowerment.
- Has an NGO called Changemakers Youth Empowerment Initiative which focuses on quality education
1:50 - Her first experience with coding
4:02 - How meeting people for help and google played parts in building knowledge
6:45 - How mentorship programs have made an impact in her learning process
8:36 - Her most interesting project built so far 😱
11:50 - Resources that helped her with Data Science
12:50 - Challenges she faced when starting out
- Network and Power issues
15:20 - Top three(ish) picks
- Time travel
- Watching horror movies in dark rooms 👻
16:52 - Last words
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0:22 - Welcome!!
0:33 - Short recap from last week
0:56 - Please share your feedback about the podcast in this google form
1:10 - SQL Injection
- Injecting malicious SQL statements into the database through the user input
- 2:23 - How to prevent
- Treat user input as untrusted - Filter and validate
2:43 - Security misconfiguration
- Happens when a part of your web application is defenseless against attack
- Using default credentials
- Allowing users to have access to information about the application through the stack trace
- 4:18 - How to prevent
- Don't overshare information
- Have a minimal footprint for the different components of your application
- Don't keep default accounts, files, or directories
5:14 - Broken authentication
- Happens when an attacker masquerades as a user through. different means
- Credential stuffing: using known breached accounts
- Automated attacks: using random credentials
- Default(lazy) credentials
- Stolen session Ids
- 8:46 - How to prevent
- The web server could be used to create unique session ids different from the ones created by the browser
- Add a limit to failed logins
- Muti-factor authentication
- Password complexity
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00:25 - Welcome to #tech-goodness Tuesday!
00:40 - The good and ugly parts of modern browsers.
3:45 - XSS(Cross-site scripting)
- 4:34 - How does it happen?
- 8:24 - Ways to prevent it
- Filter and sanitize user input(Escaping)
- Use appropriate response headers
11:32 - CSRF(Cross-site Request Forgery)
- 12:05 - How does it happen?
- 13:47 - Who is vulnerable?
- 14:34 - Ways to prevent it
- CSRF tokens
- Validate request origin
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0:24 - Happy new month
0:38 - Intro to "Auth"entication & "Auth"orization
1:17 - An illustration of what authentication is
2:43 - Common authentication factors
- Single-factor authentication
- Two-factor authentication (2FA)
- Multi-factor authentication
4:29 - What is authorization?
5:19 - How do they intersect?
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0:39 - Toyosi's bio.
1:29 - The good and ugly impacts of COVID.
2:39 - Common challenges around working with other software teams.
5:20 - How Toyosi goes about ensuring code quality in her team.
8:10 - Some "factors" that might propel vs deter women from getting into the field of technology.
10:35 - Thoughts on thriving in a male-dominated field.
13:28 - Top 3 picks
- Successful-people-stalking prowess.
- Top boy
- Food, supplements and how they affect the human body
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0:26 - Welcome!
0:54 - Dad joke special
1:20 - Link to "About Databases(Part 1)"
1:30 - Relational and Non-relational databases
4:00 - Common terms associated with databases
- 4:12 - Query
- 5:43 - Tables, rows, and columns
- 7:12 - Foreign key
- 7:37 - JOIN
9:46 - Types of database relationships
- 10:06 - "One-to-one" relationship
- 11:00 - "One-to-many" relationship
- 12:51 - "Many-to-many" relationship
13:40 - See you next week!
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0:25 - Welcome!
0:45 - Who has had Basa steak?
1:45 - What is data?
2:57 - What are databases?
3:41 - What does a database look like?
4:01 - Why you need a database
- Size
- Eliminate redundancy
- Security
- Accuracy of information
6:36 - See you next week ✌️
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0:26 - Welcome to 2021(finally)!!!
1:24 - When coding becomes a hobby and your best friend
2:01 - Signs of burnout
3:08 - What burnout is?
4:11 - Causes of burnout
- Unrealistic expectations on a task or work done
- Long hours in front of your computer
- Poor team relationship
- Same routine
- Exercise/Sleep
- Context switching
7:23 - Burnout prevention
- Take time off!
- Learn new things to keep the brain fresh
- Take breaks during the day
- Exercise, sleep, and nutrition
- Spend time with homies
- Seeing and talking to a therapist
10:12 - Health is Wealth!
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0:43 - Benefits of APIs to businesses
1:40 - Commonly used APIs
- Facebook API
- Google Maps API
- Youtube data API
- Amazon s3 API
- Stripe API
5:06 - Happy new year in advance!
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0:22 - Introduction
0:50 - Find out if you've ever interacted with an API
1:50 - Application Programming Interface
2:27 - Communication between multiple software applications
3:35 - Correlation between your favorite restaurant and an API
5:21- Different types of requests the API accepts: GET, PUT, POST, DELETE
7:16 - Merry Christmas!
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0:26 - Dara's life story(bio)
1:38 - What dev life is like right now (through the COVID lens )
3:17 - Thoughts on Vue
5:26 - How Jack(CEO. Twitter) gushed about Dara's work
7:26 - How Quoted Replies came to Life
9:28 - Challenges that came with building Quoted Replies.
12:53 - About @hideunwantedreplies
14:04 - Skills that helped build Dara up
- A desire to continuously improve
- Endless curiosity
- Challenging himself
16:54 - Dara's Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/uncledara
17:40 - Top 3 picks
- About time
- Johnny From Flesh
- The final hour
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0.36 - Welcome back, y'all!!
1:40 - Code review, explained.
2:40 - What pull requests and merge requests are
3:04 - Pair programming as a form of code review
4:00 - Reading code vs Writing code
5:03 - Some conditions to check before approving pull requests or merge requests
6:04 - Not approving code vs blindly approving
6:52 - Code comment etiquettes
8:14 -Being generous with examples
9:28 - Keeping code destined for review short
10:32 - Communicating clearly
11:40 - De-escalating early
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0:20 - Season Finale, Yaay!
1:30 - Introduction to "Alternative career paths for developers"
2:26 - Data Science
3:06 - Netflix documentary(sneak peek): The social dilemma
4:01 - DevOps
5:09 - QA Engineering
6:08 - Embedded Systems Engineering
7:00 - My "undying" love for Electronics in school 😩
7:35 - Sales Engineer
9:45 - Till we meet again in Season 2!
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0:17 - Introduction to "So you think your code is clean"
0.39 - Martin Fowler's quote on Clean code
2:20 - Easily readable at first sight, easy to maintain.
3:00 - Practices that make code unreadable:
- Poor variable and function names
- Multi-purpose functions
- Deeply nested conditionals
- Comments that speak louder than the code
- Poor indentation
- Testing
- Practice
7:40 - Closing.
**Watch out for the Season Finale next week!
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- What technical debt means from Episode 1?
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In this episode, Susan takes a deep dive into why a framework is useful particularly for web development projects.
0:24 - Episode 10, We made it!
0:53 - Introduction
1.55 - How using a framework helped with scaling up a project I worked on in the past
3:26 - Reusable components
4:12 - Integration with third-party libraries
5:26 - Keeping UI consistent
5:54 - Maintainable codebase
7:30 - Community
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In this episode of Rewire with Susan, Susan explains what frameworks are, why they are useful in building applications, and the popular ones that are commonly used for frontend development.
0:17 - Introduction to "Keeping up with Frameworks"
1:05 - What is a framework?
- A simple analogy.
- Frameworks in web development.
2:03 - Most popular frameworks
- Who developed them?
- What makes them so great?
- Companies that use these frameworks
- The cons associated with them
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- Front end vs Back end vs Full-stack development
- React
- Angular
- Vue
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We'll discuss some mind-boggling questions that people have about programming
- Do web design and web development mean the same thing?
- What's the difference between coding and programming?
- I want to start coding today!! Where do I start from? 🤯
- Where can I learn to code?
Supporting Links.
1) Learning to Code: Where to start - Julia Haigh
2) Codecademy
3) Freecodecamp
4) Frontendmasters
5) Udemy
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Are you a developer, a designer, or just someone who works with files? On this episode, you’ll learn about:
- Version control.
- What makes Git a super cool tool for tracking changes in files and source code, for collaboration and other great stuff.
- 1001 reasons why you should GIT up! ;) (Joking, they aren't up to a thousand, don't sue me please).
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We discuss:
- What pair programming is.
- The value that pair programming brings to software teams.
- The reasons why some people do not embrace it.
- Some etiquettes of pair programming.
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- What makes a developer front end, back end or full stack?
- What do the roles entail, what skills do they need to have?
- Which do you consider best for you? Would you consider doing a switch if you had the opportunity?
We'll discuss these on this episode!
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On this episode, you will learn about the important things that happen behind the scene to ensure that you visit that webpage successfully.
We discuss about how the web works, what clients and servers are, the reasons why you sometimes see that annoying 404 page when you visit a website.
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Where do I start, there's so much to learn! Should I still be googling stuff, Am I a fraud?. We'll be discussing this and more on this episode.
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In this episode, we discuss the reasons why a number of people consider a career in programming and drill down into some major skills you want to build if you decide the take the plunge.
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In this episode, we highlight what technical debt means, how it is incurred by software teams and its impact on the team and organization.
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