Frontend Union Podcast: Recent Episodes
Andrey Salomatin
Frontend Union Conf is a yearly conference about interface design and development. In the podcast, we interview speakers and attendees, share the most recent news about the conference.
Today on the podcast we have Ilya Pukhalski. We talk about chat bots, their use cases, variations and challenges people face developing them.
Guest: Ilya Pukhalski https://twitter.com/pukhalski https://github.com/pukhalski
Links: Meekan, a bot for scheduling meetings: https://meekan.com/slack/
Slack Bot API https://api.slack.com/bot-users Kik Bot Dashboard https://dev.kik.com/#/home Skype Bot API https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/bots/docs/api/chat An article by Seth Rosenberg "How To Build Bots for Messenger" https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2016/04/12/bots-for-messenger/
Books:
Spencer Johnson, Kenneth H. Blanchard "Who Moved my Cheese" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4894.Who_Moved_My_Cheese_ Steve Krug "Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18197267-don-t-make-me-think-revisited Books by Guy Kawasaki http://guykawasaki.com/books/
Host: Andrey Salomatin https://twitter.com/filipovskii
Princiya is coming to Frontend Union Conf to share some insights about Natural User Interfaces and how can we create them in the browser.
On the podcast we talk about her work, startups and interesting books.
Follow Princiya on Twitter: https://twitter.com/princi_ya
Check out the conference: http://frontend-union.co/
Resources:
Aiaioo Labs Blog https://aiaioo.wordpress.com/ Douglas Crockford "JavaScript: The Good Parts" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2998152-javascript Kyle Simpson "You Don't Know JS" series https://www.goodreads.com/series/139311-you-don-t-know-js
Our guest today is Oleg Podsechin. A developer, an entrepreneur, a founder of meetups in Moscow, Helsinki and St. Petersburg.
We talk about challenges of running a meetup, Oleg’s background, must-read books and more.
If you complete the challenge from Oleg, you'll have a chance to get a free ticket!
Guest: Oleg Podsechin - https://twitter.com/olegpodsechin
Resources:
Meetabit – a platform for meetups https://meetabit.com/ MoscowJS http://moscowjs.ru/ HelsinkiJS https://meetabit.com/communities/2 PiterJS https://meetabit.com/communities/1 Helsinki Meta Meetup https://meetabit.com/communities/5
Books:
Douglas Crockford "JavaScript: The Good Parts" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do Ash Maurya "Running Lean" http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13078769-running-lean
The challenge:
CommunityJS is a list of JS and front end developer communities around the world. To take part in the challenge, go to https://github.com/CommunityJS/CommunityJSData and create a pull request with as many new communities as you can find that aren't already listed in the main repo or other pull requests. Then, tweet out a link to your PR @frontend_union. The winner will be whoever creates a PR with the most number of new communities by August 9th.
We're starting a series of interviews with speakers from #func2106. Our first guest is Martin Splitt. At the conference, he will talk about building interactive worlds in WebGL.
We speak about applications of 3D graphics in the browser, Martin’s talk, must-read books and interesting presentations.
If you answer the question from Martin at the end of the show, you'll have a chance to get a free ticket!
Guest: Martin Splitt - https://twitter.com/g33konaut http://geekonaut.de/ Martin’s experiments - http://geekonaut.de/experiments.html
Resources:
WebGL https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_API ThreeJS http://threejs.org/ A-Frame https://aframe.io/
Books:
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs https://www.amazon.com/Structure-Interpretation-Computer-Programs-Engineering/dp/0262510871 The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error https://www.amazon.com/Field-Guide-Understanding-Human-Error/dp/0754648265 Don't Make Me Think https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/0321344758 Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882
Talks:
Raquel Vélez: Evolution of a Developer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP1q6oIVco4 JavaScript: The Good Parts - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do Denis Radin: Rendering HTML via WebGL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oGQucDOaoY Steven Wittens: Making WebGL Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNO_CYUjMK8
