Jamison Dance:
@jergason | Blog | GitHub | Fivestack | Soft Skills Engineering Podcast | React Rally

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We say goodbye to our friend and co-host of The Frontside Podcast, Brandon Hays.

Brandon Hays:
@tehviking | blog

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BRANDON: Hello, everybody and welcome to Frontside Podcast Episode 48. It is a podcast, as you can tell from the intro music, about woodworking and dads and dads working with wood.

CHARLES: And power washing wood.

In this episode, Noel Rappin, developer at Table XI, comes on the show to talk about his new book, Take My Money: Accepting Payment on the Web.

Noel Rappin:
@noelrap | blog | GitHub

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In this episode, Yehuda Katz, co-founder of Tilde, OSS enthusiast, and world traveler, talks about what's in store for Ember.

Yehuda Katz:
@wycats | blog | GitHub

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In this episode, Sarah Mei, founder of RailsBridge, Director of Ruby Central, and Chief Consultant of DevMynd Software, talks about the way we write software: What’s right? What’s wrong? How can we do better?

The conversation examines changing code and reassessing needs. i.e.: "Does it bring me joy? Should I get rid of this thing? Do I understand this code?" She also talks about what these needs mean for others on a team.

Downfall of 2016

It’s Fall season but with the current state of the world, it certainly feels like an extinction event is just around the corner. Clowns, Hurricane Matthew, and our country’s infamous election has created a cold front of fear. Our social media feeds have been inundated in divisiveness and negativity. In the midst of this dark season, I had registered for Ruby DCamp and was ecstatic to disconnect from it all and attend my first DCamp experience.

Downfall of 2016

It’s Fall season but with the current state of the world, it certainly feels like an extinction event is just around the corner. Clowns, Hurricane Matthew, and our country’s infamous election has created a cold front of fear. Our social media feeds have been inundated in divisiveness and negativity. In the midst of this dark season, I had registered for Ruby DCamp and was ecstatic to disconnect from it all and attend my first DCamp experience.

In this episode, LaToya Allen, developer at Big Cartel and founder of SheNomads talks about apprenticeship and mentoring, finding community while working remotely, how companies can be more inclusive for hiring women and people of diverse backgrounds in technology, and avoiding burnout and maintaining balance.

LaToya Allen:
@HashtagLaToya | latoya@shenomads.com

In this episode, Leah Silber, CEO of Tilde, Inc. and Ember.js core team member talks about what she's learned building communities, organizing events, and running a business. We talk about how people can move from "observer" to "participant" and grow their own healthy communities and companies.

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In this episode we cover how to handle apprenticeship, share with listeners how they can start participating in mentoring and apprenticeship in their companies and communities, and help people to understand the impact apprenticeship and mentoring can have on everybody involved.

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open-source-ember-apps: A list of open source Ember apps

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