A few weeks ago I told Bart off the air that when he was done with his mini-series within a series all about the version control system Git, I’d like a few minutes with him offline so he could explain how to ignore files in Git. I knew there was a way to do it […]
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Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show on the topic of technology, or sometimes just with someone really interesting.
CCATP #691 – Melissa Davis on Setting up iPhone for Vintage Users in a Dignified Way
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Melissa Davis, aka TheMacMommy joins me to give us her tips for setting up an iPhone for a “Vintage User”, in a dignified way. If you’ve ever heard Melissa on the Geekiest Show Ever podcast she does with Elisa Pacelli, you know she’s a fantastic […]
Continue readingCCATP #690 – Bart Busschots on PBS 119 of X — Open Source on GitHub
As promised, Bart takes us through the final step in our GitHub journey – learning how to contribute to an open source project. He explains three open source scenarios: using someone’s code exactly as-is, using their code with a few customizations of your own, and finally the most interesting scenario, customizing the code and contributing […]
Continue readingCCATP #689 – Bodie Grimm with Allison and Steve on Tesla Fiddly Bits
This week we have a very different episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Lite. On the awesome Kilowatt podcast (a show all about electric vehicles), host Bodie Grimm asked me and my husband Steve to be his guests on the show. You really shouldn’t be listening to it here, you should go subscribe to […]
Continue readingCCATP #688 – Bart Busschots on PBS 118 of X — JavaScript Apps with GitHub Pages
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us how to use a free service of GitHub called GitHub Pages. This service literally gives you free web hosting for the web apps we’ve learned to make in Programming By Stealth. Bart starts by explaining to us the difference between static and dynamic webpages, […]
Continue readingCCATP #687 – Mikah Sargent on What Thread Means for the Internet of Things
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Mikah Sargent joins us to explain why he’s so excited about what the new technology called Thread is going to bring to the Internet of Things, or IoT. You may know Mikah from the awesome show Clockwise with Dan Moren, or perhaps iOS Today with […]
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CCATP #686 – Bart Busschots on PBS #117 of X – Introducing GitHub
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart teaches us how to use GitHub as a public repository for our code, or for anything we write for that matter. He reviews why he chose Github, and then we dig right in. He does explain the benefits of using SSH to access Github instead of […]
Continue readingCCATP #685 – Bart Busschots on PBS 116 0f X – Team Git
In previous installments of our Git miniseries within a series in Programming By Stealth, Bart taught us how to work in Git standalone on one computer, then how to work as one developer with multiple computers. In those installments he taught us the necessary commands and their importance in the Git scheme of things. In […]
Continue readingCCATP #684 – Bart Busschots on PBS #115 of X – The Push & Pull of Git
When Bart started this mini-series within a series on using Git for version control, he explained that our journey would be in three Phases. Phase 1 was the section where we learned about local repositories, and Phase two was dedicated to learning how to have multiple repositories just for ourselves. In this lesson, we finish […]
Continue readingCCATP #683 – Christophe Zajac-Denek is Kind of a Big Deal
This week’s guest is Christophe Zajac-Denek. Christophe worked as a TV producer while touring in a rock band, he’s a drummer, an actor and stuntman, a surfer, a journalist, a podcaster, and public speaker. He’s also 4’4” tall and has a rare form of dwarfism. Christophe hosts an amazing podcast entitled “I’m Kind of a […]
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