In this turning of the century episode of Programming By Stealth, it’s time to take on a new subject: version control. As Bart explains in this week’s episode, version control allows you make changes in your code and roll the changes back. This gives us the freedom to experiment and if an idea doesn’t pan […]
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CCATP #651 – Bart Busschots on PBS 100 of X — Time Sharing Challenge Solution
In this positively delightful episode, Bart and I celebrate 100 episodes of Programming By Stealth. When we hit 99 installments, Bart declared that for 100, there should be cake! So I got Bart’s darling beloved to deliver him a piece of cake right as we started, and Steve delivered one to me. To say that […]
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CCATP #650 – Bart Busschots on Taming the Terminal 40 – Automating TMUX
This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond is an episode of Taming the Terminal, where Bart winds up our series within a series all about the Terminal command TMUX. In this final piece he teaches us first how to string commands together to create the TMUX sessions we want with the screens split and the […]
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CCATP #649 – Dr. Helma van der Linden on Creating a Book with Open Source Software
This week our guest is Dr. Helma van der Linden from the Netherlands here to talk about how she created the Taming the Terminal book using all Open Source software. On the NosillaCast I talked a lot about the book but I should probably give an explanation for the Chit Chat audience. Bart Busschots and […]
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CCATP #648 – Shaun Peterson (Qwalsius) on Art with Technology as a Native American
Shaun Peterson, who’s inherited name is Qwalsius, is a member of the Puyalup Tribe in Washington. He is a professional artist working in public sculptures, printmaking and mixed media. He utilizes technology to plan installations for major works and private commissions. He works in the Seattle area and draws inspiration from his Native American heritage […]
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CCATP #647 – Bart Busschots on Taming the Terminal 39 of n – Advanced TMUX
This week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond was another installment of Taming the Terminal. Two weeks ago Bart taught us the basics of a technology called tmux, or terminal multiplexer that allows you to access the same server in many different ways at the same time. He covered how tmux replaces the deprecated […]
Continue readingCCATP #646 – Doug Kaye on The Levelator
Doug was one of the founding forces behind podcasting (his podcast was the second one created!) He founded The Conversations Network in 2002 with the intent of coordinating a global team of volunteer podcasters to capture and publish lectures, seminars, and other significant events that would otherwise go unrecorded. Out of The Conversations Network came […]
Continue readingCCATP #645 – Bart Busschots on Taming the Terminal 38 of n – TMUX (a Screen Alternative)
When Bart first started the Taming the Terminal series in October of 2015, he purposely declared every installment to be “of n” where n was not defined. It’s been 3 years since there was an episode of Taming the Terminal, but today we’ve got a new one for you. In Taming the Terminal 36, recorded […]
Continue readingCCATP #644 – Lory Gil on WWDC
What could be more fun thank talking to iMore’s awesome managing editor, Lory Gil about the fun things that were announced at WWDC? Last time she was on, we made a date to get back together after the WWDC announcements. She had said she loves WWDC because “Everything old is new again!” because we don’t […]
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CCATP #643 – Bart Busschots on PBS 99 of X – Building with Classes Part 2: Is-A
This week Bart Busschots brings us the penultimate JavaScript installment of Programming By Stealth as he brings us part 2 of building with classes. This wraps up our third look at Object Oriented programming in JavaScript. We learn about the concept of inheritance, and how it allows us to build classes that inherit attributes and […]
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