Bart Busschots and I both had a great time doing the challenge this week. In this week’s installment Bart takes us through his homework not in a detailed step-by-step method, but rather he goes through some major structural ways he created his code. He digs deep enough to explain why but it’s a great lesson […]
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CCATP #592 — Bart Busschots on PBS 77 of X — More Callbacks & More AJAX
Bart Busschots starts this week’s episode with a great refresher on what a callback actually is (because I have remained mystified by the term). He starts with simple examples and then shows us how we’ve been using callbacks all along and just didn’t realize it. Then he’ll walk through the challenge solution and the extra […]
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CCATP #591 — Kaylee Dayo on Building JavaScript Games to Teach English in Japan
Kaylee is an English language teacher at primary schools in Japan. But she doesn’t just whip out a dusty old grammar book and drone on about when to use a gerund! She has mad programming and maker skills and she puts them to use in engaging the children. She has reproduced 1980s TV game shows […]
Continue readingCCATP #590 – Bart Busschots on PBS 76 of X – AJAX with jQuery
In this week’s episode, we have another in our series Programming By Stealth with Bart Busschots. We’ll spend the majority of our time talking about Bart’s solution to last week’s challenge. It’s a great refresher on the methods he’s taught us in the past, all rolled together with our newfound skills with Mustaches and templating. […]
Continue readingCCATP #589 – Bart Busschots on PBS 75 of X – AJAX Intro
In this episode of Programming By Stealth we get the foundation to start learning about AJAX. Bart gives us an overview of HTTP that is really interesting. I learned so much that I didn’t know about what you can see in a URL. I know this sounds super nerdy but I loved learning about query […]
Continue readingCCATP #588 – Jeff Gamet on TextExpander Evangelism
Jeff Gamet of Smile joins us to talk about the life of an Evangelist for TextExpander. We talk about some of the cool things you can do with TextExpander that you may not know about, how TextExpander works on Windows now, how awesome Jean MacDonald was when she was in this job and even funny […]
Continue readingCCATP #587 – Bart Busschots on Programming By Stealth 74 of X
In this week’s Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us the last two concepts in Mustache, one of which is a real head bender and for me at least, the second was almost as hard. The first is how you can add an optional third argument to a Mustache view which is actually a function […]
Continue readingCCATP #586 – Bart Busschots on Free, Freemium, Free-for-now & Freepi
This week our guest is Bart Busschots but this is not Programming By Stealth. This week we’re talking about Bart’s recent post about the different types of free that are available for online services. We talk about his four categories: Free, Freemium, Free-for-now & Freepi (rhymes with creepy). It’s a thoughtful discussion about understanding what […]
Continue readingCCATP #585 – Bart Busschots on PBS 73 – Mustache Templates
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots teaches us about Mustache Templates. Mustache Templates are a library that allows you to input any string and output a string. Unlike the template tag for HTML5, Mustaches are not restricted to HTML snippets. Mustache isn’t the only game in town but it’s Bart’s favorite. I […]
Continue readingCCATP #584 – Dave Hamilton on Mesh Routers
Dave Hamilton of the Mac Geek Gab and The Mac Observer joins us to talk routers, and mesh routers in particular. He explains the difference between a range extender with a traditional router vs. a modern mesh router system. He explains why some IoT devices demand a dedicated 2.4GHz network (or at least they used […]
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