I’m about to go on vacation where I suspect I’ll have little to no Internet to play with. It would be really cool if I could use any downtime (like on the 11-hour plane flight) to do some programming. Unfortunately, our code is often filled with references to content delivery networks to get needed libraries […]
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CCATP #724 – Bart Busschots on PBS 137 of X — Bundling a Library with Webpack
We have one more thing to learn as we gear up to actually start writing modern code for Bart’s HSXKPasswd tool. The last piece of our tool kit is a bundler. In this installment, Bart teaches what problems bundlers solve, and he explains why he chose the bundler Webpack for our project. After learning about […]
Continue readingCCATP #717 – Bart Busschots on PBS 136 of X — More Jesting
Bart Busschots taught us the basics of Jest last time for our Test Driven Development environment. This week we learn to group our tests using the describe() function in Jest. Grouping tests with describe does more than eliminate the need to comment our code, it also provides more useful output from our tests and scopes […]
Continue readingCCATP #715 – Bart Busschots on PBS 135 of X – Introducing Jest (and re-Introducing Test Driven Development & Unit Testing)
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart takes us down memory lane to 102 episodes ago when he first introduced us to the concept of test-driven development. He explains why back then he taught us how to use QUnit for our TDD work, and why it’s no longer in favor with him. It’s […]
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CCATP #714 – Bart Busschots – PBS Tibit2 – It’s Ok to Play a Different Game!
This episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond perfectly straddles the line between Programming By Stealth and Lite. While it’s definitely a nerdy discussion topic, Bart Busschots is really just telling a story. He starts by explaining how he ended up a computer scientist essentially by accident, and tells us about a fantastic CS professor […]
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Wordle Solved by Lucas s Python SCript Speaking of Python, Dave Hamilton (of the Mac Geek Gab podcast) bragged that his son Lucas had written a solver for Wordle in Python as well. It was in a private repo on GitHub so I asked for permission to see it. I bring this up not to […]
Continue readingCCATP #713 – Bart Busschots on PBS 134 of X — Firming up our Foundations (2 of 2)
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots finishes firming up our foundation on a few more things before we meet Jest, which will be the Test Driven Development (TDD) environment we’ll be learning next time. He explains in some adorable examples involving a parrot (named Polly of course) how getters can be used […]
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NC #869 PhpStorm, Microwave Experiments, Let’s Get Small, Show Notes Explained, Ōura Ring
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, January 2, 2022, and this is show number 869. mp3 download LTA 100: December 2021 – Let’s Talk Podcasts This week I had the great pleasure of being […]
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PhpStorm – An IDE Not Just for PHP – by William Reveal
Hi Allison and fellow Castaways, long-time listener to the Podfeet family of podcasts and even longer-time developer. As is typical of me, I have been in stealth mode, supporting you through your product links. I thought I might throw in my 2 cents regarding a handy tool for coding, an IDE called PhpStorm by Jet […]
Continue readingCCATP #710 – Bart Busschots on PBS 132 of X — Managing JSDoc
In this final Programming By Stealth and final Chit Chat Across the Pond for 2021, Bart teaches us how to manage our documentation in JSDoc. As any good programmer, he insists on automating as much as he possibly can. He starts by showing us each step that we have to do at the command line, […]
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