How To Code Well

Adam Argyle is my guest on today's How To Code Well podcast and talks about working in CSS developer relations at Google Chrome. Adam talks about his background in web development and how his career has progressed at Google.  We also discuss the future of the web, how CSS is evolving and what Google Chrome features are coming soon. Adam has worked at Google for many years but has recently star...

Scott Ambler joins me to talk about Agile development in today's How To Code Well podcast Scott Ambler is a disciplined agilist and chief scientist at 'Disciplined Agile'. Scott explains what agile is and how it can benefit a projects life cycle. Scott mentions that agile is not only suited to software development and gives some great examples of where agile can be used outside of web...

Oliver Davies joins me to talk about Static Site Generators on the How To Code Well Podcast. Static Site Generators are becoming very popular in web development and they come in many shapes and sizes which cater for different website requirements. Many web development programming languages have their own flavours of static site generators such as Jeklly for Ruby, Sculpin for PHP and Gatsby for Jav...

Ines Van Essen the founder of Donate WC is my guest on today's How To Code Well podcast. Donate WC is a donation and sponsorship site that has helped many people attend WordPress WordCamps all over the world. Ines talks about the importance of donations and conference sponsorships. She also talks about the inspiration behind Donate WC and explains her background in Web Development. Donate WC h...

Have you ever wondered what it's like working at Amazon as a Software Development Manager? Well in today's How To Code Well podcast I am joined by Jacques Woodcock who talks about how he has progressed in his career and what it's like to work for Amazon. Jacques is a Software Development manager who works on internal software tools at Amazon and has worked there for over 2 years. Jacqu...

Emma Bostain is my guest on today's How To Code Well podcast and talks about how to be a better Web Developer. We discuss the many aspects of improving as a Web Developer including technical, soft and hard skills. We also talk about previous experiences that we've had in our own development journeys. Emma has a lot of experience in Programming, Leadership and Web Development and shares a l...

Today Stephen Doherty is my guest on the How To Code Well podcast and talks about learning to code over 30. Stephen is from the US and before he turned 30 worked in the family business as a life accident and health insurance agent. Once Stephen turned 30 he decided to learn how to code and is now a full time web developer working in a digital agency. Stephen talks about how he taught himself how t...

Today Stephanie Hurlburt is my guest on the How To Code Well podcast. Stephanie is the co owner of Binomial ( binomial.info ) which makes the image and texture compression product called Basis. Basis is greatly improving compression speed, file size and performance of images and their textures. This will vastly improve how images are handled on the web, on the desktop, in computer games and within...

In episode 35 of the How To Code Well podcast Josh Hudson joins me to talk about how he became a web developer. In his 30's, Josh has made a major career change. After 10 years working in a call centre Josh is now a junior web developer! Josh talks about programmer burnout, web developer career progression and gives some great advice on how to learn coding and gain confidence in your developme...

Drew McLellan is today's guest on the How To Code Well podcast. Drew talks about how and why he helped create Notist. (https://noti.st) Notist is a place to build your public speaking portfolio. A place to share your slides, but also to collate feedback, tweets, photos, resources and everything to create a permanent history of your speaking events. Drew talks about the technologies behind Noti...

Rob Wilson is today's guest on the How To Code Well podcast. Rob is a senior PHP developer at Superdry in Cheltenham and has done many talks on web development security. In this episode Rob explains the many human factors of web site security, how web developers can follow security best practices and what to do if you find yourself dealing with a security breach. Show notes: ⁠ ⁠https://howtoco...

The video version of the show: https://youtu.be/h4Cd2tiCIxg Rob Waller is today's guest on How To Code Well podcast. Rob talks about testing code and testing an application for failures and expected outcomes. Rob Waller is a software developer with a background in managing development teams. He is also a speaker and has given many talks on software testing. Show notes: ⁠ https://howtocodewell....

John Jacob from the Iteration podcast is today's guest on How To Code Well. We talk about how the Iteration podcast started and what programming books have been reviewed. We also discuss how John and JP met and what happened to first season of the Iteration podcast. John explains how he got into web development and built his freelance career at better.dev The Iteration podcast hosted by John J...

Tom Vorel is a self taught react developer and joins me on the How To Code Well podcast to talk about the best resources for self taught web developers In this video Tom talks about the different ways of learning how to code using podcasts, online and offline courses as well as books and other resources. This is the second time Tom has been on the podcast. In his first episode he discusses how he...

Kimberley Cook joins me on the How To Code Well podcast to discuss learning to code at codebar. codebar is a non-profit initiative that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running regular programming workshops. The codebar workshops cover several programming topics and languages such as python, javascript, android, ruby and more. There is no technical requirements when being a st...

Matt Trask joins me on today's podcast to talk about Open Sourcing Mental Illness (OSMI) and why mental health is important in Web Development. Matt Trask is senior PHP developer, open source contributor, speaker, OSMI volunteer and keen cyclist. If you are suffering from mental health please speak to someone about it. Web developers are not immune from suffering from poor mental health. Pleas...

Oliver Davies from Microserve joins me on today's podcast. We a talk about the differences in Drupal versions, building Drupal content management systems and contributing to the Drupal framework. Oliver is a Drupal developer at Microserve where he builds Drupal based applications on a daily basis. Oliver has many Drupal certifications including Drupal 8 Acquia certified Grand Master Oliver has...

Jeremy Onion joins me on the How To Code Well podcast to discuss the web development recruitment process. Jeremy gives some valuable tips on how to write the best CV and explains what requirements are needed when applying for a new role in web development. The topics we cover will help new developers applying for their first web development job and developers looking to progress in their developme...

In this podcast episode I am joined by William A. Ibarra who runs Aviation Services ( https://aviatorservices.com ). This is a website that offers on demand air travel for private hire . The website that runs on PHP and allows for Bitcoin transactions. William is also an air charter operator and has lots of flight experience as a pilot. We talk about how Bitcoin is provides on demand services and...

Being able to effectively teach and train members of your web development team is a vital skill to have. Not only will you need to communicate your code changes to other developers but you may also need to help the end users to learn the new features that you have developed. In today's podcast episode I am joined by Olivia Liddell cloud training specialist at Cloudbakers. Olivia gave a fantast...

Having good soft skills is crucial for every employee and in any industry as they are required when working with and for others. As web developers we work with both technical and non technical team members. We may also communicate with clients or end users who have a set of requirements and needs that we must identify and fulfil. Kyle Cook joins me in this podcast episode to discuss the importance...

Ash Furrow talks about compassionate software development in today's How To Code Well podcast. Ash Furrow is a speaker, author, volunteer and open source contributor. Ash runs a weekly Peer Lab in New York and is a volunteer at Pursuit (Formally known as Coalition for Queens or C4Q) Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/22

I interviewed Antonio Radovcic about his laptop stickers project called DevLids. http://devlids.com Antonio Radovcic is a frontend developer at Valtech in Germany and has created DevLids to display stickered laptops from tech/design/science-related fields. You can see my laptop DevLid here: https://devlids.com/lids/pfwd Follow DevLids: Twitter: https://twitter.com/devlids Website: http://devlids.c...

Todays podcast guest is Kat Zieñ who is a Fincrime engineer at Monzo, a co-organiser at PHP South West and London Gophers. Kat gave a talk on PHP performance optimisation at Sunshine PHP (SunPHP19) in Miami and was kind enough to be on the podcast after her talk. In this episode Kat talks about being both a PHP and Go developer and ask lots of question about her PHP optimisation talk. Kat is speak...

Legacy code is everywhere and we cannot escape it. Today I'm going to talk about making legacy code acceptable from a developers perspective. When taking over a legacy project or adding features to an existing application it is important to be aware of the current levels of stability. I do this through a series of acceptance and smoke tests that I can run automatically when the software change...