How To Code Well

Todays podcast guest is Nathaniel Smith from Socially Responsible Recruitment (SR2). Nathaniel is an open source recruiter who specialises in PHP and Javascript recruitment. Nathaniel discusses the web development trends he sees when recruiting for PHP or JavaScript positions and give advice on how junior developers can improve their chances of getting a job in the web development industry. Show n...

Todays podcast guest is Adam Culp. He is the organiser of Sunshine PHP Conference, South Florida PHP user group (SoFloPHP), Author, Host of Beach Casts tech videos and a PHP consultant at Rogue Wave. We talk about being a PHP consultant, working on legacy applications and the challenges of older PHP systems. Adam Culp is an experienced public speaker and has given many talks (300 - 400). He has so...

Today I interview Tom Vorel who has recently had his first week in his first web development job. He is a self taught web developer who studied Javascript, HTML, CSS and other disciplines whilst having another full time job. In this video Tom talks about how he went from being a self taught developer to being a full time React developer. We talk about his learning journey, the challenges he faced...

I've got some announcements to make regarding the podcast, conferences and courses! Interview with Jeremy Onion: https://youtu.be/PGmNM5xArVo Interview with Tom Vorel: COMING SOON Interview with Adam Culp: COMING SOON If you want to be on the show then please get in touch! Message me in the comments or privately over Twitter. Show notes: ⁠ https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/15

PHP 5.6 has reached End Of Life (EOL). There will be many developers who are looking to upgrade to PHP 7 but before the upgrade can be made lots of decisions, testing and adjustments need to be made. At the time of recording the stable version of PHP is 7.3 This is discussion about upgrading PHP from the perspective of a freelance web developer. We talk about the tools needed to upgrade PHP and th...

Here are my predictions for web development in 2019. 1) PWA (Progressive Web Apps) will be as/more popular then AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) 2) GraphQL will not replace REST 3) Microsoft will embrace more OSS 4) JavaScript to have another big NPM security issue 5) More vendors supporting serverless 6) More web assembly awesomeness I explain each of these points and what they mean for web develop...

As a freelance web developer I have created many API layers and API clients and these have been developed in PHP, Javascript and Python. In this episode I am going to discuss 10 tips and best practices when developing API and API clients. These tips can be applied to any programming language and web system that uses an application programming interface (API). These best practices cover security, d...

Jeremy Onion is the Technical Director at Torpedo Group. To say that his web development career has been varied would be a massive understatement. Jeremy has worked in e-commerce, the security sector, web hosting, logistics, and more. He has also worked in the UK and abroad. Before managing web development teams and getting agile methodologies and practices in place , Jeremy worked for many years...

As web developers we are discouraged from reinventing the wheel, we are told that we must stand on the shoulders of giants and be apart of the open source world. But when should a developer roll their own code instead of using an open source project. This is what we are going to be talking about in this web development discussion. I am going to draw upon my experience writing my own Wordpress plug...

Welcome to update 4.0, a quarterly review of How To Code Well. There are loads of web development announcements and some changes to the video and tutorial schedule. Show notes: ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/9

Creating a website is no longer a simple and perhaps fun task. Or at least it isn't as fun or easy as it used to be. A developer has to invest time and effort in the environment and tooling that is used, instead of concentrating on the code and the creation process. A frontend developer needs to learn command line skills in order to install frontend dependencies. Not all frontend developers wa...

JavaScript has changed, it has grown up and got better over the years. JavaScript is fitter and stronger than it ever has been. So why is your JavaScript over weight and a slob at sending responses to the browser? In todays show I’m going to talk about the various ways you can slim down and speed up your JavaScript. Show notes: ⁠ https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/7

There are many types of web developers. Traditionally there are frontend developers, who tend to deal with the client sided components such as JavaScript, CSS, HTML and user journeys. The opposite of a frontend developer is a backend developer, who’s skills focus around server based processes, core computational logic and features that are indirectly accessed by users through a frontend applicatio...

The technical language and the terminology that we use to explain how a system is built, how a system needs to be altered and how it can be improved is very important in programming. Often we mix up the meaning of restructuring and refactoring and this can lead to confusion. In this live stream I am going to talk about the differences between refactoring and restructuring a program. Show notes: ht...

Let's talk about tools versus techniques when it comes to web development. Should web developers focus more on tools and less on techniques? What kind of tools do we/should we use? What are my favourite programming techniques? How have programming tools evolved and what can we expect in the future? Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/4

Let's talk about feedback loops when coding and developing web systems. You will find both positive and negative feedback loops in many places in life. When writing a computer program or web system we can use feedback loops to inform us of system behaviour and system performance. We can also gather metrics from user journeys and customer interactions. Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podc...

Today we are going to be talking about code quality and how to clean up your code. This week I have mostly been working on Lambda functions in AWS, setting up more servers and fixing web designs. We are going to talk about all of this and more! Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/2

In todays afternoon live stream I am going to talk about CDN's and moving lots of assets from one server to another Plus I have some announcements to make for upcoming courses and of course I will try and answer web development questions. Show notes: https://howtocodewell.net/podcast/episode/1