Web Perspectives

What strategies work best for debugging websites and web applications?  What tools and processes do we use to find the sources of bugs?  Topics include: Front-end frameworks and view libraries Debugging browser extension bugs Reading bugs and understanding customer bug reports Differentiating between a feature and a bug Typescript as a debugging tool with TSNode

Men's coach Mike Cameron discusses how to engage with ourselves emotionally. What does emotional intelligence mean, and how we leverage it to communicate more effectively in the workplace? With web development technologies changing so rapidly, how can we ground ourselves and feel confident in our modern web development practices? What makes an emotionally grounded web developer? Do emotions even m...

What is a state manager? Does it make web development more complicated, or are they worth the pain? Mike and Sean take a look at state managers like VueX, Redux, Redux Saga, MobX, and ember data to find out how much more cruft and configuration they add to existing projects. If we choose to not use state managers, what can we do to future-proof our careers? What is the future of web development? I...

Join us, as we interview Al Degan on post-pandemic networking for new and existing entrepreneurs in the tech industry.  Al Degan gives us the rundown of the Calgary entrepreneurship and incubator/accelerator space in post-panemic Alberta.  He also talks about Rainforest Alberta , and how they work with Platform Calgary to promote and build Calgary's emerging entrepreneurship tech scene.

What goes on behind the scenes in web development bootcamps?  How do instructors keep up-to-date with the latest technologies and request updates to the curriculum?  How do web development bootcamps pack everything students need to know into 3-month programs?  Join us as we interview Andy Lindsay, lead instructor at Lighthouse Labs. Andy Lindsay (LinkedIn) Andy Lindsay's Github Ligh...

What does the Python programming language have to offer web developers? How does it compare to Javascript? Author, writer, and creator of pythonmorsels.com , Trey Hunner , compares Python to Javascript, and showcases how new and experienced web developers can leverage the Python ecosystem, from Django to Flask, to create rich web applications. Useful Links Trey Hunner (Website) Trey Hunner (Twitte...

What's it like to be a front-end web developer as a female in the current web development industry? What struggles do women in tech face when applying for jobs? Justine Matsala, female mentor and Senior React Developer at Logitech takes us through the ins and outs of what it means today to be a female (and all other genders on the spectrum) in the web development industry. What can we do to encour...

What makes a good website?  How can we keep visitors on our websites and reduce bounce rates through telling stories?  What about our business goals?  How can we succintly convey our business goals, with attention spans shortening every day?  Do businesses even need a website in 2021? Show Notes michaeldargie.com Rebel Rebel Podcast Loose Moose Theatre (Calgary) Loose Moose The...

What do developers need to know about "e-commerce" to start an online business?  Banner ads?  Google Ads?  Facebook Pixel?  How many images in a product page?  Chat boxes, popup modals, or an overly technical specifications section?  How can web dvelopers leverage Shopify's templates to quickly create online stores?  Kray Mitchell from Shopify tells us the best w...

Introducing the host, Sean G!  Background, education, how Sean got into web development.  How did Sean get into web development?  Sean's philosophy on passion and passionate onboarding for teams.  How did web perspectives come to be?

Founder of Calgary web development meetup Pixels, Tony Grimes discusses the future of web development bootcamps and in-person meetups amidst the raging pandemic.  How to grow your web development career in a world of digital "meetups".  What does the future of in-person meetups look like?  Does it sill make sense to take a web bootcamp in 2021? Pixels YYC: https://discord.gg/EyFxsYP...

Scott Gerlach discusses what Web Security means and how to automate API security vulnerability discovery through his DAST platform, StackHawk. Homebrewing: API by day; IPA by night 😜 What does web security even mean for the front-end web developer?  How much responsibility do we have in ensuring security?  CSP?  What about NPM packages we don't maintain? How do large businesses dea...

What does it mean to write "simple" code, and what suggestions can we give to emerging front-end developers?  How much should coding standards bog us down when we just want to get an idea out there?  How m...

What does the devOps role mean in today's competitive industry of cloud providers, serverless, and Jamstack.  Why should businesses consider hiring a devOps engineer when they easily rely on third-party providers like AWS, Azure, and N...

A deep, meta look at how we can rework the interview process to favour candidate honesty and vulnerability. How to uncover underlying talent and passion during , and to allow candidates to be vulnerable. How can we learn, both as interviewers, and as candidates, from our past interviews to best allow applicants to showcase their talent? How do we enable candidates to open up about their passions d...

We know the six underlying steps to display competence in an interview. but what about the mindset?  How can we best answer targeted interview questions?  How much is oversharing?  What qualities do interviewers prefer in web developer candidates?  How do the best candidates answer interview&nb...

The most important six interviewing tips for new and aspiring developers.  How should you prepare for your next job interview as a web developer?  What steps should you take to stand out from the competetition? &nbs...

With the easing of restrictions, post-pandemic, surrounding office work, what does the future of remote work look like?  How has the industry changed now that most developers work remotely?  More importantly, how can we effectively manage semi-distributed teams in a partly remote workplace while still gaining the benefits of in-person work.  All this and more in this two-hour specia...

What is an API?  Why did our company choose to go with GraphQL over JSON:API?  The differences between the JSON:API specification and the GraphQL specification; how GraphQL goes against the grain of web standards and why it does this; how RESTful is more of a buzzword.  What the future of HTTP/3 looks like.  HTTP emoji status codes?

In defence of tools!  What tools do we recommend to new developers?  How much do we rely on these tools? Clipboard managers CopyQ Alfred Snippet Managers Keyboard Shortcut Managers (not Linux) Note-Taking Apps Foam vs. Roam vs. Notion TaskCafe for task management -- or Trello or Asana Self-hosting and building your own task manager from TaskCafe AI Intellisense: Tabnine VNC RealVNC Tream...

What makes a web page work?  How do browsers work?  What constraints have tools imposed on us?  A primer and review on HTML and what makes an HTML document.  How going back to the basics can make the differences between a customer bouncing from your web page and staying.