This Old App
A podcast about learning, coding, smashing stuff together, breaking things apart, startups, failing, winning, and any other buzzwords we can think of.
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29: Learning JavaScript and Accessibility with Megan Schemmel
February 5th, 2019
28: Products are Fun, Promotion is Not, and Preventing Perfectionism
January 22nd, 2019
We begin talking about the career aspirations of sports officiants (tennis gigs) and upcoming technology projects Don wants to tackle, but it slowly …
27: Discussing Firebase Authentication
January 8th, 2019
Randy has a possible conference presentation coming up in the next few weeks, so he gets Don to listen to the outline and poke some holes in the …
26: Follow-up with Mark on Flutter, TotallyStrong.me, and Family
December 27th, 2018
* Mark Thompson on LinkedIn
* Mark Thompson on the Web
* Mark Thompson on Github
TotallyStrong App
This Old App episodes with Mark Thompson
* Episode 4: Learning and Shipping with Flutter
* Episode …
25: Viability of a Watch App Concept
December 11th, 2018
Don has an idea for a building a watch app to service American football referees and discusses with Randy whether the concept is viable for a build. …
24: React-ions and Corrections to Last Week
November 20th, 2018
23: Is React the Popular Kid in School?
November 13th, 2018
During Randy's interviewing stint, he spoke to a good number of firms that had needs for different stacks, but one particular framework stood out: …
22: Chipping Away at Project Blockers
October 30th, 2018
Don continues to work on his Azure-backed PDF processing application and describes his process to fix a number of blockers. After making progress, Randy asks him about widget pipeline options, like IFTTT and Zapier, and …
21: Debugging Azure with Ego Driven Development
October 16th, 2018
In another effort to prevent Don and Randy from working on the same stack, Don wanders off into Microsoft land to build a web app on Azure, and promptly runs into trouble. Through a little troubleshooting, they figure …
20: Thinking About Smart Homes
October 9th, 2018
After a two-week break, we return to discuss how Randy's buying a house and is thinking about all the new tech and gadgets he can add to it. We discuss home automation, the unnecessary features added to some appliances, …
19: To Test or Not to Test?
September 18th, 2018
- Test Driven Development
- RSpec
- MiniTest
- Rails Test
- Jest
- Mocha
- Jasmine
- Nightwatch
- Cypress
- Selenium
- Good ol' fashioned browser refreshing
18: What to Use for Mobile Development?
August 28th, 2018
17: Grab Bag - GraphQL vs REST, Websockets, Uber Fusion, Redux Sux, and Firestore Search
August 7th, 2018
- Uber Fusion.js blog post
- Fusion.js on Github
- Algolia for search
- Elasticsearch for search
16: Returning to Game Development with Renee Lahoff
July 24th, 2018
* Recommended use with a personal computer, untested for …
15: Benefits of Coding While Streaming with Jesse Weigel
July 10th, 2018
14: Moms Can: Code with Bekah Hawrot Weigel
June 26th, 2018
- Meet the coaches: https://www.momscancode.com/meetthecoaches
- Join Moms Can Code: https://www.momscancode.com/membership
- Virtual Summit: …
13: Callbacks! and Promises! and Awaits! Oh My!
June 19th, 2018
- JavaScript
- Asynchronous
- Callbacks
- Promises
- Async/Await
- Typescript
- Firebase
12: Relational vs Document DBs
June 12th, 2018
- Lotus 123
- Excel
- Microsoft Access
- SQL Server
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Firebase Real Time Database
- Firebase Firestore
- Amazon DynamoDB
- Couchbase
- PouchDB
11: Project Chasms - Part 3, Prototype Feedback and The Bug
June 5th, 2018
- We talk about the success of the prototype as it is being used by a service provider
- We talk about known costs for some of the APIs being used
- We …
10: Appraising Alexa (and other voice interfaces)
May 29th, 2018
9: Finding Firebase
May 22nd, 2018
- Firebase by Google
- Firebase Channel on YouTube
- Jen Person, Developer Advocate for Firebase
- Puf (Frank van Puffelen), Developer Advocate for …
8: Project Chasms - Part 2, Debugging and Brainstorming
May 15th, 2018
- The initial prototype is working well
- Folks in the field are able to send SMS texts inbound to the chat channel
- There are odd errors, timeouts, …
7: Project Chasms - Part 1, Getting Started
May 8th, 2018
* This service sends all of these texts to a chat service …
6: Why do we podcast (and other projects)?
May 1st, 2018
5: The 30-Day Deadline of Failure and Follow-Through
April 24th, 2018
- Mark Thompson gave himself a 30 day deadline to plan, learn, and build a mobile app using a brand new technology called Flutter.
- Mark had a …
4: Learning and Shipping with Flutter
April 17th, 2018
- Mark Thompson website
- Mark Thompson on Twitter
- Mark Thompson on LinkedIn
- TotallyStrong Join a community of real people dedicated to reaching …
3: Learning CSS Grid
April 9th, 2018
2: Learning JavaScript (Better)
April 8th, 2018
Don and Randy discuss the steps we've taken to better learn JavaScript, Node.js, React, and React Native. A whole lotta videos and pain.
1: The Intro!
April 6th, 2018
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