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#218: Swag 2

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It's been three years since we last talked about swag on the show, and a lot of things have changed! Marie and Cassidy are talking about the swag choices we've made at CodePen - where we get our swag made, and how it's shipped out internationally, how we deal with inventory.

Time Jumps

  • 01:03 Cassidy does some live coding
  • 02:59 Thoughts on CodePen's swag
  • 05:00 Who CodePen uses for swag
  • 07:05 International shipping issues
  • 08:17 Budgeting for swag
  • 10:21 Sponsor: Discover.bot
  • 11:24 Swag waste
  • 17:28 Dealing with a variety of swag
  • 22:19 Increasing CodePen's shop inventory
  • 24:32 Cassidy's swag suggestions

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Tom’s Tech Notes: What You Need to Know About Automated Testing [Podcast]

Welcome to our latest episode of Tom's Tech Notes! In this episode, we'll hear advice from a host of industry experts on what you need to know about automated testing. Learn some tips around automated testing, testing at scale, and how to practice effective test automation. 

The Tom's Tech Notes podcast features conversations that our research analyst Tom Smith has had with software industry experts from around the world as part of his work on our research guides. We put out new episodes every Sunday at 11 AM EST.

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#217: Nooks and Crannies

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Chris and Marie talk about the little-known "nooks and crannies" of CodePen, from rarely-seen pages to features you might not know about.

Time Jumps

  • 00:28 Topic introduction
  • 07:20 Technical debt of app adolescence
  • 08:39 Customizing your profile page
  • 11:30 Sponsor: WooCommerce
  • 12:54 Use a pen as the background for the header on your profile
  • 17:33 12 dots and 6 dots on explore
  • 20:53 Tip for speeding up CodePen
  • 30:07 Full page editor and full page preview option
  • 32:26 CodePen on Instagram

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This Week in Spring: Releases, Podcasts, Debugging, and More

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, I’m in New York City for the Kafka Summit where I’ll be joining the excellent Tim Berglund, head of developer experience at Confluent, and James Watters, SVP at Pivotal, to talk about why Pivotal and Confluent are better together. Join us! Then, next week it’s off to South Africa (for the SpringOne Tour shows in Capetown and Johannesburg), and then, it’s off again to Mauritius for the DevConf. If you’re in any of those places, don’t hesitate to say hi!.

LTR: Confluent co-founder Jay Kreps, Tim Berglund, me, and Pivotal SVP James Watters

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#216: Time Management

Show Description

CodePen's timelords, Marie and Cassidy, are back to talk about how Team CodePen manages the time they spend on projects.

Time Jumps

  • 00:31 About what happened...
  • 01:31 Topic introduction
  • 02:57 CodePen All Hands Meeting
  • 06:38 How do you estimate how long something will take?
  • 13:26 Dividing tasks to different times of the day
  • 18:11 Apps and tools for time management
  • 25:40 Are forums making a comeback?

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92% Off: Get the How to Start a Podcast Bundle for Only $19

So you’ve been listening to podcasts, and realized how popular they have become. Now, you are toying with the idea of starting a podcast. The problem is that, there is a reluctant voice inside your head asking, “Can I really do this? Where do I start? Would someone even listen to my podcast?” Don’t fret. […]

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#215: Podcasting 2

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Our podcast engineer, Chris Enns, chats with Marie about what's changed in podcasting over the last year, how CodePen evaluates the success of their podcast, and offer up some podcast suggestions for listeners.

Time Jumps

  • 00:19 Guest intro
  • 01:31 A transformative year for podcasting
  • 02:20 Podcasting sprouts up from talk radio
  • 04:24 CodePen Radio's podcast workflow
  • 09:24 Recast and podcast sharing
  • 12:21 Cold calls from wanna-be podcast guests
  • 14:56 Big money coming to podcasting
  • 19:54 Sponsor: Jetpack
  • 22:20 How does Codepen know the podcast is successful or working?
  • 27:11 What's happening with Chris' podcasting business
  • 30:33 Podcast suggestions

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#214: Babel 7

CodePen recently upgraded to Babel 7 for both our development team and our members. Cassidy and Marie talk about what that means for you in your CodePen editor.

Time Jumps

  • 00:38 Upgrading to Babel 7
  • 01:46 What is Babel?
  • 03:25 How it was added to the CodePen editor
  • 05:00 Brining back infinite loop detection
  • 06:32 What can we do now with Babel 7?
  • 09:33 Moving to a less verbose future
  • 14:01 Is it your bug or ours?
  • 15:56 Sponsor: Netlify
  • 16:47 How did we bring Babel to CodePen?

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#213: Splitting.js

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Team CodePen's very own Stephen Shaw is also the creator of Splitting.js! Marie talks with Stephen about what Splitting.js is, what it's for, how he got the word out about his project, and his advice for anyone thinking of putting together an open-source library.

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Time Jumps

  • 01:33 What is Splitting.js?
  • 06:14 It's not just for text
  • 09:59 Sponsor: Jetpack
  • 12:21 Documenting your project
  • 18:00 How do you market your side projects?
  • 24:36 Using CodePen prefill embeds
  • 27:31 Advice for anyone putting together a library

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#212: Challenge-iversary

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It's the one year anniversary of the first #CodePenChallenge! Marie, Chris, and Cassidy look back on a year of the CodePen Challenge, and chat about plans for future challenge themes and prompts.

Time Jumps

  • 00:30 Challenges are ongoing
  • 02:24 Inspired by Creative Coding Club
  • 05:13 Starting something with the intention of keeping it going
  • 06:57 Why do people participate in challenges?
  • 09:28 Is challenges even the right word?
  • 11:55 Sponsor: BusinessNameGenerator.com
  • 12:53 How themes work with challenges
  • 16:59 Keyboards! Oooh!
  • 20:15 No more Moments

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#211: Time Zones

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Marie and Cassidy are chatting about time — what is time? How does CodePen, the app, handle time? How does Team CodePen deal with members spread across the globe? You'll find out... all in good time.

Time Jumps

  • 01:03 Time zones!
  • 03:51 What does CodePen the app use?
  • 08:41 What does Team CodePen use?
  • 13:57 Don't send a "Hey!"
  • 19:33 Sponsor: WordPress
  • 21:46 Time zones for support issues

Sponsor 19:33 WordPress.com

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DevOps Radio: Seeking Progressive Delivery, Debunking DevOps Hogwash

James Governor, analyst and co-founder of RedMonk, sat with Sacha Labourey at DevOps World | Jenkins World to catch up on software development and deployment and discuss which companies were doing it well. Before they tackle the future of DevOps in Episode 44, they revisit the past (think: Sacha's JBoss days) and what James admits is not his finest moment as an industry analyst in regard to some "hogwash" on the decoupling of open source.

From there, they dive into a new-ish concept with a newer title — progressive delivery. James shares his perspective on the interaction between IT and the business if you decouple deploy from release. He notes one needs to look at the bridge between what an enterprise customer and what web companies are doing. His solution? Train the people in organizations first, or at least give IT the green light to keep deploying software and services, but let businesses decide when to activate it. It's not enough to just spin the IT wheel faster. If organizations want to have an impact loop, they need to involve the business stakeholders that understand the users of the service, and how they should be integrated into the process.

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#210: Updating Rails

Show Description

Tim and Marie talk about how CodePen updated Ruby on Rails from 4.2 to 5.2.

Time Jumps

  • 01:03 What version where we on?
  • 01:43 Why did we upgrade?
  • 05:25 Getting ready for an upgrade
  • 09:43 Sponsor: Netlify
  • 10:32 What is a strong parameter?
  • 18:28 Any problems during the upgrade?
  • 19:47 Did you do one big deploy?
  • 21:48 Overall it went...
  • 23:53 Any lessons you'd take to the next upgrade?

Sponsor: Netlify

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#209: Chris Gannon

Show Description

Chris and Marie talk to CodePen community treasure Chris Gannon about how he uses CodePen with clients, how practicing on CodePen makes him better at his craft, and the various tools he's used to do his work over the years.

Sponsor 11:44 WordPress.com

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Time Jumps

  • 00:50 Guest intro
  • 02:59 Adding an element of surprise to animations
  • 06:02 CodePen is central to Chris' client workflow
  • 11:44 Sponsor: WordPress.com
  • 13:48 Delivering work to clients on CodePen with an API
  • 19:13 Practicing on CodePen helps a lot
  • 22:30 Having a style helps people recognize your work
  • 23:09 What apps do you use for referrals and finding clients?
  • 26:07 What kinds of stickers?
  • 28:29 What kind of tooling do you use?
  • 32:17 What can CodePen do for you?

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A Bootiful Podcast: Oleg Zhurakousky

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to Oleg Zhurakousky, the lead of the Spring Cloud Stream project, about application integration, messaging wonk, and a prolific contributor to Spring Integration. Oleg also has the dubious honor of being one of my oldest friends on the Spring team — poor guy!

Twitter: @z_oleg
Twitter: @SpringCloud

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#208: Tagging

Cassidy and Marie talk about a tiny detail that improved how we handle our GitLab issues: tagging.

Time Jumps

  • 00:42:08 The history of CodePen tagging
  • 05:31:07 Can you have too many tags?
  • 14:23:12 Sponsor: Jetpack
  • 16:44:07 Giving descriptions to tags in Gitlab
  • 19:49:07 How does this compare to other places?
  • 23:03:20 Frequently occuring tag for customers
  • 26:11:12 Send us feedback on this episode

Sponsor: Jetpack 14:23

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