Bart finishes up our first exploration of Bootstrap 4 with a look at one its most versatile components, the so-called Card. This is one of those components that’s so generic it’s hard to describe, but once you learn about it you’ll start seeing it all over the web. Cards really are ubiquitous! It’s important to […]
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Chit Chat Across the Pond is a weekly interview show on the topic of technology, or sometimes just with someone really interesting.
CCATP #609 – Bart Busschots on PBS 82 of X – Async & Await
A quick note here – Dorothy, aka @maclurker in our Slack group has been applying all of her newly-acquired programming skills from PBS to her fabulous PBS Index. She’s now using Mustache templates, Bootstrap styling utilities, and even AJAX with JSON. The result is a beautiful thing to behold, giving us immediate results as you […]
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CCATP #608 – Doug Ingram on Nightscape Photography
Doug Ingram joins us to talk about what he calls Nightscape Photography, which is a combination of astral photography (photographing the stars) and photographing of the surrounding landscape. His photographs of the Milky Way with the landscape are absolutely breathtaking. Doug explains his gear, the settings on his camera and the surprisingly little he does […]
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In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond Bart Busschots joins us to talk about how he arranges his podcast listening, how he categorizes them and then what kinds of shows he likes. Bart listens to around 6 hours of podcasts per day so this is quite a long list. He purposely didn’t […]
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CCATP #606 for August 31, 2019, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is Bart Busschots with a non-Programming By Stealth episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond. In this “Lite” version of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart answered Scott Fairclough’s request to explain DoH and DoT. It’s super nerdy and […]
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In this week’s episode, Sandy Foster, aka @MacQuilter joins me to talk about why CarPlay is so awesome and how it influenced her decision to buy the top-of-the-line Prius, called Prius Prime. We also talk about the new tech in the Prius Prime including the fact that it’s not just a gas/electric hybrid, it’s also […]
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Bart Busschots joins us to talk about the technology decisions that go into buying a bike these days. I thought I knew about bikes, but I learned a lot about what’s changed just in the last five years. At the very end of the post, we have a video where Bart walks around his bike […]
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This week our guest is Laura Kane, CFA, CPA, Head of Investment Themes Americas for UBS. Laura specializes in something called Sustainable Investing for UBS. As part of her research she has written several articles about investing through a gender lens. I’ve asked Laura to come on, not to talk about investing per se, but […]
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CCATP #602 – Bart Busschots on PBS 81 of X – The JavaScript Promise Utilities
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart teaches us how to use Promises, with a capital P to get promises when we already know the value we want to supply. That sounds funny but it will make sense in context. Then he shows us how we can control parallelization of promises using Promise.all(). It’s […]
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Dr. Garry, self-proclaimed Crusher of Dreams, joins us again on Chit Chat Across the Pond, this time to talk about how she thinks science is broken and why. Dr. Garry is a professor of Psychology at the University of Waikato, and also professor of the NZ institute of Security & Crime Science. In this episode, […]
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