In episode #449, Bart Busschots walked us through how he’d solve the first half of the JavaScript challenges from PBS 19. This week we finish the second half of the 5th problem about Complex Numbers. Just like the last episode, we’re giving you the audio in the podcast, but if you’d like to watch the […]
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CCATP #450 Chris Ashley
Chris Ashley of the SMR Podcast joins us to talk about the Windows 10 Anniversary edition release, integration of Android with Windows, as well as the Ring Video Doorbell and the Bose Quiet Comfort QC35 wireless noise cancelling headphones. Chris turns the tables and asks my advice on whether his baby girl should get an iPod […]
Continue readingCCATP #449 Programming By Stealth – 19a of x Solving JavaScript Challenges
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond, Bart Busschots starts walking us through the JavaScript challenges he gave us on Programming By Stealth 19. Bart got this crazy idea that we should do this episode as a video so that he could walk through each challenge from scratch on a blank canvas. […]
Continue readingCCATP #448 Bart Busschots on How Tech Caused Fitness
Bart Busschots joins us this week but not to talk about stealthy programming or the taming of any terminals or even security. This time he’s here to explain how technology has helped him to lose 40 pounds. He’ll explain how he worked through denial and then started exercising and finally to add dieting to change […]
Continue readingCCATP #447 Mike Potter on How to Throw a Tech Conference
In this week’s episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond we’re joined by Mike Potter of For Mac Eyes Only to talk about what goes into creating a tech conference. We talk about choosing a venue, creating speaker agreements, getting insurance, managing the catering and more. He knows what he’s talking about because he’s about […]
Continue readingCCATP #446 – Programming by Stealth – 18 of x JavaScript Miscellany
In this episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes us through the final stages of learning JavaScript within the playground. Now that we know about objects, we need to re-visit the arguments object present in every JavaScript function. We need to take a detailed look at the typeof operator, and we need to look […]
Continue readingCCATP #445 Andy Ihnatko on Journalism, Used Cars and PG Wodehouse
Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun Times joins me to talk about the current state of journalism, and we discuss the question of whether “real” journalism is on its way out. We also side track into discussing how a dying car has caused Andy to get more exercise and our joint enthusiasm for the author […]
Continue readingCCATP #444 – Programming by Stealth – 17 of x JavaScript Objects
In this continuing series with Bart Busschots, we get a more detailed look at objects, and then we look at some standard functions and objects that are built into JavaScript. We also take a proper look at two operators we’ve seen before, typeof and instanceof. Bart’s full written tutorial is available at pbs.bartificer.net/… mp3 download
Continue readingCCATP #443 Bastian Wölfle – A Geek’s Guide to Diet and Exercise
This week our guest is Bastian Wölfle software product manager, German podcaster and self-described crazy man. Bastian lost 40 kg (90 pounds) and he tells us how he pulled this off. He’s got book recommendations, geeky recommendations on how and what to track in your body stats, and of course gadgets to make the whole […]
Continue readingCCATP #442 – Programming by Stealth – 16 of x JavaScript Callbacks
In this installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes our understanding of functions to the next level. The techniques we encounter today would be considered advanced techniques in most other languages, and you could spend years developing in Java and never encounter an anonymous function. However, because of how JavaScript is integrated into HTML […]
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