CCATP #629 for March 13, 2020, and I’m your host, Allison Sheridan. This week our guest is returning guest Dr. Maryanne Garry of the University of Waikato. I asked Maryanne to come on the show this week to help me break down a research paper I read that’s not actually in her area of expertise. […]
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CCATP #628 — Bart Busschots on Creating Automator Quick Actions
This week our guest is Bart Busschots with an installment of something he’s calling Programming By Stealth-adjacent. It’s not part of the regular series of Programming By Stealth, and yet it’s not technically very “light” in terms of the chit chatting. Since neither podcast is the right place for it, I’ve decided to put it […]
Continue readingCCATP #627 Robin Christopherson on Advancements in Tech for Accessibility
This week we’re joined by Robin Christopherson. Robin is the host of the Alexa skills podcast Dot to Dot and he’s co-host of the weekly Tech Talk show from the Royal National Institute of Blind People. Robin is also Head of Digital Inclusion and part of the globally-acclaimed accessibility and tech team of AbilityNet and […]
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CCATP #626 — Bart Busschots on PBS 91 of X — JavaScript RE Objects
Bart takes us through the penultimate hat JavaScript wears and that’s Regular Expressions. Luckily since we haven’t talked about REs in ages, he reminds us of the syntax for Regular Expressions literals in JavaScript first and then he takes us through three common uses for Regular Expressions. We joked around during this episode at how […]
Continue readingCCATP #625 — Tom on the Internet on Teaching Himself to Program
Tom Steven, aka Tom on the Internet from tomontheinternet.com joins me to tell the tale of how he went from knowing zero about programming to landing a full-time job as a web developer in two years of self-training. Then he talks about the things that surprised him that he learned as a developer in that […]
Continue readingCCATP #624 — Bart Busschots on PBS 90 of X — JavaScript Wrapper Objects
Hope you enjoyed getting the little extra Tidbits episode this week. In this installment Bart continues our on-going mini-series looking at each of the proverbial hats JavaScript objects wear. Bart explains the concept of JavaScript wrapper objects that allow you to access properties of otherwise property-less primitives. It’s pretty magical and I only got lost […]
Continue readingPBS Tidbit 1 of Y — Display Values are not Data!
This is not a normal episode of Programming By Stealth, it’s what Bart Busschots is calling a PBS Tidbit. Listener @lbutlr pointed out to Bart and me on Twitter that Bart’s math was wrong in his solution to the challenge he posted in PBS 89. The assignment was to produce currency exchange rates for a […]
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CCATP #623 — Lila Brissette on Accessibility from a Young Person’s Perspective
While we were in Las Vegas for CES, we carved out some time to have dinner with our good friend, JF Brissette, who is also the editor of all of my videos for ScreenCastsOnline. He brought his daughter Lila to dinner and she started talking to me about her journey of discovery into accessibility on […]
Continue readingCCATP #622 — Bart Busschots on PBS 89 of X — Currency Converter Challenge
In this week’s installment of Programming By Stealth, Bart explains his new plan for both the content of PBS and the way the shownotes are created and presented to you. Bart has noticed that because we put a challenge solution and new content into the same show, the solution gets short-changed. That’s a shame because […]
Continue readingCCATP #621 — Bart Busschots’s Health Tech Update
Bart Busschots takes us through the new health tech he’s added since he was last here on the subject. From more bike equipment to blood pressure monitoring, to sleep monitoring to thermometers and more. mp3 download
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