Talentopoly Podcast

Jared Brown, Stephen Dixon, Brandon Corbin

A podcast discussing some of the best programming, design, and IT related links posted on Talentopoly.com.

  1. 2013-01-12

    Episode 44 - How to Roll Your Own Cloud Services For Maximum...

    Episode 44 - How to Roll Your Own Cloud Services For Maximum Privacy                                      Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe to RSS Download MP3 Edward Rudd calls in and Jacob West stops by our studios to discuss alternatives to popular cloud-based services like Dropbox. Listen to us discuss the pros and cons to doing it yourself. We list some of the software that’s out there that will allow you to setup your very own service for personal use. Show notes Why roll your own? Privacy Storage Total control http://zenhabits.net/google-free/ Pros/cons of “Rolling your own {INSERT SERVICE HERE}”? Good option for young kids Cons 1. A dedicated server just for Zimbra with Domain Keys installed 2. A block of 24-32 ip numbers. (49 ip numbers would be ideal, but it’s harder to buy odd blocks like that.) Put your mail server as close to the middle of that range as possible. It sounds like a lot, but most collocation facilities can hook you up with this for 300-500 usd a month. 3. Proactive attention to getting your ip block removed from all spam lists (especially Barracuda, their list is the most annoying for the high number of false positives) before the fact. Just let them know you exist. 4. Pray that all of the hundreds of moving pieces you’ve just put in place don’t break, that bad hackers don’t brute force their way into your server. Strong passwords don’t really help as much as people tell you they do either. That’s now something you have to worry about too. Where to host? Linode Slicehost “Your house” (Business grade internet options) Dropbox Alternatives Owncloud (http://owncloud.org) - Dropbox Alternative + Calendar + Contacts + plugins AeroFS - http://aerofs.com - Dropbox Alternative without a central server Rsync SparkleShare - http://sparkleshare.org/ - just clients and uses git on the server GMail Alternatives qmail, Postfix, Sendmail Horde, IMP, Squirrel Mail, Roundcube http://www.turnkeylinux.org/zimbra Spam filter? Amavisd (runs spamassassin + virus scanning as a pluggable mail filter) hosted service http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/08/07/1533224/ask-slashdot-self-hosted-gmail-alternatives Google Docs Alternatives http://www.fengoffice.com/web/pricing.php http://etherpad.org/ http://onedrum.com/ Bought by Yammer and integrated with it now ANY Self-hosted WIKI !!! Flickr Alternatives http://www.zenphoto.org/ http://gallery.menalto.com/ YouTube Alternatives Google Voice Alternatives http://www.twilio.com/api/openvbx http://pbxinaflash.net/ Full Backup Solutions? Backblaze Carbonite rsync.net LOCAL BACKUP DEVICE! and the Shoe leather express to a remote location!! Security? selinux, disable password login on SSH Talentopoly links - Noteworthy links posted on Talentopoly in the last two weeks Changing times for web developers – 6 Tips You Should Read to survive Workless gem, dynamically scale your Heroku worker dynos Your team should work like an open source project

  2. 2012-10-11

    Episode 41 - Creating Your First Typeface...

    Episode 41 - Creating Your First Typeface                                      Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe to RSS Download MP3 Abelardo Gonzalez joins us to discuss how he created his first typeface, open-dyslexic. His font is already getting strong traction among apps like Instapaper and large institutions. He talks about which apps he used along the way, how much he spent and what issues he ran into. Apps used started with app demos and fontforge fontforge requires more time than I had.  fontcreator was cool, cheap, but a little buggy. Messed up font smoothing. FontLab is expensive, buggy, slow iteration, didn’t look like they offered any help. switched to Glyphsapp better workflow. Nicer. Learning materials great source of info was Google’s submission requirements for web fonts exploring FontLab and reading the help file showed me things I should have been doing to maintain compatibility.  Playing with other fonts as examples Just doing it and figuring it out later. Glyphsapp probably has the best tutorials out there Adobe’s website http://www.adobe.com/devnet/opentype.html I’m still not perfect. Fixing spacing issues and kerning. https://talentopoly.com/posts/5383-kerning_in_practice_beware_odd_letter_spacing https://talentopoly.com/posts/2843-kern_type_the_kerning_game Talentopoly links - Noteworthy links posted on Talentopoly in the last two weeks Understanding Postgres Performance Base 2 - A SQLite 3 GUI Announcing the First Beta Release of Persona Ego Driven Development GitHub Collaborative Coding Training

  3. 2012-09-14

    Episode 39 - How to Approach Front-end Development...

    Episode 39 - How to Approach Front-end Development                                      Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe to RSS Download MP3 Melanie Archer joined us on this episode to enlighten us about how to approach front-end development. She breaks it down into easier steps and principles that anybody can follow to get a good front-end built in little time. She packs years worth of experience into her recommendations. This is a must listen! Note: There is some background white noise from Melanie’s mic, which we tried to minizmize. Show notes You’re an experienced backend developer suddenly given front-end tasks–where to start? Understand basic user interface principles;  "common concepts" of how user perceive the interface subconsciously. Consistency over “pretty.” Keep to standards users are accustomed to–familiar labels and placement of elements. Find help at the Yahoo! design pattern library: https://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/ or PatternTap: http://patterntap.com Learn the basics of information architecture. Read primers like The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett (http://jjg.net/elements/) How to start building an interface from scratch How to start building an interface from Photoshop or designer’s comp The role of HTML/CSS frameworks like the HTM5 Boilerplate or Twitter Bootstrap How to organize CSS How to improve. One hint–look at prospective interview questions for front-end developers:  https://github.com/darcyclarke/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions#readme Talentopoly links - Noteworthy links posted on Talentopoly in the last two weeks Sticky Menus Are Quicker To Navigate Introducing: CSSValues.com Pagoda Box Is Easier Than Amazon Web Services, But More Customizable Than Heroku Bootsnipp - Gallery of free HTML snippets for Twitter Bootstrap

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A podcast discussing some of the best programming, design, and IT related links posted on Talentopoly.com.