Episode 50: A Year in Reflection
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Faceoff is excited to celebrate our 50th episode! Thank you to all who listened and all who helped!
News/Follow-Ups
- 00:37 – CES and Faceoff’s 50th Episode
Geek Tool
- 02:09 – Code Complete – Complete guide to programming any language.
Webapps
Topic
- 16:13 – Year in Review
- Red Bull Cola
- Super Mario Galaxy & Modern Warefare 2
- Ruby and Rails
- Git
- REST
- MVC
- TDD and Unit tests
- Distributed SCM
- Python, Perl, Ruby and OO PHP
- 31:28 – Resolutions
- Focus on existing projects
- Faceoff promotion
Special Thanks to:
- Eric Wendelin
- Rob Lund
- David Walsh
- Pol Lovett
- HM2k
- Tyhge Vallard
- Dave De Vos from Antwerp Belgium
- Vasily
Call to action!
Please call in or comment below your suggestions of things we need to cover at CES.
January 5th, 2010 at 9:20 am
Thank you guys for the awesome podcast!
I hope you can check out a shiny new Nexus One at CES and tell us what you think!
January 5th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
Thank you for being such a dedicated supporter Eric!
January 5th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
It’s been emotional!
January 6th, 2010 at 9:46 am
Don’t cry Rob!
January 6th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
I would vote Google Reader as one of my favorite web apps. Use it practically every day. Would be a mess of Internets without it.
Congrats on a great year guys, although I’m a late subscriber, it has been a helpful podcast for me.
January 6th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Good job guys and congrats on the major milestone!
My favorite web apps of 2009 are:
- Last.fm
- Meebo
- Mocking Bird
- Blinksale
And, of course, the aforementioned Dropbox, Google Reader, Mint.
January 8th, 2010 at 5:40 am
Not listened in a while, but since I got a mention I decided to listen again. This episode is great. Keep up the good work guys.
However, please stop talking about redbull cola!
I don’t drink cola and so I do not relate. :p How about coffee? http://theoatmeal.com/comics/coffee
I invested in an xBox 360 for Xmas, I get what you’re talking about with that, I /was/ a PC gamer until playing games overheated my PC, so this is a great solution for me. Streaming my media from my PC to my xbox is great too.
Keeping code separate from markup is crucial.
Staying focused on existing projects is hard, the key is to stay motivated and excited about it to get it completed.
Until next time guys, enjoy.
January 15th, 2010 at 1:20 pm
@vasily
I totally forgot to mention meebo! it’s the only IM i use on Windows because pidgin on windows SUCKS. I’ll have to check out mockingbird and blinksale.
@h2mk
Hey now! You leave Red Bull Cola out of this!
Thanks for listening guys, you are all awesome.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Catching up on my podcasts. Been listening for a couple of months now. Keep up the good work.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Thanks Brian! Love your gravatar
January 30th, 2010 at 11:54 am
LOL. I have been meaning to change my Gravatar to my actual picture but everyone always gets a good laugh when they see it.
One thing I forgot to mention is it was good to hear others who have grand ideas and never end up completing them before moving on to the next one. I think this is just common for people who love technology.
I learned Rails in 2009 as well. After a year I am still not comfortable with some of the aspects of the framework. At work we use Java and I use the Seam framework so I only get to use Rails in my spare time which makes it harder to master. I have a couple of unfinished Rails projects. Still trying to decide if I want to press on or just rewrite them in Seam.
January 31st, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Yeah, I really have a problem with all the “magic” in rails. I just want to know how things are working under the hood and the magic rails goo makes it kind of difficult to do most of the time.
I actually started working on one of my projects and am making great progress on it!
February 1st, 2010 at 8:40 am
Congrats Guys. I think I’ve listened to maybe 40/50 of these and they really helped me as a young developer.
Make sure to thank David Walsh for his plug. I found you guys through his site.
February 1st, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Thanks for listening Ricky! Glad we can help.