CTO Think Podcast

Don and Randy get back from a couple weeks of trips and projects and discuss a grab-bag of subjects of things they've wo... Read more

Randy has started working on the Chasms project again, and after the previous episode with David Rogers, he chose to use... Read more

During Randy's interviewing stint, he spoke to a good number of firms that had needs for different stacks, but one parti... Read more

We discuss the asynchronous nature of JavaScript, the old-person method of callbacks, the evolution to Promises, and the... Read more

Don has been hearing Randy tell him to quit coding so much and finally does something about it: He decides to build an a... Read more

As a continuation to a previous episode, Don discusses why he's going to roll up his sleeves and handle a data-gathering... Read more

This week, we shall rant! The term "Clean Code" is a vague and irresponsible phrase to use regarding programming and Ran... Read more

While continuing work on the Chasms app, Randy asks Don for his two cents on an approach to solving a document datastore... Read more

Don and Randy discuss the latest installment of the Chasms app saga. Don heads out to Denver for a sales conference load... Read more

After years of testing with Ruby on Rails and rspec, Randy never had quite the flow with testing on the JavaScript and N... Read more

We yell at document datastores to get off our lawns! We talk about the joys of SQL and 50-year-old relational databases ... Read more

Randy reacts to a Tweetstorm about Lambda School using his former experiences as a bootcamp teacher to add some perspect... Read more

Following a tweet from Ben Hong @bencodezen about whether people need to master JavaScript before using a framework, Don... Read more

We discuss the state of development around iPhone and Android development, mainly with using non-native code bases. Rand... Read more

Randy is diving back into the Chasms backend using Firebase Functions, which is written (by him) in Typescript. We discu... Read more

Randy has been working on Twilio a bit since the team last worked on the Chasms project and updates Don on some of the i... Read more

Randy and Megan recently worked on a Single Page App and Megan learned how to use Cypress for integration/acceptance tes... Read more

Chris Coyier recently posted a tweet regarding a front-end developer he knew that "could not build a website." Is this s... Read more

Don and Randy discuss the changes that ageing has on their development skills and focus, how to combat it (or adapt to i... Read more

This week we take a look at the state of a few hyped technologies and see where they really are in terms of usefulness, ... Read more