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87. Thunder Talks

Joe’s voice sounds funny, Allen has a theme, and Michael pours one out for Media Play as Michael’s and Allen’s impersonation of Joe is on point (#NailedIt).

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  • Absolutely. And on the bright side (pun), I get to work on my tan from all of the extra UV light.
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    • iTunes: Detroit++, Joel F, ArdeChris
    • Stitcher: ARHelgens, ThisWouldntFitWithSpaces, Beemo, nekorawesh, jcartee
  • New Docker and Kubernetes Community Talk now available (YouTube).
  • Allen will be speaking at Microsoft Ignite, Sept 24-28 in Orlando, FL.

Thunder Talks

  • JavaScript event loop
    • How JavaScript works: Event loop and the rise of Async programming + 5 ways to better coding with async/await (SessionStack Blog)
    • Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway? | JSConf EU (YouTube)
  • Putting Big-O into perspective of real time.
  • async/await in ECMAScript 2017
  • Trick questions in JavaScript
    • Can (a == 1 && a == 2 && a == 3) equal true? (dev.to)
  • Staying relevant in a fast paced industry
    • 10 tips for becoming a better programmer (TechRepublic)
    • Keeping up in the JavaScript world (dev.to)
  • Creating real fake data
    • How our test data generator makes fake data look real (freeCodeCamp)
    • jFairy – Java fake data generator. (GitHub)
  • How’s your Git game?
    • 11 Painful Git Interview Questions You Will Cry On (dev.to)
  • Can you recognize an AWS service only by icon?
    • Quiz: AWS has terrible irons (results will be sent to AWS) (Reddit)
    • AWS icon quiz (Google Docs)

Tip of the Week

  • Design patterns implemented in ECMAScript6 (GitHub)
  • Layoutit! – A WYSIWYG design tool for Bootstrap.
  • Oh $#!7, Git! – How to get out of bad Git situations in plain English.
    • And inspired by that, the Internet brings you Oh $#!7, Vim. A VIM cheat sheet.

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