The adventures of Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan through the world of web development, web design, and small business management. As web development agency owners for the better part of a decade, they’ve worked with all sorts of technologies, through the rise of responsive web design, the revolution of serverless computing, and the popularity gain of many no-code tools for small business owners. They commonly discuss foundational web development technologies like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - including popular frameworks and tools such as Tailwind CSS, Svelte, WordPress, Vue, and more.
Episodes
Wednesday Aug 01, 2018
Wednesday Aug 01, 2018
In this episode we discuss our different workflows individually and collaboratively as a company.
Segment 1 - Infrastructure
- Started out using OneDrive
- Later started using BitBucket and GitHub
- Version control was needed more as projects grew in productivity
Segment 2 - Mike's Workflow
- Primary IDE is VS Code
- Xcode and Android Studio whenever a project calls for it
- Asana and Todoist
- Xampp
- Daily routine
Segment 3 - Matt's Workflow
- Notepad++
- CMD
- Chrome
- Testing browsers
- Balsamiq Cloud
- Workflow for small business basic site
- Workflow for projects
Segment 4 - Working Together/Collaborative Workflow
- Working together on OneDrive
- Dividing up parts of projects
- Code reviews/peer reviews
- Project management software
- Whiteboard project management
Web News - App Overload
- Discussion on how to manage app overload
- There are so many solutions to every problem and many of them have apps, this can cause app overload if you work on several projects.
Wednesday Jul 25, 2018
Wednesday Jul 25, 2018
In this episode we explore how to get started in web development and web design. We discuss some of the methods we used to get up and running and share some stories on our initial experiences in the field.
Topics covered in this episode include:
- Segment 1 - Mike's Beginnings
- Original exposure to code & first projects
- Segment 2 - Matt's Beginnings
- Original exposure to code & first projects
- Segment 3 - Libraries & Frameworks
- SASS - Official Site
- Bootstrap - Official Site
- Tailwind CSS - Official Site
- jQuery - Official Site
- Lightbox - Official Site
- NodeJS - Official Site
- Vue - Official Site
- Flutter - Official Site
- Segment 4 - When to Choose a Premade Solution
- Website builders
- Service providers
- Snippets & Plugins
- Examples include:
- Webflow - Official Site
- Podbean - Official Site
- Carrd - Official Site
- CouchCMS - Official Site
- Segment 5 - Web News
- Flutter
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Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
Tuesday Jul 17, 2018
In this episode Matt Lawrence and Mike Karan discuss their professional experiences that led them to today. These experiences form a foundation for future podcasts and act as a reference moving forward.
Topics covered in this episode include:
- Personal Introductions
- Segment 1 - Synopsis of Today
- Digital Dynasty Design
- Web design and development business
- Passive income projects
- Segment 2 - Education
- College and University educations and experiences
- Mohawk College
- McMaster University
- Segment 3 - Work Experience
- IT and administration
- Electrical drafting
- Co-ops
- Segment 4 - HATT
- What is HTML All The Things?
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