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In this episodes we veer off into the weeds on ethics, morality, and how they relate to technology. We talk about some controversial happenings in the tech world regarding the Lerna licensing change, and how that relates to the jobs we do every day. Should we be concerned about who uses the things we build, and what they use it for? What’s our lin..

On this 1st anniversary podcast, the devMode.fm hosts along with Ryan Irelan have a roundtable discussion on a smorgasbord of tasty tech treats. We talk about projects we’re currently working on, and technologies we’re exploring. We discuss Patrick’s snazzy CodeKit apparel, Craft CMS standing up to a massive soccer mom DDoS, Expression Engine goin..

On this episode we’re joined by Jason Lengstorf to talk about the amazing Gatsby, a tool to help you build blazingly fast statically generated websites. As a bonus, we’re joined by Mark Huot of CraftQL plugin fame to discuss how Gatsby’s content aggregator model marries with GraphQL in blissful fashion. We discuss exactly what Gatsby is, where it ..

The devMode.fm crew recaps the Dot All 2018 Conference in Berlin, Germany… joined by Ben Croker and Oliver Stark from fortrabbit. We discuss and analyze the news announced at the Dot All 2018 conference such as Craft CMS 3.1, Craft Commerce 2, Craft Commerce Lite, the new plugin store and more! We also discuss the talks that we heard, in terms of ..

In this episode, we have Ben Croker from PutYourLightsOn to discuss using Craft CMS 3 as an application platform. We delve into defining what we mean by a CMS vs. an application platform, what a CMF is, and how these lines all blur together a bit. We go on talk about how you can leverage the powerful content modeling and friendly content authoring..

On this episode we have Jason McCallister from Trader Interactive on to discuss Docker! We talk about what Docker containers are, and how we can leverage them to make our local development process better. We delve into the advantages of using Docker to compartmentalize the various services that we need during development into containers, so that w..

On this episode, we’re joined by Paulo Elias from IDEO to discuss JAMstack: Modern web development architecture based on client-side JavaScript, reusable APIs, and prebuilt Markup. Paulo talks about his journey from doing traditional LAMP/LEMP stack work to building things using JavaScript as the hub of his universe. We discuss the pros and cons o..

On this episode, we talk with special guest Adam Wathan about the VueJS JavaScript framework. We talk about what VueJS is, and how its Laissez-faire approach lets you pick and choose how much of it makes sense to use in a project. We go into why using a framework like VueJS can help you write better, more manageable JavaScript than just rolling yo..

In this episode we talk with special guest Ben Parizek about how to approach clients running on legacy systems to upgrade to something more modern. We all have clients who are running on old versions of a CMS or other system of some kind or another. We discuss when it makes sense to broach the conversation about moving them to something more moder..

We have special guest Jeremy Keith from ClearLeft to discuss Service Workers: what they are, how users can benefit from them, and how we implement them. Jeremy authored the book “Going Offline” which goes into glorious detail on the subject, so he’s well positioned to discuss the topic. We talk about how using a Service Worker can beneficially imp..