Episode 52: Small, Sharp Developer Tools With Brian Hogan

Small, Sharp Developer Tools With Brian Hogan TableXI offers training for developers and product teams! For more info, visit http://tablexi.com.workshops or email [email protected]. Guest Brian P. Hogan: Editorial Manager for DigitalOcean, Author of Small, Sharp, Software Tools: Harness the Combinatoric Power of Command-Line Tools and Utilities, teacher, student, and musician. More info at bphogan.com. Summary Developers use a variety of tools other than their programming language to get their jobs done. This week, we talk about those tools with Brian Hogan, an Editorial Manager for DigitalOcean. Brian's a prolific technical educator, writer, and editor and he's currently the author of the book Small, Sharp, Software Tools from the Pragmatic Press. We talk about why command line tools in particular are important, what command line tools do well, and why some people including myself often find them opaque and confusing. We talk about our favorite tools and about customizing your workflow to fit your needs. Notes 02:33 - Benefits to being comfortable on the Command Line Interface (CLI) Small, Sharp, Software Tools Brad Urani, The Ruby Developer's Command Line Toolkit Noel Rappin, The Developers Toolkit Developer's Toolkit Cheat Sheet Create React App A command that shows commonly used commands 09:43 - Concepts that people struggle with and don’t internalize 11:13 - ‘awk’ and ‘sed’ defined awk sed Elixir F# 14:48 - The Ethos of Cargo Culting Information Z Shell Oh My Zsh Makefile Deckset Noel's Deckset Editor 20:02 - Reminding Yourself to Use Tools and Shortcuts Z Shell History Substring Search TextMate 27:31 - Benefit to Setup/Cost Ratio Bash prompt generator RB command line 30:28 - Differences in Tools on Different Machines and Operating Systems 32:52 - Tools You Should Know Better Rubular regex101 regex-railroad-diagram entr 37:29 - Practice as Continuous Improvement Exercises for Programmers Special Guest: Brian Hogan.