Episodes

1. Continuous Integration

E1WeeWikiPaint
Mon, 16 July ’12
E2Build Automation & Lint
Wed, 18 July ’12
E3Preparing for Continuous Integration
Fri, 20 July ’12
E4The Continuous Integration Machine
Mon, 23 July ’12
E5How to Guarantee a Good Integration Build
Wed, 25 July ’12

2. Test Frameworks

E6Which Test Framework?
Fri, 27 July ’12
E7Our First Test
Mon, 30 July ’12
E8Asynchronisity
Wed, 1 Aug ’12

3. A Simple Node.js Server

E9A Very Simple HTTP Server
Fri, 3 Aug ’12
E10Test-Driving an HTTP Server
Mon, 6 Aug ’12
E11Lots of Learning
Wed, 8 Aug ’12
E12Our First Client/Server Test
Fri, 10 Aug ’12
E13A Basic “Hello World” Server
Mon, 13 Aug ’12
E14Polishing Up the Server
Wed, 15 Aug ’12
E15Enforce the Node Version
Fri, 17 Aug ’12
E16Make Them Read Your Crap
Mon, 20 Aug ’12

4. Serving Files

E17Minimum Marketable Feature
Wed, 22 Aug ’12
E18Test-Driven Files
Fri, 24 Aug ’12
E19Serve a Static File
Mon, 27 Aug ’12
E20404: Found
Wed, 29 Aug ’12
E21Checking Our Assumptions
Fri, 31 Aug ’12
E22Custom 404 Page
Mon, 3 Sep ’12

5. Smoke Test

E23Smoke Test
Wed, 5 Sep ’12
E24Running the Server
Fri, 7 Sep ’12
E25The Startup Race
Mon, 10 Sep ’12
E26Child Killer
Wed, 12 Sep ’12
E27Smoked
Fri, 14 Sep ’12

6. Deployment

E28Which Host?
Mon, 17 Sep ’12
E29I Don’t Wanna Use Foreman
Wed, 19 Sep ’12
E30Parse the Procfile
Fri, 21 Sep ’12
E31Deploy It
Mon, 24 Sep ’12
E32To the Web!
Wed, 26 Sep ’12

7. Cross-Browser Testing

E33A Client-Side Test Tool
Fri, 28 Sep ’12
E34Cross-Browser and Cross-Platform
Mon, 1 Oct ’12
E35IE Hate
Wed, 3 Oct ’12
E36Great Expectations
Fri, 5 Oct ’12
E37Just Run Jake
Mon, 8 Oct ’12
E38Lint the Client Code
Wed, 10 Oct ’12
E39Test ALL the Things
Fri, 12 Oct ’12
E40Windows Addendum
Mon, 22 Oct ’12

8. Testing the DOM

E41Seeking the DOM
Wed, 24 Oct ’12
E42There’s Our Tag
Mon, 29 Oct ’12
E43Keep Layout and Program Separate
Wed, 31 Oct ’12
E44Raphaël
Mon, 5 Nov ’12
E45IE 8 Compatibility
Wed, 7 Nov ’12
E46Clean Up the DOM
Mon, 12 Nov ’12
E47Element-ary
Wed, 14 Nov ’12

9. Drawing a Line

E48Test It For Real
Mon, 19 Nov ’12
E49Find the Path
Wed, 21 Nov ’12
E50Damn Near Impossible
Mon, 26 Nov ’12

10. Mouse Events

E51Click, Position, and Spike
Wed, 28 Nov ’12
E52Dragging the Mouse
Mon, 3 Dec ’12
E53Too Much Test Code
Wed, 5 Dec ’12
E54Testing the Click Event
Mon, 10 Dec ’12
E55Border Patrol
Wed, 12 Dec ’12
E56Back to Click Tracking
Mon, 17 Dec ’12
E57Simplify Our Assertions
Wed, 19 Dec ’12
E58A Conundrum
Mon, 24 Dec ’12
E59A Solution
Mon, 31 Dec ’12
E60What a Drag
Wed, 2 Jan ’13
E61Refinement & Simplification
Mon, 7 Jan ’13

11. Fine-Tuning Mouse Gestures

E62Telling the Story
Wed, 9 Jan ’13
E63Outside-In
Mon, 14 Jan ’13
E64Inside-Out
Wed, 16 Jan ’13
E65A Big Step Back
Mon, 21 Jan ’13
E66Event-full
Wed, 23 Jan ’13
E67Self-Contained
Mon, 28 Jan ’13
E68Event Propagation & Defaults
Wed, 30 Jan ’13
E69IE 8 Event Insanity
Mon, 4 Feb ’13

12. Touch Events

E70Touch Events Spike
Wed, 6 Feb ’13
E71Preparing to Test-Drive Touch Events
Mon, 11 Feb ’13
E72Touch and Go
Wed, 13 Feb ’13
E73A Test-Driven Touch Interaction
Mon, 18 Feb ’13
E74Touchy
Wed, 20 Feb ’13
E75Multitouch
Mon, 25 Feb ’13
E76Feeling Our Way Along
Wed, 27 Feb ’13
E77Self-Documenting
Mon, 4 Mar ’13

13. Design, Objects, & Abstraction

E78Reflective Design
Wed, 6 Mar ’13
E79The DOM Element Abstraction
Mon, 11 Mar ’13
E80Object-Oriented Programming
Wed, 13 Mar ’13
E81The Next Abstraction
Mon, 18 Mar ’13
E82Take Smaller Steps
Wed, 20 Mar ’13
E83Exploiting Our Abstraction
Mon, 25 Mar ’13
E84Function Functions
Wed, 27 Mar ’13
E85A Well-Oiled Machine
Mon, 1 Apr ’13
E86Beautification
Wed, 3 Apr ’13
E87Metaprogramming
Mon, 8 Apr ’13
E88DomElement: Done
Wed, 10 Apr ’13
E89The Final Polish
Mon, 15 Apr ’13

14. Third-Party Code

E90A New File Server
Wed, 17 Apr ’13
E91Not Invented Here
Mon, 22 Apr ’13
E92A Bit of a Rant
Wed, 24 Apr ’13
E93Another Migration
Mon, 29 Apr ’13

15. Front-End Smoke Tests

E94Unit Tests Aren’t Enough
Wed, 1 May ’13
E95PhantomJS
Mon, 6 May ’13
E96Smoke Test Infrastructure
Wed, 8 May ’13
E97Housekeeping
Mon, 13 May ’13
E98The SvgCanvas Class
Wed, 15 May ’13
E99Fixing Encapsulation
Mon, 20 May ’13
E100Fundamental Abstractions
Wed, 22 May ’13
E101“Good” vs. “Good Enough”
Mon, 27 May ’13

16. Modularity

E102AMD vs. CommonJS
Wed, 29 May ’13
E103Browserify
Mon, 3 June ’13
E104The Build Step
Wed, 5 June ’13
E105Bundled Code
Mon, 10 June ’13
E106Testing with Browserify
Wed, 12 June ’13
E107Require() All the Code
Mon, 17 June ’13
E108Eliminating the Global Namespace
Wed, 19 June ’13
E109Light the Test-Signal!
Mon, 24 June ’13

17. The Karma-CommonJS Bridge

E110Into the Sausage Factory
Wed, 26 June ’13
E111The Module Casing
Mon, 1 July ’13
E112Twisting the Ends
Wed, 3 July ’13
E113Extracting the Export Meat
Mon, 8 July ’13
E114Labelling the Vat
Wed, 10 July ’13
E115Superdog
Mon, 15 July ’13
E116Links
Wed, 17 July ’13
E117Make Me One with Everything
Mon, 22 July ’13
E118Binding Agent
Wed, 24 July ’13
E119All Beef
Mon, 29 July ’13
E120Prepare the Next Batch
Wed, 31 July ’13

18. Drag and Drop

E121Toward a Minimum Viable Product
Mon, 5 Aug ’13
E122jake run
Wed, 7 Aug ’13
E123A Question of Design
Mon, 12 Aug ’13
E124Return of the HtmlElement Abstraction
Wed, 14 Aug ’13
E125Radical Simplification
Mon, 19 Aug ’13
E126relativeOffset()
Wed, 21 Aug ’13
E127Dumbfounded
Mon, 26 Aug ’13
E128If Not for Those Meddling Kids
Wed, 28 Aug ’13
E129Too Many Events
Mon, 2 Sep ’13
E130Broken Windows
Wed, 4 Sep ’13
E131Special Cases
Mon, 9 Sep ’13
E132Abstraction, or Just Reinventing the Wheel?
Wed, 11 Sep ’13

19. Karma 0.10

E133More Karma
Mon, 16 Sep ’13
E134CommonJS in Karma 0.10
Wed, 18 Sep ’13
E135Debugging with Karma 0.10
Mon, 23 Sep ’13
E136Reliable Tests for Unreliable Browsers
Wed, 25 Sep ’13

20. Modernizr

E137Refactor First
Mon, 30 Sep ’13
E138Smooth Sailing
Wed, 2 Oct ’13

21. Cross-Browser Incompatibility

E139Production-Grade
Mon, 7 Oct ’13
E140Send in the Spies
Wed, 9 Oct ’13
E141A Time Bomb
Mon, 14 Oct ’13
E142A Crazy Little Idea
Wed, 16 Oct ’13
E143Truly, Lovely, Nasty
Mon, 21 Oct ’13
E144Some Intense Troubleshooting
Wed, 23 Oct ’13
E145A True Cross-Browser Test
Mon, 28 Oct ’13

22. Fixing Bad Code

E146Fix the Mess
Wed, 30 Oct ’13
E147How to Test Legacy Code
Mon, 4 Nov ’13
E148Abstractions: What and When?
Wed, 6 Nov ’13
E149Testing the Capture API
Mon, 11 Nov ’13
E150Maintain Your Tests
Wed, 13 Nov ’13
E151A Clever Little Event Monitor
Mon, 18 Nov ’13
E152A Cure Worse than the Disease
Wed, 20 Nov ’13
E153A Happy Middle Ground
Mon, 25 Nov ’13

23. Troubleshooting the Windows 7 EPERM Issue

E154An Unexpected Detour
Wed, 27 Nov ’13
E155The Simplest Possible Test Case
Mon, 2 Dec ’13
E156A Single Test Method
Wed, 4 Dec ’13
E157pipe() dreams
Mon, 9 Dec ’13
E158An Interesting Journey
Wed, 11 Dec ’13
E159A Question of Quality
Mon, 16 Dec ’13

24. SVG Dots

E160MVP, not MV PoS
Wed, 18 Dec ’13
E161Make It Click
Mon, 23 Dec ’13
E162Unwrapping SVG
Wed, 25 Dec ’13
E163IE 8 Ate My Brains
Mon, 30 Dec ’13
E164A Decent Result
Wed, 1 Jan ’14
E165IE 8 Ate My Line-Caps, Too
Mon, 6 Jan ’14
E166Serving Two Masters
Wed, 8 Jan ’14
E167Colors and Fills
Mon, 13 Jan ’14
E168A Surplus of Circles
Wed, 15 Jan ’14
E169Dat Dot Polish
Mon, 20 Jan ’14

25. Multitouch Events

E170A Multitouch Misconception
Wed, 22 Jan ’14
E171A Multitouch Event Monitor
Mon, 27 Jan ’14
E172Generalizing Our Multitouch Monitor
Wed, 29 Jan ’14
E173Tappety-Tap Tap
Mon, 3 Feb ’14

26. Refactoring

E174Don’t Forget the “Refactor” Part
Wed, 5 Feb ’14
E175A Useful Test Abstraction Technique
Mon, 10 Feb ’14
E176Refactoring Cycles
Wed, 12 Feb ’14
E177Figure It Out As We Go
Mon, 17 Feb ’14
E178Fixing the Leaky Abstraction
Wed, 19 Feb ’14
E179The Advantage of TDD
Mon, 24 Feb ’14
E180Better Enough
Wed, 26 Feb ’14
E181The Itch to Ship
Mon, 3 Mar ’14
E182Clean Code
Wed, 5 Mar ’14

27. Dimensions and Positioning

E183Know Your Audience
Mon, 10 Mar ’14
E184Element Dimensions
Wed, 12 Mar ’14
E185The Nuclear Option
Mon, 17 Mar ’14
E186Prepare the Way
Wed, 19 Mar ’14
E187Down the Rabbit Hole
Mon, 24 Mar ’14
E188A Fresh Start
Wed, 26 Mar ’14
E189IE 8 Don’t Play That
Mon, 31 Mar ’14
E190I Can Haz getComputedStyle()?
Wed, 2 Apr ’14
E191The Last Resort
Mon, 7 Apr ’14
E192Throw It Away
Wed, 9 Apr ’14
E193Fail Fast
Mon, 14 Apr ’14
E194Appropriate Failure
Wed, 16 Apr ’14
E195Don’t Allow Mistakes into Production
Mon, 21 Apr ’14

28. Like Magic

E196Surprisingly Clear
Wed, 23 Apr ’14
E197An Interface Design Exercise
Mon, 28 Apr ’14
E198It’s Finally Paying Off
Wed, 30 Apr ’14
E199Failing Fast for Fun and Profit
Mon, 5 May ’14

29. The MVP

E200Ship It!
Wed, 7 May ’14

30. Web Design

E201A Cross-Functional Team
Mon, 12 May ’14
E202Typography
Wed, 14 May ’14
E203Colors
Mon, 19 May ’14
E204Layout
Wed, 21 May ’14
E205Agile Collaboration
Mon, 26 May ’14
E206Non-Responsive
Wed, 28 May ’14
E207A Third Design
Mon, 2 June ’14
E208Iterating on the Design
Wed, 4 June ’14
E209The Designer’s Bane
Mon, 9 June ’14
E210Ready for Implementation
Wed, 11 June ’14

31. The Test-Driven CSS Experiment

E211Why Test-Drive CSS?
Mon, 16 June ’14
E212Tilting at Windmills
Wed, 18 June ’14
E213Inventing the Future
Mon, 23 June ’14
E214isElementCenteredInPage()
Wed, 25 June ’14
E215Asserting the Layout
Mon, 30 June ’14
E216A CSS Loading Conundrum
Wed, 2 July ’14
E217A Promising Beginning
Mon, 7 July ’14

32. Positioning & Layout

E218Making It Real
Wed, 9 July ’14
E219Centering the Logo
Mon, 14 July ’14
E220Visual Verification
Wed, 16 July ’14
E221An Important Distinction
Mon, 21 July ’14
E222Element Deduplication
Wed, 23 July ’14
E223It’s Coming Along
Mon, 28 July ’14
E224Styling the Drawing Area
Wed, 30 July ’14
E225Overlapping Elements
Mon, 4 Aug ’14
E226Positioning Contortions
Wed, 6 Aug ’14
E227background-image
Mon, 11 Aug ’14
E228Cross-Browser Rendering Differences
Wed, 13 Aug ’14
E229Browser Bugs
Mon, 18 Aug ’14

33. CSS Buttons

E230Button Block
Wed, 20 Aug ’14
E231T̶he ͘center̨ c̕ann͞o͞t̀ ͘h̛o͠ld̛
Mon, 25 Aug ’14
E232Rounding Errors
Wed, 27 Aug ’14
E233Rounded Corners
Mon, 1 Sep ’14
E234Drop Shadow of the Colossus
Wed, 3 Sep ’14
E235Stylish Text
Mon, 8 Sep ’14
E236Cheating Our Way Through :hover
Wed, 10 Sep ’14
E237Quick and Smooth
Mon, 15 Sep ’14
E238Clearing It Out
Wed, 17 Sep ’14

34. Z-Order and Stacking

E239Z
Mon, 22 Sep ’14
E240Sibling Rivalry
Wed, 24 Sep ’14
E241Decorative Details
Mon, 29 Sep ’14

35. Programmatic IFrames

E242Testing in an IFrame
Wed, 1 Oct ’14
E243Asynchronis-iframe-ity
Mon, 6 Oct ’14
E244Inside the Insanity
Wed, 8 Oct ’14
E245So Frikkin’ Hard
Mon, 13 Oct ’14
E246Well and Truly Stumped
Wed, 15 Oct ’14
E247Unstylish Safari
Mon, 20 Oct ’14
E248Styled and Tested
Wed, 22 Oct ’14
E249IFinale
Mon, 27 Oct ’14

36. Testing Real HTML

E250Don’t Repeat Your HTML
Wed, 29 Oct ’14
E251Got It!
Mon, 3 Nov ’14
E252Bringing It Home
Wed, 5 Nov ’14
E253Never Forget
Mon, 10 Nov ’14

37. Fonts

E254font-family
Wed, 12 Nov ’14
E255@font-face
Mon, 17 Nov ’14
E256A Font Normalization Algorithm
Wed, 19 Nov ’14
E257Typekit
Mon, 24 Nov ’14
E258font-weight
Wed, 26 Nov ’14

38. Third-Party Embed Scripts

E259The Challenge of Third-Party Embed Scripts
Mon, 1 Dec ’14
E260Reverse-Engineering the Typekit Script
Wed, 3 Dec ’14
E261The Real Question
Mon, 8 Dec ’14
E262Phantom Menace
Wed, 10 Dec ’14
E263Check the Fonts
Mon, 15 Dec ’14
E264Race to the Polls
Wed, 17 Dec ’14
E265Fonts in Use
Mon, 22 Dec ’14
E266Questioning Our Approach
Wed, 24 Dec ’14
E267Set and Match
Mon, 29 Dec ’14
E268Remember the Future
Wed, 31 Dec ’14

39. Selenium

E269From PhantomJS to Selenium
Mon, 5 Jan ’15
E270Promise Me
Wed, 7 Jan ’15
E271Selenium Soliloquy
Mon, 12 Jan ’15
E272Sweet, Suite Failure
Wed, 14 Jan ’15
E273The Better Part of Valor
Mon, 19 Jan ’15
E274SecurityError
Wed, 21 Jan ’15
E275Origin Story
Mon, 26 Jan ’15
E276Expectations and Actuals
Wed, 28 Jan ’15
E277As Clever As Can Be
Mon, 2 Feb ’15

40. The Five-Second Build

E278Slack === Speed
Wed, 4 Feb ’15
E279Quick Build
Mon, 9 Feb ’15
E280Fast Tests
Wed, 11 Feb ’15
E281Incremental Builds
Mon, 16 Feb ’15
E282Lint Rules!
Wed, 18 Feb ’15
E283A Real Programming Language
Mon, 23 Feb ’15
E284Performance Optimization and Profiling
Wed, 25 Feb ’15
E285Up In Flame Graphs
Mon, 2 Mar ’15
E286From Synchronous to Asynchronous
Wed, 4 Mar ’15
E287From Asynchronous to Synchronous
Mon, 9 Mar ’15
E288Integrating Our Spike
Wed, 11 Mar ’15
E289Incremental Tests
Mon, 16 Mar ’15
E2900.14 seconds
Wed, 18 Mar ’15

41. Test Framework Migration

E291External Dependencies
Mon, 23 Mar ’15
E292From NodeUnit to Mocha
Wed, 25 Mar ’15
E293How To Migrate Test Frameworks
Mon, 30 Mar ’15
E294Isomorphic Build Infrastructure
Wed, 1 Apr ’15
E295Eliminate NodeUnit
Mon, 6 Apr ’15
E296An Isomorphic Assertion Library
Wed, 8 Apr ’15
E297From expect() to assert()
Mon, 13 Apr ’15
E298Build Cleanup
Wed, 15 Apr ’15
E299Extract Module
Mon, 20 Apr ’15
E300Extract Tool Runner
Wed, 22 Apr ’15
E301A Pretty Build
Mon, 27 Apr ’15
E302A Composable Build Tool
Wed, 29 Apr ’15

42. Node.js 0.12

E303An Imperfect Version Transition
Mon, 4 May ’15
E304A Breaking Change
Wed, 6 May ’15

43. Quixote

E305CSS Unit Testing
Mon, 11 May ’15
E306Installing Quixote
Wed, 13 May ’15
E307Cross-Browser CSS Tests
Mon, 18 May ’15
E308A Cross-Browser Test Success
Wed, 20 May ’15
E309Careful Positioning
Mon, 25 May ’15
E310Modernizr Safety
Wed, 27 May ’15
E311z-index and background-image
Mon, 1 June ’15
E312How to Parse a Stinkin’ URL
Wed, 3 June ’15
E313Test Design
Mon, 8 June ’15
E314Speak to Me
Wed, 10 June ’15
E315Button It Up
Mon, 15 June ’15
E316Pixel-Perfect
Wed, 17 June ’15

44. Cache Busters

E317Who Ya Gonna Call?
Mon, 22 June ’15
E318Something Strange in the Neighborhood
Wed, 24 June ’15
E319I Ain’t Afraid of No Ghost
Mon, 29 June ’15
E320Somethin’ Weird and It Don’t Look Good
Wed, 1 July ’15
E321Things Runnin’ Through Your Head
Mon, 6 July ’15

45. IE 11, iOS 8, and Android

E322Hello, IE 11
Wed, 8 July ’15
E323Goodbye, IE 8
Mon, 13 July ’15
E324Rapid Release
Wed, 15 July ’15
E325The Android Emulator
Mon, 20 July ’15
E326Testing Touch Events on Android
Wed, 22 July ’15
E327A Mutual Incompatibility
Mon, 27 July ’15
E328Testing Touch Events on iOS 8
Wed, 29 July ’15

46. Styling the 404 Page

E329Back to the 404 Page
Mon, 3 Aug ’15
E330CSS Infrastructure
Wed, 5 Aug ’15
E331Getting Stylish
Mon, 10 Aug ’15
E332Fonterrific
Wed, 12 Aug ’15
E333Bringing It Together
Mon, 17 Aug ’15
E334Verticality
Wed, 19 Aug ’15
E335Totally Stylish
Mon, 24 Aug ’15

47. Engineering Tasks

E336The ‘Content-Type’ Header
Wed, 26 Aug ’15
E337Webfont Smoke Test Redux
Mon, 31 Aug ’15
E338Busted
Wed, 2 Sep ’15

48. CSS Refactoring and Design

E339The Holy Grail
Mon, 7 Sep ’15
E340Normalize
Wed, 9 Sep ’15
E341Unit Testing a CSS Component
Mon, 14 Sep ’15
E342A Test-Driven CSS Component
Wed, 16 Sep ’15
E343Refactoring CSS
Mon, 21 Sep ’15
E344A Block with Elements
Wed, 23 Sep ’15
E345block__element
Mon, 28 Sep ’15