Charles Lowell
Gentleman Developer
Charles has been delivering bullet-proof software for over 18 years. An avid contributor to open source, he founded the Frontside in 2005 to help businesses deliver game-changing user interfaces to their customers. Also, he really, really, really, really likes to code. Really.
Blog Posts
- Learning Javascript from the Command Line
- Taming the Rhino
- Trans-Global Pair Programming
- Live Stylesheets
- Patiently waiting for JavaFX
- In Search of a Better Autogrowing Textfield
- mod_rewrite: Remeber that the version counts
- RYE: Repeat Yourself Enough
- We must come together to honor the command line
- Accessing Javascript Objects from Ruby
- Please Stop Using Global Variables in Ruby
- Wrapping each Hudson distribution in its own RubyGem
- What it takes to bring Ruby to Jenkins
- The Ruby Racer isn't threadsafe... yet.
- Ruby for Jenkins Goes Pre-Alpha
- Implementing a Jenkins Extension Point with the Native Java API inside a Ruby Plugin
- The Ruby Racer Rides Again
- Functional Templating in Ember
- React Native and Chill: A tale of stupid made fast
- One Helpful Way to Think About JavaScript Decorators
- Math is Just Another Framework
- Four reasons to use append() instead of Object.assign() and Object spread
- Functional Rephrasing Using an Async Function Functor
- Beyond Mocking: Decoupling teams through Simulation
- The Triple Threat to Testing — Part 1: Speed
- The Triple Threat to Testing — Part 2: Reliability
Podcast Episodes
- OpenTelemetry with Austin Parker
- Paying Open Source Contributors with Puneet Lath
- Product Roadmaps and Tooling Planning with Steve Pereira
- Data, Trust, and Transparency: A COVID-19 Vaccine Story
- Type systems with ReasonML London organizer Marcel Cutts and Shane Wilson
- Intro to Rush.js with co-author Pete Gonzales
- Big Ideas & The Future at The Frontside
- Transparent Development
- Svelte and Reactivity with Rich Harris
- Security with Philippe De Ryck
- An Analysis of NativeScript Mobile Platform
- Deployment with Luke Melia, Aaron Chambers, and Mattia Gheda
- Pull Requests with Joe LeBlanc
- Frontend/Backend Team Collaboration with Sam Joseph
- Team Collaboration with Jacob Stoebel
- What’s in a UI platform?
- 117: The Frontside Podcast 2019 Reboot Preview
- 115: Testing Issues and BigTest Solutions
- 114: The Business Case for Experimentation with Elm with Dillon Kearns
- 113: There and Back Again: A Quest For Simplicity with Philip Poots
- 112: Language Formation with Amanda Hickman and Amberley Romo
- 111: Accessibility in Single Page Applications
- 110: Mentorship 3.0 with Saron Yitbarek
- 109: What Do You Need in a JavaScript Framework?
- 107: Microstates Part II
- 106: Microstates
- 105: Automating GitHub with Probot
- 102: FOLIO with Harry Kaplanian
- 101: Fullstack / Backend / Frontend: What’s the Difference?
- 100: 100th Episode Celebration with Brandon Hays
- 099: Funcadelic with Taras Mankovski
- 098: Experience First Development
- 097: Language Server Protocol with Erich Gamma and Dirk Baeumer
- 096: Outside-In Development
- 094: Machine Learning with Katharine Beaumont
- 093: Monoids, Monoids Everywhere! with Julie Moronuki
- 092: Venture Capital and Investing with Sam Cates
- 091: RxJS with Ben Lesh and Tracy Lee
- 090: Big Testing in JavaScript
- 088: The Craft of Developer Experience with Kaylie Kwon
- 087: The JSON API and Orbit.js with Dan Gebhardt
- 086: Routing in Ember with Alex Matchneer
- 085: WebAssembly with Jay Phelps
- 084: redux-observables with Jay Phelps
- 083: Learn Haskell, Think Less
- 082: Peeple with Chris Chuter
- 081: Knocki with John Boyd
- 079: Web Security and Keeping Developers on the Cutting Edge via Trainings and Workshops with Mike North
- 078: Kasita with Jeff Wilson and Jason Jaynes
- 077: The Internet of Things Cometh
- 076: "Devsigners" with Drew Covi
- 075: Babel with Robert Jackson
- 074: Mission Driven Businesses with Anissa Willyard
- 073: Summer Interlude
- 072: Single Page Apps with Accessibility in Mind with Kris Van Houten
- 071: Labor Organizing and Open Source Sustainability with Audrey Eschright
- 070: Kubernetes with Joe Beda
- 069: Redux Part II with Toran Billups
- 068: How We Do UI Testing Here at The Frontside
- 067: ember-concurrency with Alex Matchneer
- 066: 10 Pounds of Dirt in a 5 Pound Sack with Michael Coté
- 065: Data Loading Patterns with the JSON API with Balint Erdi
- 064: Empathy in Sales with Ginger Whalen
- 062: UI for U and I
- 061: Accessibility with Marcy Sutton
- 060: Ember and Fastboot with Jonathan Jackson
- 059: Build Useless Stuff
- 057: Demystifying Software with Liz Baillie
- 056: Ember vs. Elm: The Showdown with Philip Poots
- 055: Redux and Ember with Toran Billups
- 054: The Ember Ecosystem & ember-try with Katie Gengler
- 053: Glimmer 2 with Godfrey Chan
- 052: Emberitas with Lydia Guarino and Shannon Byrne
- 051: Rust and APIs with Steve Klabnik
- 050: Learning to Program with Kyle Simpson
- 048: Farewell, Brandon
- 047: Taking Payments on the Web with Noel Rappin
- 045: The New Theory of Teams with Sarah Mei
- 043: Growing Communities and Businesses with Leah Silber
- 042: Apprenticeship in Real Life with Taras Mankovski and Lennex Zinyando
- 041: The Technical Skills of a Senior Dev
- 040: How We're Refactoring Our Business
- 039: How to Integrate Jr. Developers Into Your Company
- 038: EmberConf 2016 - Recap and Highlights
- 036: Composable UI with Trek Glowacki
- 035: How We Hire
- 034: What We Learned in 2015
- 033: Immutability
- 032: Working Remotely with Allison McMillan
- 031: Family and Programming Life Balance with Mando Escamilla
- 030: Building Great Communities with Jamie White
- 029: Ember & "Big OSS" with Robert Jackson
- 028: Open Source, UX, and Ember with Trek Glowacki
- 027: Communication at Work
- 026: What is a Senior Developer?
- 025: Getting to Ember 2.0 with Matthew Beale
- 024: Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
- 023: Ember Islands with Mitch Lloyd
- 022: Deploy to the Future with Luke Melia
- 021: Best of EmberConf 2015 (part 2)
- 020: Best of EmberConf 2015 (part 1)
- 019: Origin Stories with Tom Dale and Alex Matchneer
- 017: Hiring Junior Developers: The Ukelele Method
- 016: Ember 2.0 and the Indie Web with Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale
- 014: Literally everything we learned in 2014
- 012: Is it OK to not love programming? (with Sarah Mei)
- 011: Hype Cycles and Reprogramming Your Brain
- 010: Reactive Modeling with Ember
- 009: How to tell if a jQuery plugin is about to stab you
- 008: The Brandon Hays Advice Dispensary
- 007: The Ember Router (with Alex Matchneer)
- 006: Myth of the Lone Genius Programmer
- 005: Backbone, Ember, and the "build your own Voltron" bias
- 004: EmberConf Recap
- 003: Refactoring toward Ember
- 002: Devil's Advocate
- 001: Hit me baby one more time