Episode #004 is kindly supported by Handheld – a conference focusing on “big ideas for small devices” taking place in Cardiff, UK on November 27th – 28th. Early bird tickets are a snip at £99 + VAT (regular price £139 + VAT). Read Craig’s post announcing the conference for more details. And yes, there’s a band!

• Handheld Conference
• Niice
• Jordan Moore Membership
• Myo
• VHX
• Harvest
• Xero
• Basecamp Personal
• Codebase
• Gauges
• Github
• FreeAgent
• Google Apps
• Rails Casts
• Plaid Maker
• Stachist

Thanks again to Handheld Conf for supporting this episode

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In this week’s micro edition we look at six great articles including a Medium post on proving your app idea with existing technology, the art of great support, Grunt, advances in wi-fi technology, Kieran’s latest bling accessory and a great post by our Texan friend Mr. Trent walton.

• From a Mailchimp email and Wufoo form to $25k in 3 months
• Support Ops
• Automating with Grunt
• Mile-wide wireless
• The Nymi bracelet
• Human Interest

We are back after a what can only be termed a travel enforced sabbatical. This week we chat about two new books focusing on remote working, Kieran regales us with more eco-living tales and we discuss why our industry seems obsessed on building businesses to flip.

• Brooklyn Beta
• Build
• Handheld
• Wood Grenade
• Automate Your Responsive Images With Mobify.js
• Remote by 37signals
• Year Without Pants
• Knock to Unlock
• Anatomy of a Password Disaster
• The Death of Everpix
• Warby Barker

Like the proverbial phoenix, we have risen! Kieran is back and we finally wish each other a happy new year. This episode we try and get to the bottom of why we weren’t nominated for a Net Award, this as you might imagine takes a while.

We ask the other burning question of the week, that being is Harry Roberts (the one and only CSS Wizard) really under 25. We also manage to chat about some of the recent happenings in the web industry – no really we do. It’s good to be back.

• Net Awards
• Goodbye Editorially
• 37signals becomes Basecamp
• The Profitable Side Project
• MK Geek Night All Dayer
• Twitter for Machines
• Ownercamp
• Flappy Birds MMO

Six links and just under one hour of chat, what are we playing at? Variety is the name of the game this week. We discuss Kieran’s new event, Getty Images big news, magazine web sites, Netflix, coding standards, text editors and round off with the Mark Cuban’s best ever investment.

• The Web Is
• Indie Direct
• Getty Images goes Free
• Digest Magazine
• Uppercase Magazine
• Netflix 2014 European Expansion
• Code Guide by @mdo
• Atom
• Huvr

Back from our travels we retrun behind the Yeti’s to discuss everything from the hunt for the perfect email app to the sartorial elegance of modern tech CEO’s. This episode also features a rather spledid retreat venue only four hours from Spokane.

• The Web Is
• Beyond Tellerrand Berlin
• Punctuation Tips
• Google Inbox
• Define the CTO
• Business casual has become a little too casual
• Dog Bark Park Inn

In a change to the announced billing, an impromptu early morning phone call made us think a chat about remote working might be in order. As many of us fight the January blues, and inevitable bout of illness that the new year often brings, it felt a timely opportunity to discuss the good, and the bad, aspects of working from a distance.

Topics we discuss include:

• How does working remotely affect us?
• What we both like and dislike about it
• How much real work you achieve per day
• The importance of “banter”
• Is the reality like the dream?
• A typical day for remote working?
• Do we put extra pressure on ourselves to output more as we are not in the office?
• How to feel part of the company you work for

And finally for those Nabaztag doubters out there you can read the full history of the internet enabled rabbit on Wikipedia!

Five Simple Steps Giveaway

To be in with a chance of winning one of the two sets of Five Simple Step’s Pocket Guide Collection 3 all you have to do it answer one of the following two questions correctly. Kieran’s decision will be final (he’s a harsh judge):

1. Q: What was Matthew Lillard’s handle in the cult-classic 1995 film Hackers?
2. Q: In the same year Sandra Bullock played a Systems Analyst in the film The Net. During the course of the film her identity is changed by cyber criminals but what is the name they gave her?

To enter just send a tweet to @backtofrontshow with your answer. We’ll announce winners on the next episode.

Like a phoenix from the flames, we have risen. Our year long retreat for slightly overweight tech men from the South West of England is officially over. We’ve eaten the kale, cleansed ourselves, got the glow and are now itching to get back behind the mics. It’s out with the Yeti’s and in with a spanking new steed for Kieran and a less than great “Madonna” mic for Keir.

In this week’s episode, we discuss where on earth we’ve been for the last 13 months, chat about how we’ve moved away from the code face and share experiences of a life away from daily development.

Finally, we announce the winner of the longest competition in Back to Front Show history!

It’s good to be back.

Happy 2018! Eschewing a long-standing tradition of not actually releasing shows we are kicking off the year as we mean to go on (for now) with a brand spanking new edition!

Join us for 50 glorious high fidelity minutes (true for one of us) and celebrate five years of the show. We don’t dwell too long on our golden non-award winning archive and go on to indulge in some chat, review a book, have a moan about Kickstarter projects, and for once don’t end on dog tech!

• Beyond Tellerrand Munich 2018
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
• Space Gray Apple iMac Pro Stuff sold for Thousands
• The Cozydesk
• The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of the Creative Technologist:

Tap tap, is this thing on? After eight months or working out how to plug in our USB microphones, we finally figured it out and are back with 45 glorious minutes of chat!

In this episode, we learn all about “New Kieran” — new job, new house, and a new laptop. We also discuss a great post on lessons learned running a subscription-based newsletter, discuss Hanno’s great online playbooks for remote working and end on a new Maus that neither of us wants.

• Nalgene Water Bottle
• The Fall Guy with Lee Majors
• New Adventures is Back!
• What I Learned over a Year of Asking Users for Money for the First Time
• Instead Of Focusing On Growth, We Want To Focus On Enough: Our Journey To 330
• Get Revue — Editorial Nnewsletter Tool for Writers and Publishers
• Hanno Remote Team Playbooks
• The Lofree Maus
• The Baron Fig Bolt

Next up is our 50th episode — let us know what we should discuss via Twitter.

With as many as 390 more people testing coronavirus positive since previous night, the total number of Covid-19 cases in Gujarat reached 7,403 on Friday, a health official said.

The Gujarat high court rebuked the erstwhile royal family of the princely state of Bhavnagar for its "dishonest intention" to claim a land parcel in an unauthorized manner from the Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation.

On March 24, when the lockdown was imposed, the total biomedical Covid waste incinerated in Ahmedabad that day was 82kg. The waste was mainly from the initial admissions at SVP Hospital,

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

(This story originally appeared in AhmedabadMirror on May 9, 2020)

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