Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 01:07:49 +0000
<p>In the seventeenth episode of this podcast, your hosts <a href="http://twitter.com/francesc">Francesc</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/neurotic">Mark</a> interview <a href="https://google.com/+hirenpatel">Hiren Patel</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/dalehumby">Dale Humby</a>, two <a href="https://developers.google.com/experts/">Google Developer Experts</a> who live and work in South Africa.</p> <h5 id="about-hiren">About Hiren</h5> <p>DevOps engineer with a long history of system administration. Currently spending all my time doing a mix of backend development on GCP with python, web frontend development, and some android mobile work.</p> <h5 id="about-dale">About Dale</h5> <p>Electro-Mechanical engineer turned software developer, now leading the product development team at Nomanini, building point of sale terminals and a financial backend to provide low cost access to payment for emerging markets.</p> <h5 id="cool-thing-of-the-week">Cool thing of the week</h5> <p>We will be at <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/Next2016.html">GCP Next</a>, with our mics! So come by and say hello. We’ll be doing short interviews with people, and talking to them about the podcast.</p> <p>Also, make sure to check out <a href="https://cloudplatformonline.com/NEXT2016-Extended.html">GCP Next Extended</a>, if you can’t get to San Francisco for the event.</p> <h5 id="interview">Interview</h5> <p>Resources:</p> <ul> <li>The <code>Save-Data</code> client hint request header <a href="https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2016/02/save-data?hl=en"> docs</a></li> <li>The data trap: affordable smartphones, expensive data <a href="http://blog.jana.com/2015/05/21/the-data-trap-affordable-smartphones-expensive-data/"> blog</a></li> <li>Internet in Africa <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_Africa">wikipedia</a></li> <li>Introduction to Service Worker <a href="http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introduction/"> blog</a></li> <li>A collection of tools for service workers <a href="https://github.com/GoogleChrome/sw-toolbox">github</a></li> <li>Material Design Lite <a href="https://www.getmdl.io/">docs</a></li> <li>YouTube Red offline for free in South Africa <a href="http://www.htxt.co.za/2015/11/27/how-to-download-youtube-videos-and-watch-them-offline/"> blog</a></li> <li>IPv4 usage around the world <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage#/media/File:Carnabotnet_geovideo_lowres.gif"> image</a></li> </ul> <h5 id="question-of-the-week">Question of the week</h5> <ul> <li>Firebase Announcing Mobile Offline Support <a href="https://www.firebase.com/blog/2015-05-29-announcing-mobile-offline-support.html"> blog</a></li> <li>Firebase iOS Offline Capabilities <a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/ios/guide/offline-capabilities.html"> docs</a></li> <li>Firebase Android Offline Capabilities <a href="https://www.firebase.com/docs/android/guide/offline-capabilities.html"> docs</a></li> </ul>
