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Publisher New York, N.Y. : Nature America Inc.
Location World Wide Web
Call No. SF405.5




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012 JSJ Design Patterns in JavaScript with Addy Osmani

The panelists talk about design patterns in JavaScript with Addy Osmani




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029 JSJ Bower.js with Alex MacCaw and Jacob Thornton

Panel Alex MacCaw (twitter github blog) Jacob Thornton (Fat) (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) Discussion Bower.js (web) Bower.js (twitter) Bower.js (github) SXSW Package managers ender-js BPM hem Benefits Small components Yeoman.io Browserify Dependencies Segmenting the community Transports Mozilla (github) Commands Building an actual package manager node.js Moving parts of a package manager Events Challenges Ember.js Mobile web application development Google Chrome apps Desktop apps in JavaScript Picks Kershaw Ken Onion Tactical Blur Folding Knife (AJ) The xx: Coexist (Jamison) Neil Armstrong’s Solemn but Not Sad Memorial Cathedral (Jamison) Collective Soul Cat (Jamison) Amazon Prime (Joe) Star Trek Original Series on Amazon Prime (Joe) Functional Programming Principles in Scala: Martin Odersky (Joe) Domo (hiring!) (Joe) Delegation in Google (Chuck) Civilization IV (Chuck) Fujitsu ScanSnap (Chuck) Bill Nye’s Twitter Account getting suspended was not cool (Jacob) Github + Twitter profile redesign (Jacob) Avoid 7/11 Hot Dog Flavored Chips (Jacob) The Big Picture (Alex) CoffeeScriptRedux (Alex) Stripe (Alex)




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036 JSJ DOM Rendering and Manipulating

Panel AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) Discussion 01:29 - Merrick Christensen is a new regular panel member CascadiaJS 2012 JavaScript Modules: AMD, Require.js & Other Wins: Merrick Christensen 03:58 - DOM Rendering and Manipulating Backbone.js Ext.js 06:49 - Differences Load times Ease of use backbone.syphon 09:49 - The Ext.js approach vs the Backbone.js approach 15:51 - Templating engines dust.js handlebars.js mustache.js hogan.js underscore jquery 16:46 - handlebars.js vs mustache.js 18:08 - Templating engines (cont’d) Mold.js Ember.js Metamorph.js Knockout.js Pure.js Plates.js 26:34 - Difference between the click handler and the delegate function 31:49 - Template engines and string generations 33:01 - Writing templates and learning APIs 35:03 - Ext.js issues 39:32 - Dojo Picks Aldo (AJ) On Being A Senior Engineer (Jamison) Joshua James: From the Top of Willamette Mountain (Merrick) sparks.js (Merrick) grunt.js (Merrick) knit-js (Merrick) Functional Programming for the Object-Oriented Programmer by Brian Marick (Chuck) New Media Expo 2013 (Discount code Wood20) (Chuck) Skyfall (Joe) LEGO Lord of the Rings (Joe) Global Day of Coderetreat 2012 (Joe) Transcript JOE: If AJ talks on JavaScript Jabber, does anybody hear it? CHUCK: [laughs] AJ: Not if I don’t have my function key pressed down. [This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.] [This episode is sponsored by Gaslight Software. They are putting on a Mastering Backbone training in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center, December 3rd through 5th of this year. This three day intensive course will forever change the way you develop the front-end of your web applications. For too long, many web developers have approached front-end as drudgery. No more! We’ll help you build the skills to write front-end code you can love every bit as much as your server-side code.] [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net] CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to episode 36 of the JavaScript Jabber Show! This week on our panel, we have AJ O'Neal. AJ: Yo, yo, comin' at you from the cowboy sphere of Orem, Utah. CHUCK: We also have Jamison Dance. JAMISON: I'm coming at you from bathrobe sphere of Orem, Utah. It’s much more comfortable than a cowboy sphere. CHUCK: We have Joe Eames. JOE: Comin’ at you from a cluttered office. CHUCK: And Merrick Christensen. MERRICK: Hey guys! CHUCK: So, Merrick is new. Merrick, do you wanna introduce yourself real quick? MERRICK: Sure. My name is Merrick Christensen. I've been developing JavaScript for a number of years -- big fan of it. You can find me on twitter and GitHub and all that kind of stuff. JOE: Did you just recently speak at any conferences? MERRICK: Yeah actually. [laughter] I just spoke at CascadiaJS on require.js. And actually, what's really cool is they just barely put the videos for that up today and I was so stoked at how high quality. So to the CascadiaJS team, you guys  did an excellent job. JOE: Are the videos free? MERRICK: Oh yeah. All free up on YouTube. And there’s some cool stuff -- there's stuff on like robots -- it was an amazing conference. The organizers just did an amazing job. CHUCK: Sounds like fun. Was that up in the North West somewhere? MERRICK: Yeah it was actually in Seattle. CHUCK: Nice. MERRICK: Yeah it was beautiful. JAMISON: I heard that as one of the after party things, they took everybody up to see the James Bond movie? MERRICK: They did yeah.




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044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman

Panel David Herman (twitter blog Effective JavaScript) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:01 - David Herman Introduction Mozilla Mozilla Research TC39 - ECMAScript 01:45 - Effective JavaScript by David Herman 04:27 - Reader Opinions & Controversy JavaScript:The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford 09:09 - ES3 Shimming 11:25 - Code: effectivejs/code 12:50 - Parts of the Book 15:54 - Blocking Web Gestures With getUserMedia: Part1: Aaron Frost 17:28 - Book Level of Difficulty Effective C++ by Scott Meyers 20:09 - Asynchronous APIs Recursion Tail-Call Optimization 26:51 - Programming Language Academics 30:55 - DOM Integration Effective C++ by Scott Meyers Effective STL by Scott Meyers 31:50 - Advice for JavaScript Beginners Eloquent Javascript by Marijn Haverbeke JavaScript Enlightenment by Cody Lindley How to Design Programs 33:16 - Advice for Programmers in General 34:53 - Performance 38:16 - The JavaScript Language 40:45 - Primitives Vs Wrapper Classes 42:37 - Semicolons 45:24 - -0/+0 Picks Jack (Tim) Putting Constants on the Left (AJ) Getting Started with Amazon AWS EC2 (1 year free VPS web hosting) (AJ) Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods: Jeff Hodges (Jamison) Hurdles getting started with Ember.js (Jamison) Grieves (Merrick) The Scala Programming Language (Merrick) Antoine Dufour (Joe) Torchlight II (Joe) Appliness Digital Magazine (Joe) Powermat Home & Office Mat (Chuck) Une Bobine (Chuck) The Rust Programming Language (David) mozilla/servo (David) Roominate Toy (David) OpenWest Conference Call For Papers (AJ) Transcript CHUCK:  The most effective way to hack is quickly. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 44 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello. CHUCK:  AJ O’Neal. AJ:  Yo! Yo! Yo! Coming at you live from the living roomisphere of Provo, Utah. CHUCK:  We have Joe Eames. JOE:  Hi. CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  What’s up guys? CHUCK:  Tim Caswell. TIM:  Hello. CHUCK:  I'm Charles Max Wood from devchat.tv and this week, we have a special guest, Dave Herman. DAVE:  Hi there. CHUCK:  So Dave, you haven’t been on the show before. Do you want to introduce yourself? DAVE:  Sure. I work for Mozilla. I have sort of helped create this new department called Mozilla Research where we do a whole bunch of web platform experiments and new technology for the web. And I also am on the horribly named TC39, the standards organization for ECMAScript, working on the next edition of the JavaScript standard. CHUCK:  Cool. DAVE:  Oh, and I wrote this book. CHUCK: You did this book. TIM:  You didn’t just read it and then become an expert on the book and then talk on a podcast about it? [Laughter] CHUCK:  So, I heard about this book. I’m a little curious when you started writing the book, I mean, what was the idea behind it? What inspired it? DAVE:  To tell you the truth, I had no intention of writing a book, it didn’t occur to me. But the publishers reached out to me, I guess they heard of me through TC39, maybe ‘es-discuss’ or something. But they said, “Okay we’ve got this series, this Effective series.” And I was very familiar with Effective C++ which I think is a great book and I really like the format. And just when they approached me, I kind of thought, “You know,




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054 JSJ JavaScript Parsing, ASTs, and Language Grammar w/ David Herman and Ariya Hidayat

Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013! Panel David Herman (twitter blog Effective JavaScript) Ariya Hidayat (twitter github blog) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 00:48 - David Herman and Ariya Hidayat Introduction 044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman 023 JSJ Phantom.js with Ariya Hidayat 01:54 - Parsing JavaScript and ASTs and Language Grammars 04:44 - Semantics 06:08 - Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) Esprima: Parser SpiderMonkey 10:37 - Lexer 12:16 - Writing your own language creationix / jack The C Programming Language 17:41 - Parser Generators JavaScriptCore 21:04 - Evolving a Syntax Automatic Semicolon Insertion Post correspondence problem Halting problem 28:05 - Language Design The Rust Programming Language 30:35 - Grammar Regular Expressions (Regex) Backus–Naur Form (BNF) Recursion How to Design Programs (HTDP) 38:00 - Recursive Descent Parsers 42:48 - Benefits of knowing language internals and syntax Apache Lucene - Apache Lucene Core LPeg - Parsing Expression Grammars For Lua 48:48 - Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) Picks Mass Effect 3 (Joe) A Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior | Coursera (Joe) Go write a programming language to learn one (Tim) Thumbs and Ammo (Jamison) ISM by Savant (Jamison) Vimcasts (Jamison) The iPhreaks Show (Chuck) Mozy (Chuck) Tech & Go Bright Pink Micro USB Cable (David) asm.js (David) Beyond Office Politics: The Hidden Story of Power, Affiliation & Achievement in the Workplace by Linda Sommer (Ariya) gotwarlost / istanbul (Ariya) Next Week Web Developer Skills Transcript JAMISON:  I am Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux, Linix. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 54 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Tim Caswell. TIM:  Hello. CHUCK:  Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hi guys. CHUCK:  Joe Eames. JOE:  Hey there. CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  Hey guys, what’s up? CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. And we have two special guests this week. We have Dave Herman. DAVID:  Hey there. CHUCK:  Ariya Hidayat. ARIYA:  Hello everyone. CHUCK:  And these guys are so smart that we brought them back. So, if you’re interested, we’ll put links to the episodes that they were on. David was on when we talked about his book ‘Essential JavaScript’ and Ariya was on when we talked about PhantomJS. JAMISON:  Effective JavaScript. CHUCK:  Effective? What did I say? MERRICK:  Essential. CHUCK:  Essential? Well, it’s an essential book on Effective JavaScript. How’s that? [Laughter] MERRICK:  Good save. DAVID:  At least, you didn’t say Defective JavaScript. [Laughter] CHUCK:  No, that’s what I write. I’m really good at writing defective JavaScript. ARIYA:  Actually, there’s a book about Essential on Defective JavaScript. CHUCK:  I also want to announce really quickly that Fluent Conf has given us a discount code. So, if you want to get 20% off on your registration for Fluent Conf, just enter JAVAJAB and you’ll get 20% off when you register for Fluent Conf. Alright. Well, let’s get started. This is going to be a really, really interesting topic and it’s something that I’ve wanted to know more about for a long time. And I just haven’t delved as deeply into it as I would like to. And that is,




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056 JSJ Marionette.js with Derick Bailey

Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013! Panel Derick Bailey (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:03 - Derick Bailey Introduction Kendo UI 02:11 - Marionette.js Backbone.js Zombie Views 06:57 - How backbone.js helps with large-scale applications Scalability 08:42 - High-level application architecture path with Marionette.js BBCloneMail BBClone Mail Source Code 13:02 - Breaking down Marionette.js marionettejs / backbone.babysitter marionettejs / backbone.wreqr 16:02 - The value of using Marionette.js Tree views Table rendering 18:23 - Application Structure 20:17 - backbone.wreqr 26:20 - Memory Management Single-page applications Simplicity & maintainability 34:23 - Routing Single responsibility principle boazsender / backbone.routefilter 41:40 - Compatibility Issues Thorax Chaplin tbranyen / backbone.layoutmanager backbone.stickit Composition vs Inheritance 48:57 - Layouts, region managers, and regions Picks Raynos / continuable (Tim) asm.js (Joe) Arrested Development (Joe) Learn CSS Layout (Merrick) Data in Gapminder World (Merrick) BYU Easter Prank (AJ) Ryan and Bryndi Engagement Story (AJ) Ryan and Bryndi Wedding Day (AJ) Libsyn (Chuck) Get Clicky (Chuck) Arduino (Derick) Johnny-Five (Derick) BackboneRails Screencasts (Derick) Settler's Of Catan (Derick) Ticket To Ride (Derick) Carcassonne (Derick) JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov (Derick) Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture: Addy Osmani (Derick) Learning JavaScript Design Patterns by Addy Osmani (Derick) Developing Backbone.js Applications: Addy Osmani (Derick) Next Week Functional Programming with Zach Kessin Transcript MERRICK:  Tim, is there anything that you don’t follow up with, "I actually wrote that a few years ago?" [Laughter] TIM:  Yeah. AJ:  I was wondering the same thing. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 56 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal. AJ:  Yep, I’m here. CHUCK:  Tim Caswell. TIM:  Howdy? CHUCK:  Joe Eames. JOE:  Hey, everybody. CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  What’s up? CHUCK:  And we have a special guest, Derick Bailey. DERICK:  Hey, how’s it going? CHUCK:  I guess, I should say I’m on here too. I’m Charles Max Wood from Devchat.tv. Derick, do you want to introduce your self really quickly? DERICK:  Sure. Derick Bailey, obviously. I work for Kendo UI at the moment. We build HTML 5 and JavaScript controls for the web and global and all kinds of fun stuff. I’ve been working in JavaScript off and on for, let’s see, it was released in ’94. So, about 19 years, I guess. I got into it right when it was first out in Netscape 2.0 and it was a love/hate relationship for a long, long time until I finally found that I really do love it in the last couple of years and started working with it full time. I’m just enjoying the heck out of it at the moment with all of this server side stuff we can do in Node.js and all the big apps we can build with Backbone and Ember and Angular and everything else. CHUCK:  Nice. JOE:  That was a lot of enthusiasm, I liked it. MERRICK:  Yeah. CHUCK:  Yeah. It’s like JavaScript’s cool again or something. DERICK:  Yeah, it’s crazy. Everything old is new again. MERRICK:  Why can’t I be that happy?




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062 JSJ Dojo with Dylan Schiemann

Panel Dylan Schiemann (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 00:57 - Dylan Schiemann Introduction The Dojo Toolkit CEO of SitePen 01:14 - Dojo TD Ameritrade The Wall Street Journal JPMorgan Chase & Co TD Bank voro.com Esri 04:40 - Why is Dojo relevant today? Peter Higgins: #dadt (Dojo already did that) 07:00 - AMD and RequireJS Performance Benefits CommonJS 10:34 - Dijit Form Controls Layout Widgets Other Widgets (i.e. grids, rich text editor controls, trees, etc.) Polymer 15:32 - Browser Support The Awesome Bar Removing Code Aspect-oriented Programming 20:01 - Dojo 2 Dojo Mobile Responsive Dijits Local Storage Better Grid Widgets Cleaner APIs 32:52 - Marketing Dojo Dojo Tutorials Good APIs Demos Target Environments 27:55 - Graded Support Graded Browser Support - YUI Library 30:56 - Maintaining the old version while moving ahead with the new version 33:01 - Strict Mode dojo.declare 34:15 - Dojo and Node.js dojo/request 36:20 - The Dojo Foundation lodash The Intern 40:21 - Testing D.O.H.: Dojo Objective Harness Sauce Labs Chai 42:56 - Charting and Graphing & Vector Graphics DojoX voro.com GFX D3 Raphaël 46:41 - The History of Dojo and Prototype Picks Sexism in Video Games - This Female Gamer is Fed Up / from a woman's view / woman / Rape is in Grand Theft Auto Game (AJ) My Fair Lady (AJ) Moon (Jamison) Dr. Dog (Jamison) Warhammer Quest (Joe) Knights of the Old Republic (Joe) Ruins by Orson Scott Card (Joe) AngularJS Fundamentals (Joe’s Pluralsight Course) (Joe) Commit (Chuck) Authority | Nathan Barry (Chuck) The Intern (Dylan) FrozenJS (Dylan) hammer throw: 1986 Youri Sedykh's World Record Series (Dylan) Kundalini Yoga (Dylan) Arcosanti (Dylan) Ubud, Bali (Dylan) Insadong, Seoul, South Korea (Dylan) Next Week Burnout Transcript JAMISON:  This is my voice. CHUCK:  You keep it with you at all times, don’t you? JAMISON:  I do. Unless I go to a rock concert or something. Then I leave it there. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.]  [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]  CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 62 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hi, guys. CHUCK:  Joe Eames. JOE:  Hey there. CHUCK:  AJ O’Neal. AJ:  Not coming at you live. Not at all. CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv and we have a special guest this week. That’s Dylan Schiemann. So, do you want to introduce yourself real quick, Dylan? DYLAN:  Sure. Thanks Charles. I’m Dylan. I’m one of the founders of an open source project called the Dojo Toolkit. I’m also the CEO at SitePen, a company that builds web apps and provides JavaScript training and support. CHUCK:  Awesome. Dojo’s been around for a long time, hasn’t it? DYLAN:  Nine years. CHUCK:  Nine years. DYLAN:  Oh, yeah. Three lifetimes in the Internet age, I guess. CHUCK:  Does that make it older than jQuery? DYLAN:  It does, yes. JQuery, I think, started about seven years ago, maybe. Six or seven years ago. CHUCK:  I remember seeing a couple of websites built in Dojo way back in the day. I don’t remember exactly which ones they were. For some reason, I got the impression that it was a framework, but it’s more of a toolkit. It’s much more like jQuery than it is like, say, Backbone or Ember or any of those. DYLAN:  It’s kind of everything. You can use it as a simple toolkit like jQuery. You have DOM manipulation,




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071 JSJ JavaScript Strategies at Microsoft with Scott Hanselman

Panel Scott Hanselman (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Aaron Frost (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:14 - Scott Hanselman Introduction Community Program Manager for Web Tools at Microsoft Azure and Web Tools ASP.NET Runtime 03:17 - Microsoft and JavaScript Microsoft Build Developer Conference Scott Hanselman: Angle Brackets, Curly Braces, One ASP.NET and the Cloud Json.NET 13:40 - The Cost of Web Development Tooling Sublime Text Visual Studio 18:17 - Libraries and Frameworks Knockout 24:14 - Innovation in Software Befunge 29:48 - Apps Supporting JavaScript Create your first Windows Store app using JavaScript (Windows) Visual Studio Express 34:14 - Windows and Internet Explorer Chakra 40:42 - Microsoft’s Attitude Towards JavaScript Scott Hanselman: Azure for the non-Microsoft Person - How and Why? 45:58 - Open Source 49:12 - asm.js 52:05 - Angle Brackets Conference Picks The Wolverine (Joe) ng-conf (Joe) Cancún (Aaron) @ngconf (Aaron) Wistia (Chuck) Mumford And Sons 'Hopeless Wanderer' Music Video (Scott) Beyoncé Joins the Short Hair Club (Scott) Next Week Screencasting: Sharing What You Know Through Video Transcript [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.]  [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]  [This podcast is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of WebStorm. Whether you’re working with Node.js or building the front end of your web application, WebStorm is the tool for you. It has great code quality and code exploration tools and works with HTML5, Node, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Harmony, LESS, Sass, Jade, JSLint, JSHint, and the Google Closure Compiler. Check it out at JetBrains.com/WebStorm.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 71 the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames. JOE:  Hey. CHUCK:  Aaron Frost. AARON:  Hello. CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. And we have a special guest that is Scott Hanselman. SCOTT:  Hello. CHUCK:  Since you’re new to the show, do you want to introduce yourself really quickly? SCOTT:  My name is Scott Hanselman. You can learn more about me on the internet by googling for Scott. I’m in an epic battle right now with the Scott toilet paper people. You’ll find me just below Scott toilet tissue. I’ve been blogging for ten years. More than ten years, 13 years. I work at Microsoft right now. Before that I worked in finance at a company called Corillian that is now Fiserv. I’ve been building big systems on the web for as long as the web’s been around. CHUCK:  Wow. What do you do at Microsoft? SCOTT:  I work in Azure and Web Tools. I’m a program manager. I’m in charge of the experience from file new project until deployment. I call myself the PM of miscellaneous. I spend time going through that experience making sure that it doesn’t suck. My focus is on web tools but also ASP.NET Runtime and what the experience is when you deploy something into Azure. That might be everything from what’s it like editing JavaScript in Visual Studio and I’ll find some issue and go and work with the guys that own that, or it might be someone’s trying to do something in Node on Azure and that experience is not good. I’m like an ombudsman or a customer liaison. But the simplest way would be to say I’m the community PM, community program manager, for web tools at Microsoft. CHUCK:  Okay. AARON:  Cool. CHUCK:  So, is JavaScript your primary focus? SCOTT:  I would say that my primary focus is just anything that makes the web better and moves the web forward. While I work for ASP.NET and most of my work is in C#,




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074 JSJ Grunt with Ben Alman

Panel Ben Alman (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Ryan Florence (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:34 - Ben Alman Introduction Bocoup 02:54 - “Cowboy” Cowboy Coder 06:53 - The Birth of Grunt Ender make rake jake 14:34 - Installing Globally & Plugins JSHint grunt-cli lodash async 20:43 - Managing the project and releasing new versions 22:32 - What is Grunt? What does it do? jQuery libsass SASS stylus 26:39 - Processes & Building Features node-task guard grunt-contrib-watch node-prolog 35:29 - The Node Community and reluctance towards Grunt 41:35 - Why the separation of task loading and configuration? 46:18 - Contributions and Contributing to Grunt 55:18 - What Ben would have done differently building Grunt Ease of Upgrade Picks Web Components (Ryan) Eliminate Sarcasm (Ryan) Bee and PuppyCat (Jamison) MONOPRICE (AJ) AJ O'Neal: Moving to GruntJS (AJ) The Best Map Ever Made of America’s Racial Segregation (Chuck) Clean Off Your Desk (Chuck) Polygon (Ben) My Brother, My Brother and Me (Ben) Echofon (Ben) Bocoup (Ben) Next Week Maintainable JavaScript with Nicholas Zakas Transcript RYAN:  We’re potty training my son right now. So, I was up like eight times cleaning poo off of everything. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.]  [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]  [This podcast is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of WebStorm. Whether you’re working with Node.js or building the frontend of your web application, WebStorm is the tool for you. It has great code quality and code exploration tools and works with HTML5, Node, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Harmony, LESS, Sass, Jade, JSLint, JSHint, and the Google Closure Compiler. Check it out at JetBrains.com/WebStorm.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to episode 74 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal. AJ:  I’m eating beef jerky. CHUCK:  Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello. CHUCK:  We have a special guest. I guess you’re a guest in filling in for Merrick and Joe and that’s Ryan Florence. RYAN:  Hey, how’s it going? I don’t know if I can fill two shoes, but I will try. CHUCK:  Well, you have two feet, right? RYAN:  Okay. Well, that’s four shoes. CHUCK:  [Chuckles] I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. We also have another special guest and that is Ben Alman. BEN:  Yo! What’s up, everyone? CHUCK:  So, do you want to introduce your self, Ben, since you haven’t been on the show before? BEN:  I’m Ben Alman. Oh, okay. [Laughter] AJ:  That’s not conceited. RYAN:  That’s really all he needs. BEN:  That’s it. The show’s over, roll credits. So yeah, I’m Ben. You can find me online as @cowboy on Twitter or GitHub and I’m at BenAlman.com. And if you Google me, I have finally got enough SEO juice to beat the other Ben Alman who’s the Orthopedic Surgeon for sick children in Canada. So screw you, guy who helps sick kids. [Laughter] BEN:  No, it’s cool. It’s cool, right? But for a while, I was like, “Damn this guy.” But I can’t do anything because he helps sick children. So there’s another Benjamin Alman out there doing things for society and me, I just code. So, I work at Bocoup. We’re at Bocoup.com. Our logo is a rooster, Bob the Rooster, and we make a lot of cool web and open web and open source stuff. And so, I do training there. I teach people JavaScript and jQuery. But I also work on open source tools. I spend a lot of my time, actually, behind the scenes in Node writing JavaScript, experimenting, R&D, writing tools, et cetera. CHUCK:  Awesome. So,




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075 JSJ Maintainable JavaScript with Nicholas Zakas

Panel Nicholas C. Zakas (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:24 - Nicholas Zakas Introduction Box Maintainable JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas High Performance JavaScript (Build Faster Web Application Interfaces) by Nicholas C. Zakas Yahoo 02:19 - What Makes Maintainable JavaScript? Code Layout Clever Solutions (“Chicken Blood Solutions”) 04:39 - Formatting Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Broken Window Theory 07:33 - Architecture aura Nicholas Zakas: The Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture Feature Encapsulation 14:11 - 'High Performance Javascript' and the balance between short-term and long-term knowledge 19:17 - Important conventions for a team to follow Styles Mini Design Patterns Readability 26:14 - Tools & Techniques Style Guide 28:31 - Breaking the continuous integration build 31:14 - Linting JSLint 32:35 - Developing skills for architecting things Experience Personal Trait of Curiosity Component-based and Systems-based software engineers 37:52 - Architecture and Maintainability Testability Backbone.js 43:28 - Creating common conventions that will apply across projects Picks Domo (Joe) Pluralsight (Joe) Game Dev Tycoon (Joe) The Star Wars (Joe) Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! by Keith Peters (Merrick) ng-conf (Merrick) Kveikur by Sigur Rós (Merrick) makemeasandwich (AJ) Sleep (AJ) Jekyll Themes (Jamison) Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman (Jamison) A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (Jamison) DevChat.tv (Chuck) Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Nicholas) StePhest Colbchella '013 - Time to Dance (Nicholas) Evolution of Music - Pentatonix (Nicholas) Next Week Meteor.js with Marcus Phillips and Fred Zirdung Transcript [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.]  [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]  [This podcast is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of WebStorm. Whether you’re working with Node.js or building the frontend of your web application, WebStorm is the tool for you. It has great code quality and code exploration tools and works with HTML5, Node, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Harmony, LESS, Sass, Jade, JSLint, JSHint, and the Google Closure Compiler. Check it out at JetBrains.com/WebStorm.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to episode 75 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames. JOE:  Hey, everyone. CHUCK:  AJ O’Neal. AJ:  I can hit unmute. I'm here. CHUCK:  Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello, friends. CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  Hey, guys. CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. This week, we have a special guest, that’s Nicholas Zakas. NICHOLAS:  Yup, you got it. CHUCK:  So, since you haven’t been on the show before, do you want to introduce yourself? NICHOLAS:  Sure. I'm a software engineer that is working for Box currently. I think a lot of people probably know me from the books that I've written, mostly on the topic of JavaScript and the talks that I've given also on that topic. And a lot of that relates back to my work when I was at Yahoo. I was there for about five years and was the lead on the Yahoo homepage redesign. And a lot of what I do is really just try to solve problems in real life and then share what I did with everybody else in whatever way I think is most appropriate - writing or speaking or coming on podcasts. CHUCK:  Yes, you're being modest. You have a book,




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076 JSJ Meteor.js with Marcus Phillips and Fred Zirdung

Panel Marcus Phillips (twitter github) Fred Zirdung (twitter github) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:30 - Marcus Phillips and Fred Zirdung Introduction Hack Reactor 03:31 - Experience with Meteor 05:45 - Intro to Meteor Client-side Environment Tethered Queries minimongo 09:56 - Websockets 11:29 - Deployment Support 14:51 - The Cloud 16:43 - Meteor and Server-side JavaScript Engines Meteor Devshop 7 - LIVE 19:48 - Meteor and Windows 22:43 - Package Management System 23:49 - Building Meteor Apps 29:04 - Meteor Methods 33:02 - Open-Source Meteor Apps 34:15 - Hack Reactor Education Training Developers Removing Complexity Picks ng-conf (Joe) Ben Kamens: “Shipping Beats Perfection” Explained (Jamison) Evan Goer: Writing for Developers — Some Rational Techniques (Jamison) BOXEN (Chuck) Book Yourself Solid Illustrated: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling by Michael Port (Chuck) meteor / packages / deps / deps.js (Marcus) Underscoreboard (Marcus) actionHero.js (Fred) Satellite (Fred) Tilden (Fred) rethink-livedata (Marcus) Next Week Monacle with Alex MacCaw Transcript JAMISON:  Speaking of single and [working] 30 hours a week after your job, is Merrick there?   [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.]  [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]  [This podcast is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of WebStorm. Whether you’re working with Node.js or building the frontend of your web application, WebStorm is the tool for you. It has great code quality and code exploration tools and works with HTML5, Node, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Harmony, LESS, Sass, Jade, JSLint, JSHint, and the Google Closure Compiler. Check it out at JetBrains.com/WebStorm.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to episode 76 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello friends. CHUCK:  Joe Eames. JOE:  Hey there. CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. We’ve also got two special guests and that is Fred Zirdung. FRED:  Hello. CHUCK:  Did I totally butcher that? FRED:  Yeah, you got it right. CHUCK:  Okay. And Marcus Phillips. MARCUS:  Hi everybody. CHUCK:  Since you guys haven't been on the show before, do you want to introduce yourself? We’ll have Marcus go first. MARCUS:  Sure. I'm Marcus Phillips. I'm a JavaScript enthusiast. I've been in it for a long time. Really excited about framework architecture and lately, all about teaching what I've learned over the course of time that I've been working in the Bay Area and working on the frontend of Twitter and things like that. Nowadays, I teach at Hack Reactor full time which is an immersive school for learning to become a developer over a period of three months. JAMISON:  Cool. CHUCK:  And which technologies do you teach at Hack Reactor? MARCUS:  We use JavaScript as our teaching language. Fundamentally, what we’re trying to do is teach people software engineering principles. So, JavaScript just turns out to be one of the most useful languages we can use to do that. But from there, we kind of want to give people practical skills that they can use immediately on the job. So, we definitely drive the entire curriculum out of GitHub repos and teach them some practical things like Backbone and Node and deployment strategies. So yeah, we kind of cover the gambit from frontend to backend with a focus on JavaScript in particular. CHUCK:  Awesome. That sounds really cool. JOE:  Yeah, it does. MARCUS:  It’s a lot of fun. CHUCK:  Fred,




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077 JSJ Monocle with Alex MacCaw

Panel Alex MacCaw (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:13 - Going Rogue Video 02:12 - Alex MacCaw Introduction 029 JSJ Bower.js with Alex MacCaw and Jacob Thornton JavaScript Web Applications: jQuery Developers' Guide to Moving State to the Client by Alex MacCaw The Little Book on CoffeeScript: The JavaScript Developer's Guide to Building Better Web Apps by Alex MacCaw 02:44 - Monocle Alternative for Hacker News 03:39 - Speed Alex MacCaw: Time to first tweet sinatra MVC Framework Synchronicity 10:48 - SEO Google Webmaster Tools The Google Webmaster Video on Single-page Apps / SEO Alex MacCaw: SEO in JS Web Apps 14:01 - The Social Aspect of Monocle/Community 17:09 - Caching 17:47 - Google Website Optimizer 18:26 - Responsiveness 21:00 - Client-side & Server-side 25:11 - Testing for Performance PageSpeed Insights 28:39 - The Design Process sinatra sequel 31:44 - Sourcing.io Sourcing.io Signup 34:15 - Inspiration Picks MicroFormat Tool (AJ) Google Markup Helper (AJ) Gmail Markup Schemas (AJ) OUYA (AJ) TowerFall (AJ) Final Fantasy 7 (emulator) Final Fantasy 7 (PC) (AJ) Sunlounger (Joe) Pebble Watch (Joe) ng-conf (Joe) Book Yourself Solid: The Fastest, Easiest, and Most Reliable System for Getting More Clients Than You Can Handle Even if You Hate Marketing and Selling by Michael Port (Chuck) Coder (Alex) List of Ig Nobel Prize winners (Alex) Next Week Working From Home Transcript ALEX:  The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.]  [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]  [This podcast is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of WebStorm. Whether you’re working with Node.js or building the frontend of your web application, WebStorm is the tool for you. It has great code quality and code exploration tools and works with HTML5, Node, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Harmony, LESS, Sass, Jade, JSLint, JSHint, and the Google Closure Compiler. Check it out at JetBrains.com/WebStorm.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to episode 77 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames. JOE:  Hey there. CHUCK:  Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hey friends. CHUCK:  AJ O’Neal. AJ:  It'sa mia, it'sa AJ. CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. And before I introduce our guest, I just want to make a quick announcement. Tomorrow as we’re recording this, so when you get this episode it will be last Friday, is my Freedom Day. It’s the day I got laid off from my last full-time job and went freelance. So in honor of that, I’m putting together a video. I’ve called it ‘Going Rogue’. Yes, I know that there’s a political thing around that, whatever. Anyway, I called it ‘Going Rogue’. You can get it at GoingRogueVideo.com. It’s basically the first year of me going freelance. I’ve just talked through how it all went. The mistakes I made, the things I learned, the things I did right, and just gave general advice to anyone who’s looking to go freelance. Or if you’re interested in some of the challenges that come with that, it’s a video that I’m putting together to kind of explain that. Like I said, it’s free. You can get it at GoingRogueVideo.com. Yeah, I’m pretty excited about it. I’m also excited about Freedom Day. Anyway, we also have a special guest today, and that’s Alex MacCaw. ALEX:  How do you do? Thank you for having me. CHUCK:  You’ve been on the show before, but it’s been almost a year. Do you want to introduce yourself again? ALEX:  Well, I’m mostly a JavaScript programmer.




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083 JSJ FRP and RxJS with Matthew Podwysocki

In this episode, the panelists talk to Matthew Podwysocki about Functional Reactive Programming and RxJS.




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119 JSJ Chrome Apps with Joe Marini

The panelists talk about Chrome apps with Google's Joe Marini.




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120 JSJ Google Polymer with Rob Dodson and Eric Bidelman

The panelists talk to Rob Dodson and Eric Bidelman about the Google Polymer project and Google I/O.




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126 JSJ The Ionic Framework with Max Lynch and Tyler Renelle

The panelists discuss the Ionic Framework with Max Lynch and Tyler Renelle.




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135 JSJ Smallest Federated Wiki with Ward Cunningham

The Panelists talk to the creator of the Smallest Federated Wiki, Ward Cunningham.




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144 JSJ Marionette.js 2.0 with Sam Saccone

The panelists talk to Sam Saccone about Marionette.js 2.0.




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145 JSJ Meteor.js with Matt DeBergalis

The panelists talk to Matt DeBergalis about Meteor.js.




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148 JSJ i.cx and EveryBit.js with Matt Asher and Dann Toliver

02:24 - Dann Toliver Introduction

02:35 - Matt Asher Introduction

02:51 - EveryBit.js and I.CX

03:43 - Architecture

06:54 - Sustainability and The Pieces of the System

21:56 - Decentralization

25:20 - Audience: Why Should I Care?

27:38 - Getting Started: Nuts and Bolts

  • Frontend Agnostic
  • Storage and Performance
  • Users and Data Management
    • Payload Properties
    • Metadata
    • Graph Database
      • Adding New Relationships
      • Adding Heuristics
      • Resource Allocator Component
        • Local Storage
        • RAM

34:55 - Scaling and Server Cost

36:23 - Cloud Storage and Management (Security & Trust)

47:22 - Implementing Cryptographic Primitives

55:13 - The Firefox Sync Tool Project

Picks

[Twitch.tv] Kylelandrypiano (Jamison)
"Visualizing Persistent Data Structures" by Dann Toliver (Jamison)
Probability and Statistics Blog (Jamison)
Seeed Studio (Tim)
Adafruit Industries (Tim)
SparkFun Electronics (Tim)
American Sniper by Chris Kyle, Scott McEwen, and Jim DeFelice (Chuck)
Introducing Relay and GraphQL (Dann)
The Clojurescript Ecosystem (Dann)
Read-Eval-Print-λove (Dann)
React Native (Matt)




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156 JSJ Soft Skills and Marketing Yourself as a Software Developer with John Sonmez

Check out ReactRally: A community React conference in Salt Lake City, UT from August 24th-25th!

03:36 - John Sonmez Introduction

04:29 - Mastermind Groups

05:53 - “Soft Skills”

  • Why Care About Soft Skills?
    • People Skills
    • Finances
    • Fitness

11:53 - Learned vs Innate

  • Lifting Limited Beliefs
  • Practice

14:14 - Promotion (Managerial) Paths

17:52 - “Marketing”

29:53 - Get Up and CODE!

33:47 - Burnout

Get John’s How to Market Yourself as a Software Developer Course for $100 off using the code JSJABBER

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Picks

The Recurse Center (Jamison)
Code Words Blog (Jamison)
DayZ Player Sings (And Plays Guitar) For His Life (Jamison)
Demon (Jamison)
Mastodon: Leviathan (Jamison)
Jan Van Haasteren Puzzles (Joe)
Hobbit Tales from the Green Dragon Inn (Joe)
AngularJS-Resources (Aimee)
Superfeet Insoles (Aimee)
Good Mythical Morning (AJ)
The Magic of Thinking Big by David J. Schwartz (Chuck)
Streak (John)
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber (John)
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Revised Edition by Robert B. Cialdini (John)
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield (John)
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield (John)

 




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157 Moving Your Rendering Engine to React with Amit Kaufman and Avi Marcus

02:43 - Amit Kaufman Introduction

03:07 - Avi Marcus Introduction

04:35 - Why Move Your Rendering Engine to React?

07:25 - Using JavaScript

09:57 - Business Process and Progression (Getting Managerial Approval)

12:46 - Manipulation

15:11 - Layout and Performance

  • Measuring and Patching

20:21 - Building Client-Side Applications in General

  • Abstraction
  • Make Code Predictable and Clear
  • Have a Goal

26:00 - Events

29:30 - Storage

  • Lazy Components

31:31 - Immutability

34:36 - Flux and Keeping Code Maintainable

  • Packages

38:19 - Two-way Data Binding

Picks

Notes on the book "Art & Fear" by David Bayles & Ted Orland (Jamison)
Papers (Jamison)
Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store (Jamison)
LDS Conference Talks (AJ)
Stephen Young: Why your code is so hard to understand (Aimee)
Kombucha (Aimee)
Pascal Precht: Integrating Web Components with AngularJS (Pascal)
Template Syntax Constraints and Reasoning (Design Doc) (Pascal)
RUNNING WITH RIFLES (Joe)
[Pluralsight Webinar] AngularJS 2.0: What you need to know with Joe (Joe)
Whiplash (Amit)
Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work? (Amit)
React Templates (Amit)
Esprima (Avi)
Big Hero 6 (Avi)

 

Check out and sign up to get new on React Rally: A community React conference on August 24th and 25th in Salt Lake City, Utah!




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161 JSJ Rust with David Herman

02:52 - David Herman Introduction

03:50 - The Rust Programming Language

06:31 - “Systems Programming Without Fear”

07:38 - High vs Low-level Programming Languages

  • Garbage Collection and Deallocation
  • Memory Safety
  • Performance and Control Over Performance

11:44 - Stack vs Heap Memory

16:52 - The Core of Rust

  • Ownership
  • Type System

24:23 - Segmentation Fault (Seg Faults)

27:51 - How much should programmers care about programming languages?

32:43 - Concurrency and Multithreaded Programming

35:06 - Rust vs Go

37:58 - servo

40:27 - asm.js

42:19 - Cool Apps Built with Rust

45:04 - What hardware architectures does the Rust target?

45:46 - Learning Rust

Picks

Software Engineering Radio (Dave)
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen (Dave)
The Presidents of the United States of America (Dave)
Design Patterns in C (AJ)
Microsoft Edge Dev Blog: Bringing Asm.js to Chakra and Microsoft Edge (AJ)
The Web Platform Podcast: Episode 43: Modern JavaScript with ES6 & ES7 (AJ)
Firefox Fame Phone (AJ)
iTunes U CS106A (Programming Methodology) (Aimee)
Valerian Root on Etsy (Aimee)
The Dear Hunter - Live (Jamison)
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann (Jamison)
Fogus: Perlis Languages (Jamison)
Galactic Civilizations III (Joe)
Visual Studio Code (Joe)
Tessel 2 (Dave)
Event Driven: How to Run Memorable Tech Conferences by Leah Silber (Dave)
Plush Hello Kitty Doll (Dave)




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175 JSJ Elm with Evan Czaplicki and Richard Feldman

02:27 - Evan Czaplicki Introduction

02:32 - Richard Feldman Introduction

02:38 - Elm

04:06 - Academic Ideas

05:10 - Functional Programming, Functional Reactive Programming & Immutability

16:11 - Constraints

24:24 - Compilation

27:05 - Signals

36:34 - Shared Concepts & Guarantees at the Language Level

43:00 - Elm vs React

47:24 - Integration

52:23 - Upcoming Features

54:15 - Testing

56:38 - Websites/Apps Build in Elm

58:37 - Getting Started with Elm

59:41 - Canonical Uses?

01:01:26 - The Elm Community & Contributions

Extras & Resources

Picks

The Pragmatic Studio: What is Elm? Q&A (Aimee)
Elm (Joe)
Student Bodies (Joe)
Mike Clark: Getting Started With Elm (Joe)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
Stripe (Chuck)
Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, No. 1) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Evan)
The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse (Evan)
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman (Richard)
Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy (Richard)
NoRedInk Tech Blog (Richard)




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178 JSJ Tech Education and The Business of Running Front End Masters with Marc Grabanski

03:01 - Marc Grabanski Introduction

03:35 - The jQuery UI Datepicker

04:29 - Frontend Masters

07:26 - The Live Streaming Phenomenon

09:17 - Scalability

11:25 - Value, Feedback Cycle

14:43 - Structuring Courses and Workshops

16:09 - Online vs In-Person

  • Prerequisites

18:11 - Booking Workshops

19:02 - Scaling (Cont’d)

20:00 - Online Education (eLearning) in General

21:40 - The Business Model

  • Licensing

24:12 - Hot Sellers

25:28 - Technical Setup

27:27 - Selecting Topics

29:41 - Future Topics / Topics in Production

30:38 - Individual / Company Attendees

31:45 - Upcoming Plans for Frontend Masters

32:32 - Advice For Starting Something Like Frontend Masters

34:23 - Keeping Content Up-to-date

36:14 - eLearning Experiments

39:30 - Giveaways

40:07 - Getting Started with Programming

43:03 - Marketing

45:20 - Teacher Compensation

Picks

Jessica Kerr: Functional Principles In React @ React Rally 2015 (Jamison)
thought-haver (Jamison)
[Frontend Masters] Angular Application Development (Aimee)
[Frontend Masters] JavaScript the Good Parts (Aimee)
LÄRABAR (Aimee)
Taking time off (Chuck)

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Joe)
BB-8 by Sphero (Joe)
ng-conf (Joe)
The Tim Ferriss Show (Marc)
CodeCombat (Marc)
Untrusted (Marc)




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182 JSJ RxJS with Matthew Podwysocki

02:19 - Matthew Podwysocki Introduction

04:01 - RxJS

10:18 - Practical Experience of Use

  • Observables

17:28 - observable-spec

21:43 - Observables and Promises

25:06 - Using RxJS in Common Frameworks

27:53 - Are there places where observables might not be better than callbacks/Promises?

29:16 - Why would someone use RxJS on the backend in place of Node streams?

32:28 - Are Promises dying?

36:13 - Observable Gotchas

  • Hot vs Cold Observables

40:29 - Influence

47:47 - Will observables in ES2016 replace RxJS?

Picks

A cartoon guide to Flux (Aimee)
Promisees (Aimee)
The Dear Hunter - Act IV Rebirth in Reprise (Jamison)
Jessie Char: Expert On Nothing @ NSConf7 (Jamison)
XHR Breakpoints (Dave)
Glove and Boots (Dave)
Computer Programming (Joe)
Evan Czaplicki’s Thesis for Elm (Joe)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Chuck)
thaliproject (Matthew)
BBC Micro Bit (Matthew)
Minutemen (Matthew)




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184 JSJ Web Performance with Nik Molnar

Submit a talk or buy a ticket! Check out JS Remote Conf!

 

02:30 - Nik Molnar Introduction

02:50 - What Microsoft’s Cross-Platform and Open Tooling Team Does

03:41 - Microsoft and Open Source

05:25 - Performance

08:15 - Is good, clean architecture at odds with high-performance code?

09:41 - Latency and Bandwidth

20:23 - Hierarchy of Needs for Users of Software

24:36 - Controlling Performance

  • “Performance Budget”

26:21 - The Cost of Performance (ROI)

31:57 - Speed Index

41:50 - Avoiding the “It feels fast on my machine” Syndrome

45:03 - RUM = Real User Monitoring

  • Navigation Timing
  • Resource Timing
  • User Timing

46:24 - Synthetic Testing

47:50 - Performance Audits

50:39 - Do Less

More From Nik

Picks

UtahJS 2015 (Dave)
ES6 Overview in 350 Bullet Points (Jamison)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (High Frequency Training) (Jamison)
Chris Zacharias: Page Weight Matters (Jamison)
React Rally Talks (Jamison)
MONEY Master the Game: 7 Simple Steps to Financial Freedom by Tony Robbins (Chuck)
Rush Revere and the Star-Spangled Banner by Rush Limbaugh (Chuck)
Visual Studio Code (Nik)
High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik (Nik)
Nik's Pluralsight Courses (Nik)




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188 JSJ JavaScript Code Smells with Elijah Manor

Check out JS Remote Conf!

 

02:22 - Elijah Manor Introduction

04:49 - What is a “Code Smell”?

10:21 - Copy/Paste Code Error

13:11 - Using ES6 to Eliminate Code Smells

15:48 - Refactoring Case Statements

21:29 - Juniors and Code Smells

  • Code Reviews

27:29 - Isomorphic Code

31:12 - Framework Code Smells

33:47 - Identifying New Code Smells

36:33 - When Code Smells are OK

39:10 - Why use parameters?

Picks

Terms And Conditions May Apply (AJ)
Nodevember (Aimee)
Developer Tea (Aimee)
Jake Shimabukuro (Joe)
Screeps (Joe)
react-styleguide-generator (Elijah)
react-styleguidist (Elijah)
The Phantom Menace - What it Should Have Been (AJ)
Attack of the Clones - What it Should Have Been (AJ)




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189 JSJ PureScript with John A. De Goes and Phil Freeman

02:54 - John A. De Goes Introduction

06:34 - Phil Freeman Introduction

07:38 - What is PureScript?

09:11 - Features

12:24 - Overcoming the Vocabulary Problem in Functional Programming

20:07 - Prerequisites to PureScript

26:14 - PureScript vs Elm

40:37 - Similar Languages to PureScript

44:07 - PureScript Background

47:48 - The WebAssembly Effect

51:01 - Readability

53:42 - PureScript Learning Resources

55:43 - Working with Abstractions

Picks

Philip Robects: What the heck is the event loop anyways? @ JS Conf EU 2014 (Aimee)
loupe (Aimee)
The Man in the High Castle (Jamison)
Nickolas Means: How to Crash an Airplane @ RubyConf 2015 (Jamison)  
Lambda Lounge Utah (Jamison)
Michael Trotter: Intro to PureScript @ Utah Haskell Meetup (Jamison)
Utah Elm Users (Jamison)
Screeps (Joe)
Most Likely to Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era by Tony Wagner (Joe)
Dark Matter (Joe)
LambdaConf (John)
@lambda_conf (John)
ramda (John)
Proper beef, ale & mushroom pie (John)
Tidal (Phil)
purescript-flare (Phil)
The Forward JS Conference (Phil)




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190 JSJ Web Performance Part 2 with Nik Molnar

There’s still time! Check out and get your JS Remote Conf tickets!

 

JavaScript Jabber Episode #184: Web Performance with Nik Molnar (Part 1)

 

02:04 - Nik Molnar Introduction

02:58 - RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load)

06:03 - How do you know what is being kicked off? How do you avoid it?

08:15 - Frame Rates

16:05 - Scrolling

19:09 - The Web Animation API

21:40 - Animation Accessibility, Usability, and Speed

27:14 - HTTP and Optimization

35:25 - ES6 and Performance

40:46 - Understanding the Scale

43:30 RAIL (Response, Animation, Idle, Load) Cont’d

46:15 - Navigator.sendBeacon()

47:51 - Memory Management and Garbage Collection

Picks

Hardcore History Podcast (Jamison)
Static vs. Dynamic Languages: A Literature Review (Jamison)
TJ Fuller Tumblr (Jamison)
Pickle Cat (Jamison)
WatchMeCode (Aimee)
Don’t jump around while learning in JavaScript (Aimee)

P!nk - Bohemian Rhapsody (Joe)
Rich Hickey: Design, Composition and Performance (Joe)
Undisclosed Podcast (AJ)
History of Gaming Historian - 100K Subscriber Special (AJ)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
All Remote Confs (Chuck)
Clash of Clans (Chuck)
Star Wars Commander (Chuck)
Coin (Chuck)
The Airhook (Chuck)
GoldieBlox (Chuck)




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199 JSJ Visual Studio Code with Chris Dias and Erich Gamma

Check out allremoteconfs.com to get in on all the conference action this year -- from the comfort of your own home!

 

02:13 - Chris Dias Introduction

02:21 - Erich Gamma Introduction

02:31 - Visual Studio Code

03:49 - Built on Electron

04:25 - Why another tool?

  • Visual Debugging
  • Keybinding Support

08:12 - Code Folding

09:00 - Will people move from Visual Studio to Visual Studio Code?

12:06 - Language Support

18:06 - Visual Studio Code and Microsoft Goals

22:47 - Community Support and Building Extensions

28:31 - The Choice to Use Electron

32:41 - Getting VS Code to Work on the Command Line

35:02 - Tabs

38:49 - Visual Studio Code Uptake and Adoption

40:11 - Licenses

44:46 - Designing a UX for Developers

58:15 - Design Patterns

Picks

LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens Video Game - Announce Teaser Trailer (Joe)
Firebase (Joe)
Progress bar noticeably slows down npm install: Issue #11283 (Jamison)
Darkest Dungeon (Jamison)
Trek Glowacki Twitter Thread (Jamison)
Mogo Portable Seat (Chuck)
Clear Acrylic Wall Mountable 10 Slot Dry Erase Marker & Eraser Holder Organizer Rack (Chuck)
Bitmap Graphics SIGGRAPH'84 Course Notes (Erich)
Salsa (Chris)

The Microsoft Band (Chris)
Making a Murderer (Chris)




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207 JSJ Growing Happy Developers with Marcus Blankenship

02:51 - Marcus Blankenship Introduction

03:09 - Panelist Worst Boss Experiences

13:06 - Developer Anarchy vs Having a Hierarchy

20:57 - Transitioning Managers

26:05 - Manager Influence

28:33 - Management vs Leadership

34:37 - Interpersonal Relationships and Happiness

38:24 - What kind of feedback do managers want from their employees?

  • Timesheets

46:17 - Am I manager material? Am I ready to go into management?

48:06 - Following a Technical Track

51:55 - Why would anyone ever want to be a department manager?

Picks

A Plain English Guide to JavaScript Prototypes (Aimee)
Oatmega (Aimee)
Luck by Tom Vek (Jamison)
The 27 Challenges Managers Face: Step-by-Step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management Problems by Bruce Tulgan (Marcus)
React Rally Call for Proposals (Jamison)
React Rally (Jamison)
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman (Dave)
Soft Skills Engineering Podcast (Dave)




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216 JSJ Angular with Rob Wormald Live from Microsoft Build 2016

This episode was recorded live from The Microsoft Build Conference 2016. In this episode we chatted with Rob Wormald of the Angular Core team at Google about Angular. You can follow him on Twitter, or check out what he’s done over on GitHub.

 

Picks




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224 JSJ Cypress.js with Brian Mann

Angular Remote Conf and React Remote Conf

 

03:18 - Brian Mann Introduction

03:33 - Cypress.io

04:09 - Selenium

08:56 - Cypress vs Selenium

16:54 - Similarities: Cypress and Protractor

18:22 - Mocking API Data

20:40 - Getting Started with Cypress and The Migration Process

21:54 - Testing

30:31 - Handling Data on the Backend

34:16 - What’s coming next in Cypress?




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227 JSJ Fostering Community Through React with Benjamin Dunphy, Berkeley Martinez, and Ian Sinnott

03:08 - Benjamin Dunphy Introduction

04:07 - Berkeley Martinez Introduction

04:19 - Ian Sinnott Introduction

05:19 - The React Codebase

12:38 - Other Important Parts of the React Ecosystem

14:22 - The Angular vs the React Ecosystem and Community

22:07 - Community

Developer Experience

26:56 - Getting Connected to the React Community

29:34 - Conferences

33:28 - Technology From the Community

40:19 - The Future of React

42:39 - Starting More Communities

 

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229 JSJ Elm with Richard Feldman

1:13 No Red Ink is hiringRichard’s book-in-progress

2:10 Frontend Masters Workshop

2:55 Elm’s primary function

5:10 Using Elm over using Haskell, React, Javascript, etc.

9:15 Increased usability of Elm with each update

13:45 Striking differences between Elm and Javascript

16:08 Community reactions to Elm

20:21 First Elm conference in September

22:11 The approach for structuring an Elm app

23:45 Realistic time frame for building an app from scratch

32:20 Writing pure functions and immutable data; how Elm uses Side-Effects

38:20 Scaling a big FP application

44:15 What Javascript developers can take away from using Elm

48:00 Richard on Twitter

PICKS

“In a World…” Movie

Building a Live-Validated Signup Form in Elm

Apple Cider Vinegar

CETUSA – Foreign exchange program




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230 JSJ Node at Capital One with Azat Mardan

00:51 Jameson is looking for clients who need front and back end code for apps; @Jergason (Contact him via Direct Message)

04:40 An explanation of Capital One and its operations

6:06 How many Capital One developers are using Node and how it is being implemented

10:30 Process of approval for app/website development

14:15 How the culture at Capital One affects technology within the company

18:25 Using Javascript libraries to manage different currencies

19:40 Venmo and its influence on banking

22:32 Whether banks are prepared to operate in a cashless society

29:44 Using HTML and Javascript for updating projects or creating new ones

35:21 Who picks up Javascript easily and why: “It’s more about grit than raw intelligence.”

44:00 Upgrading via open source codes

45:40 The process for hiring developers

51:35 Typescript vs. non-typescript

PICKS:

“Nerve” Movie

Brave Browser

“Stranger Things” on Netflix

Angular 2 Class in Ft. Lauderdale, Discount Code: JSJ

“Strategy for Healthier Dev” blog post

Health-Ade Beet Kombucha

“The Adventure Zone” podcast

On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science article by E.W. Dijkstra

“The Freelancer Show” podcast

“48 Days” podcast

Node.university

Azat Mardan’s Website

Azat Mardan on Twitter

CETUSA – Foreign exchange program




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232 JSJ GunDB and Databases with Mark Nadal

03:45 What makes the Gun database engine special

07:00 Defining a database

12:58 The CAP Theorem

22:56 What Graphs are and how they function (circular references)

30:32 Gun and rotational disk systems

32:08 Gun’s optimizations for performance in ensuing versions

39:55 The prevalence of open source companies

42:45 Further discussing the CAP Theorem and its nuances

50:33 Gun’s purpose and design

52:13 What a Firebase is

54:22 How to get started with Gun - Visit Gun Tutorial,  Gun's Github Page, and

Gun Node Module

QUOTES:

“I think the database should bend to your application’s demands, rather than you having to bend to the database’s demands.” –Mark Nadal

“…The protocol that GUN defines is something that can be implemented in any language. Because GUN is in the language, you don’t have the context which latency of having to make an HTTP call or socket request…” –AJ O’Neill

“Let’s demystify the black magic of CAP.” –Mark Nadal

PICKS:

Dan North’s Deliberate Learning Video

8Tracks Internet Radio

Pokemon Indigo League on Netflix

Daplie Personal Cloud

Young Frankenstein Movie

Mystic Vale Card Game

JS Remote Conference

React Remote Conference

Farm Heroes Super Saga Game App




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234 JSJ JAMStack with Brian Douglas and Matt Christensen

1:00 Intro to guests Brian Douglas and Matt Christensen

2:20 Definition of JAMStack

8:12 JAMStack and confusion over nomenclature

12:56 JAMStack and security, reliability and performance

17:05 Example of traffic spike for company Sphero

18:26 Meaning of hyperdynamic

20:35 Future and limits of JAMStack technology

26:01 Controlling data and APIs versus using third parties

28:10 Netlify.com and JAMStack

31:16 APIs, JavaScript framework and libraries recommended to start building on JAMStack

35:13 Resources and examples of JAMStack: netlify.comNetlify blogJAMStack radioJAMStack SF Meetup

QUOTES:

“I think in the next couple of years we’re going to see the limits being pushed a lot for what you can do with this.” - Matt

“Today we’re starting to see really interesting, really large projects getting built with this approach.” - Matt

“If you can farm 100% of your backend off to third parties, I feel like that really limits a lot of the interesting things you can do as a developer.” - Brian

PICKS:

Early History of Smalltalk (Jamison)

React Rally 2016 videos (Jamison)

FiveStack.computer (Jamison)

Falsehoods programmers believe about time (Aimee)

Nodevember conference (Aimee)

48 Days Podcast (Charles)

Fall of Hades by Richard Paul Evans (Charles)

Jon Benjamin Jazz (Brian)

RailsConf 2016 (Brian)

React Native (Brian)

Book of Ye Podcast (Brian)

Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson (Matt)

Sequoia Capital website

Sphero website

Isomorphic rendering on the Jam Stack by Phil Hawksworth

SPONSORS:

Front End Masters

Hired.com




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235 JSJ JavaScript Devops and Tools with Donovan Brown and Jordan Matthiesen

00:50 Intro to guests Donovan Brown and Jordan Matthiesen

1:14 Javascript and Devops

3:49 Node JS and integrating with extensions

11:16 Learning Javascript coming from another language

15:21 Visual Studio Team Services at Microsoft, integration and unit testing

25:10 Visual Studio Code and mobile development

  • Apache Cordova open source project

31:45 TypeScript and tooling

33:03 Unit test tools and methods

38:39 ARM devices and integration

QUOTES:

“It’s not impossible, it’s just a different set of challenges.” - Donovan Brown

“Devops is the union of people, process and products to enable continuous delivery of value to your end users” - Donovan Brown

“Apps start to feel more native. They can actually get form.” - Jordan Matthiesen

PICKS:

Veridian Dynamics (AJ)

Jabberwocky Video (AJ)

Hard Rock Cafe - Atlanta (Charles)

CES (Charles)

3D printers (Donovan)

High-Yield Vegetable Gardening (Jordan)

taco.visualstudio.com

Jordan on Twitter @jmatthiesen

Visualstudio.com

Donovanbrown.com

Donovan on Twitter @donovanbrown

SPONSORS:

Front End Masters

Hired.com




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236 JSJ Interview with Mads Kristensen from Microsoft Ignite

TOPICS:

4:00 Things that make web development more difficult

7:40 The developer experience with Angular

10:40 How cognitive cost affects the user experience

16:52 The variety of users for whom Mads’ software is built

22:14 Creating accessible javascript tools that aren’t immediately outdated

28:20 Why people shouldn’t be using dependency installers

34:00 Node updates

QUOTES:

“The massive introduction of new tools all the time is a big part of what makes web development harder.” -Mads Kristensen

“I’m not a pretty pixels person, I’m a code and algorithms person.” -AJ O’Neill

“I’m not hearing hype about people using HTTP2 to get those benefits, I’m only hearing hype around tools that Static built.” -AJ O’Neill

PICKS:

Death Note Anime Show

JS Remote Conference

The Alloy of Law Book by Brandon Sanderson

Zig Zigler Books on Audible

Mr. Robot TV Show

RESOURCES & CONTACT INFO:

Mads on Twitter

Mads’ Website

 




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238 JSJ Intellectual Property and Software Forensics with Bob Zeidman

TOPICS:

03:08 The level of difficulty in determining code creators on the Internet

04:28 How to determine if code has been copied

10:00 What defines a trade secret

12:11 The pending Oracle v Google lawsuit

25:29 Nintendo v Atari

27:38 The pros and cons of a patent

29:59 Terrible patents

33:48 Fighting patent infringement and dealing with “patent trolls”

39:00 How a company tried to steal Bob Zeidman’s software

44:13 How to know if you can use open source codes

49:15 Using detective work to determine who copied whom

52:55 Extreme examples of unethical behavior

56:03 The state of patent laws

PICKS:

Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet Blog Post

Bagels by P28 Foods

Let’s Encrypt Indigogo Generosity Campaign

Super Cartography Bros Album

MicroConf 2017

MindMup Mind Mapping Tool

Words with Friends Game

Upcoming Conferences via Devchat.tv

Good Intentions Book by Bob Zeidman

Horror Flick Book by Bob Zeidman

Silicon Valley Napkins




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242 JSJ Visual Studio and .NET with Maria Naggaga

1:15 - Introducing Maria Naggaga

2:32 - .NET new developers

3:55 - NYC Microsoft bootcamp

6:25 - Building a community of .NET programmers

7:25 - Why would a Javascript developer care about .NET?

9:30 - Getting started with .NET

15:50 - The power of asking questions

22:45 - Recruiting new programmers to the industry

37:00 - Javascript and C#

48:30 - Running .NET on Raspberry Pi

Picks:

Super Cartography Bros album by OverClocked ReMix (AJ)

Daplie (AJ)

Daplie Wefunder (AJ)

The Eventual Millionaire (Charles)

Devchat Conferences (Charles)

15- Minute Calls (Charles)

Codeland Conference (Maria)

March by Congressman John Lewis (Maria)

Microsoft Virtual Academy (Maria)




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JSJ 245 Styled Components and react-boilerplate with Max Stoiber

On today's episode, Aimee and Chuck welcome Maximillian "Max" Stoiber to the show. Max hails from Austria and is an expert in open source development at Think Mill. Tune in to JSJ 245 Styled Components and React-Boilerplate with Max Stoiber.




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MJS #002: Mark Nadal

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Mark Nadal. Mark  runs GUN, an open source fire-based. He loves open source community that's why he focuses on it. On this, he shares how he got into the world of programming, and we'll find out how he feels about doing it. Tune in to MJS 002 My JS Story Mark Nadal.




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MJS #003: Max Lynch

On today's episode of My JS Story, Charles Max Wood welcomes Max Lynch. Max is part of the Ionic Framework and has appeared on episode 126 in the JavaScript Jabber show. Tune in to My JS Story Max Lynch as he shares his journey to becoming part of the world of programming.




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MJS #010: Richard Feldman

Welcome to the 9th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Richard Feldman. Richard works at No Red Ink, and he is the author of Elm in Action. He was in JavaScript Jabber and talked about Elm with Evan Czlapicki in episode 175 and covered the same topic alone in episode 229 . Stay tuned to My JS Story Richard Feldman to learn more how he started in programming and what he's up to now.




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MJS #012: Max Stoiber

Welcome to the 12th My JS Story! Today, Charles Max Wood welcomes Max Stoiber. Max is a frontend JavaScript Developer from Vienna, Austria and currently works as an open source developer for Thinkmill, a company based in Sydney, Austria. Tune in to My JS Story Max Stoiber to learn more how he learned to program and discover what he enjoys doing!




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JSJ 261 HTTP 2 with Surma

On today's episode, Charles, Aimee, and Cory discuss HTTP 2 with Surma. Alongside being part of the Chrome DevRel Team for Google, Surma works on different web app performance. He is also engaged in HTTP 2, interaction, UX, and spec work. Stay tuned to discover what HTTP 2 can do for you!