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Nikos shares details about his presentation at the Data Visualisation Summit in London. We cover a bunch of different topics ranging from Data Visualisation (Visualization), Front End Frameworks, Music, Podcasting, and building teams of developers. What is Machine Learning? Data Visualization Summit - London deck.gl is a WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets. luma.gl provides high-performance WebGL2 components for GPU-powered data visualization and computation. HexagonLayer deck.gl example. The layer aggregates data within the boundary of each hexagon cell. React Create React App Ember Glimmer TypeScript Redux Saga Tycho Music The 30 Day Code Quality Challenge A free, language-agnostic exercise of will. Starts November 13th, 2017. Podcasting 101 by Chris Enns Contact Nikos if you need help building a team of JavaScript developers.

We discuss how to get into Data Science and Leading Software teams both from a JavaScript developer perspective. We discuss R https://www.r-project.org/ R for Webstorm https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6632-r-language-support Good learning video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8PRU46I3NY RStudio https://www.rstudio.com We also discuss Nikos training product "Secrets of World Class Developer teams" that he offers in London to clients. We cover conflict resolution, characteristics of great team leads, team branding and mentoring. Finally, we discuss ideas to help the developing world by bringing skills and equipment over. To complement this episode I started a new YouTube series on R: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXEhykOBio&list=PLCrwuqjmVebJe0U2jfutlHyoChganG7E5

Ryan Brown joins us to talk about AWS Lambda and Serverless applications. Living with DynamoDB from Amazon Choosing the Right DynamoDB Partition Key Serverless Stack Book: Serverless Patterns Of Modern Application Design Book: Serverless Architectures on AWS Building Python 3 Apps On The Serverless Framework Serverless Quick Start Ryan's Course: Serverless Framework with GraphQL

Every JavaScript developer is faced with the symptoms of framework fatigue. In this Episode, we discuss various frameworks and their approaches and compare against just using VanillaJS. We discuss angular, ember, react and various Vanilla TypeScript libs that Nikos has written: https://github.com/quantumjs/warp-router https://github.com/quantumjs/solar-popup https://github.com/quantumjs/vanilla-typescript Also we talk about the super tutorial: https://serverless-stack.com for learning Serverless and Nikos upcoming webinar @ http://www.esynergy-solutions.co.uk/event/introduction-typescript-and-aws-lambda-functions

Nikos and Ken discuss making massive changes in software and argue that it's better to do changes incrementally rather that doing it in one big bang. NOTICE: The audio quality in this episode is terrible. Ken was using his headset microphone and he is sorry. You can give 4 stars in iTunes if you wish. Tweet at us: @learnwithuspod. Discussed in this article Incremental vs Big-Bang in software Ember JS Angular JS Angular 2+ React Vue.js Git Rebase Git Squash GitHub Pull Request Merge Options Breaker iOS Podcast App

In this episode Ken and Nikos talk about Serverless, a command line tool for creating and deploying AWS lambda, Azure, and Google Cloud functions. serverless.com Serverless is your toolkit for deploying and operating serverless architectures. Focus on your application, not your infrastructure. AWS Lambda Azure Functions Google Cloud Functions Bash on Windows Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 Oregon State Parks and Recreation Ken went camping. You should too.

Nikos and Ken discuss the process of making a Chrome extension and common extensions. They also briefly cover Ember-cli Typescript and giving talks at programming meetups. Chrome extensions we use: Test Recorder Rescue Time Youtube Playback Speed Control Vimium Visual Event Evernote Buffer Lastpass Grammarly The Great Suspender OneTab Ember Inspector

Nikos and Ken discuss integration tests and a project for recording interactions. They also discuss ergonomics and workplace posture. Test Recorder Smart Table

In this episode we discussed getting started as a front end web developer. Blog Post: Getting Started As As Front-End Developer CSS Tricks A List Apart A Book Apart Jeffrey Zeldman Shop Talk Show Online education: Pluralsight Code School Treehouse Egghead Frontend Masters

In this episode Ken and Nikos talked about module imports in TypeScript for use in the Chrome web browser. We touched on dynamic module imports, non-JavaScript languages that compile to JavaScript, online training vs. in-person training, and much more. Dynamic Modules Elm Language United States Travel Ban Brexit Follow us on Twitter @learnwithuspod

This week Ken and Nikos talked about: Open source license agreements for GitHub Nikos's Projects: Solar Popup Vanilla TypeScript Ken's Projects: Visual Studio Code Gist Extension FitVids.JS HackHands (by PluralSight) 5 X 60 mental arithmetic ES6 module loading in Chrome Go (game) Checkers Vanilla JS First Pull Request Up For Grabs

This week Ken and Nikos talked about: Teaching Ember Mob Programming Progressive Web Apps Krav Maga (self-defense) training .NET Fringe Julian Assange TypeScript Tips You might not need to transpile your JavaScript HTTP/2 Bobby Johnson - Presentation about Everyday Developers Follow us on Twitter at @learnwithuspod

This weeks episode was a bit darker than we would have liked. We pushed on. Our discussion was mostly centered around teaching the latest features in JavaScript and challenging ourselves to disprove Stack Overflow answers. We made a point to acknowledge we don't know what we are doing when it comes to native mobile application development with React Native and NativeScript.

Ken and Nikos talk about teaching JavaScript fundamentals and what they wish to accomplish in the next week. Nikos is teaching a group of 8 developers. Ken and Nikos review the challenges of learning frameworks and what you should know prior to learning Ember JS. Ken pre-launched TypeScript A Day, a daily newsletter with tips and tricks for TypeScript developers. The subscriber count is lower than he expected. He's hopeful to get more subscribers before launch.