JavaScript Jabber

Pete Hodgson crosses over from the iPhreaks podcasts to talk with the Jabber gang about testing asynchronous Javascript with promises.Special Guest: Pete Hodgson. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/javascript-jabber--6102064/support.

Dominic Szablewski joins the Jabber gang to talk about Impact.js, game development, html5, and strategy.Special Guest: Dominic Szablewski. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/javascript-jabber--6102064/support.

The gang talks to Lo-Dash maintainer John-David Dalton about open source software, performant Javascript, Lo-Dash and UnderscoreSpecial Guest: John-David Dalton. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/javascript-jabber--6102064/support.

Joe Eames and Charles Max Wood talk about the advantages and challenges of working from home. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/javascript-jabber--6102064/support.

PanelAlex 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 Introduction029 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 - MonocleAlternative for Hacker News 03:39 - SpeedAlex MacCaw: Time to first tweet sinatra MVC Framework Synchronicity 10:48 - SEOGoogle 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 PerformancePageSpeed Insights 28:39 - The Design Processsinatra seque

PanelMarcus 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 IntroductionHack Reactor 03:31 - Experience with Meteor 05:45 - Intro to MeteorClient-side Environment Tethered Queries minimongo 09:56 - Websockets 11:29 - Deployment Support 14:51 - The Cloud 16:43 - Meteor and Server-side JavaScript EnginesMeteor 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 ReactorEducation Training Developers Removing Complexity Picksng-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

PanelNicholas 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 IntroductionBox 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 - FormattingThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman Broken Window Theory 07:33 - Architectureaura 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 followStyles Mini Design Patterns Readability 26:14 - Tools & TechniquesStyle Guide 28:31 - Breaking the continuous integration build 31:14 - Lint

PanelBen 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 IntroductionBocoup 02:54 - “Cowboy”Cowboy Coder 06:53 - The Birth of GruntEnder make rake jake 14:34 - Installing Globally & PluginsJSHint 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 Featuresnode-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 GruntEase of Upgrade PicksWeb 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

PanelPete Hunt (twitter github blog) Jordan Walke (twitter github) 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 01:34 - Pete Hunt IntroductionInstagram Facebook 02:45 - Jordan Walke Introduction 04:15 - ReactReact - GitHub 06:38 - 60 Frames Per Second 09:34 - Data Binding 12:31 - Performance 17:39 - Diffing Algorithm 19:36 - DOM Manipulation 23:06 - Supporting node.js 24:03 - rendr 26:02 - JSX 30:31 - requestAnimationFrame 34:15 - React and Applications 38:12 - React UsersKhan Academy 39:53 - Making it workPicksBen Mabey: Clojure Plain & Simple (Jamison) JSConf 2013 Videos (Jamison) Kittens (Jamison) PBS Idea Channel (AJ) Free Trial SSL (AJ) OSX Wifi Volume Remote Control (AJ) js-git (Merrick) vim-airline (Merrick) MLS LIVE (Joe) Seraphina by Rachel Hartman (Joe) ng-conf (Joe) Hire Chuck (Chuck) GoToMeeting (Chuck) ScreenFlow (Chuck) syrian

PanelJamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:31 - Screencasting ExperiencePluralsight: AngularJS Fundamentals - Joe Pluralsight: jQuery Advanced Topics - Joe Pluralsight: Testing Clientside JavaScript - Joe Teach Me To Code - Chuck 02:44 - Getting into Screencasting 06:16 - Screencasting and JavaScript JabberSharing Knowledge RailsCasts (Ruby) NSScreencast (iOS) 09:45 - JavaScript ScreencastsEmbercasts egghead.io (Angular) PeepCode YouTube 10:54 - Conference Talks vs Screencasts 14:34 - Blog Posts vs Screencasts 17:58 - Recording Screencasts (Tools)Camtasia ScreenFlow Jing 22:59 - Voiceovers vs Typing and Talking 26:17 - Audio QualityBlue Snowball Blue Yeti Shure SM58 28:53 - Editing SoftwareAdobe Premier Pro Final Cut Pro Video Hive 33:27 - Preparing for ScreencastsLarge Font Closed-Captioning 40:23 - Videos of Yourself with ScreencastsWistia Transcripts PicksRequireBin (Jamison) The International - Dot

PanelScott 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 IntroductionCommunity Program Manager for Web Tools at Microsoft Azure and Web Tools ASP.NET Runtime 03:17 - Microsoft and JavaScriptMicrosoft Build Developer Conference Scott Hanselman: Angle Brackets, Curly Braces, One ASP.NET and the Cloud Json.NET 13:40 - The Cost of Web DevelopmentTooling Sublime Text Visual Studio 18:17 - Libraries and FrameworksKnockout 24:14 - Innovation in SoftwareBefunge 29:48 - Apps Supporting JavaScriptCreate your first Windows Store app using JavaScript (Windows) Visual Studio Express 34:14 - Windows and Internet ExplorerChakra 40:42 - Microsoft’s Attitude Towards JavaScriptScott Hanselman: Azure for the non-Microsoft Person - How and Why? 45:58 - Open Source 49:12 - asm.js 52:05 - Angle Brackets ConferencePicksThe Wolverine (Joe) ng-conf (Joe) Cancún (Aaron) @ngconf (Aaron)

PanelReginald Braithwaite (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 02:08 - Reg Braithwaite IntroductionGithub 03:46 - JavaScript Allongé by Reginald Braithwaite 06:43 - The Y CombinatorKestrels, Quirky Birds, and Hopeless Egocentricity by Reginald Braithwaite 14:26 - Book Summary/PerspectiveFunctions QED, The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman 21:37 - FootnotesFlashman: A Novel by George MacDonald Fraser 26:42 - allong.esMichael Fogus 29:15 - Sharing Knowledge & Information 33:01 - The Coffee ThemeCoffeeScript Ristretto by Reginald Braithwaite 37:42 - Favorite Parts of the BookHow Prototypes Work Combinators 42:18 - Writing the Beginning 44:41 - Reg’s Programming BackgroundOne Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow Picksng-conf (Joe & Merrick) LUMOback

PanelJake Archibald (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:14 - Jake Archibald IntroductionWorks on Developer Relations on the Google Chrome Team 01:57 - The Application CacheEric Bidelman: A Beginner's Guide to Using the Application Cache - HTML5 Rocks Down Fall 07:12 - Working with Single Page Apps 08:40 - Detecting ConnectivityExpress.js Yehuda Katz: Extend the Web Forward 15:42 - Running Offline 19:55 - Generating Manifest FilesGrunt Task for App Cache Manifests 26:34 - NavigationController 28:49 - Progressive EnhancementJake Archibald: Progressive enhancement is still Important 059 JSJ jQuery Mobile with Todd Parker 058 JSJ Building Accessible Websites with Brian Hogan Feature Detection Modernizr SEO PicksArduino (Jamison) Draft (Jamison) RoboRally (Chuck) Adobe Audition CS6 (Chuck) Blue Microphones Yeti USB Microphone - Silver Edition (Chuck) async-generators (Jake) Rick Byers: DevTools just got a cool new

PanelAaron Frost (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Discussion 01:36 - Aaron Frost IntroductionWeb Developer at Domo 1.21 Gigawatts – Chromeapps with Angularjs and Node (Aaron Frost and Dave Geddes) JS.next: A Manager’s Guide by Aaron Frost 02:21 - ECMAScript and JavaScriptBrendan Eich talking about the Lord Of The Rings Comparison JScript ActionScript 06:02 - TC39 on ECMANotes from the TC39 Meetings 06:44 - ECMAScript:Harmony 09:59 - ES6 FeaturesArrow Functions/Lambdas Lexical Scoping Destructioning Spreading Sets & Maps Equivalent Detection Generators Binary Data 12:17 - Arrow Functions 14:23 - Data Proofing Functions 15:35 - DestructuringPaths/Nested Destructuring Destructuring Patterns 17:59 - Default Values 18:49 - Rest & Default Parameters 20:39 - LetVariable Hoisting Traceur Compiler grunt-traceur Let Expressions & Statements Blocks & Block Scopes temporal-dead-zone.js 27:20 - Generators 28:39 -

PanelToby Ho (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 00:53 - Aaron Frost IntroductionDomo 1.21 Gigawatts - Chromeapps with Angularjs and Node (Aaron Frost and Dave Geddes) 02:45 - Toby Ho Introductiontestem Toby Ho - Testem: Interactive JS Test Runner Toby Ho: Better TDD Workflow via Exclusive Tests in Jasmine and Mocha 03:06 - testemAutotest guard Jasmine Mocha QUnit Buster.JS PhantomJS node.js 04:43 - Integration Tests038 JSJ Jasmine with Justin Searls capybara 06:32 - guard 07:49 - The testem UInode-charm 09:55 - The Browser Launcher 11:40 - CI ModeJenkins TeamCity 12:27 - Is it a Global Installer?npm 13:39 - WorkflowGrub Filtering testem.json/testem.yml Devmode Exclusive Tests in Mocha Karma .only Console Logging 21:27 - DebuggingGit Hooks Minification 25:25 - testem vs KarmaAngularJS 28:08 - Testing JavaScriptJasmine Mocha QUnit 29:50 - BrowsersChrome 30:54 - Configurations 32:11 -

PanelJoe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:10 - Making the transition from one primary language to JavaScript 01:30 - Merrick’s ExperienceActionScript 03:32 - Joe’s Experience.NET Microsoft 07:46 - Moving from C# to JavaScriptMisconceptions 09:25 - JavaScript Misconceptions 10:59 - Chuck’s ExperienceRuby on Rails 14:25 - Rails and JavaScript Avoidance 15:25 - Microsoft and JavaScript Avoidance 16:58 - JavaScript Development in GeneralBrowsers and Problems 23:38 - Libraries and Tools044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman Effective JavaScript by David Herman 24:45 - Code Structure 27:03 - node.js 28:00 - Learning core concepts behind JavaScript 29:11 - Understanding Clojures, Scoping & Context 29:53 - Testing 31:35 - Deviating off the common path 33:10 - Idiomatic JavaScriptPicksDart (Merrick) ES6 Plans (Merrick) Defiance (Joe) America's Got Talent (Joe) StarCraft II World Champio

PanelAdam Hawkins (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:16 - Adam Hawkins IntroductionJavaScript Application Build Tools: Adam Hawkins 003 JSJ Build Tools 01:51 - What Are Build Tools? 02:46 - Build ProcessEmber.js CoffeeScript Sass Grunt.js Yeoman RequireJS minispade jQuery 09:15 - MinificationHandlebars.js barber 10:30 - Ruby on RailsClient-Side Applications 16:43 - Chuck’s Build Process 17:32 - Joe’s Build Process 18:54 - Source MapsConcatenation 24:09 - iridiumrake-pipeline Brunch 32:56 - Recommendations for Building 35:23 - TestingQUnit PicksSub Rosa (Jamison) biggie (Jamison) Kingdom Rush Frontiers (Joe) The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (Joe) Ward Cunningham (Joe) Speedtest.net (Chuck) ThemeForest (Chuck) Solo Piano Radio (Adam) ConvertKit (Adam) Staticly (Adam) Next Week Transitioning to JavaScript Transcript[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check th

PanelRyan Florence (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 Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:28 - Ryan Florence IntroductionInstructure Canvas Network 03:04 - Ember 101 05:03 - Ember.js Workflow047 JSJ Specialized vs Monolithic with James Halliday and Tom Dale ember-tools 07:14 - CommonJS vs RequireJSr.js browser-build 09:58 - prego 11:39 - Generators 14:45 - Testing 16:15 - YeomanYeoman generators 20:49 - ScaffoldingHandlebars.js 21:33 - Ember blessing ember-toolsEmber.js - Making Ember.js Easier 24:19 - Using ember-tools in RailsCreating Browser Apps as Part of Express of Rails (etc.) 25:27 - Scaffolding (cont’d) 26:53 - Adapting an existing project to ember-tools 29:59 - Dbmon 30:59 - CanvasEdu Apps (learning apps built on LTI™) 32:44 - node.js 34:24 - Modules 38:59 - Contributing to ember-tools 41:46 - StatePicksvim-clutch (Merrick) Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Za

PanelJamison 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 01:47 - BurnoutGoogle: define burnout 04:57 - Pair Programming 06:19 - Burnout GuiltThought-workers vs Laborers 10:15 - Positive Reinforcement 11:18 - Causes of BurnoutProlonged periods of high stress Crappy jobs Long hours OCD Organizational challenges Fighting Bikeshedding Difficult work environment Twitter Comparison 20:41 - Overcoming BurnoutRest Do something else Gratitude Talk to your boss Twitter / @bmf: Burnout is not caused by working hard. Burnout is caused by not shipping. Measurable progress 28:17 - Short-term BurnoutExercising You Are Your Own Gym (YAYOG) Meditation Take lunch 32:17 - Reaching out to others who may be burning out 35:50 - Preventing BurnoutPositive environments Motivation Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink [YouTube] Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates

PanelDylan 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 IntroductionThe Dojo Toolkit CEO of SitePen 01:14 - DojoTD 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 RequireJSPerformance Benefits CommonJS 10:34 - DijitForm Controls Layout Widgets Other Widgets (i.e. grids, rich text editor controls, trees, etc.) Polymer 15:32 - Browser SupportThe Awesome Bar Removing Code Aspect-oriented Programming 20:01 - Dojo 2Dojo Mobile Responsive Dijits Local Storage Better Grid Widgets Cleaner APIs 32:52 - Marketing DojoDojo Tutorials Good APIs Demos Target Environments 27:55 - Graded SupportGraded Browser Support - YUI Library 30:56 - Maintaining the old version while moving ahead with the new version 33:01 - S