JavaScript Jabber

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 Championship Series (WCS) (Joe) Continuum (Chuck) Fringe (Chuck) CleanMyMac (Chuck)
Book Club
 JavaScript Allongé with Reginald Braithwaite!  He will join us for an episode to discuss the book on August 1st. The episode will air on August 9th.
 Next Week
 Testem with Toby Ho
 Transcript
 CHUCK:  Yeah, I can pretend I’m getting better at JavaScript.[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 66 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames.JOE:  Hi there.CHUCK:  And Merrick Christensen.MERRICK:  Hey guys.CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. And this week, we’re going to be talking about, I think it’s kind of a blend of making the transition from one primary language to JavaScript, it usually happens through web development, and some of the mistakes that people make when their primary language is not JavaScript. Let’s go ahead and get started.Merrick, you’re kind of the expert guy that I always look at and go, “Man, he’s awesome at JavaScript.” So, I’m wondering, did you start out at JavaScript or did you come in from somewhere else?MERRICK:  Oh, that’s really nice of you, man. I actually started out with ActionScript. I really loved Flash developments, but it’s the same thing, really. They’re both based off of ECMAScript. So, I guess you could say I’ve always done JavaScript.JOE:  So, ActionScript is nearly identical to JavaScript?MERRICK:  Well, not anymore. ActionScript 3 developed classes and they typed it and they did some interesting things to make it more of a full-featured language. It’s got more [inaudible] than JavaScript now, I think. But I ended up getting into JavaScript when I was like 17 or so. I came across the MooTools framework and ever since then, it’s been all JavaScript all the time.CHUCK:  You’re pretty young. Wasn’t that last year?[Laughter]MERRICK:  Close. No, about six years, five years of JavaScript.JOE:  You’re also, though, like a real student of languages. You love studying other languages.MERRICK:  I love programming languages, yeah.JOE:  I think you’re a pretty funny, not necessarily unique,

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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 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 65 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. And this week, we have a special guest, Adam Hawkins.ADAM:  Hey, how you guys doing?CHUCK:  Terrific. So, you want to introduce your self since you’re new to the show?ADAM:  Yeah. My name is Adam Hawkins. I’m primarily a Ruby guy but have come to the JavaScript world through Ember and browser applications. I’ve been here now for about a year and a half and just learning as I go along,CHUCK:  Nice. So anyway, you recommended that we talk about build tools and then you wrote a blog post about it. We talked about build tools, I think on Episode 2 or 3 or something. In your mind, what are build tools?ADAM:  Well, I think a build tool is something that you need to create a JavaScript application. There is a distinction between, say maybe an application or something [inaudible] that needs CoffeeScript or something like that versus a full-blown application that runs on the browser which needs modules, asset pre-compilation, templates, all those sorts of stuff, and testing and things like that. So, on one end, you have build tools that simply do the compilation and the concatenation, and then you have other tools that aim to be like a whole development environment. So, there is a large spectrum and you just have to choose which you need, basically.CHUCK:  What kind of a build process do you guys have on the projects that you work on?ADAM:  Well, okay. My background is, we are building a CRM with Ember.js and we needed a lot of different things. Well, my team prefers to write in CoffeeScript and use Sass. So, we needed those two things right away. Then we needed module compilation and then also asset concatenation, minification, as well as environment support. We need to develop a certain code and then deploy a certain code and a few other things. So, it’s pretty complicated and we needed a tool to do that. Well, I wrote one after looking at what’s out there.JAMISON:  So,Special Guest: Adam Hawkins.

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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 Zahn (Joe) America’s Got Talent (Joe) Man of Steel (Joe) The Internship (Joe) Help Save Podcasting! | Electronic Frontier Foundation (Chuck) Stuff You Should Know (Chuck) Fringe (Chuck) Capgras Syndrome: You Are Not Who You Think You Are (The Stuff You Should Know Podcast) (Ryan) MIDI.js (Ryan) JS Bin (Ryan) Lifetime Products Swing Sets (Ryan) Uncooked Flour Tortillas (Ryan)
Next Week
 JavaScript Jabber: Javascript Application Build Tools with Adam Hawkins
 Transcript
 MERRICK:  What’s up gentlemen?JOE:  Like I said, just making toot lips.JAMISON:  Isn’t toot lip like a flower of some kind? The JavaScript flower?JOE:  Doesn’t smell like a flower.CHUCK:  [Laughter][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 64 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance.JAMISON:  Hello friends.CHUCK:  Joe Eames.JOE:  Hey there.CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.MERRICK:  What’s up?CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. And this week, we have a special guest, Ryan Florence.RYAN:  Hey, how’s it going?CHUCK:  So, you haven’t been on the show before. Do you want to introduce yourself?RYAN:  Sure. Ryan Florence. I’m from Utah like a lot of you guys. I’ve been writing JavaScript for five years now or something like that. I just picked it up. I was sick of the engineers at my company telling me that things were impossible. So, I started to show them that it was possible and then ended up getting paid more money.CHUCK:  Is that at Instructure or is that somewhere else?RYAN:  No, that was at a company actually in Idaho.CHUCK:  Ah, I see.RYAN:  So now, I work at Instructure. We build a learning management system for schools and universities. We also have Canvas.net, which is open courses for anyone to take. There are some pretty interesting ones on there like gender and comic books, things like that. It’s a fun place to work, fun product to work on.CHUCK:  Yeah, you inherited a lot of my old coworkers. I used to work for Mozy.RYAN:  Yeah, half our engineering team used to be Mozy. But I think we have offset them at this point.Special Guest: Ryan Florence.

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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 us
PicksAmerica's Got Talent (Joe) Storm Front (Derrick Storm) by Richard Castle (Joe) Derandomized - Khan Academy: Machine Learning -> Measurable Learning (Jamison) Get On Top (Jamison) Ben Bernanke to Princeton Grads: The World Isn't Fair (and You All Got Lucky) (Merrick) General Assembly (AJ) AJ needs a room to rent in San Francisco (AJ) You Are Your Own Gym (YAYOG) Run 10k (Chuck) Nike+ Running (Chuck)
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.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 63 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance.JAMISON:  Hello friends.CHUCK:  Joe Eames.JOE:  Hello there.CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.MERRICK:  Hey.CHUCK:  And I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. This week we’re going to be talking about burnout, I’m assuming you’ve all experienced burnout?MERRICK:  Does anybody else feel weird saying hello into a microphone? I feel like Joe sounded like this Texan guy. Like you never know what you’re supposed to say.JOE:  Howdy, partner.MERRICK:  Yeah, exactly. More like a response coming, you know. It’s funny.CHUCK:  Yeehaw!JAMISON:  You’re just rolling the dice.MERRICK:  Yeah. I feel like [inaudible] or something, so people know it’s me.JAMISON:  You just never know what’s going to come out.MERRICK:  You really don’t. Sometimes, I’m like, “Maybe I’m going to go Little John on this thing and I don’t know.[Chuckles]JOE:  From now on, instead of saying hello, I’ll do this one, [sound][Laughter]JAMISON:  Let’s get a soundboard.JOE:  I’ve got a soundboard here.CHUCK:  Oh, nice.MERRICK:  We could really, really degrade the quality of the show, or improve it, with cool sound.JAMISON:  I think we just have.[Laughter]CHUCK:  I’ve thought about getting soundboards for the different segments, like the picks and stuff, but nah.JAMISON:  It took us 30 seconds to wander off topic.CHUCK:  I know.JAMISON:  Let’s talk about burnout.CHUCK:  Burnout.JAMISON:  Can we get a definition of burnout, to channel Josh Susser.JOE:  You define it, Jamison.JAMISON:  I was reading on Wikipedia, as one does when you’re trying to learn about something. It says it’s a psychological term for long-term exhaustion and diminished interest in work.CHUCK:  Ooh, that’s very good.MERRICK:  I like that.JOE:  A long-term exhaustion. Okay.JAMISON:  So, it’s not just like, “I’m feeling lazy today.” It’s, “I’m feeling lazy this month or lazy when I’m at work this month.”

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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 - Strict Modedojo.declare
34:15 - Dojo and Node.jsdojo/request
36:20 - The Dojo Foundationlodash The Intern
40:21 - TestingD.O.H.: Dojo Objective Harness Sauce Labs Chai
42:56 - Charting and Graphing & Vector GraphicsDojoX voro.com GFX D3 Raphaël
46:41 - The History of Dojo and PrototypePicksSexism 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,Special Guest: Dylan Schiemann.

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PanelJuha Paananen (twitter github blog) Joe Fiorini (twitter github blog) 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 Rails Ramp Up)
Discussion
 01:20 - Joe Fiorini IntroductionInteraction Developer at Designing Interactive in Cleveland, OH
01:42 - Juha Paananen IntroductionSoftware Developer at Reaktor in Helsinki, Finland
02:30 - Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) vs Functional Programming057 JSJ Functional Programming with Zach Kessin
04:25 - Declarative Programming
 05:55 - Map and Filter
 07:05 - bacon.jsFlapjax
09:10 - Mapping and filtering event streams
 10:40 - Asynchronicity and Promises
 14:28 - Using FRPReactiveCocoa Complex UIs TodoMVC with Bacon.js, Backbone.js and Transparency.js by pyykiss
20:02 - Ember.js and FRP
 22:04 - MVC frameworks and FRPJuha Paananen: FRP, Bacon.js and stuff: Chicken, Egg and Bacon.js
24:35 - Learning FRP
 25:49 - Where did FRP come from?What is (functional) reactive programming? - Stack Overflow Conal Elliott: Composing Reactive Animations Haskell Reactive-banana - HaskellWiki
29:07 - Going beyond visual mediasubstack/stream-handbook
32:18 - Wrappers
 33:31 - How to build things with FRP librariesJuha Paananen @ MLOC.JS: Functional Reactive Programming in JavaScript using Bacon.js
PicksSlideShare: Functional Reactive Programming in JavaScript (AJ) Valve: The AI Systems of Left 4 Dead by Michael Booth (Jamison) programming is terrible (Jamison) Simple Made Easy: Rich Hickey (Jamison) AngularJS Fundamentals (Joe's Pluralsight Course) (Joe) Open Source Bridge (Joe) That Conference (Joe) Star Trek: Into Darkness (Joe) ServerBear (AJ) rainwave (AJ) rwbackend (AJ) Mesa Boogie Lone Star Guitar Amplifier (Merrick) backburner.js (Merrick) messageformat.js (Merrick) Digital Ocean (Chuck) Emacs (Chuck) emacs_libs (Chuck) Tmux (Chuck) GitLab (Chuck) Flight by Twitter (Joe F.) Ember.js (Joe F.) CodeMash (Joe F.) fantasy-land (Juha) The Bacon.js postings featuring Phil Roberts (Juha) Iron Sky (Juha) Reaktor Dev Day (Juha)
Next Week
 Dojo with Dylan Schiemann
 Transcript
 MERRICK:  How come nobody acknowledges when I talk? What about that?JAMISON:  That’s a deeper problem than a microphone.[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 61 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal.AJ:  Yo, yo, yo. Coming at you live from Iowa.CHUCK:  Again?AJ:  Oh, I guess I was there last time, huh? It’ll be New York soon.CHUCK:  We have Jamison Dance.JAMISON:  Howdy, guys.CHUCK:  Joe Eames.JOE E:  Hey there.CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.MERRICK:  What’s up?CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. This week, we have two special guests. We have Joe Fiorini.JOE F:  Hello everyone.CHUCK:  And Juha Paananen.JUHA:  Yeah. Hi everybody. Juha Paananen.CHUCK:  Thank you for straightening that up for me. We’re going to have you guys introduce yourself real quick, since you haven’t been on the show before. Joe, why don’t you start us off?JOE F:  Sure. My name is Joe Fiorini and I am an Interaction Developer at Designing Interactive in Cleveland, Ohio. I do a decent amount of JavaScript development every week. I’ve discovered Functional Reactive Programming three or four months ago and it’s changed my world.CHUCK:  Awesome. And Juha, do you want to introduce yourself as well?JUHA:  Yeah, why not? I’m Juha. I’m from Finland. Helsinki.Special Guests: Joe Fiorini and Juha Paananen.

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PanelAJ O’Neal (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
 01:09 - Mac, Windows or Linux?tmux Emacs Homebrew DigitalOcean
05:41 - ToolsJenkins CI TeamCity
07:49 - Editors and IDEsVim MacVim MacVim Alloy Fork The NERD tree Sublime Text Chocolat TextMate JetBrains WebStorm David Laing: Customise your .gitattributes to become a Git Ninja
16:03 - Software & Tools cont’dGrunt.js RequireJS Test Runner Mocha Karma istanbul Compass Google Chrome Git Tower Kaleidoscope
20:26 - Terminal Setups and DatabasesiTerm2 tmux tmuxinator oh-my-zsh bash-it nvm Homebrew MacPorts Postgres.app
25:03 - MusicGoogle Play Explosions in the Sky Sigur Rós Album Leaf Spotify OverClocked ReMix "Masters of Classical Music" on iTunes Joe Satriani Aurgasm
30:04 - EquipmentBose QuietComfort 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones Performance MX Mouse Ultrasone HFI-580 S-Logic Surround Sound Professional Headphones GOgroove BlueSYNC OR3 Rechargeable Bluetooth Portable Wireless Speaker Jawbone JAMBOX Wireless Bluetooth Speaker
32:17 - GitHub
 33:42 - Office FurnitureMirra Chair by Herman Miller Aeron Chair by Herman Miller VendorGear Headrest for Herman Miller Aeron Chair Ergotron LX Desk Mount LCD Arm
37:42 - Laptop BagsLeather Round Satchel | Saddleback Leather Co. (Merrick’s Bag) Samsonite Leather Expandable Briefcase (Chuck’s Bag)
39:45 - VagrantVMware Fusion VirtualBox Parallels
42:38 - Travel EquipmentAnker Battery Pack D-Link SharePort Go Mobile Companion with Rechargeable Battery
44:20 - Chrome DevToolsFirebug
45:11 - Task Management, Collaboration & Social MediaTweetbot OmniFocus Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen Asana Trello
48:46 - Laptop Bags Cont’dBlue Novell Laptop Bag
PicksAurgasm (Joe) MLS LIVE (Joe) The Michael J. Fox Show (Joe) Brett Victor - Drawing Dynamic Visualizations (Merrick) Rabbit Mini Portable Stand (Chuck) The Pragmatic Bookshelf (Chuck) Raspberry Pi (AJ) Pandaboard (AJ) Linaro (AJ)
Next Week
 Reactive Functional Programming in Javascript with Juha Paananen and Joe Fiorini
 Transcript
 CHUCK:  Are you un-indisposed?MERRICK:  Oh, yeah. I’ve been un-indisposed for years now.[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 60 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal.AJ:  Yo! Coming at you live from roughly an hour outside of Philly.CHUCK:  Awesome. We also have Joe Eames.JOE:  Hey there.CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.MERRICK:  Hey guys.CHUCK:  And I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. This week, we’re going to be talking about our development environments, setups, desk space, chairs, whatever. I’m really curious to see what way you guys have and what wisdom you have to offer.Yeah, let’s get into it. The first thing that I want to ask is, the semi-holy war between Windows machines and Macs and Linux machines. What are you guys all using for your development?MERRICK:  I use Mac. I feel so lost anytime I’m on a Windows machine and set.AJ:  I only use operating systems. So, the only two that I know of that are readily available are Mac and Linux.CHUCK: [Laughter] How about you, Joe?JOE:  I use both, significantly.CHUCK:  Both, meaning both Windows and Mac?JOE:  OSX and Windows. I don’t use Linux.CHUCK:  Awesome. I mostly use Macs.

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PanelTodd Parker (twitter github) Joe Eames (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
 00:53 - Todd Parker IntroductionFilament Group
01:21 - DevChat.tv Indiegogo Campaign
 01:55 - jQuery MobilejQuery UI
04:13 - Responsive web design
 06:17 - Mobile & Proxy BrowsersWebKit Opera & Opera Mini Amazon Silk
14:06 - Enhancements
 17:11 - Plugging jQuery Mobile into Desktop Applications
 19:11 - Using client-side MVC frameworksAngularJS jQuery Mobile Resources Page
21:52 - Filament Group and jQuery projectsThemeRoller The Filament Group on Github Microsoft Contributions
28:26 - ThemingStructure vs Style Object-oriented CSS Widget Factory
37:25 - Accessibility058 JSJ Building Accessible Websites with Brian Hogan ARIA
44:18 - Progressive EnhancementBootstrap Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the web that works for everyone by The Filament Group Visualize
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 Development Environments
 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.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 59 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames.JOE:  Hey everybody.CHUCK:  Jamison Dance.JAMISON:  Hello.CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.MERRICK:  Hey guys.CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. And we have a special guest, Todd Parker from the jQuery UI team.TODD:  Hey everyone.CHUCK:  You want to introduce yourself really quickly?TODD:  Sure. My name is Todd Parker. I am a partner here at Filament Group in Boston. We’re a small web design shop. And I’m also the project lead for the jQuery Mobile team. And previous to that, I was on the jQuery UI team as well. So, I’m both covered.CHUCK:  Did I say jQuery UI? I meant jQuery Mobile.TODD:  You did. I was covering for you though, it’s okay.CHUCK:  [Laughs] Awesome. Before we get too far into this, I want to make one announcement and that is that I’ve set up an Indiegogo campaign for the network of podcasts that this is a part of. So, we’re trying to build a website that has all the features that people have been asking for. Mostly it has to do with search and some RSS feed management stuff. So, if you would like to support the show, then by all means do so. You can do it by going to Indiegogo.com/projects/DevChat-tv. And I’ll put a link to the show notes so that you can find it.Alright. Well, let’s talk about jQuery Mobile here. I’m a little curious. I’ve played with it a little bit, but I haven’t really had to build too many Mobile sites. So, can you explain a little bit about what the focus is and how it’s different from the jQuery that we all know and love?TODD:  Sure. So, jQuery Mobile started its life, it’s very similar in concept to jQuery UI, so it’s a user interface framework that’s built on top of jQuery core. The difference between UI and Mobile is obviously UI is much more desktop focused, and Mobile is mobile focused. That said, jQuery Mobile, from the beginning,Special Guest: Todd Parker.

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Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013!PanelBrian Hogan (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (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
 00:55 - Brian Hogan IntroductionHTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow's Standards Today by Brian Hogan tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development by Brian Hogan Web Development Recipes by Brian P. Hogan, Chris Warren, Mike Weber, Chris Johnson, Aaron Godin Development Editor with Pragmatic Bookshelf Professor at Chippewa Valley Technical College
01:48 - What Accessibility Means
 02:56 - Making Websites AccessibleYSlow People vs Users
06:06 - “The Right Things”VersaBraille Responsive Web Design
09:00 - Tools & TechniquesFahrner Image Replacement (FIR) Web Fonts ⌘+
14:56 - Manipulating the DOMARIA - HTML5 Ember.js
16:54 - Screen Resolution
 19:24 - Typeahead
 20:58 - TestingJaws VoiceOver
23:11 - ResourcesWebAIM Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Section 508
25:00 - Dealing with different kinds of impairmentsTranscripts Text Color
28:08 - Ease of Accessibility & Empathy
 31:41 - Interactive Pages
 35:26 - Making things accessible vs not making things accessibleMaking experiences better for everyone, period
42:09 - Resources Cont’dWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Pro HTML5 Accessibility by Joe O Conner Design Accessible Web Sites: 36 Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms by Jeremy Sydik
42:46 - Understanding Others’ DifficultiesPicksLeviathan: Warships (Joe) Star Command (Joe) That Conference (Joe) Lowes (AJ) Friends (AJ) Ticket to Ride (Chuck) 4 Pics 1 Word (Chuck) Continuum (Chuck) AngularJS (Brian) Presentation Manager from Woojijuice (Brian)
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 JavaScript Jabber: jQuery Mobile with Todd Parker
 Transcript
 MERRICK:  Fine, don’t come to my talk.CHUCK:  I won’t. I won’t even come to the conference.[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 58 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal.AJ:  Coming at you semi-live from ORM.CHUCK:  Joe Eames.JOE:  Hey everybody.CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.MERRICK:  What’s up?CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from Devchat.tv. And this week, we have a special guest. And that is Brian Hogan.BRIAN:  Hello.CHUCK:  Since you haven’t been on the show before, do you want to introduce your self really quickly?BRIAN:  Sure, my name is Brian Hogan and I’m a web developer and I like to spend a lot of time hacking on code in Ruby and JavaScript. I also am an author. I’m a development editor with The Pragmatic Bookshelf. And I have a fabulous new gig where I get to teach brand new programmers how to get started programming now. So, that’s what I’m doing myself.CHUCK:  So where’s that at?AJ:  Cool.BRIAN:  That’s at a little technical college in Eau Claire, Wisconsin called Chippewa Valley Technical College.CHUCK:  Oh, cool. Yeah, speaking of your reviewing books for The Pragmatic Bookshelf, Ruby Rogues, we actually interviewed Bruce Williams and John Athayde about The Rails View this morning. They mentioned you, and I was like “Oh, we’re talking to him in a couple of hours.”BRIAN:  Oh, those are some great guys and that’s a great book.CHUCK:  Yup. So, the reason we brought you on the show is because, at least in my case, I know absolutely nothing about building accessible websites.Special Guest: Brian Hogan.

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Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013!PanelZachary Kessin (twitter github Mostly Erlang Podcast) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up)
Discussion
 00:55 - Zach Kessin IntroductionProgramming HTML5 Applications Building Web Applications with Erlang Product Structure Mostly Erlang Podcast
03:01 - Functional ProgrammingHaskell LISP Scheme Erlang Underscore.js chain
06:44 - Monadq Maybe monad
11:33 - Functional Languages vs JavaScriptNo side effects
18:09 - Why Functional Programming?037 JSJ Promises with Dominic Denicola and Kris Kowal Higher order functions Ext JS
24:35 - Tail_callRecursion cdr car 044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman
32:54 - Programming LanguagesSeven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers) by Bruce Tate
33:38 - Functional Programming Librariesvalentine Maybe.coffee q
36:13 - What do you miss in JavaScript?Pattern Matching
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 Building Accessible Websites on a Podcast with Brian Hogan
 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.]CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 57 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have Jamison Dance.JAMISON:  Hello, friends.CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.MERRICK:  Hi.CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from Devchat.tv and this week, we have a special guest and that’s Zach Kessin.ZACH:  Hey everybody.CHUCK:  Did I say your name right, Zach?ZACH:  Yep, you got it right.CHUCK:  Alright. This week, we’re going to be talking about functional programming in JavaScript. You want to give us a little bit of a background on you, so that you can kind of explain, I don’t know, who you are and your expertise here?ZACH:  Oh, okay. So yeah, I’m Zach Kessin. I’ve been a software developer for close to 20 years, on the web, close to 20 years now. My first web app in PHP version -- oh, not PHP, in Perl version 4 with mSQL, because MySQL didn’t exist yet. That was, like, 1994. And let’s see, I’ve been doing web applications ever since. Worked in Boston area, in London and then in Israel for about 10 years now. I’m also the author of ‘Programming HTML5 Applications’ and ‘Building Web Applications with Erlang’, both published by O’Reilly. And my interests include functional programming, code generation and concurrency in Erlang. So, well, that’s a different show. That’s sort of my background. And I work at a small Tel Aviv startup called Product Structure that we build [inaudible] components and workflows that will be self-optimizing on your website. So, that’s what we’re doing. We’re launching it soon.CHUCK:  Cool.MERRICK:  Very cool.CHUCK:  You just launched your own podcast, didn’t you?ZACH:  Yeah. I just launched my own podcast called ‘Mostly Erlang’. It’s going to cover Erlang and occasionally other functional languages like Haskell and OCML. We had our first, we recorded our first episode last week. And the first episode is called ‘Building Skynet’. And the second episode will be on the Webmachine framework, which is an HTTP framework, backend framework though, to do semantically correct Webmachine.Special Guest: Zach Kessin.

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