Real World Ember

We discuss how to get started with Ember, how Ember has made us better software developers in general, and how to recapture the Google Trends rankings.

We talk functional programming in Ember, functional programming in other languages (including languages that transpile to Javascript), and functional programming in theory.

We discuss transitioning from Rails to Ember, how Khorus is improving transparency and communication within teams, and how testing is used when failure states including catching on fire.

We talk productivity, prioritizing your work, Backbone vs. Ember vs. React, and the communication requirements of outsourcing to a different time zone.

We talk Ember on the desktop, the world debut of Turing School's Javascript curriculum, React vs Ember (they teach both), how to train hordes of highly skilled devs in a brutal 7-month program, and how famous is too famous for Real World Ember.

We talk dev bootcamps, how architecture design school is like programming, how sales can help you be a better programmer, and the importance of mentorship.

We talk about upgrading Ember apps, transitions from Rails to Ember, running a multinational team from Austria, and handling performance on mobile.

We talk reasons to choose Ember, the Javascript dev hiring process, and how to upgrade a 2.5-year-old Ember app that contains 1800 components.

We talk matching skills with education and careers, our favorite Ember features and addons, the tension between increasing efficiency and reducing your bus number, learning Ember in the run up to 2.0, and why tai chi desks are the way of the future.