Shows
Elixir WizardsShaun Robinson and Toran Billups on Using Elixir to Empower Online LearningWith the prevalence of at-home learning, teachers have to compete for student attention against numerous screen-based activities. Today we speak with engineering lead Shaun Robinson and Elixir developer Toran Billups about how Legends of Learning helps educators make their classrooms fun, engaging, and productive through their curriculum-based games. After chatting about Legends’ mission to empower teachers, we talk with Toran about how he landed a job there. He then shares his insights into securing Elixir jobs, touching on the importance of networking and building a portfolio of Elixir projects. We discuss why Elixir became Legends’ language of choice before expl...
2021-02-2550 min
Frontend FirstToran Billups on Hot ReloadingToran talks to Sam and Ryan about his project Ember CLI Hot Loader, which is an implementation of component-based hot module reloading for Ember apps.
Topics:
0:00 – Losing hot reloading when moving from handwritten CSS to functional css
2:16 – Why Toran wrote the Hot Reloader
4:45 – How the hot reloader leverages Ember CLI to reload components
8:31 – The need for hot reloading
14:56 – Are there situations where you don’t want to use the hot reloader?
19:05 – What’s the easiest way to try using the hot reloader today?
21:05 – Design vs. build mindset
22:30 – Engines aren’t currently supported
23:53 – How local state affects hot reloading
27:50 – Fas...
2018-05-2941 min
The Frontside Podcast089: glimmer-redux with Toran BillupsToran Billups: @toranb | GitHub | Blog
Toran Billips joined us for an insightful conversation regarding glimmer-redux: Predictable state management for Glimmer apps.
Resources:
Glimmer Redux Demystified
Talk from Tom Dale on glimmer internals (contrast with Preact made in this talk)
ember-redux
Glimmer progress report that mentions the migration to Glimmer 0.8 (Big Changes)
Blog post following EmberConf 2017 that announced GlimmerJS (for the Ember dev)
The Frontside Podcast 086: Routing in Ember with Alex Matchneer
An ember-rideshare Blog Post
A Rollup plugin for glimmer-redux
RollupJS
Transcript
ELRICK: Hello and welcome to another Frontside Podcast, Episode 89...
2017-11-1639 min
The Frontside Podcast069: Redux Part II with Toran BillupsToran Billups @toranb | GitHub | Blog
Show Notes:
01:44 - New Developments in ember-redux
04:23 - New Developments in the Wider Redux Community
06:26 - Using Redux in Ember
09:40 - Omit
10:45 - Reducers
25:42 - Fulfilling the Role of Middleware in Ember
28:12 - Ember Data in Redux-land
31:24 - What does Toran do with this stuff??
Links:
The Frontside Podcast Episode 55: Redux and Ember with Toran Billups
The Frontside Podcast Episode 18: Back-End Devs and Bridging the Stack with Toran Billups
redux-offline
ember-redux-yelp
create-react-app
"Mega Simple redux” Twiddle
ember-concurrency
Thomas Chen: ember-redux
The Frontside Podcast Episode 067: ember-concurrency with Alex Matchneer
normalizr
Ri...
2017-05-1140 min
The Frontside Podcast055: Redux and Ember with Toran BillupsToran Billups @toranb | GitHub | Blog
Show Notes:
02:23 - Ember 2.0; Data Down, Actions Up
08:28 - redux and State
16:39 - Dispatching Actions/Patterns
24:00 - Components and Routing
31:00 - ember-redux and Cloning the react-redux API
35:22 - Hot Reloading
41:22 - Audience
47:02 - Motivation
50:25 - Building Component Trees
Resources:
Toran Billups: Test-Driven Development By Example @ EmberConf 2015
Dan Abramov: Live React: Hot Reloading with Time Travel @ react-europe 2015
react-redux
Charles Lowell: Immutability is for UI, You and I @ EmberConf 2016
redux-thunk
Ryan Toronto: Safety of the herd
EmberMap: Component side effects
Functional Programming
Browserify
More Toran Billups Talks
Transcript:
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2017-01-2656 min
Full Stack Radio49: Toran Billups - Test Driving the Front-endSponsors:Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 daysShippo, try out the Shippo API for free atLinks:Test Driven Laravel, Adam's upcoming video courseEmber.jsQUnit testing frameworkEmber Testing DocumentationToran's TDD talk at EmberConf 2015Outside-In TDD presentation, one of Toran's more recent talksToran's upcoming Outside-In TDD Workshop
2016-09-0739 min
Ruby on Rails Podcast190: Toran Billups - Ember CounselingToran Billups provides Sean Devine with some Ember counseling.
2015-05-011h 09
The Ruby on Rails PodcastEpisode 190: 190: Toran Billups - Ember CounselingToran Billups provides Sean Devine with some Ember counseling.
Links for this episode:toranbillups.comtoranb/ember-cli-simple-storeEMBERCONF 2015 - TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT BY EXAMPLE@toranbstackoverflow: How can I avoid scrolling to top of viewport when adding record using pushPayload?
2015-05-011h 09
The Frontside Podcast020: Best of EmberConf 2015 (part 1)Charles and Brandon share their foodie weekend experiences, and discuss EmberConf 2015; highlights and what they learned.
Show Links:
Black's BBQ
Smitty's Market, Lockhart
Charleston Wine & Food
EmberConf 2015
Godfrey Chan - Hijacking Hacker News
HTMLBars
Lauren Tan - Ambitious UX for Ambitious Apps
Toran Billups - Test Driven Development by Example
2015-03-1627 minThe Ruby on Rails PodcastEpisode 185: 185: Justin Weiss: Practicing RailsJustin Weiss, author of Practicing Rails and justinweiss.com, joins Sean to talk about developing a learning plan, small test apps, testing, interacting with the community, finding time to build your skills and more.
Links for this episode:justinweiss.comPracticing RailsEmberconf 2015 KeynoteToran Billups Live Coding TDD at Emberconf 2015@justinweissCodeship: Continuous Delivery made simple. Use offer code 5BY5RUBY and receive 20% off any plan for 3 months.
2015-03-121h 24
The Frontside Podcast018: Back-End Devs and Bridging the Stack with Toran BillupsToran Billups joins us for this week's Frontside podcast.
We had a great conversation about test driven development, code rot, the challenges of bringing back-end programmers into front-end testing, why Toran loves pair programming, and more.
Show Links:
Toran Billups
Follow Toran on Twittter
Ember Conf
Alt .NET
Mike Moore
Dot Net Rocks Podcast
Alt.net Podcast
Cowboy Coding
Ruby on Rails Podcast
Selenium
2015-02-0543 min
WebDevRadioEpisode 119: Toran Billups interviewI had a chance to chat with Toran Billups about EmberJS, PyTenn and other stuff. Take a listen
toranbillups.com
emberjs.com
2014-03-151h 05
Hanselminutes with Scott HanselmanDeveloping a mobile app for iPhone, Windows Phone 7 and Android with Toran BillupsScott sits down with micro-ISV mobile developer Toran Billups. Toran has written, published and sold his mobile application on iPhone, Android and Windows Phone. In the process of writing BlueFlix, his Blockbuster Express movie application, he learned mobile development on three platforms. What was his experience and what does that tell us about the state of mobile development today?
2011-11-1736 min