Shows
Real World EmberInterlude: Ember Round TableWe 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.
Other interviews by Erik Hanchett can be found at his soundcloud account.
Writings by David Tang can be found at The JS Guy.
Both of those come highly recommended.
And, of course, my screencast can be found at EmberScreencasts.com. I've also been writing a book about learning Javascript and Ember via games.
2016-03-0547 min
Real World EmberFunctional Programming in Ember: Daniel Chappell at Q2 eBankingWe talk functional programming in Ember, functional programming in other languages (including languages that transpile to Javascript), and functional programming in theory.
Daniel Chappell
2.5 years programming exp, previous career was as a photographer
motivation for starting programming was getting out of photography, but he soon came to love programming for itself
functional programming
functional style makes codebase safer and easier to change and collaborate on
Computed Properties in Ember are pure functions
Should separate code into functional and imperative pieces, with imperative as small as possible
Recognized a lot of Functional philosophy in Ember
Most Ember code can...
2016-02-1832 min
Real World EmberTest Or Catch Fire: Chris Bonser at KhorusWe 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.
Chris Bonser- before Ember
Programming professionally for 11 years
Started out with Electrical Engineering/hardware
Learned Ruby by building test equipment
We heard you like tests, so we’re testing the code that tests the equipment that tests the microchips
Stuff could literally catch on fire, something which actually happened while he was in the factory
Ember
Been doing Ember about 2 years
Started at Khorus right after they had chosen Ember
We...
2016-02-1718 min
Real World EmberEmber Changed my Life: Productivity and Outsourcing with Venkat DinavahiWe talk productivity, prioritizing your work, Backbone vs. Ember vs. React, and the communication requirements of outsourcing to a different time zone.
Origin Story
Originally learned Ember by joining Coderly
Their app was Cook Academy
Was really excited by the reusability
Was previously using jQuery/ExtJS on frontend, so huge upgrade
Javascript Package Size
We both skipped the Backbone generation
Backbone + Router.js- better than nothing!
File size of Ember has recently been reduced- a lot!
Svelte Builds: Eventually plan to make unique build that will only include parts of Ember that you’re using.
components make it re...
2016-02-1633 min
Real World EmberInternational Ember Upgrades: Matthias Leitner and Hector Zarco at RuntasticWe talk about upgrading Ember apps, transitions from Rails to Ember, running a multinational team from Austria, and handling performance on mobile.
Runtastic
Hector and Matthias here with us today
located in Linz Austria- 3rd largest city in Austria
International team- they’ve got HQs in Linz and Vienna, employ people in 25 different countries
Some people join specifically so they can write Ember code
Going to Ember
They first started using Ember in 2012
Started by integrating them into existing Ruby on Rails application to replace jQuery code
Slowly switching to more Ember-only apps with ember-cli
Had to do a...
2016-02-1029 min
Real World EmberLiterally Thousands of Components: Neil Thawani and Jessie Graves at Infegy.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’re interviewing Neil Thawani and Jessie Graves from Infegy Atlas
Guest interviewer: Erik Hatchett from ProgramWithErik.com
Infegy Atlas
Kansas City, working onsite
Infegy Atlas helps corporations understand what their customers want through Social Media Intelligence
For example, Infegy Atlas helped McDonalds discover what would make their customers love Breakfast All Day
Getting started:
Jessi had experience with SproutCore, but they still had trouble getting started (pre-1.0, when documentation was scarce)
They have a 2.5-year-old Em...
2016-02-0923 min
Real World EmberEmber Dreams: Michael Swanson at SkillsEngineWe 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.
introducing Michael Swanson
started off building marketing websites with wordpress/jQuery
second career in software development with Javascript and EmberJS
dark sordid past: 500-line jQuery files
side hobbies: doing manual stuff like working out, woodworking, gardening
introducing: the tai chi desk. A peaceful improvement to treadmill desks. SOMEONE, PLEASE MAKE THIS.
SkillsEngine
curated database of skills...
2016-02-0830 min