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181 JSJ The Evolution of Flux Libraries with Andrew Clark and Dan Abramov Oct 14, 2015

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Sign up for JS Remote Conf! Dan and Andrew's super awesome, helpful document that they made for the show during preparation03:22 - Andrew Clark Introduction

03:39 - Dan Abramov Introduction

04:03 - Flux

Flux vs MVC

09:36 - Data Flow

22:52 - Conceptualizing React and Flux

React.js Conf 2015 - Flux Panel
Does redux limit ambiguity that exists in Flux?

27:50 - Documentation 30:38 - The Elm Programming Language 32:34 - Making Patterns Explicit in Frameworks

36:31 - Getting Started with React and Flux

Classes

42:42 - Where Flux Falls Short58:23 - Keeping the Core Small; Making DecisionsPicks Strange Loop 2015 Videos (Jamison)
Typeset In The Future (Jamison)
Open-source as a project model for internal work (w/ speaker notes) by Kevin Lamping (Jamison)
Explanation of Zipf's Law (Dave)
Will Conant's talk at UtahJS 2015 on Flux (Dave)
The Legend of ZERO (3 Book Series) by Sara King (Joe)
Camel Up (Joe)
The Elm Programming Language (Joe)
Boundaries: A talk by Gary Bernhardt from SCNA 2012 (Aimee)
Nodevember (Aimee)
TV Fool (Chuck)
RCA Outdoor Digital HDTV VHF UHF Yagi Type Antenna (Chuck)
The Michael Vey Book Series (Chuck)
BusinessTown (Dan)
Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man (Dan)
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (Dan)
Abiogenesis (Dan)
react-future (Dan)
The Righteous Mind (Andrew)
lodash-fp (Andrew)
Inside Amy Schumer (Andrew)
dataloader (Andrew)
Careers at OpenGov (Andrew)Special Guests: Andrew Clark and Dan Abramov .
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180 JSJ Finding a Job Oct 07, 2015

Show notes

02:14 - 15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood 03:23 - Amy’s Upcoming Talk at Nodevember 04:45 - Junior, Mid-level, and Senior Developers08:00 - Advice for Devs Straight Out of Boot Camp (How Job Hunts Work)14:28 - Looking For the Right Job For YOU

The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development by Chad Fowler

23:22 - Mentorship & Company Culture 27:16 - Nailing the Interview

Salary Expectations
Get to Know Potential Team Members
Confidence

32:57 - Be Prepared: Coding is HARD Work35:27 - Getting To Know People & Networking

Hackathons
Open Source Contribution
Don’t Be Afraid … APPLY!
Apprenticeships
- Saron Yitbarek: CodeNewbie
Conferences

46:45 - Communication and People Skills

Conway’s Law

Get in touch with Aimee or Chuck!

Tweet @cmaxw
Fork Aimee’s Ask Me Anything!

Picks JS Remote Conf (Chuck)
Rails Remote Conf (Chuck)
Remote Conference Talks (Chuck)
Standing Desks (Aimee)
We have a problem with promises (Aimee)
Interview Cake (Aimee)
Nodevember (Aimee)
A standing desk for $22 (Chuck)
SmartCells Anti-Fatigue Comfort Mat (Chuck)
Pebble Time (Chuck)
Pebble.js (Chuck)
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179 JSJ redux and React with Dan Abramov Sep 30, 2015

Show notes

02:25 - Dan Abramov Introduction

02:43 - Dan’s Background and Journey Into Building Stuff with React

Visual Basic

05:48 - redux and React 10:07- The Elm Programming Language 12:19 - Reducers14:04 - Hot Reloading 17:50 - “React makes you a better JavaScript developer.”22:10 - Time Travel28:26 - Storing Data and Managing State

Interacting with the browser on CircleCI's VM

34:43 - [Patreon] Support Dan Abramov Creating Redux and React Hot Loader 36:24 - react-transform

41:34 - Using redux outside React43:52 - Editors and Programmer Productivity45:35 - Future PlansPicks The OAuth2 RFC (Aimee)
Michael Ries: Hiring Apprentices (Jamison)
@sebmck: "Sometimes having email history isn't always a good thing..." (Jamison)
Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain (Jamison)
Firefly (Joe)
The Elm Programming Language (Joe)
Google Keep (Dave)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Pebble Time (Chuck)
100 Days of Burpees (Chuck)
Broad City (Dan)
Jamie xx: In Colour (Dan)
Cycle.js (Dan)Special Guest: Dan Abramov .
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178 JSJ Tech Education and The Business of Running Front End Masters with Marc Grabanski Sep 23, 2015

Show notes

03:01 - Marc Grabanski Introduction

03:35 - The jQuery UI Datepicker 04:29 - Frontend Masters

@FrontendMasters

07:26 - The Live Streaming Phenomenon

Twitch.tv

09:17 - Scalability11:25 - Value, Feedback Cycle14:43 - Structuring Courses and Workshops16:09 - Online vs In-Person

Prerequisites

18:11 - Booking Workshops19:02 - Scaling (Cont’d)20:00 - Online Education (eLearning) in General

21:40 - The Business Model

Licensing

24:12 - Hot Sellers

Kyle Simpson: Advanced JavaScript

25:28 - Technical Setup

27:27 - Selecting Topics29:41 - Future Topics / Topics in Production30:38 - Individual / Company Attendees

frontendmasters.com/workshops

31:45 - Upcoming Plans for Frontend Masters32:32 - Advice For Starting Something Like Frontend Masters34:23 - Keeping Content Up-to-date36:14 - eLearning Experiments

39:30 - Giveaways

marc@frontendmasters.com

40:07 - Getting Started with Programming43:03 - Marketing45:20 - Teacher CompensationPicks Jessica Kerr: Functional Principles In React @ React Rally 2015 (Jamison)
thought-haver (Jamison)
[Frontend Masters] Angular Application Development (Aimee)
[Frontend Masters] JavaScript the Good Parts (Aimee)
LÄRABAR (Aimee)
Taking time off (Chuck)
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (Joe)
BB-8 by Sphero (Joe)
ng-conf (Joe)
The Tim Ferriss Show (Marc)
CodeCombat (Marc)
Untrusted (Marc)Special Guest: Marc Grabanski.
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177 JSJ UI Validation with Oren Rubin Sep 16, 2015

Show notes

02:43 - Oren Rubin Introduction

05:43 - Testing

18:18 - Page Object(s)

Locators

27:10 - Protractor & Selenium

Zombie

32:06 - Checking UI (Screenshots)37:04 - End-to-end > Full Coverage?40:03 - When should you start testing?42:21 - Cucumber 45:39 - DebuggingPicks Paul Ford: 10 Timeframes (Jamison)
Kishi Bashi - “In Fantasia” (Jamison)
Matt Zabriskie (Jamison)
http-backend-proxy (Aimee)
repl.it (Aimee)
React.js Training with Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence (Joe)
React Rally (Joe)
AngularConnect (Joe)
ng-conf (Joe)
Ruby Remote Conf Videos (Chuck)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
15 Minute Podcast Listener chat with Charles Wood (Chuck)
Dave Haeffner: Elemental Selenium (Oren)
CSS Secrets by Lea Verou (Oren)
Cloudinary (Oren)Special Guest: Oren Rubin.
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176 JSJ RethinkDB with Slava Akhmechet Sep 09, 2015

Show notes

02:20 - Slava Akhmechet Introduction

02:41 - RethinkDB Overview

04:24 - How It’s Used

Compose.io

05:58 - Joins12:50 - Returning Data

JSON

13:53 - Getting Data to the Browser

Quora Article
Socket.IO

19:35 - Clustering

Reliability & Performance Issues
- Jepsen (Call Me Maybe Series)
- Consensus Algorithms

26:37 - ReQL 30:53 - Indexes

B-tree

32:18 - MapReduce 35:44 - The RethinkDB Community & Contributors38:04 - Is it production ready?40:08 - Differences Between Version 2.0 and 2.1 Extras

Picks Our World War (Dave)
Quest Protein Bars (Aimee)
You-Dont-Know-JS (Aimee)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
Orphan Black (Chuck)
Mr. Robot (Slava)
Rick and Morty (Slava)
The Rust Programming Language (Slava)Special Guest: Slava Akhmechet.
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175 JSJ Elm with Evan Czaplicki and Richard Feldman Sep 02, 2015

Show notes

02:27 - Evan Czaplicki Introduction

02:32 - Richard Feldman Introduction

02:38 - Elm

@elmlang

04:06 - Academic Ideas05:10 - Functional Programming, Functional Reactive Programming & Immutability16:11 - Constraints

Faruk Ateş
- Modernizr
- The Beauty of Constraints
Types / Typescript

24:24 - Compilation27:05 - Signals

start-app

36:34 - Shared Concepts & Guarantees at the Language Level43:00 - Elm vs React 47:24 - Integration

52:23 - Upcoming Features54:15 - Testing

56:38 - Websites/Apps Build in Elm

CircuitHub

58:37 - Getting Started with Elm

59:41 - Canonical Uses?01:01:26 - The Elm Community & Contributions

Extras & Resources

Picks The Pragmatic Studio: What is Elm? Q&A (Aimee)
Elm (Joe)
Student Bodies (Joe)
Mike Clark: Getting Started With Elm (Joe)
Angular Remote Conf (Chuck)
Stripe (Chuck)
Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians (Alcatraz, No. 1) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (Evan)
The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse (Evan)
The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman (Richard)
Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy (Richard)
NoRedInk Tech Blog (Richard)Special Guests: Evan Czaplicki and Richard Feldman.
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174 JSJ npm 3 with Rebecca Turner and Forrest Norvell Aug 26, 2015

Show notes

Don’t miss out! Sign up for Angular Remote Conf! 02:28 - Forrest Norvell Introduction

02:37 - Rebecca Turner Introduction

03:05 - Why npm 3 Exists and Changes in npm 2 => 3

Debugging
Life Cycle Ordering
Deduplication

08:36 - Housekeeping09:47 - Peer Dependency Changes

The Singleton Pattern

15:38 - The Rewrite Process and How That Enabled Some of the Changes Coming Out

CJ Silverio: Npm registry deep dive @ Oneshot Oslo

22:50 - shrinkwrapping 27:00 - Other Breaking Changes?

Permissions

30:40 - Tiny Jewels33:24 - Why Rewrite?36:00 - npm’s Focus on the Front End

42:04 - Transitioning to npm 342:54 - Installing npm 344:11 - Packaging with io.js and Node.js 45:16 - Being in BetaPicks Slack List (Aimee)
Perceived Performance Fluent Conf Talks (Aimee)
Paul Irish: How Users Perceive the Speed of The Web Keynote @ Fluent 2015 (Aimee)
Subsistence Farming (AJ)
Developer On Fire Episode 017 - Charles Max Wood - Get Involved and Try New Things (Chuck)
Elevator Saga (Chuck)
BrazilJS (Forrest)
NodeConf Brazil (Forrest)
For quick testing: `npm init -y`, configure init (Forrest)
Where Can I Put Your Cheese? (Or What to Expect From npm@3) @ Boston Ember, May 2015 (Rebecca)
Open Source & Feelings Conference (Rebecca)
bugs [npm Documentation] (Rebecca)
docs [npm Documentation] (Rebecca)
repo [npm Documentation] (Rebecca)Special Guests: Forrest Norvell and Rebecca Turner.
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173 JSJ Online Learning with Gregg Pollack Aug 19, 2015

Show notes

Check out Angular Remote Conf! 02:55 - Gregg Pollack Introduction

05:19 - Code School

06:49 - Course Content

09:42 - Plots & Storylines11:40 - Code School vs Pluralsight 14:09 - Structuring Courses

Frontend vs Backend
- Building Blocks of Express.js
- Real-Time Web with Node.js
Security & Sandboxing
- abecedary
- Mocha

18:21 - JavaScript.com

Try jQuery
Contributing to JavaScript.com
- Let Us Know
Try JavaScript
Resources

22:47 - Designing Exercises & Challenges

30:31 - The Future of Online Learning

34:01 - Teaching Best PracticesPicks Mr. Robot (Gregg)
#ILookLikeAnEngineer (Aimee)
Why we Need WebAssembly An Interview with Brendan Eich (Aimee)
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B (AJ)
Periscope (Chuck)Special Guest: Gregg Pollack.
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172 JSJ NodeSchool with Jason Rhodes Aug 12, 2015

Show notes

Check out Angular Remote Conf! 02:22 - Jason Rhodes Introduction

03:46 - NodeSchool

06:05 - “Workshopper(s)”07:13 - How Meetups Run (Format), Target Audience11:09 - Pair Programming and Peer Learning14:34 - Starting a NodeSchool Chapter15:53 - Implementing Diversity18:07 - Mentoring and Mentorship20:49 - Time Commitment and Effort24:02 - Appealing to All Experience Levels of Attendees26:48 - The NodeSchool Community30:45 - Being a Member of an Open Source CommunityPicks Better Off Ted (Joe)
Cat Exercise Wheel (Aimee)
That Conference (Joe)
primitive.io (Joe)
React Rally (Aimee)
Falcor YouTube Playlist (Aimee)
javascriptjabber.com/15minutes (Chuck)
Entreprogrammers Retreat 2015 (Chuck)
Love Letter (Jason)
charmCityJS (Jason)
Mad Max: Fury Road (Jason)Special Guest: Jason Rhodes.
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