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208 JSJ MS Office with Jeremy Thake Apr 20, 2016

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This episode was recorded live from The Microsoft Build Conference 2016. In this episode we chatted with Jeremy Thake of Microsoft about MS Office. You can follow him on Twitter, see what he’s done over on GitHub, or visit his blog.Resources:Office Dev CenterPicks Billions (Jeremy)Special Guest: Jeremy Thake.
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207 JSJ Growing Happy Developers with Marcus Blankenship Apr 13, 2016

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02:51 - Marcus Blankenship Introduction

03:09 - Panelist Worst Boss Experiences13:06 - Developer Anarchy vs Having a Hierarchy

20:57 - Transitioning Managers

Impostor Syndrome

26:05 - Manager Influence28:33 - Management vs Leadership

Leader-Member Exchange Theory

34:37 - Interpersonal Relationships and Happiness38:24 - What kind of feedback do managers want from their employees?

Timesheets

46:17 - Am I manager material? Am I ready to go into management?48:06 - Following a Technical Track51:55 - Why would anyone ever want to be a department manager?Picks A Plain English Guide to JavaScript Prototypes (Aimee)
Oatmega (Aimee)
Luck by Tom Vek (Jamison)
The 27 Challenges Managers Face: Step-by-Step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management Problems by Bruce Tulgan (Marcus)
React Rally Call for Proposals (Jamison)
React Rally (Jamison)
Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman (Dave)
Soft Skills Engineering Podcast (Dave)Special Guest: Marcus Blankenship.
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206 JSJ PostCSS with Ben Briggs Apr 06, 2016

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02:30 - Ben Briggs

03:03 - PostCSS

07:16 - What problems was PostCSS designed to solve for developers?

09:46 - Using PostCSS vs Sass

lost

14:02 - Using Future Features16:28 - Tool Fatigue

postcss.org

23:39 - When should people start thinking about using PostCSS?

31:24 - Postprocessing

midas

33:43 - Shipping Apps with Emojis?36:21 - Where does PostCSS end and where does css-modules begin?Picks Chet Corcos: Functional Programming for JavaScript People (Aimee)
Operation Code Scholarship (Aimee)
Web Platform Daily Digest (Ben)
Cadbury Caramel Eggs (Joe)
Hello World Podcast (Joe)
React Rally (Dave)Special Guest: Ben Briggs.
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205 JSJ Shasta with Eric Schoffstall Mar 30, 2016

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02:28 - Eric Schoffstall Introduction

02:59 - shasta

07:20 - Getting Started

github.com/shastajs/boilerplate

08:20 - Solidifying on Best Practices10:37 - Made to Work Together vs Made to be Neatly Modular11:19 - shasta and redux 12:01 - shasta Ideals

Opinions
- Immutable.js

15:07 - Making Choices17:35 - redux-thunk, redux-saga 19:01 - Lessons Learned from gulp.js

Open Source Marketing

23:55 - redux-router 25:20 - React-Specific vs Agnostic

Lazer Team

27:35 - Experimentation with shasta29:50 - Relay and GraphQL Conflict31:31 - Swapability35:30 - The Future of front-end development in JavaScript; Where shasta fits in

mercury
- Victor Savkin: Managing State in Angular 2 Applications

Picks Victor Savkin: Managing State in Angular 2 Applications (Joe)
Lazer Team (Joe)
Big Black Delta (Jamison)
Learning to Use Google Analytics More Effectively at CodePen (Jamison)
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe (Dave)
Soft Skills Engineering Podcast (Dave)
RevolutionConf 2016 (Aimee)
[Frontend Masters] Functional-Lite JavaScript (Aimee)
Lush Cosmetics (Aimee)
horizon (Eric)
Shannon and the Clams - Rip Van Winkle (Eric)
shasta (Eric)Special Guest: Eric Schoffstall.
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204 JSJ Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson Mar 23, 2016

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03:10 - Quincy Larson Introduction

03:20 - Free Code Camp

@FreeCodeCamp

04:47 - Quincy’s Background06:43 - Curriculum and Non-Profit Projects09:47 - Keeping the Curriculum Updated10:30 - Enrollment; Starting & Finishing12:20 - Resources for Learning

Gitter

15:39 - Funding16:06 - Working Through a Self-Paced System vs Structure17:17 - Nonprofits19:51 - Learning to Work on Non-Greenfield Code21:47 - Getting Hired After the Program23:21 - Marketing and Media

26:07 - Sustaining Living While Running This Program27:31 - The Future of Free Code Camp

Free Code Camp Wiki

28:34 - Long-term Sustainability29:44 - Hypothetical Monetization and Contribution33:51 - Coding as a form of art or function?36:55 - Partnerships

Project Management Institute

37:53 - Making Free Code Camp More Effective39:18 - Criticism? 40:29 - Curriculum Development and Evolution43:02 - Is Free Code Camp for everybody?

Read, Search, Ask

46:09 - The Community51:07 - Getting Involved in Free Code Camp

Free Code Camp Volunteer Quiz

Picks Our Greatest Fear — Marianne Williamson (AJ)
The Rabbit Joint - The Legend of Zelda (AJ)
Nintendo (Twilight Princess HD Soundtrack) (AJ)
Steve Wozniak: The early days @ TEDxBerkeley (AJ)
Favor of the Pharaoh (Joe)
The Goldbergs (Joe)
The Best Podcast Rap (Chuck)
Word Swag (Chuck)
Cecily Carver: Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Learning How to Code (Quincy)
Code for the Kingdom (Aimee)
diff-so-fancy (Aimee)Special Guest: Quincy Larson.
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203 JSJ Aurelia with Rob Eisenberg Mar 16, 2016

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Check out React Remote Conf! 02:31 - Rob Eisenberg Introduction

02:55 - Aurelia

Blog

03:43 - Selling People on Aurelia vs Other Frameworks11:09 - Using Aurelia Without Directly Engaging with the API

Web Components

15:10 - Production Usage18:46 - Specific Uses23:03 - Durandal 25:26 - Aurelia and Angular 230:32 - Convention Over Configuration34:56 - Web Components

Content Projection (Transclusion)
Polymer

41:13 - One-directional Data Flow; Data Binding

Using a Binding System as Messaging System

46:55 - Routing49:47 - Animation52:56 - Code Size55:06 - Version Support56:27 - Performance

Tools

01:00:20 - Aurelia in ES501:01:29 - Data Management

Breeze.js

PicksCrispy Bacon (Joe)
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Joe)
Jamison Dance: Rethinking All Practices: Building Applications in Elm @ React.js Conf 2016 (Joe)
Vessel | Lorn (Jamison)
The Moon Rang Like a Bell | Hundred Waters (Jamison)
The Top 10 Episodes of JavaScript Jabber (Chuck)
Amazon Prime (Chuck)
WiiU (Chuck)
Sketch (Rob)
Zeplin (Rob)
servo (Rob)Special Guest: Rob Eisenberg.
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202 JSJ DoneJS + CanJS with Justin Meyer Mar 09, 2016

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Check out and get your tickets for React Remote Conf! May 11th-13th, 2016. 02:30 - Justin Meyer Introduction

03:02 - DoneJS and CanJS

05:44 - Versus Meteor 07:41 - Versus React

Set Algebra

12:06 - Getting Started with DoneJS

donejs.com/place-my-order.html

18:04 - Can <=> Done

MVVM (Model–View–Viewmodel)
Observables
- Pagination
- Preventing Loop Issues

25:39 - MVC => MVVM28:24 - Flux vs MVVM32:20 - Use Cases39:19 - App Size

StealJS

Picks Beautiful Eyes Album by Taylor Swift (AJ)
When Amazon Dies (AJ)
PROTODOME (AJ)
City Libraries (AJ)
The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections On the Quest for Faith (AJ)
Learn X in Y Minutes (Aimee)
Which cat is your JavaScript framework? (Aimee)
@johnpapa Tweet (Joe)
SumoMe (Chuck)
Drip (Chuck)
7 Wonders (Chuck)
Shadow Hunters (Chuck)
Calamity (The Reckoners) by Brandon Sanderson (Chuck)
Staked (The Iron Druid Chronicles) by Kevin Hearne (Chuck)
BB-8™ by Sphero (Justin)
Hyperion Cantos Series (Justin)
UtahJS (Justin)Special Guest: Justin Meyer.
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201 JSJ Security with Troy Hunt Mar 02, 2016

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02:32 - Troy Hunt Introduction

04:12 - Why should people care about security?06:19 - When People/Businesses Get Hacked09:47 - “Hacking”

Social Engineering
- BeEF

11:42 - Inventive “Hacks”

13:24 - Motivation for Hacking/Can hacking be valuable?17:08 - Consequences and Retribution19:10 - How to Build Secure Applications20:47 - Weighing in UX22:50 - Common Misconceptions