The Frontside Podcast

This week, Charles, Lydia and Alex go on a deep dive into immutability and the importance of literate programming. Links: Impagination.js Ember-Impagination Interactive demo of Ember-Impagination Om Omniscient JS

Allison McMillan (from General Assembly) joins us this week to talk about working remotely. She shares great tips for finding your first remote development job, how to be a more effective remote employee, how to overcome the fear of asking questions, why working remotely might not be right for everyone, and more. Show Links: Allison McMillan Contact Allison for remote work consulting General Assembly Portlandia: Working from home Zapier Conspiracy Santa Slack Screenhero

Mando Escamilla joins us this week to talk about balancing work and family life, how being a better parent can make you a better programmer, why staying up late is a false economy, and more. Show Links: Mando Escamilla Mando Escamilla on Twitter Cafe Bedouins Node Conf

Jamie White joins us this week to talk about preparing for a conference talks, organizing meetups, tips for starting conversations with strangers at meetups, how to design a community, and more. Show Links: Jamie White Jamie's awesome talk Follow Jamie on Twitter Growing a Tech Community by Luke Melia Ember Podcasts Pete Hunt Ember Camp

Robert Jackson works at Aptible and is a member of the Ember core team. In this episode, we discuss how he got into Ember, his past experience with running a business, how he manages his OSS workflow at Ember's scale, working remotely, work/life balance, and more. Show Links: Robert Jackson on Twitter Robert Jacskon on Github Ember Land podcast EmberConf 2014 - Contributing to Ember: The Inside Scoop by Robert Jackson Aptible Pomodoro Technique Ember CLI Trek Glowacki ember-cli-deprecation-workflow

We're joined this week by special guest Trek Glowacki. Trek is a member of the Ember core team and maintains Pretender.js. We discuss how Trek got started with programming, Ember (of course), getting pigeonholed, how to get started contributing to open source projects, the curse of knowledge, and more. Show Links: Trek Glowacki pretender.js Ember Camp - UI Patterns by Trek Glowacki Trek on Javascript Jabber “The hard work is not writing the code; the hard work is figuring out what code to write.” - @trek

This week, Brandon and Charles sit down to talk about communication at work, the importance of being honest with your employees even when it's painful, how to build trust in work relationships, why checking in with employees regularly has become a core value at Frontside, and more.

What separates a senior developer from a junior developer? With Charles back from sunny Finland, the guys are back to podcasting! This week, they're talking about what makes someone a senior developer, when to stop thinking like a developer, and why some problems require a different skillset and mindset. New York Times Math Puzzle

This week we're joined by Matthew Beale to talk about Ember 2.0 and more. Matthew shares his path to programming and getting involved with Ember, why the core team is focusing on making Ember 2.0 future friendly, Glimmer, add-on authors, how to prep for the switch to 2.0, and more. Show Links: Matthew Beale Follow Matthew on Twitter 201 Created Smoke and Mirrors Ember RFC 56: Release Cycle Improvements Ember Wormhole Glimmer Ember CLI Rails Ember Migrator Ember Watson Vox Audio Player for Mac

This week, Brandon and Charles discuss feeling like a phony (imposter syndrome), and why “get over it” is not an appropriate response to the problem. Show Links: Nicholas Means: You Are Not an Impostor (RailsConf 2014) “This is Water” by David Foster Wallace If you're enjoying the show, please head over to iTunes and leave us a review. It makes us feel good, but also helps other people find the show. Thank you for your support!

We're joined this week by Mitch Lloyd to talk about Ember Islands, the difficulties of making great training materials and screencasts, and more. Show Links: Mitch Lloyd Follow Mitch on Tiwtter Gaslight Gaslight Podcast Introduction to Ember.js Ember Islands Inside Fastboot: the road to server-side rendering Martin Muñoz Tilde Introduction to Ember X-select Component If you're enjoying our show, please head over to iTunes and leave us a review! We appreciate it!

Charles, Brandon and Stanley are joined by Luke Melia to discuss being early adopters of Ember, Ember CLI Deploy, and growing the Ember community. Show links: Luke Melia Luke on Twitter Yapp Ember CLI Deploy RailsConf 2012: Lightning Fast Deployment of Your Rails-backed JavaScript app EmberConf 2015: The Art of Ember Deployment

Charles, Brandon and Stanley wrap up part two of their discussion about their favorite talks and technologies from EmberConf 2015. Stanley sings a Staind song, and proposes to the entire internet. Show Links: Ember CLI Deploy Aaron Patterson (Tenderlove) Orbit.js Jamie White - Growing Ember One Tomster At A Time Ember Community Guidelines Brittany Storoz - Building Custom Apps With Ember CLI Edward Faulkner - Physical Design Liquid Fire Bryan Langslet Mitch Lloyd - Ember Islands Ember Observer

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

This week, Charles, Brandon and Stanley were joined by Tom Dale and Alex Matchneer. They took a trip in the way-back machine to discuss how they got started in programming and web development. Show Links: Tom Dale Follow Tom on Twitter Alex Matchneer Follow Alex on Twitter Icon Factory Copland Icons Emblem.js Image Ready Go Live iMall.com on the Internet Archive

Toran 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

This week, Charles shares an experience he had at a group Ukulele lesson with his son, and applies the lessons he learned there towards hiring and creating roles to utilize junior level talent in software development. Show Links: Brandon Hays - Open Allocation Ruby On Rails Podcast: Trek Glowacki - Learning Ember Apprenticeship Patterns

Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale join us to talk about the road to Ember 2.0 and "Fast Boot". They share insight about why they stick to a 6 week release cycle, and why they think JS frameworks might be the future of all web apps (especially content sites). We also chat about what "indie open source" means, and exactly how much design goes into the Ember project and community. Yehuda Katz (Twitter) Tom Dale (Twitter) Tom Dale's Klout score is 66 Tilde.io Erik Bryn Yehuda at Hack Summit: "Indie OSS" HTMLBars FastBoot: Ember's Server-Side Rendering solution Tom on Shop Talk Show on Server-Side Rendering Rendr JS Yehuda's RailsConf keynote: "10 Years!" Skylight.io: Make your Rails apps faster with actionable insights Transcript: FILE NAME: The Frontside 16 - Yehuda Katz & Tom Dale Talk About Javascript DURATION: 55:59 minutes CHARLES: Everybody, welcome to Frontside the Podcast, Episode 16. We've got Brandon and Stanley here with me on the podcast and some very special guests who need no introduction, so I'll let them introduce themselves. TOM: Maybe we just start with Yehuda because he's the most famous. Are we starting by number of Twitter followers? STANLEY: Actually, Cloud score. TOM: Yeah, it's Cloud score based. YEHUDA: I think Tom has a higher Cloud score than me. BRANDON: All right, Tom. Go for it. TOM: Hey, what's up? I'm Tom. I had the idea for Ember JS in the shower. [Laughter] YEHUDA: Hey. I'm Yehuda. I work on standard stuff and Ember a lot these days, and now Rust also. TOM: Yehuda just joined the Rust core team. I don't know if you guys saw that. BRANDON: I did see that. Rust is a programming language. YEHUDA: Programming language. STANLEY: Are we going to get to talk about that later? BRANDON: Sure. TOM: We can talk about whatever you want. I'm not going to have any insights on that. YEHUDA: We'll have some insights. TOM: Yeah. I don't know if you guys ever saw the Pokemon Movie, but basically Yehuda is reenacting that with core teams. You've got to catch them all. [Laughter] BRANDON: That's great. STANLEY: That's not just the movie, Tom. That's literally everything around Pokemon. TOM: Oh, okay. STANLEY: That is the tagline. TOM: I will definitely defer. You seem like an expert here, Stanley. STANLEY: You know; I know the most important facts of all time. BRANDON: Stanley is on the Pokemon core team actually. STANLEY: I actually just made a new Pokemon that's like a guitar, a chair, and a microwave put together. BRANDON: What's it called? STANLEY: Rock-On. TOM: That is the worst Pokemon name I have ever heard. [Laughter] TOM: Oh, my gosh. BRANDON: All right, well, off to an auspicious start here. So the two of you and Leah formed the original core team for Ember. Is that fair to say or were there other people involved at that time when you kind of were switching SproutCore 2.0 to Ember? YEHUDA: I don't think I would call the original group that switched SproutCore over to Ember necessarily the core team. I would say that there was a bunch of people that were working on what was called SproutCore 2 at the time at Strobe, and it doesn't -- what we were doing there doesn't really meet my requirements for a good core team or a good Indie Open Source project. But one of the things that we did after switching over to being Ember and announcing the separate project was to make the core team more like what I would want. TOM: Well, I would say that there was never one moment where we were like, hey, let's create a core team. I think one thing that I learned from Yehuda about managing an open source project is that it is extremely important to start delegating way before you feel ready or comfortable. So there was a point early on where we were just totally overwhelmed as people started using it and people came along and were interested. And so we just gave them commit bit without really thinking about the bureaucracy of it or the structure of it. And then it definitely got to a point where it was like, "Why is there no core team yet?" because there's a ton of people with commit. So we should probably think about this a little bit more. YEHUDA: Of the people who are on the core team now, Erik, Chris, and Steph were all involved extremely early. I think Erik Bryn was the second contributor. Well, the first contributor after people working at Strobe, and Chris and Steph got involved really early because they were building an app on Ember that was very, very mobile focused. Well, it's a mobile app, and so they needed heavy performance, and we were not necessarily focusing on that, so they got involved pretty early also. BRANDON: And you gave a really awesome talk about this recently at Hack Summit. We'll throw the link to that in the show notes. I thought it was terrific, and I thought there was a lot of amazing ideas that were clearly born of painful experience. And I want to talk about that in a moment and kind of basically running and maintaining an open sou

Jamison Dance joins Brandon and Stanley to talk about how to make music with your browser, hosting JS Jabber, and the direction of the JavaScript community. We discuss the Javascript Audio API, how to avoid the trap of always chasing the new technologies, and Jamison shares some tips about how to improve your tech talks. Show Links: Jamison Dance JS Jabber Podcast DOMStep: Audio Synthesis, AI and a JavaScript Dance Party Theresa’s Sound World “The Mess We’re In” by Joe Armstrong “Transducers” by Rich Hickey If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript by Angus Croll The Humor in the Code by Baratunde Thurston JSX StrangeLoop Conference

We're back! Today on the Frontside, we're going to be talking about what we've learned about software consulting over the past year. The subjects we're discussing include: Choosing the right partner for your business How to start and run a software consultancy How to craft a healthy work culture Some of the tradeoffs we made, which ones worked out, and which ones just plain sucked The pros and cons of fixed-bid pricing Why you should focus on being great at one thing How to avoid fear-based decision making And of course, so much more. Tune in to one of the final episodes of the Frontside podcast... of 2014. Show Links: My Little C Extension: Lego Robots are Magic - Brandon Hays

Guest hosted by Ember Release Team member Stanley Stuart, this episode is a Canadian edition with Ember contributors mixonic (Matthew Beale) and mmun (Martin Muñoz). They talk about what’s up with Handlebars, HTMLbars, Metal Views, the differences between them, and why you won’t see script tags in Ember markup anymore. Stanley Stuart on Twitter Stanley Stuart on Github Matthew Beale on Twitter Matthew Beale on Github Martin Muñoz on Twitter Martin Muñoz on Github Ember 1.8 Htmlbars Liquid Fire

Sara Mei joins us this week to discuss passion and whether it's a job requirement that you "love programming". She’s a Chief Consultant at DevMynd, a co-founder of RailsBridge, and an all-around rad human. Today we talk about whether it’s okay to get your motivation from things other than your sheer passion for programming, such as societal impact or what you can do with your code. The tweet that started it all Sarah Mei RailsBridge Sara at DevMynd Sarah's new book with Sandi Metz The Moderately Enthusiastic Programmer The Passion Gospel

Michael Coté joins in a (sort-of) Drunk and Retired reunion to talk about Gartner's Hype Cycle, how it affects developers, and how they can actually benefit from understanding it. Coté is an Industry Analyst for 451 Research who helps his clients understand what’s going on in the tech world, what to buy, where to invest and where to start. We also talk reprogramming your brain for empathy, and about the trough of disillusionment in new technology. Drunk and Retired Podcast Michael Coté Docker Ember Trough of Disillusionment

Today, it’s Frontside’s 10th podcast! We’re talking primarily about Reactive Modeling with Ember. On today’s episode, we’re diving further into Charles's blog post, and into seeing this as a new way of thinking about programming — each relationship as a network, and the values floating around within them. We also share an update on Brandon’s robot project and talk about speaking at RubyConf (even though we’re Javascript guys). Show Links: Charles’ blog post on Reactive Modeling with Ember Raspberry Pi RubyConf 2014 Ember

In the episode, we discuss our Raspberry Pi projects, and dive into the problems inherent in adapting old-school jQuery plugins to modern client-side web applications. Show Links: Raspberry Pi Nickel City Ruby Conference Twitter’s Typeahead.js Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey Ember-Pikaday

This week, Brandon and Charles discuss how to become indispensable to your business, why writing less code is better in the long run, and more. Wonder Boys The Pragmatic Programmer

This week the Frontside nerds are joined by "Mr. Router" himself, Alex Matchneer. We discuss the benefits & pain of routing in client-side applications, using the Ember router without Ember, how Alex got into working on Ember core, and some OSS projects to keep an eye on. Alex Matchneer @machty http://alexmatchneer.com/ Router.js https://github.com/tildeio/router.js/ React.js http://facebook.github.io/react/ React-Nested-Router https://github.com/rpflorence/react-nested-router Pretender.js https://github.com/trek/pretender VCR (Rails) https://www.relishapp.com/vcr/vcr/docs Stefan Penner https://github.com/stefanpenner

This week Brandon and Charles discuss Brandon's perhaps-controversial appearance on JS Jabber, the dangers of being a solitary genius (the Goodwill Hunting myth), and why you aren't a special snowflake (the Luke Skywalker myth). Brandon on JS Jabber Good Will Hunting

We're back! After a brief, unexplainable disappearance, Brandon and Charles have retuned to discuss their talks at RailsConf 2014, designing models, why writing a framework sucks, the library-author bias, and more. RailsConf 2014 Videos are up! The Power of M (Charles at RailsConf) Bring Fun Back to JS (Brandon at RailsConf) Router JS Programming in the Wild West You can't not have a framework by Ryan Florence

Ember JS Conference Recap. This week we discuss last month's EmberConf, what's going on with components, and the current state of testing in Ember and how developers are working towards making it easier. Show Links: Brandon's MountainWest JS talk Brandon's slides EmberConf talks Jeremy Mack on Fnd.io Fnd.io DeVaris Brown: Ember is for the Children Rails Girls Rails Bridge Code Rush

This week, we talk about Ember and how we use it in our web apps (hint: it's the future of the web). Ember and the Future of the Web Demo for techniques to sprinkle Ember into Rails projects The slides from that presentation Welcome Jeffrey Biles!

Client-side apps are great, but they're not perfect for every situation. Charles and Brandon discuss times single-page apps might not make sense. Also, they discuss how Jim Weirich affected their lives. Goodbye, Jim. :( https://github.com/jimweirich/wyriki/commit/d28fac7f18aeacb00d8ad3460a0a5a901617c2d4

Charles and Brandon argue about what to name the podcast. They talk about how "one more feature"-itis sinks many projects and startups, how you can recognize when you're caught in it, and patterns they've used to avoid it.