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Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013! PanelIsaac Schlueter (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:33 - Isaac Schlueter IntroductionNPM Node 02:33 - Node Backstoryv8 SpiderMonkey Joyent 05:37 - Node and New FeaturesNode.js v0.10.0 Manual & Documentation v8 13:30 - Language AccommodationsTC39 Luvit libev libuv eventmachine @ GitHub Zedd Shaw 22:32 - C++LibEVN - Node in C 25:19 - New Streams API30:37 - Semantic VersioningExperimental versions 33:01 - NPM39:30 - Issac’s Future41:06 - DiscoveryRecommendation Engine Exposing Quality of Modules Code Quality 47:18 - Advice for Adopting NodeJoyent The Node Firm StrongLoop Iris Couch PicksWild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul by John Eldredge (Joe) The Aquabats (Jamison) User Feedback: Is

PanelAJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:02 - Panelist employment backgrounds04:34 - Programming job marketNetworking 06:31 - How to get a job doing what you likeBetterServers Skunkworks project 09:36 - Qualifications11:40 - How you find jobsBeing active in online and offline communities Mailing list advertisement Recruiters and job boards 15:51 - Resumes19:27 - Interviews“I don’t know.” Pairing 24:50 - Company fit095 RR People and Team Dynamics with Joe O’Brien Contract to hire work 30:47 - What makes somewhere a good place to work?Autonomy 40:32 - FreelancingThe Ruby Freelancers Show PicksPsych Season 7 (AJ) The Fradio - MediaBox (AJ) Das Keyboard Model S Ultimate Mechanical Keyboard (Jamison) 48 Days to the Work You Love: Preparing for the New Normal by Dan Miller (Chuck) No More Mondays: Fire Yourself -- and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work by Dan Miller (Chuck) 48 D

Panel Jörn Zaefferer (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:15 - Jörn Zaefferer IntroductionjQuery QUnit 02:32 - QUnitjQuery Mobile Introduction to Unit Testing | QUnit 06:59 - Built-in support for HTML fixtures for your tests08:50 - Unit Testingjoshuaclayton / specitmmonteleone / pavlov11:57 - Assertionsfn:deep-equal 15:49 - Why use QUnit?unit testing - QUnit vs Jasmine - Stack Overflowstacktrace.js 023 RR Book Club: Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns with Kent Beck26:01 - User experience for user interface30:03 - Continuous integration setupsJenkins CI PhantomJS 023 JSJ Phantom.js with Ariya Hidayat jquery / testswarmjQuery's TestSwarmBrowserStack 36:55 - Testing in JavaScriptSauce Labs: Cloudified Browser Testing Testacular SeleniumHQ 43:35 - Add-onsPicksMYO - The Gesture Control Armband (Jamison) Mailbox (Jamison) Testing Clientside JavaScript (Joe’s Course) (Joe) DragonBo

PanelValerio Proietti (twitter github) Arian Stolwijk (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:08 - Arian Stolwijk IntroductionMooTools Developer Symbaloo 01:39 - Valerio Proietti IntroductionMooTools Creator Spotify 02:21 - What is MooTools?Github - MooTools 07:04 - The Class Systemmootools / prime 09:36 - Milk10:25 - Design GoalsGhost 11:19 - Primemootools / wrapup CommonJS 14:18 - MooTools vs jQuery19:53 - Using MooTools and jQuery togetherObject Oriented jQuery with MooTools @jQuery Conference: Ryan Florence 21:08 - MooTools for Frameworksepitome neuro Github - MooTools 23:48 - ChainingMooTools Demos - Chaining 26:59 - Request API for Ajax calls29:11 - Favorite MooTools-using WebsitesSpotify 9GAG 29:45 - AccomplishmentsClass System wrapup arian / prime-util 31:36 - The history of MooToolsscript.aculo.us moo.fx PicksWasteland 2 (Joe) The Lost F

PanelJoe Eames (twitter github blog) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Discussion 00:56 - Why JavaScript is hard to learn02:30 - This05:30 - Bind09:11 - Browsers11:01 - Class-based inheritancePrototypal inheritance 16:37 - New function18:51 - Closures20:51 - JavaScript is asynchronous22:14 - Variable scopingHoisting 26:14 - Numbers and math(AJ joins the podcast) == ’s vs === ’s 32:15 - Things that make JavaScript hard after learning JavaScriptPackage management 35:06 - Numbers (cont’d)Crypto Bitwise operations Strings Effective JavaScript by David Herman 044 JSJ Book Club: Effective JavaScript with David Herman 40:16 - Changing/Evolving JavaScript43:31 - Environmental reasons that make JavaScript HardTooling 48:25 - Few projects are primarily JavaScript49:07 - Adolescence and the JavaScript Ecosystem53:59 - Running JavaScript PicksSharpie Metallic Silver (AJ) The how and why of auto-executing functions (i

PanelTom Dale (twitter github blog Tilde Inc.) James Halliday (twitter github substack.net) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:52 - James Halliday Introductionbrowserify 02:37 - Tom Dale IntroductioniCloud Ember.js Big Data & Hadoop 04:47 - Specialized vs Monolithicgithub.com/tildeio Idiology Micro Libraries 14:13 - Learning Frameworks18:04 - Making things modular25:23 - Picking the right tool for the job27:44 - voxel.js & emberjsemberjs / packages BPM - Browser Package Manager NPM - Node Packaged Modules testling-ciBackbone.js38:19 - Module SystemsCommonJS41:14 - Cloud9 Use Case43:54 - BugsjQuery Source Code PicksjQuery 2.0 (Merrick) ECMAScript 6 Module Definition (Merrick) AMD (Merrick) Yiruma (Joe) Elementary (Joe) Miracle Berry Tablets (AJ) The Ubuntu You Deserve (AJ) Bravemule

PanelJoe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 03:19 - The Future of JavaScript and ES6es-discuss -- Discussion of ECMAScript @esdiscuss six ES6 in node.js @brendaneich (Brendan Eich)@rwaldron (Rick Waldron)10:18 - Getting News about JavaScript@derickbailey (Derick Bailey) @tjholowaychuk (TJ Holowaychuk aka Vision Media) @substack (James Halliday) @maxodgen (Max Ogden) Peter Cooper’s JavaScript Weekly Peter Cooper’s HTML5 Weekly @badass_js (Badass JavaScript) @seb_ly (Seb Lee-Delisle) 12:43 - BlogsBen Alman James Burke LosTechies Alvin Ashcraft’s Morning Dew The Changelog reddit 17:02 - FilteringReadability Pocket (formerly Read It Later)Instapaperthree.jsUTOSC 2012 Machine Learning in JavaScript Jamison Dance VIDEO002323:21 - The CommunityAirbnb Meetups Addy Osmani: Articles for Developers Utah JS Utah Software Craftsmanship Group Ruby Rogues Parley 27:33 - Podcasts and Video

PanelAJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:11 - jQuery vs Prototype vs MooTools10:50 - JavaScript Going MainstreamFast Browsers Firefox Web Developer Tools V8 Web Stack 13:21 - Usable JavaScript17:05 - jQuery ProsCross-Platform CSS Selection Chaining 20:16 - jQuery Mobile20:48 - QUnit21:21 - Running jQuery in NodeScraping 22:32 - CSS Manipulation24:14 - jQuery UI25:19 - jQuery Community26:31 - jQuery PluginsAJ’s imageMerrick’s image29:52 - Ender & Zepto.js33:44 - jQuery ConsCustom Selectors Plugin Documentation API is too large How to build your own jQuery52:15 - AJ lied about jQuery PicksThe Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection (Joe) Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Joe) Human Connectome Project (Merrick) pahen / node-madge (Merrick) Hype Machine (Merrick) Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Jamison)

PanelDavid Herman (twitter blog Effective JavaScript) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:01 - David Herman IntroductionMozilla Mozilla Research TC39 - ECMAScript 01:45 - Effective JavaScript by David Herman04:27 - Reader Opinions & ControversyJavaScript:The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford09:09 - ES3 Shimming11:25 - Code: effectivejs/code12:50 - Parts of the Book15:54 - BlockingWeb Gestures With getUserMedia: Part1: Aaron Frost 17:28 - Book Level of DifficultyEffective C++ by Scott Meyers 20:09 - Asynchronous APIsRecursion Tail-Call Optimization 26:51 - Programming Language Academics30:55 - DOM IntegrationEffective C++ by Scott Meyers Effective STL by Scott Meyers 31:50 - Advice for JavaScript BeginnersEloquent Javascript by Marijn HaverbekeJavaScript Enlightenment by Cody LindleyHow to

PanelChristian Johansen (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Discussion 00:45 - Christian JohansenTest-Driven JavaScript Development Sinon.JS Gitorious01:26 - Sinon.JS02:22 - Stubs, Mocks and SpiesMocks Aren’t Stubs: Martin Fowler Mocha10:47 - History of Sinon.JS12:25 - XHR, HML, HTTP13:36 - Mocking the ClockSet Time Out 17:22 - Test-Driven JavaScript DevelopmentAndrea Giammarchi @WebReflection The Pragmatic Bookshelf Screencasts 21:43 - Test FrameworkBuster.JS js-test-driver24:17 - Other Mocking Librariesmockjax 26:24 - Mocking Properties27:22 - Matchers30:46 - Sinon.JS Gotchas33:10 - State of Test-Driven Development in JavaScriptStrategies for Testing PicksJack Reacher (Joe) Torchlight II (Joe) Effective JavaScript by David Herman (Merrick) Rdio (Merrick) Adventure Time (Jamison) How to implement an algorithm from a scientific paper: Emmanuel Goossaert (Jamison) Advanced Vim registers (Jamison) Emacs Rocks! (Christian)

PanelBrian Turley (twitter blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 02:11 - CSS GripesSassScalable and Modular Architecture for CSS (SMACSS)CSS316:32 - Preprocessors/CompilersLESSSassStylusCompassChris Eppstein20:34 - Basic Features of CSS Preprocessorsnib mix-ins 23:02 - Usefulness27:15 - Mathematics w/ VariablesSusy28:54 - AnimationUsing CSS animations31:12 - Nesting35:40 - Build Processesgrunt.js42:20 - DistinctionPrefixing 47:35 - Tightly Coupled PicksOld Man’s War by John Scalzi (Joe) X-Wing Miniatures Game (Joe) Dave Crowe (Merrick) Utah Software Craftsmanship Group (AJ) Effective JavaScript by David Herman (AJ) SD Card (Chuck) New Media Expo (Chuck) Consumer Electronics Show (Chuck) iOS Development Podcast (Chuck) Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Josef Muller-Brockmann (Brian) IFTTT (Brian) Book ClubEffective JavaScript by David Herman Transcript MERRICK:  You h

PanelJamison Dance (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 02:09 - Follow Up to 040 JSJ ConferencesBroad Conferences vs Focused Conferences Utah Open Source/Open West Conference 2013 05:28 - Single Page Application FrameworksjQueryBackbone.jsEmber.jspure.jsplates.jsAngularJS15:10 - Path & Hash RoutingPushstate/Popstatesammy.jsjquery.bbqlocalStorage == cookieshistory.js22:23 - Synchronizing Your DataWebSocket Operational Transformation Lucidchart 24:51 - WebSocketscURLSocket.IO32:44 - App IssuesMemory 38:52 - When do you want a Single Page App?JadeLESSPicksSimple (AJ) Coding for Interviews (Jamison) Empirical Zeal: What does randomness look like? (Jamison) Aeron Chair by Herman Miller (Chuck) Allrecipes.com (Chuck) Book ClubEffective JavaScript by David Herman Transcript AJ:  Yeah, I think I'm 26 still, for another 6 months.CHUCK:  Yeah. You have to count on your toes to figure it out.AJ:  Yeah, twice actually. Becaus

Panel Trevor Tingey (twitter blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:16 - Conferences Attended Visual Studio Live (VS Live) (Joe) Utah Open Source (Joe & Chuck) Utah JS (Joe) MountainWest RubyConf (Trevor & Chuck) JSConf (Trevor) UberConference (Trevor) Web 2.0 (Trevor) RailsConf (Chuck) RubyConf (Chuck) Aloha Ruby Conference (Chuck) New Media Expo (Chuck) 03:24 - Preparing/Planning for Conferences 08:39 - Chatting with Others/Making Contacts at Conferences Hackathons Social Activities 14:36 - Hackathons/Code Retreats/Workshops Global Day of Coderetreat DevTeach 18:46 - Methodology Conferences Agile Roots 22:42 - Industry Conferences vs Local/Regional Conferences Multiple Tracks Networking 28:12 - Making the Most out of Sessions Taking Notes Follow Along in Code Sessions Seating Choice 33:02 - Lightning Talks Speaking Exposure 35:37 - Speaking at Conferences

PanelTim Disney (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code) Discussion 01:23 - Book Club Episode: Effective JavaScript by David HermanEpisode will record on January 10th and air January 18th 01:48 - Sweet.jsMacros: syntactic transformations Build-your-own CoffeeScript Cleans up code 07:03 - Benefits and Disadvantages10:37 - Using MacrosWhere are they needed? Where are they not needed? Why sweet.js Matters13:10 - Pattern Matching15:36 - Domain Specific Languages16:48 - Hygiene18:50 - Class Macro20:28 - Limits21:38 - Language Support25:18 - Nesting28:40 - Cool MacrosExample macros30:13 - Sweet.js: What is coming?Defining Macros Syntax Rules 33:06 - Sweet.js mailing listIRC channel #sweet.js on irc.mozilla.org PicksGoogle+ Hangouts (AJ) The Man from Earth (Jamison) TypeScript (Joe) Red Dawn (Joe) Creationix Innovations (Tim C.) Effective JavaS

PanelJustin Searls (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code) Discussion 01:33 - Justin SearlsTest Double 02:14 - JasminePivotal Labs 03:42 - Testing JavaScript05:29 - CoffeeScript07:22 - What Jasmine isUnit testing library RSpec DOM agnostic 10:16 - Testing the DOM14:01 - Tragedy of the commonsfactory_girl 18:29 - Testing23:53 - Syntax in Jasmine26:23 - RSpec and Jasmine28:07 - Async support in Jasmine32:18 - Spiesmockito Conditional stubbing jasmine-stealth jasmine-fixture 37:30 - jasmine-givenCucumber 43:19 - Running Jasminejasminerice jasmine-railsjasmine-headless-webkit Testacular testem49:17 - tryjasmine.com PicksRunning MongoDB on AWS (Jamison) The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin (Joe) Squire.js (Joe and Merrick) Rdio app (Merrick) Square (AJ) Allrecipes.com (AJ) Jenkins CI (Chuck) Apple’s Podcast app (Chuck) lineman (Justin) StarTalk Rad

PanelKris Kowal (twitter github blog) Domenic Denicola (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) Discussion 02:41 - PromisesAsynchonous programming 05:09 - Using Promises from top to bottom07:08 - DomainsNodeConf SummerCamp07:55 - Q10:22 - q.nfbind11:15 - Q vs jQueryYou’re Missing the Point of PromisesComing from jQuery15:41 - long-stack-tracesturn chaining JavaScriptStackTraceApi: Overview of the V8 JavaScript stack trace API (error.prepare stack trace)19:36 - Original Promises/A spec and Promises/A+ specwhen.jsPromises Test SuiteUnderscore deferred24:22 - .thenChai as Promised26:58 - Nesting Promisesspread method28:38 - Error Handlingcauseway 32:57 - Benefits of PromisesError Handling Multiple Async at onceHandle things before and after they happen40:29 - task.js41:33 - Languagee programming languageCoffeeScript44:11 - M

PanelAJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) Discussion 01:29 - Merrick Christensen is a new regular panel memberCascadiaJS 2012 JavaScript Modules: AMD, Require.js & Other Wins: Merrick Christensen 03:58 - DOM Rendering and ManipulatingBackbone.js Ext.js 06:49 - DifferencesLoad times Ease of use backbone.syphon 09:49 - The Ext.js approach vs the Backbone.js approach15:51 - Templating enginesdust.js handlebars.js mustache.js hogan.js underscore jquery 16:46 - handlebars.js vs mustache.js18:08 - Templating engines (cont’d)Mold.js Ember.js Metamorph.js Knockout.js Pure.js Plates.js 26:34 - Difference between the click handler and the delegate function31:49 - Template engines and string generations33:01 - Writing templates and learning APIs35:03 - Ext.js issues39:32 - Dojo PicksAldo (AJ) On Being A Senior Engineer (Jamison) Joshua James: Fro

PanelJamison Dance (twitter github blog) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) Discussion 01:15 - node-webkitSimilar to PhoneGap Chrome native apps Chromium05:31 - Event loops and the browsers06:53 - Example appsLight Table app.js 07:42 - node-webkit vs app.js10:00 - ChromeChrome Apps: JavaScript Desktop Development 17:44 - Security implications25:11 - Testing node-webkit applications27:19 - Getting a web app into a native app31:33 - Creating Your First AppJS App with Custom ChromeChromeless Browser Chromeless replacement PicksHow mismanagement, incompetence and pride killed THQ's Kaos Studios (Jamison) The Insufficiency of Good Design by Sarah Mei (Jamison) app.js (Tim) node-webkit (Tim) Macaroni Grill’s Butternut Asiago Tortellaci (AJ) JCPenney (AJ) Mac OS Stickies (Chuck) Fieldrunners (Chuck) Node Knockout Transcript AJ: Let’s talk about boring stuff. What did you eat for breakfast?TIM: I had donut

PanelTrek Glowacki (twitter github Trek by trek) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) Discussion 02:18 - Ember.js (twitter, github, site)03:17 - Based on/Inspired by SproutCore?05:39 - The Rails of JavaScript?“Magical” 06:29 - todomvcBackbone.js    11:21 - Pulling pieces of Ember.js12:07 - Struggles with using Ember.jsLearning API can and does change frequently The applications that Ember.js targets are new New patterns 18:45 - Developer style22:59 - Rendering24:42 - Philosophy of Ember.js27:00 - Ember.js routerState machines32:31 - Spending time learning Ember.js35:06 - Frameworks and Wordpress41:57 - Event loop42:49 - APIObject systemBinding syntaxHandlebars.js46:38 - Rendering and nesting views PicksPromo Only (AJ) TinyToCS: Tiny Transactions on Computer Science (Jamison) HandBrake (Chuck) BitTorrent (Chuck) Transmission (Chuck) Presto 04213 Electronic Digital Timer (Chuck) Crafty.js (Trek) About Face 3:

PanelBen Combee (twitter github blog) Gray Norton (twitter) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Tim Caswell (twitter github howtonode.org) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeS... Special Guests: Ben Combee and Gray Norton. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/javascript-jabber--6102064/support.