In this talk we’ll be exploring the Reactive Extensions (Rx) library which allows us to treat events as collections. You’ll learn about how Netflix uses Rx on the client and the server, allowing us to build end-to-end reactive systems. We’ll also contrast Rx with Promises, another popular approach to building asynchronous programs in Javascript.
In this talk, we’re going to learn how to incorporate Grunt: The JavaScript Task Runner into our build process to help automate often-marginalized tasks that center on the “Front Half” of your app (you know, the half of your app you take for granted).
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The Developer News this week focuses on several newer languages – Javascript’s ki LISP DSL (literally running LISP as a domain-specific language inside of JavaScript directly just by booting a library) and of course, Apple’s Swift, are our tidbits from the programming zone. We see how mathletes may have been hit by a virus on Euler.com, and two bigwigs team up to take on Oracle in the Big Data department. That and more, on the DevNews this week.
JSConf 2014 was held at Amelia Island’s Omni Plantation Hotel resort. This is my review of the conference.
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We talk about all things tech, surrounded by all people tech. Listen to Tracey Welson-Rossman, Keith Gregory, Sujan Kapadia, Joel Confino and Ken Rimple discuss news and ETE.
I presented a basic tutorial on AngularJS at Philly ETE this year, pinch hitting for a speaker who had to cancel at the last minute. My slides end abruptly, however, the points are made and for more information I refer you to our website content on AngularJS, as well as our two-day training course. For … Read More
Check out Keith Gregory’s Philly Tech Week 2014 presentation and tutorial on AngularJS – the superheroic Javascript framework.
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We talk about Javascript’s object-based nature and the Augment library, SMS with Twilio, CMS with Statamic, a great JS podcast episode, more.
In our prior JavaScript build tools posts, we already discussed bower and npm, two tools that help you download and install dependencies. But what about tools to build your application, run tests, distribute minified versions and run quality checks? Enter Grunt.
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This week we talk about Joel’s experiences with AngularJS, infinite scrolling, MOOCs, five things to watch for when coding in MongoDB, and more.
