038 RR Web Programming and Updating Frameworks with Yehuda Katz

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Panel

• Yehuda Katz (twitter github blog)
• Avdi Grimm (twitter github blog book)
• Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Summer Camp)
• David Brady (blog twitter github ADDcasts)
• James Edward Gray (blog twitter github)
• Josh Susser (twitter github blog)

Discussion

• jQuery
• Prototype.js
• Thomas Fuchs
• Scriptaculous
• Rails
• Merb
• Charles Jolley
• SproutCore
• Ember.js
• Backbone.js
• Amber (SmallTalk Dialect)
• Ruby
• Strobe
• ActionController
• Zen of Python
• Node.js
• Sinatra
• Rails as an API server
• Rack
• Middleware
• JSON as a View Layer
• Jbuilder
• Convention over Configuration
• JSON
• to_json is a problem
• serializer gem
• to_json is not a method, it’s a class
• Presenter
• Erector
• Open Source Software
• Your job is to provide a level of abstraction that hides what you actually do
• A negative of using Github. People assume that large projects work like their small project.
• Project Politics
• Rails’ Asset Pipeline

Picks

• jQuery Cookbook (Avdi)
• JavaScript Cookbook(Avdi)
• Comixology (Avdi)
• msie2vbox (David)
• RailsConf CFP (James)
• RubyHeroes (James)
• Voxer (Josh)
• Sticky Footer (Josh)
• AudioName.com (Josh)
• Chrome Debugger (Yehuda)
• The Lean Startup (Yehuda)
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding (Yehuda)
• Windows phone 7 (Yehuda)
• Gary Bernhardt Lightning Talk (Dave)
• Scan.me QR code generator (Chuck)
• JavaScript: The Good Parts (Chuck)