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13 Jun 2012

Meteor: Rails for JavaScript

By michael tagged as javascript, meteor, pomodoro, rails.

On 13 Jun 2012

The last while I heard a lot of good things about Meteor, a Javascript application framework. Over the last few years, starting with sammy.js and then backbone, a million others similar frameworks have been popping up all over the show. To get an idea, just have a look at all the available framework demos TodoMVC, or all the previews at TodoMVC labs. Enter Meteor So with all these options, what makes meteor special? To get a sense of the magic, I urge you to head on over the website and watch the screencast. No really, go and watch it, it’s really worth it.…read more

15 Feb 2012

Tech chat #1: Amazon developer Luke Venediger on all things JavaScript

By hendrik tagged as amazon, Coffeescript, ec2, javascript, mongodb, nodejs, video.

On 15 Feb 2012

This is the first of hopefully many tech chats with leaders in the development community. It was also my first try at video editing, so it’s very raw – be warned! If you want to get in contact with Luke: https://twitter.com/#!/lukevenediger Here’s some of the key discussion points in the video: JavaScript’s rise in popularity on the server side node.js Map/Reduce CoffeeScript HTML5 adoption Amazon’s development approach

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hendrik

Hendrik's been in the software development game for a tenth of a century and a third of his life. In the Microsoft arena he has worked extensively with ASP.net MVC, WCF and WF. A little bit of Biztalk too, but he doesn’t like to talk about it. For his own ventures, he really enjoys working with technologies like ruby, node.js and coffeescript. He tried several web ventures, and has the battle scars to prove it. He's convinced that someday, somehow one of his pet projects will be be successful. At the very least it keeps him versed with the latest technologies.

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Michael has been developing software for over 9 years. He has been a C# programmer for quite a few of them, but has luckily been enlightened enough to become a open source zealot the last few years. The most loved tools in his utility belt are Ruby and Rails, Linux, MongoDB, Vim, jQuery and Coffeescript. He's interested in all manner of science and technology, but tends to dwell on things like elegant and eccentric programming languages, machine learning and statistics, web development, internet startups and civic hacking. When he's not sitting in front of the computer he likes pulling faces to amuse his baby son, apologising to his wonderful wife for sitting in front of computer all day or arguing endlessly with friends, family, colleagues and random strangers. He lives next to the beach in Muizenberg, Cape Town and loves it.

Meteor: Rails for JavaScript

Tech chat #1: Amazon developer Luke Venediger on all things JavaScript

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