I came here just to say the same thing. I loved Jim's presentation and have watched it several times.
I miss Jim Weirich :(
I think a better argument would have been not adding Angular to every project by default because it's the new hotness/shiny. There is a great use case for Angular but if all you need are some onclick's then yeah Angular…
Just pictured in my head a modern day "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" moment where Picard instead has to learn to speak in animated gifs.
It's not quite there yet but it's getting better by the day. There are still some things like UI animations that are possible in Meteor but aren't quite as easy as they are in client side Javascript frameworks. It makes…
Had some traffic to my site from random places in the world (Brazil, Sweden, India) and had no clue where it was coming from until I saw this thread in my twitter feed. Mine is the Facebook Mutual Friends one. You could…
I've been told by several of my mentors that there are precious few grey haired programmers (probably because of issues like the OP is pointing out) but seeing people like Jim Weirich (local Cincinnatian and inventor of…
http://tributary.io is a better playground.
I mocked up a simple chart using d3 in tributary for our development team last week if anyone is interested in looking at it: http://tributary.io/inlet/4637557 I tried to add tons of comments explaining what's going on.
http://tributary.io/ is a cool playground for d3.js. Also http://www.dashingd3js.com/ is a good tutorial for learning d3.js (goes into more detail than the linked slideshow).
I came here just to say the same thing. I loved Jim's presentation and have watched it several times.
I miss Jim Weirich :(
I think a better argument would have been not adding Angular to every project by default because it's the new hotness/shiny. There is a great use case for Angular but if all you need are some onclick's then yeah Angular…
Just pictured in my head a modern day "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" moment where Picard instead has to learn to speak in animated gifs.
It's not quite there yet but it's getting better by the day. There are still some things like UI animations that are possible in Meteor but aren't quite as easy as they are in client side Javascript frameworks. It makes…
Had some traffic to my site from random places in the world (Brazil, Sweden, India) and had no clue where it was coming from until I saw this thread in my twitter feed. Mine is the Facebook Mutual Friends one. You could…
I've been told by several of my mentors that there are precious few grey haired programmers (probably because of issues like the OP is pointing out) but seeing people like Jim Weirich (local Cincinnatian and inventor of…
http://tributary.io is a better playground.
I mocked up a simple chart using d3 in tributary for our development team last week if anyone is interested in looking at it: http://tributary.io/inlet/4637557 I tried to add tons of comments explaining what's going on.
http://tributary.io/ is a cool playground for d3.js. Also http://www.dashingd3js.com/ is a good tutorial for learning d3.js (goes into more detail than the linked slideshow).