Growing Ember, One Tomster at a Time

From EmberConf 2015

Transcript

1. hello
2. @jgwhite
3. With Associates http://withassociates.com
4. http://emberlondon.com
5. Ember London is… Over 600 meetup.com members 2 events per month 42 talks recorded 11.4K plays
6. Ember London ❤️’s… Our speakers SapientNitro Wingman Events 54B
18. Growing Ember,
 One Tomster at a Time
19. design and engineering
20. 1. tomster 2. language 3. user interface 4. hackability 5. roles
21. 1.
32. good defaults
33. – Leah Silber “If you have a brand and/or a mascot that correctly emotes something specific, it makes it easier for the people in the leadership roles to then actually meet those ideals.”
34. composing concepts
35. – Leah Silber “Our tagline is ‘The framework for ambitious apps’ and it’s actually really hard to juxtapose friendliness and ambition next to each other. They’re not two things that you would normally package up.”
38. hackability
39. – Lindsey Wilson “When you create characters… you pick things that are iconic but also adaptable.
 
 Tomster wasn’t overly done and he could embody what a developer is. He doesn’t have a lot of distinct features but just enough to say: okay, this is for me.”
41. 2. language
42. – Tom Dale “When you’re operating at the edge of something oftentimes one of the biggest hindrances to making progress is not having a shared vocabulary. 
 We like to help ourselves frame our thinking
 by trying to coin terminology.”
44. “stability without stagnation”
45. “data down, actions up”
46. “functionally diverse core team”
47. “glimmer”
52. BYOP (Bring Your Own Project) Project Nights are all about jumping in, getting help and giving back. Be that working on an upstream change to Ember itself or a side project using Ember. The sessions are informal, friendly and agenda-less.
53. documentation
54. “Documentation, at a very high level, is essentially defining public API. There have been several cases where attempts to document either Ember or related libraries have turned into public API changes”
55. – Trek Glowacki “If something’s difficult to explain, it probably means we’re exposing the wrong primitives.”
56. 3. user interface
63. – Yukihiro Matsumoto “Programmers often feel joy when they can concentrate on the creative side of programming, so Ruby is designed to make programmers happy. I consider a programming language as a user interface, so it should follow the principles of user interface.”
66. sandraor:master (#1904) emberjs/website:master yaymukund:meetups-dot-js (#1) wifelette:patch-3 (#5) andrewbranch:master (#6) lzcabrera:master (#7) alexclarkofficial:master (#9) solsberg:rake_geocode (#10) lzcabrera:rake_findorganizers (#11) solsberg:rake_geocode (#12) lzcabrera:meetup-list (#13) jgwhite:new-community-pages-top-nav-tweak (#14) wifelette:final-tweaks (#15)
67. – Kasper Tidemann “I’ve come to find that having a solid visual base of operations is sometimes more important than having code that’s perfect.”
68. 4. hackability
69. – Stefan Penner “[An open project] has that mud on the floor from the construction workers; you don’t mind walking in again with your boots on. It has to feel hackable, parts have to be accessible.”
70. – Yehuda Katz “It’s really important that the feeling you get when you’re an active contributor is pretty close to the feeling of being a core contributor, minus the cases where an executive decision has to be made.”
71. – Alex Matchneer “Ember has a philosophy that there’s nothing really set about the technology today. It’s more the idea that there should be conventions around these problems we’re solving every day.”
72. – Lindsey Wilson “When you create characters… you pick things that are iconic but also adaptable.
 
 Tomster wasn’t overly done and he could embody what a developer is. He doesn’t have a lot of distinct features but just enough to say: okay, this is for me.”
73. 5. roles
74. creator benevolent dictator early adopter bug reporter bug fixer documenteer designer blogger author podcaster mentor student feature proposer feature author
75. event organiser speaker attendee sponsor swag creator swag consumer aggregator curator follower diplomat explorer evangelist critic antagonist
76. documenteer
77. mentor
78. student
79. explorer
80. critic
81. critic
82. critic
85. in conclusion…
86. 1. tomster 2. language 3. user interface 4. hackability 5. roles
87. – Trek Glowacki “The value of a framework is not the source code at all. The value is really the patterns and the understanding that people got working through what the problems were.”
88. the code is a snapshot
 of the best ideas in our community at given point in time
89. a home for good ideas
90. thanks!
91. ❤️ Leah Silber Yehuda Katz Trek Glowacki Adolfo Builes Alex Matchneer Brian Cardarella DeVaris Brown Erik Bryn Giovanni Collazo Igor Terzic Kait Olson Kasper Tidemann Lindsey Wilson Tom Dale Stefan Penner Robert Jackson Matt Beale Luke Melia Peter Wagnet Taras Mankovski Owain Williams Drew Neil Tom Stuart Laura Navas de Maya
93. http://peertopeer.io/h/jwdn/ use coupon ‘emberconf’ for ⅓ off
95. meetup organisers
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