How I Learned Ember

Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyHK18s9taM

A look at how I learned Ember over the last nine months. I’ve helped launch a west coast startup and created a data-driven internal application for a large company. I’ll cover reference materials I’ve used. Documentation lookup techniques that have served me well. Code snippets that Ember made it really easy to write. I will be answering questions afterward that match this regex /is ember (good|ready|hard|faster|stronger)/ with the response “Yes, shut up”.

Transcript

1. Hey
2. I’m Jeremy Mack
3. Nice to Meet You
4. I work for Sparkbox in Dayton
5. A Survey
6. We got any Backbone users in the crowd?
7. Get out.
8. Only joking
9. Backbone is why I learned Ember
10. It’s a great way to start
11. How I Learned Ember
12. I spent the last 9 months writing Ember apps
13. Giving birth to a knowledge baby
14. I’m here to give you some of my baby
15. The Timeline
16. August 1984
17. I am born So happy I got to use that image twice.
18. May 2012
19. I Skim Ember’s Docs
21. August 2012
22. First Week
25. Why so Difficult? • Router 1.0 • Before Trek • Lack of Open-Source Apps
26. Second Week
27. I Finally Get ✓ Naming Conventions ✓ Outlets ✓ Associations ✓* Controllers
28. October 2012
29. Status • The Power of Computed Properties • Not Fighting the Router • Custom Handlebars Helpers • Discovered Transactions • Abandoned Nested API
30. What changed?
31. /?search=ember /?search=sproutecore /?search=handlebars /?search=tom%20dale /?search=yehuda%20katz I Scoured GitHub
32. Travis Next TodoMVC Ember.js Dashboard EmberCloneMail And I Found
33. A Wild Developer Appears
34. the man the myth the scent
35. Inducted into the Cabal
36. November 2012
37. http://mutewinter.github.io/why_ember Why Ember?
38. Which Got Me a Client
39. CrowdHall
40. Pairing is a great way to learn
41. January 2013
43. Yo Dawg I heard you like timelines http://seesparkbox.com/foundry/ the_creation_of_mashboard_a_timeline
44. Yo Dawg I heard you like timelines http://seesparkbox.com/foundry/ the_creation_of_mashboard_a_timeline
45. Toy projects are a great way to learn
46. February 2013
47. http://redacted.org Redacted for Redacted
48. http://www.embercamp.com/ Ember Camp
49. March 2013
50. http://crowdhall.com/ CrowdHall Launches
51. The Power
52. It’s demo time mothersuckers
53. Resources
54. https://peepcode.com/products/emberjs PeepCode Screencast
55. http://emberjs.com/guides/ Ember Guides
56. http://emberjs.com/api/ Ember API Docs
57. http://emberwatch.com/ EmberWatch @emberwatch &
58. http://discuss.emberjs.com/ Ember Discourse
59. #emberjs on Freenode Ember IRC
60. Ask Me Things Jeremy Mack @mutewinter
61. Appendix
62. Ember Data
63. Here Be Dragons
64. Ember Data is Beta Software
65. But it’s great for • Read-Only Apps • Small Data Model Apps • Experienced Ember Users • Nested Callback Haters
66. Tools for Fixing
67. https://github.com/tildeio/ember-extension Ember Inspector
68. Tools for Building
69. http://kapeli.com/ Dash