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OMG! Finally, i’ve lost my virginity with Docker. It’s so contemporary to install everything you want with Git 🙂

docker

Yesterday i was giving a talk summarizing all the new things i’ve learned throughout the conference. It was real fun! I put emphasis onto things i consider as the most prominent : Dart, Polymer, Dataflow. After the talk i had an interesting conversation about the future of AngularJS considering the rise of Polymer. I was a little nervous because i couldn’t see the audience, but the comments and questions were very nice.

I didn’t have enough time to prepare, so i’ve decided to include some of the slides from the conference. Here’s my presentation.

Northern Californian mood

I’m going to give a talk regarding all the new things that i’ve learned at Google IO including new changes in AngularJS, Dart, Polymer, Go. Link for attending the webinar is here –http://lnkd.in/byjANZj

Confession

Airbnb provides a meetup for its clients at SF Pride, we’re going to attend it.

Such a simple and convenient way to go from O(n) to O(logn) in a messy Symbol table

I’ve changed quite a few things on my blog and i’m going to spend much more time on it! Wish me good luck!

This book considered to be a supplement for the “JavaScript: the good parts”. It’s said in the book’s introduction that these two books shouldn’t be considered as rivals though many of theirs topics are the same. Advent of JavaScript, node.js and many cool frameworks made the prior book a bit outdated. This book promises to give you patterns how to write js code in modern and concise way .

It’s not a hipster’s book. Hipsters don’t read books, instead they teach themselves Google and treat software engineering as a topic on Stack overflow. This book is for mature software developers who know that you can’t stay content in learning technology.

As a matter of fact most of all I’ve enjoyed few last chapters of the book. Chapters about concurrency, asynchronous way of thinking and creating loops as well as chapters about functional approach to write robust programs are invaluable!

If you want to feel confidence while writing js code reading this update to “JavaScript: the good parts” is essential.

My score 5/5

May be I’m a little bit biased but functional and asynchronous approach to writing programs are two things that I try to sneak in every program that I tackle.

Long time before I thought that JavaScript is an interpreted subset of Java. These days I ‘ve been struggling a lot because of my incompetence. Many cool JS frameworks (except for jQuery which was a starting point for most of them) and Node.js made me learn JavaScript on a such level that I won’t be shy to show my code to anyone.

In the Java world there’s a book that every pragmatic developer should read , it’s Joshua Bloch’s “Effective Java”. This book has the same uplifting effect, if you would have read it. It teaches how you SHOULD write js code. After reading it I have a strong belief that JavaScript has much more common with Scala and Lisp, than it has with Java.

My score 5/5