075 JSJ Maintainable JavaScript with Nicholas Zakas

Panel

Nicholas C. Zakas (twitter github blog)
Joe Eames (twitter github blog)
AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog)
Jamison Dance (twitter github blog)
Merrick Christensen (twitter github)
Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up)

Discussion
01:24 - Nicholas Zakas Introduction

Box
Maintainable JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas
High Performance JavaScript (Build Faster Web Application Interfaces) by Nicholas C. Zakas
Yahoo

02:19 - What Makes Maintainable JavaScript?

Code Layout
Clever Solutions (“Chicken Blood Solutions”)

04:39 - Formatting

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Broken Window Theory

07:33 - Architecture

aura
Nicholas Zakas: The Scalable JavaScript Application Architecture
Feature Encapsulation

14:11 - 'High Performance Javascript' and the balance between short-term and long-term knowledge
19:17 - Important conventions for a team to follow

Styles
Mini Design Patterns
Readability

26:14 - Tools & Techniques

Style Guide

28:31 - Breaking the continuous integration build
31:14 - Linting

JSLint

32:35 - Developing skills for architecting things

Experience
Personal Trait of Curiosity
Component-based and Systems-based software engineers

37:52 - Architecture and Maintainability

Testability
Backbone.js

43:28 - Creating common conventions that will apply across projects

Picks

Domo (Joe)
Pluralsight (Joe)
Game Dev Tycoon (Joe)
The Star Wars (Joe)
Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move! by Keith Peters (Merrick)
ng-conf (Merrick)
Kveikur by Sigur Rós (Merrick)
makemeasandwich (AJ)
Sleep (AJ)
Jekyll Themes (Jamison)
Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman (Jamison)
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (Jamison)
DevChat.tv (Chuck)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman (Nicholas)
StePhest Colbchella '013 - Time to Dance (Nicholas)
Evolution of Music - Pentatonix (Nicholas)

Next Week
Meteor.js with Marcus Phillips and Fred Zirdung
Transcript

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CHUCK: Hey everybody and welcome to episode 75 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have Joe Eames.

JOE: Hey, everyone.

CHUCK: AJ O’Neal.

AJ: I can hit unmute. I'm here.

CHUCK: Jamison Dance.

JAMISON: Hello, friends.

CHUCK: Merrick Christensen.

MERRICK: Hey, guys.

CHUCK: I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. This week, we have a special guest, that’s Nicholas Zakas.

NICHOLAS: Yup, you got it.

CHUCK: So, since you haven’t been on the show before, do you want to introduce yourself?

NICHOLAS: Sure. I'm a software engineer that is working for Box currently. I think a lot of people probably know me from the books that I've written, mostly on the topic of JavaScript and the talks that I've given also on that topic. And a lot of that relates back to my work when I was at Yahoo. I was there for about five years and was the lead on the Yahoo homepage redesign. And a lot of what I do is really just try to solve problems in real life and then share what I did with everybody else in whatever way I think is most appropriate - writing or speaking or coming on podcasts.

CHUCK: Yes, you're being modest. You have a book,

Special Guest: Nicholas C. Zakas.

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