The grass is green
Bruce Campbell
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Announcements
- A lucky few are at the Fluent conference
Matthew Poulson
- Tall
- Skill
- Passion
New Team Member
in the beginning
...of this story anyway
{treasure map}
Oracle Database Administrator
1998 v7.3
Cool DBA Stuff
- automation
...with shell scripting
Cool DBA Stuff
- hardware-based database refreshes
...with RAID
Cool DBA Stuff
- crazy-fast systems
- pin ALL data in memory
- co-locate database and app server
- multi-threaded PL/SQL using the oracle scheduler and thread-safe code
Analytic Functions
SELECT empno, deptno,
COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY
deptno) DEPT_COUNT
FROM emp
WHERE deptno IN (20, 30);
EMPNO DEPTNO DEPT_COUNT
---------- ---------- ----------
7369 20 5
7566 20 5
7788 20 5
7902 20 5
7876 20 5
7499 30 6
7900 30 6
7844 30 6
7698 30 6
7654 30 6
7521 30 6
11 rows selected.Java Web Development
2008 v1.8
Why?
{Door}
{hats}
{bored}
{racoon}
Racoon disease (new and shiny)?
NO!
Addicted to Learning
{I <3 Code}
Java
Cool Java Stuff
- process/workflow applications
Cool Java Stuff
- Word document generation system
... with 2-way data binding
Cool Java Stuff
- Java Stack
Cool Java Stuff
- SQL Injection Tool
... SQL parser (state engine)
{skull and cross bones}
Cool Java Stuff
- Turn-Key canary page
... with threading, and result caching
Front-End Developer
2014 ECMAScript 5
Why?
{door}
{bored}
Addicted to Learning!
- JavaScript
- SPA
- Node.js
- SEO
Cool Front-End Stuff
- helped with Mobile Web Stack 2.x releases
- local storage
- at-rest encryption
- base media queries
- yeoman generator
- & component sub-generator
- & update-in-place
- sass
- Bower
- BrowserSync
- Gulp
Cool Front-End Stuff
- helped with donuts.js
- gulp
- JavaScript objects basics
Front-End Concerns
- Responsive
- User Experience
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
- ...
- What else?
"We need smaller frameworks." - Ethan Marcotte
Technologies to Learn
- JavaScript
- HTML
- Sass & CSS
- Gulp
- Mocha, Karma, Chai
- Functional Programming
- Web Components
- AngularJS
- ...
- what else?
Training Resources
- Pluralsight
- CodeSchool
- Donuts.js
- egghead.io (when it was free)
- ...
Books
- JavaScript Patterns
- JavaScript: The Good Parts
- CSS Mastery
- ... what do you recommend?
Don't Read These
- ...
- which books stink?
Sites, Blogs, and Tweeters
- @paul_irish
- @jeresig
- @chriscoyier
- @_ericelliott
- @stubbornella
- @davidwalshblog
- @addyosmani
- @LeaVerou
- @nodejs
- @getify
- @snookca
- @CSS-Tricks
- @Smashburger
- ...
Transition Challenges
- never a shortage of the old work
- never enough time to read and practice
- ocean is always larger than you imagined