Kaizen is the practice of continuous improvement. Kaizen was originally introduced to the West by Masaaki Imai in his book Kaizen: The Key to Japan's Competitive Success in 1986
Chatter -- I will be giving something of a presentation to have some focus, but there will be time afterwards for others to share things they are learning as well.
(recurring) -- don't know if we can get food each time, but I'm hoping this is a regular thing -- please consider volunteering to give a focused talk or discussion
Why?
We all need ongoing development, have a lot to learn from each other, and this provides a vehicle for that sort of sharing.
This will help us to keep up with rapidly changing UI landscape.
One of us can make the investment to learn about a new technology/toolchain/library/framework, and facilitate easier understanding for the rest of us.
The goal is that this makes us better developers.
This will also make DNB a better place to work. Probably.
ES6
current schedule has standard finalized sometime next month
a random guess on the internet said that evergreen browsers will support the full language version by end of this year.
ES6 standards include classes, subclasses, better scope/variable management, and prettier syntax
Current Support:
% of accepted features (as of Monday)
IE11 — 15% (with Experimental JS Features Enabled — 69%)
Safari 7.1/8 — 20%
Node/io.js — 23%/43%
Chrome 44/Opera 41 — 48%
Firefox 39 —68%
Babel + core-js — 76% (Compiles to ES5, Alternatives include Traceur, Closure, JSX, Typescript, es6-shim)
What are we doing?
To facilitate better understanding of current useable features, we will be going over available features by compatibility Chrome Canary > Firefox Dev Edition > Babel + Core > Unsupported (not perfect nesting)
Samples of new functionality so we can play around with these features
Most features/ideas are borrowed from primarily OO languages, so much of this is new to me personally -- feel free to interject if I'm missing a concept.
Want to limit the time I'm presenting to allow time afterwards for others to share.