JSJ 326: Conversation with Ember co-creator Tom Dale on Ember 3.0 and the future of Ember

Panel:

• Joe Eames
• Aimee Knight
• AJ ONeal

Special Guests: Tom DaleIn this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Tom Dale about Ember 3.0 and the future of Ember. Tom is the co-creator of Ember and is a principle staff engineer at LinkedIn where he works on a team called Presentation Infrastructure. They talk about being in the customer service role, having a collaborative culture, and all the information on Ember 3.0. They also touch on the tendency towards disposable software, the Ember model, and more!In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• How Joe met Tom
• Programmers as rule breakers
• The pressure to conform
• Tom intro
• Staff engineer at LinkedIn
• Customer service role
• Having a way to role improvements out to a lot of different people
• JavaScript and Ember at LinkedIn
• Having a collaborative culture
• All about Ember 3.0
• Banner feature – there is nothing new
• Cracked how you develop software in the open source world that has longevity
• Major competition in Backbone previously
• The Ember community has never been more vibrant
• Tendency towards disposable software
• The idea of steady iteration towards improvement
• The Ember model
• Being different from different frameworks
• Ember adoption rates
• Python 3
• Valuable from a business perspective to use Ember
• Ember community being friendly to newbies
• How much Ember VS how much JavaScript will a new developer have to learn?
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Ember
• LinkedIn
• JavaScript
• Backbone
• Python
• @tomdale
• tomdale.net
• Tom’s GitHub

Sponsors

• Kendo UI
• Sentry
• Digital Ocean

Picks:Joe

• Framework Summit
• Jayne
• React sent Evan You a cake

Aimee

• Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham

AJ

• James Veitch

Tom

• JavaScript Tech Talk
• Drake’s Ties
• Melissa Watson Ellis at Hall Madden

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