Rob Conery Codes in CoffeeScript
Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Rob Conery about CoffeeScript. Why would you use a language to generate Javascript? Rob talks about how CoffeeScript is designed to be human readable while JavaScript is much more machine-readable. Indents matter! No curly braces! Dogs and cats living together! It's chaos! But it's a happy chaos. Check it out!
Guests:
Rob Conery
Rob Conery helps developers of all sorts learn what's new with technology. He has been working in the technology field full time since 1998 as a DBA and then a web developer. Rob's original focus was the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, building tools like Subsonic and the first Micro-ORM: Massive. He also authored MassiveJS, a dedicated PostgreSQL data access tool for Node which he ported to Elixir and named it Moebius. Rob is also the author of The Imposter's Handbook, which is a compendium of skills and concepts that you need to know as a self-taught programmer. Things like Complexity Theory (P vs NP), Big-O notation, Database theory, Algorithms and more.
Links:
- Top 40 Free Ajax and Javascript Code http://speckyboy.com/2008/02/10/the-top-40-free-ajax-javascript-code-for-web-designers/
- CoffeeScript.org http://coffeescript.org/
- V8 JavaScript engine http://code.google.com/p/v8/
- Backbone.js on GitHub http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/
- PeepCode https://peepcode.com/
- LightSpeed 4 ORM for .NET http://www.mindscapehq.com/products/lightspeed