Serious Node with Scott Stanfield
Carl and Richard talk to Scott Stanfield about his experiences with Node. The conversation begins with a discussion on building software in the heterogeneous client environment of today. Scott also digs into his love of programming at the command line and how he configures his Mac in the CLI style. He also digs into his love of Node and the power of Node Package Manager (NPM) along with a number of other libraries (check out the links! Scott sees Node as a key ingredient in getting people engaged in development again - simple, clear and with immediate feedback. This show is as much a look forward as a look back!
Guests:
Scott Stanfield
Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo Software, Inc., a 4-time Emmy award nominated digital design and development shop in the SF Bay Area and Portland. They do big video apps like the Olympics, Sunday Night Football and the Superbowl. He is a frequent public speaker, presenting on software technology and design for the past 20 years. Before starting Vertigo in 1997, Scott worked at Pixar in Point Richmond, California, which happens to be the current home of Vertigo. Scott holds a BS in Computer Science for Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. Follow Scott on Twitter at @seesharp or email to scott@vertigo.com.
Links:
- MSDN Azure Sweepstakes http://aka.ms/azurerocks
- In the Beginning was the Command Line http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
- NodeJS http://nodejs.org/
- Node Packaged Modules https://npmjs.org/
- Moment.js http://momentjs.com/
- Homebrew Package Manager for OS X http://brew.sh/
- AngularJS http://angularjs.org/
- Yeoman http://yeoman.io/
- Bootstrap http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/
- Somm http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2204371/
- ExpressJS http://expressjs.com/
- Coursera https://www.coursera.org/
- DNR Teaching Kids to Program http://dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=868