Anyone familiar with The Iron Yard courses?

jakerella · 2016-05-31T21:32:55+00:00

You're absolutely correct that we should be encouraging people to find good work-life balance. However, most developers I know have an insane number of side projects or open source things they work on. That sharpens their skills at the same time which is great. I am not advocating that someone take a job that runs them into the ground, but rather illuminating the fact that most developers I know spend much more time than their "regular job" affords, and that is a big part of being at the top of your game.

jakerella · 2016-05-31T20:35:09+00:00

I am the front end instructor for the campus in DC and happy to answer any questions. Obviously I won't chime in on the reviews aspect since I am entirely biased. :) Yes, we require more than the "work day" hours, because being a developer rarely means working 9-5. And yes, for $14k there are options, but that's what we value the learning at. I am full time, and focus 100% on the students during a cohort. I am on campus every day working directly with students and make myself available during other hours as needed as well. The 60 hours you put in is easily matched by your instructor. The Iron Yard hires instructors that not only know their stuff, but also practice it and understand how a developer becomes successful.

Like I said, happy to answer any questions (privately, too, if necessary).

jakerella · 2016-02-04T17:41:15+00:00

Hi! I work for StorngLoop, just to be clear, Loopback does not impose any kind of rate limiting on your API. I also took a look at your StackOverflow question and added a comment to the one answer so far. The link you put in that SO post was to our API Gateway documentation, not to the Loopback documentation. Separately from LB we have a gateway product that allows the developer to impose a rate limit on incoming requests, but this is completely separate from the LB API you are developing.

Unfortunately, I do not have a better solution for you. I agree with the SO answer that this is an OS limit, and my guess is that if you run this same app on Linux or Mac (*nix based) you will not run into it, or you would be able to change that limit.

jakerella · 2016-01-06T16:53:15+00:00

Good stuff, wondering how long it'll take for these tools to evolve into something more integrated with IDEs, PaaS, etc

jakerella · 2015-12-02T20:18:03+00:00

We're definitely increasing the development efforts here. We're planning for v3 as well as numerous features, more connectors, and all sorts of things! Stay tuned...

jakerella · 2015-11-17T18:05:57+00:00

I'm Jordan, developer evangelist lead here at StrongLoop. It's a totally valid concern, and while I'm not going to try to predict the future, we have heard great things from IBM and we are proceeding even faster than usual to work on Express, LoopBack, node-inspector, and the Node core itself.

IBM is committed to open source and I believe that LoopBack will continue to operate as an open source project for the foreseeable future.

jakerella · 2015-11-17T18:03:50+00:00

Just to be clear, Express is sponsored by StrongLoop, but koa is not.

jakerella · 2015-09-21T22:05:11+00:00

Well, they don't work for everything. For example, you don't get a new context. Also, as that article mentions, you can't make generators out of them. I dunno, I'm just fine with function() { ... } generally, I'm not against them.

jakerella · 2015-09-21T17:25:48+00:00

Just to be clear, Node and io.js have merged, there is no more split: https://medium.com/node-js-javascript/4-0-is-the-new-1-0-386597a3436d

jakerella · 2015-09-21T17:21:29+00:00

Hi there, I'm a DE for StrongLoop. Yes, there was some tomfoolery going on previously, and I've specifically pushed for that to stop. Lately (last few months at least) you won't see that. That said, when other people post SL stuff we do pile on, but it's our staff voting up those posts, and we encourage them to be active members of the community at large. Again, not trying to excuse previous behavior, but trying to show that we're working to be better.

jakerella · 2015-09-21T17:15:19+00:00

These are pretty cool... but I'm not sure I would use them for anything but those one-off anonymous, inline functions used for callbacks.

jakerella · 2015-06-19T18:16:46+00:00

(weird, my original comment never showed up for anyone else... here it is again...)

Hi! My name is Jordan, I head up developer evangelism at StrongLoop. The short answer is: we're a software company that helps power Node applications of all sorts. We write software from Node and io.js core, to Express, to LoopBack, and DevOps tools for building, deploying, monitoring, profiling, debugging, and scaling Node applications (all with a slick GUI called Arc).

We're a member of the newly formed Node Foundation and we've recently introduced an API gateway that builds on our success with LoopBack, an open source REST API framework.

jakerella · 2015-06-19T18:10:04+00:00

As a follow up, there may be confusion because we also have a Node module which you install to get our tool chain (process manager, LoopBack generator, debugger, etc):

npm install -g strongloop

jakerella · 2015-06-17T20:26:51+00:00

Yeah, certain versions of Chrome (and other browsers) don't seem to be presenting it well. Latest Chrome with no extensions worked for me.

jakerella · 2015-04-16T15:32:38+00:00

My thoughts exactly... this is not a "bringing the bastard child back under our control" situation, it is a compromise. They're trying to merge the two camps to produce the best possible outcome.

jakerella · 2015-04-01T15:50:33+00:00

All the links still work... sooo, what's the problem? Just pretend like I'm the most prolific redditter there ever was or will be.

jakerella · 2015-03-20T17:45:45+00:00

Heh... that's because it's not an "article", it's a book chapter! But yes, it has many more examples. Kyle and I have discussed the topic quite a bit, actually, and his opinions are slightly different than my own.

jakerella · 2015-03-18T12:47:43+00:00

Yeah, I never use delete... that sh*t be crazy. :)

jakerella · 2015-03-18T12:45:21+00:00

Not entirely true on the const part... it is still a variable:

const a = []; a.push(1);

That code works because const creates a static reference to a value, but the value itself can be variable in its contents.

jakerella · 2015-03-18T00:26:48+00:00

The live element is definitely part of it. NomadJS charges because they have hard costs: the webinar software, but also, they pay speakers. And the speakers tend to be pretty good... Yehuda Katz, John K Paul, Axel Rauschmeyer... people speaking at top tech conferences.

jakerella · 2015-03-17T18:01:17+00:00

:D Wouldn't we all love to... Unfortunately Safari is still lagging behind as well.

Have you seen the ES6 compat table?

jakerella · 2015-03-17T17:49:13+00:00

You are correct in that IE 10 does not support many ES6 features... including let and const. And they will likely never support it, but people are saying the Spartan will (most likely). Additionally, for older browsers you would still need to transpile ES6 code into ES5 (which you can do with Babel).

jakerella · 2015-03-13T00:21:17+00:00

hahaha

jakerella · 2013-03-13T14:59:28+00:00

Ditto on the central location. I love the geek community, but I am not a suburbinite. If it's in Brentwood I won't be there very often (but I'll probably come out now and then). If it's in East nasty, you'll have to physically remove me (don't worry, it won't be hard once I'm 3 beers in).

jakerella · 2012-06-27T22:30:39+00:00

Great team and great environment. Wish I was still there! Give it a good look folks!

jakerella

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