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In this episode Nikos and Ken discuss what they've been up to. This is the only episode in April, 2018. Enjoy! Material for Vue TensorFlow.js discord Nikos Presents about TFJS at Ember London "Typing is annoying, but very very useful" - Ben Lesh James Churchill - Teacher at Treehouse, Co-Organizer Portland TypeScript Meetup Learn Web Design, Coding & Much More - Treehouse

Nikos talks with Topi Järvinen who is the Managing Partner and co-founder of https://nestholma.com which engages corporations and startups to collaborate. They run on-site programs and events for new products and learnings. We cover topics such as As an investor, how do you decide what startups to invest in What advice would you give entrepreneurs building startups to get investment What gave you the idea for nestholma.com

Nikos and Ken chat about JavaScript and how they picked it as their language of choice. Amy Carney asks: "As I try to get through the fog of JavaScript, I'm left wondering... how did you decide that was your language? What were (or are) the best resources that have kept you learning and mastering the foundation and beyond?" In this episode we mentioned these JavaScript libraries / frameworks Angular Ember React Backbone jQuery We did not mention "How to get started" with these. We recommend you take some time and follow some tutorials but quickly jump into writing an application. This is the best way to learn... by failing. If you've heard the term "fail fast" and aren't sure what it means, this is it: Failure is an opportunity to learn from your mistakes and to not make the same mistakes again. Some online resources for learning JavaScript or any other programming language: Treehouse Egghead PluralSight Code School Code Academy Nikos mentioned a GitHub repository he has c

In this episode, my friend Stylianos and I go on a whistle-stop tour of data science from a real authority in the field. Dr Stylianos Kampakis joins us to talk about how he got into machine learning and data science. His LinkedIn and website His course on Predictive modelling of football injuries We also cover ideas about starting learning machine learning at kaggle and: How does one transition from regular programming work to data science? What made you decide to specialise in Data science? What are your favourite parts of Data science? At what age is it too late to become a Data Scientist?

In this episode Nikos shares his knowledge of bitcoin and other crypto currencies and how to get started. Security Now Podcast Litecoin Enjin Coin IOTA Binance (Nikos's Referral Link)

Ken talks with Nikos about his new business endeavors. There's some discussion around bitcoin, react, and taking breaks from social media when arguments arise. Nikos is looking for new clients. If you are a startup in London be sure to reach out to him on LinkedIn. Bitcoin React JS Learn React from Wes Bos We probably talked about other things besides this. If you have a complaint about the lack of show notes please send us a message on twitter (@learnwithuspod).

Juho Vepsäläinen joins us to talk about Webpack, developer branding and how to be a technical author. His main website: survivejs.com His Github and Twitter His bluebrint for success We also cover ideas about How to price your consulting business How to write that book you've been dreaming about writing His new maintenance book How to develop your brand as a developer My apologies for my poor pronunciation of Finnish names.

Nikos shares details about his presentation at the Data Visualisation Summit in London. We cover a bunch of different topics ranging from Data Visualisation (Visualization), Front End Frameworks, Music, Podcasting, and building teams of developers. What is Machine Learning? Data Visualization Summit - London deck.gl is a WebGL-powered framework for visual exploratory data analysis of large datasets. luma.gl provides high-performance WebGL2 components for GPU-powered data visualization and computation. HexagonLayer deck.gl example. The layer aggregates data within the boundary of each hexagon cell. React Create React App Ember Glimmer TypeScript Redux Saga Tycho Music The 30 Day Code Quality Challenge A free, language-agnostic exercise of will. Starts November 13th, 2017. Podcasting 101 by Chris Enns Contact Nikos if you need help building a team of JavaScript developers.

We discuss how to get into Data Science and Leading Software teams both from a JavaScript developer perspective. We discuss R https://www.r-project.org/ R for Webstorm https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6632-r-language-support Good learning video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8PRU46I3NY RStudio https://www.rstudio.com We also discuss Nikos training product "Secrets of World Class Developer teams" that he offers in London to clients. We cover conflict resolution, characteristics of great team leads, team branding and mentoring. Finally, we discuss ideas to help the developing world by bringing skills and equipment over. To complement this episode I started a new YouTube series on R: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXEhykOBio&list=PLCrwuqjmVebJe0U2jfutlHyoChganG7E5

Ryan Brown joins us to talk about AWS Lambda and Serverless applications. Living with DynamoDB from Amazon Choosing the Right DynamoDB Partition Key Serverless Stack Book: Serverless Patterns Of Modern Application Design Book: Serverless Architectures on AWS Building Python 3 Apps On The Serverless Framework Serverless Quick Start Ryan's Course: Serverless Framework with GraphQL

Every JavaScript developer is faced with the symptoms of framework fatigue. In this Episode, we discuss various frameworks and their approaches and compare against just using VanillaJS. We discuss angular, ember, react and various Vanilla TypeScript libs that Nikos has written: https://github.com/quantumjs/warp-router https://github.com/quantumjs/solar-popup https://github.com/quantumjs/vanilla-typescript Also we talk about the super tutorial: https://serverless-stack.com for learning Serverless and Nikos upcoming webinar @ http://www.esynergy-solutions.co.uk/event/introduction-typescript-and-aws-lambda-functions

Nikos and Ken discuss making massive changes in software and argue that it's better to do changes incrementally rather that doing it in one big bang. NOTICE: The audio quality in this episode is terrible. Ken was using his headset microphone and he is sorry. You can give 4 stars in iTunes if you wish. Tweet at us: @learnwithuspod. Discussed in this article Incremental vs Big-Bang in software Ember JS Angular JS Angular 2+ React Vue.js Git Rebase Git Squash GitHub Pull Request Merge Options Breaker iOS Podcast App

In this episode Ken and Nikos talk about Serverless, a command line tool for creating and deploying AWS lambda, Azure, and Google Cloud functions. serverless.com Serverless is your toolkit for deploying and operating serverless architectures. Focus on your application, not your infrastructure. AWS Lambda Azure Functions Google Cloud Functions Bash on Windows Developers can run Bash Shell and user-mode Ubuntu Linux binaries on Windows 10 Oregon State Parks and Recreation Ken went camping. You should too.

Nikos and Ken discuss the process of making a Chrome extension and common extensions. They also briefly cover Ember-cli Typescript and giving talks at programming meetups. Chrome extensions we use: Test Recorder Rescue Time Youtube Playback Speed Control Vimium Visual Event Evernote Buffer Lastpass Grammarly The Great Suspender OneTab Ember Inspector

Nikos and Ken discuss integration tests and a project for recording interactions. They also discuss ergonomics and workplace posture. Test Recorder Smart Table

In this episode we discussed getting started as a front end web developer. Blog Post: Getting Started As As Front-End Developer CSS Tricks A List Apart A Book Apart Jeffrey Zeldman Shop Talk Show Online education: Pluralsight Code School Treehouse Egghead Frontend Masters

In this episode Ken and Nikos talked about module imports in TypeScript for use in the Chrome web browser. We touched on dynamic module imports, non-JavaScript languages that compile to JavaScript, online training vs. in-person training, and much more. Dynamic Modules Elm Language United States Travel Ban Brexit Follow us on Twitter @learnwithuspod

This week Ken and Nikos talked about: Open source license agreements for GitHub Nikos's Projects: Solar Popup Vanilla TypeScript Ken's Projects: Visual Studio Code Gist Extension FitVids.JS HackHands (by PluralSight) 5 X 60 mental arithmetic ES6 module loading in Chrome Go (game) Checkers Vanilla JS First Pull Request Up For Grabs

This week Ken and Nikos talked about: Teaching Ember Mob Programming Progressive Web Apps Krav Maga (self-defense) training .NET Fringe Julian Assange TypeScript Tips You might not need to transpile your JavaScript HTTP/2 Bobby Johnson - Presentation about Everyday Developers Follow us on Twitter at @learnwithuspod

This weeks episode was a bit darker than we would have liked. We pushed on. Our discussion was mostly centered around teaching the latest features in JavaScript and challenging ourselves to disprove Stack Overflow answers. We made a point to acknowledge we don't know what we are doing when it comes to native mobile application development with React Native and NativeScript.