Our Guest this Weekend
Chris Thoburn
Author of Smoke and Mirrors, Ember Consultant
Outdoor enthusiast. Future ultra-marathon addict. Tech guy. Passionate about personal growth and leaving things better than found.
- 00:25
Could you tell us a bit about yourself?
- 01:20
How did you get started in Ember?
- 04:04
Backburner as Ember selling point.
- 06:42
Spent first year in Ember fighting Ember.
- 08:12
Ember as an Application as opposed to SPA.
- 10:20
Cordova as platform target.
- 11:52
Ember CLI Platforms
- 13:59
Would platforms versioned with main repo?
- 16:10
Platform filters (reduce shipped code)
- 18:20
Cordova woes.
- 19:56
Crosswalk only way to do Android
- 22:31
Cordova over crosswalk atm, because of the plugin ecosystem in Cordova
- 23:13
Ember's addon system as a major selling point
- 24:08
Better cowpaths
- 24:53
What role do you think Ember engines will play in this idea
- 26:10
Engines for A/B testing
- 27:10
Apple legal experiment to see if hot code reloading will be allowed
- 28:34
What inspired you to begin work on Smoke and Mirrors?
- 35:03
Patterns in OSS helping with performance.
- 38:27
Smoke and Mirrors performance metrics
- 41:03
Non-recycling DOM in SM
- 43:45
Occlusion Culling
- 47:23
Chris names the episode