Our Guest this Weekend
Lauren Tan
Applications Manager
Lauren is co-founder at ThePriceGeek, and Senior Developer at DockYard, a user experience driven software consultancy based in Boston, MA. She is also an active contributor to the Ember.js community, and a regular speaker at leading JavaScript events and conferences.
- 00:31
Tell us a little about yourself.
- 01:17
How is Boston compared to Australia?
- 04:16
How did you get started with Ember?
- 05:57
How much of your work at your startup was applicable in the consulting space?
- 07:07
Do you find that it is easy to jump between Ember apps?
- 09:30
With contracting do you find yourself doing more rescue projects, greenfield projects, or more an advisory role?
- 17:39
Do you tend to follow a specific testing strategy or is it more per project?
- 21:51
Do you try to get 100% test coverage?
- 23:31
Where do you tend to place your testing emphasis?
- 24:58
Lauren explains an issue with destructuring get/set in an integration test.
- 26:48
How do you test the air gap between frontend and backend codebases?
- 30:01
What open source projects are you focused on at the moment?
- 40:37
What were some of the challenges of developing the ember-composable-helpers addon?
- 42:48
Could you explain some of the issues around future-profing your applications re: controllers?
- 51:52
What is the personal project consuming most of your time?
- 53:56
Is there anyway people can help out with your addons?
- 55:06
What do you think Ember can help teach other communities?
- 59:18
Lauren names the episode!