Ember Dreams: Michael Swanson at SkillsEngine
We talk matching skills with education and careers, our favorite Ember features and addons, the tension between increasing efficiency and reducing your bus number, learning Ember in the run up to 2.0, and why tai chi desks are the way of the future.
This episode was originally posted to real-world-ember.com on Feb 8, 2016. http://www.real-world-ember.com/1
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Introducing Michael Swanson
started off building marketing websites with wordpress/jQuery
second career in software development with Javascript and EmberJS
dark sordid past: 500-line jQuery files
side hobbies: doing manual stuff like working out, woodworking, gardening
introducing: the tai chi desk. A peaceful improvement to treadmill desks. SOMEONE, PLEASE MAKE THIS.
SkillsEngine - http://skillsengine.com/
curated database of skills and occupations
“get people better employed and better trained"
helps people decide which skills to gain based on market demand
there’s a mismatch between what industry wants and what schools typically teach
helps identify modular skills that work between various jobs, letting job-seekers discover which positions they’re closest to being qualified for
how careers are like Japanese role-playing games
necessary skills (like “responsive design” or “EmberJS”) emerge quickly, and SkillsEngine can help identify them
Using Ember
currently redoing the entire marketing site in Ember
the only thing “for sale” right now is the API, but they’re going to be building Ember apps that use it as well
Align, a new Ember app that they’re in the process of building, which will help educators align their curriculum with industry requirements
Marketing site is currently built with Mirage as a “backend"
Company has only been around for 8 months- 5 team members: 3 developers, a founder, and sales guy.
The other devs are a Rails dev and a machine learning dev, but they’re cross-pollinating knowledge when they get time
Reducing bus number vs. being efficient
They’ve used Ember contractors to supplement the team- onboarding was very easy because of both Ember conventions and previous relationships
new Mirage versions are really exciting! 2.0-beta build has JSON-API and an ORM
Mirage has helped facilitate the discussion with the backend devs
making Ember secure with private APIs has been a challenge- they’ve been looking at using Javascript Web Tokens
being a new Ember Dev in the transition to 2.0 was difficult
Components --- Views
Everyone should watch EmberScreencasts
Ember Meditations- coming soon, right after the tai chi desk
Ember Dreams, Ember Nightmares
Closure actions and Services are also awesome
they’re not hiring right now, unless you’re both awesome and willing to work for equity
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