How to Get a Web Development Job

There are plenty of jobs available in the web development field, and the number seems to be growing every day. At the same time, however, getting one of those jobs for yourself may not always be a simple task. In this article, we'll look at a few things you can do to make your search […]

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On Our Radar: Preprocessors, Taskbars, and Board Games

This week, we discovered a fun drinking game for web devs. It goes like this: 1. think of a noun. 2. google “noun.js”. 3. if it exists, drink. On Our Radar We began the week with a fairly heated discussion on which preprocessor was best: Sass or Less. Most people said Sass. Hardly any said […]

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Exploring Github’s Public Events with PHP and Google BigQuery

If you’ve been following along with my previous articles about Github’s API, you know that Github’s developers are doing their best to ease the pain of interacting with Github data. In this article, we’re going to take a look at the Github public events API and we will build a small demo along the way.

What are Github Public Events?

Github events are interactions made by users, like pushing, merging, creating repositories, etc. It’s like storing the history of Github. However, we are limited to the last 300 events, and that’s a problem if you want to search through the data of the whole history.

Ilya Grigorik wanted to keep track of his open source project, but due to the limitation of the Github public events API, he decided to create the GithubArchive website where he queries the Github API and stores the results. You can query the archive with links like http://ift.tt/1L5sukW and you’ll get an archive containing the JSON payload. This solution is not really efficient and doesn’t help with querying the history for data, so, when Google BigQuery was released, Grigorik moved all of his data to the new storage and made it public.

Why BigQuery?

Google BigQuery was created to solve the queries latency problem. When you’re dealing with big data, you need to have the right hardware and infrastructure to handle the load properly. Now, you have the opportunity to move your append-only database to Google’s infrastructure and see millions of data rows processed in seconds.
If you’re not familiar with Google APIs, be sure to check this guide about starting a new Google API project. After that, be sure to enable the BigQuery API on your Google developers console.

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This week's JavaScript news, issue 236

This week's JavaScript news Read this e-mail on the Web JavaScript Weekly Issue 236 — June 12, 2015 Six Steps for Approaching the Next JavaScript The final review of the ES6 spec is occurring this month, but if you’re not yet playing with ES6, how best to get started? Cody shares his 6 part approach for learning ES6 and beyond. Cody Lindley Writing a Non-Blocking JavaScript Quicksort Calling the native array sort function on a large data set with a complex expression can slow things down. Jimmy Breck-McKye looked into creating a more asynchronous solution. Jimmy Breck-McKye ng-classy: Use Angular 1 and ES6+ Together with Ease Use ES6 classes and ES6+ decorators with Angular 1 instead of modules. Check out the examples if you want to be convinced. Eaze Integrate email into your application with Mailgun + Zapier Want to integrate email into your application with a click of a button? Mailgun integrates nicely with Zapier. You don't have to setup any code to hook Mailgun up with over 400 apps including Wufoo, Firebase, Slack and Hipchat to name a few. Click here to learn more. Mailgun   Sponsored ES6 In Depth – Symbols Mozilla Hacks continues its ES6 series with a look at symbols, a new type of value in JavaScript. Mozilla Hacks WinJS 4.0 Released: The Windows Library for JavaScript WinJS is open source and assists in building Windows Store apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript while also using Windows UI controls. Version 4.0 has just been released in anticipation of Windows 10. Microsoft Building a Native App with JavaScript Using NativeScript Jay Raj explores building a native, multi-platform mobile app using JavaScript with the NativeScript framework. SitePoint How to Implement Node + React Isomorphic JavaScript & Why It Matters Why does it matter if your React app’s markup can be rendered on both the client and the server and how can you do it? StrongLoop Trine: A Functional Programming in JS Utility Library “Ramda argues that lodash and underscore put the data in the wrong place: at the first parameter of the function, while it should be at the last position. They’re both (subjectively) wrong: the natural place for data in JS is the ‘this’ parameter.” Jussi Kalliokoski Jobs Co-Founder at a Cash Flow Positive StartUpCodingHouse = new Opportunity({ rewarding: true, startup: { cashFlowPositive: true, growth: 'rapid' }, typeOfBootcamp: 'live-in', LeadInstructor : { 'JavaScript': '100%' }, // Fix a broken edu system Coding House Expert JavaScript Instructors at Pluralsight (Freelance-Part-time)Currently hiring expert JavaScript Developers that want to share their knowledge with a global audience. As a Pluralsight author, you'll join a tight knit family of passionate teachers and earn royalties. We are looking for the best communicators and presenters in the developer community. Apply today. 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Hired.com In brief xkcd on JavaScript news The popular webcomic takes a humorous sideswipe at JS.   xkcd New io.js Features You May Not Be Using news node  StrongLoop Online Workshop: Building Modern, Single-Page Web Applications course Build a clean, well-structured web app from scratch by combining best-of breed approaches and a carefully curated set of tools including: Ampersand, React, WebPack, ES6 and Node.js.  Frontend Masters   Sponsored ES6 In Depth: Arrow functions tutorial  Mozilla Hacks Setting up an ES6 Project Using Babel and Browserify tutorial  Ritesh Kumar A Walkthrough of LoopBack, a Powerful Node API Framework tutorial  Jovan Jovanovic Build an AngularJS App with Stamplay: The IFTTT for Developers tutorial Stamplay describes itself “as if IFTTT and Heroku had a child.”   Chris Sevilleja Importing CSS Breakpoints Into JavaScript tutorial  Lullabot Ember.js: 8 Most Common Mistakes tutorial  Balint Erdi Why Will Angular 2 Rock? opinion Angular 2 will be a radical change but Jesus Rodriguez discusses the things he believes will make it worthwhile.   Angular Tips Why Destructuring is a Terrible Idea in ES6 opinion  Thomas R Alexander How I Survived My Baptism of Fire with Node.js opinion A developer shares experiences of jumping into a fast-paced Node, Seneca and Angular-based project for a client.   David Cahill An Overview of JavaScript Reactive Frameworks opinion Quick summaries of Omniscient, Ractive, Mercury, Cycle, WebRx, and Deku.   Echo One JSXHint: An Online ReactJS/JSX Code Quality Tool/Linter tools Based upon JSHint.   Introducing SimpleMaps: Create Beautiful Interactive HTML5 Maps code Responsive, zoomable, SVG maps of the world, USA and more. 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