CoffeeScript burst onto the scene at the end of 2009, and is beginning to show up everywhere. Ruby on Rails now ships with it as the default way to write JavaScript, and even Brendan Eich (the creator of JavaScript) has mentioned CoffeeScript as an influence on the future of JavaScript. What’s all the fuss about? Is CoffeeScript just hype, or is there really something to it? Trevor Burnham literally wrote the book on CoffeeScript. In this PragCast interview we talk to him about the “human-friendly dialect of JavaScript,” what it is, where it’s going, and how CoffeeScript can actually make you a better JavaScript programmer.
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The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Interview with Trevor Burnham on CoffeeScript
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5by5 | The Incomparable #88: Skywalker’s Eleven
5by5 - The Incomparable #88: Skywalker’s Eleven
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5by5 | The Incomparable #69: Love Conquers All, But So Do Guns
5by5 - The Incomparable #69: Love Conquers All, But So Do Guns
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AAC (39.4 MB)
5by5 - The Incomparable #67: Darth Vader’s Office is Really Weird
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5by5 | The Ihnatko Almanac #6: Walter Isaacson: So That’s Steve Jobs
5by5 - The Ihnatko Almanac #6: Walter Isaacson: So That’s Steve Jobs
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The Ihnatko Almanac #5: My Sci-Fi Disability
5by5 - The Ihnatko Almanac #5: My Sci-Fi Disability
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Is the Internet Making us Smarter?
As people have become more and more dependent on the Internet, some have concerns that all that information (and the devices that help us connect to it) could be doing seriously damage to the way we think, interact and learn. But Nick Bilton, lead writer for the New York Times Bits Blog, explains in his new book that he’s lived his whole life connected and managed to turn out just fine. He says scientific research backs up his experience.