037 JSJ Promises with Domenic Denicola and Kris Kowal

JavaScript Jabber

Episode | Podcast

Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:00:00 +0000

<div class="trix-content"> <div>Panel</div><pre>Kris Kowal (twitter github blog) Domenic Denicola (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Intro to CoffeeScript) <br /></pre><div>Discussion<br /> 02:41 - Promises</div><pre>Asynchonous programming <br /></pre><div>05:09 - Using Promises from top to bottom</div><div>07:08 - Domains</div><div>NodeConf SummerCamp</div><div>07:55 - Q</div><div>10:22 - q.nfbind</div><div>11:15 - Q vs jQuery</div><div>You’re Missing the Point of Promises</div><div>Coming from jQuery</div><div>15:41 - long-stack-traces</div><div>turn<br /> chaining<br /> JavaScriptStackTraceApi: Overview of the V8 JavaScript stack trace API (error.prepare stack trace)</div><div>19:36 - Original Promises/A spec and Promises/A+ spec</div><div>when.js</div><div>Promises Test Suite</div><div>Underscore deferred</div><div>24:22 - .then</div><div>Chai as Promised</div><div>26:58 - Nesting Promises</div><div>spread method</div><div>28:38 - Error Handling</div><pre>causeway <br /></pre><div>32:57 - Benefits of Promises</div><pre>Error Handling <br /></pre><div>Multiple Async at once</div><div>Handle things before and after they happen</div><div>40:29 - task.js</div><div>41:33 - Language</div><div>e programming language</div><div>CoffeeScript</div><div>44:11 - Mocking Promises</div><div>45:44 - Testing Promises</div><pre>Mocha as Promised <br /></pre><div>Picks</div><pre>Code Triage (Jamison) The Creative Sandbox Guidebook (Joe) Steam (Joe) Pluralsight (Joe) montage (Kris) montagejs / mr (Kris) CascadiaJS 2012 - Domenic Denicola (Domenic) Omnifocus (Chuck) Buckyballs (AJ) <br /></pre><div>Transcript<br /> JOE: I can’t imagine your baby face with a beard, Jamison.</div><div>JAMISON: I never thought I had a baby face.</div><div>AJ: It was always a man face to me.</div><div>JOE: Everybody who is 15 years younger than me has a baby face.</div><div>[This episode is sponsored by ComponentOne, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to wijmo.com and check them out.]</div><div>[This show is sponsored by Gaslight Software. They are putting on Mastering Backbone training in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center, December 3rd through 5th. They'll be covering Jasmine, Backbone and CoffeeScript. For more information or to register, go to training.gaslightsoftware.com]</div><div>[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at bluebox.net]</div><div>CHUCK: Hey everybody. Welcome to episode 37 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O'Neal.</div><div>AJ: Yo, yo, yo, comin' at you live from the executive boardroom suite of Orem, Utah.</div><div>CHUCK: Jamison Dance.</div><div>JAMISON: Hey guys!</div><div>CHUCK: Joe Eames.</div><div>JOE: Hey there!</div><div>CHUCK: Merrick Christensen</div><div>MERRICK: What's up.</div><div>CHUCK: I'm Charles Max Wood from devchat.tv and this week we have some guests -- and that is Kris Kowal.</div><div>KRIS: Hello. Yeah, Kowal.</div><div>CHUCK: Kowal. OK. And Domenic Denicola. Did I say that right?</div><div>DOMENIC: Denicola.</div><div>CHUCK: Denicola.</div><div>DOMENIC: It’s OK I got Americanized. That's probably the proper Italian pronunciation. Hi guys!</div><div>CHUCK: I speak proper Italian, so probably.</div><div>KRIS: Yeah and for what it’s worth, I think that the proper Polish is Kowal or something, but yeah.</div><div>JAMISON: Kris, are you from the Midwest? You have kind of Minnesota-ish accent.</div><div>KRIS: No. I'm actually unfortunately from somewhere in the suburbs of Los Angeles, but I grew up indoors and did listen to Prairie Home Companion. So I don’t know. Maybe.</div><div>[laughter]</div><div>CHUCK: Awesome. All right. So this week we are going to be talking a... Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy