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Pausing Office Hours

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/08/04/pausing-office-hours

4 Aug 2015 edit. I started doing office hours. At the beginning of the year; its been tremendous fun, super eye-opening, and just generally quite rewarding. I wont lie: its also been a lot of time, especially the first few weeks when I terribly underestimated how many people would sign up. Women The ratio isnt quite 50-50, but its closer than any team Ive worked on before. Its also the first lead role Ive had where my responsibilities span beyond the front end, a prospect both exciting and daunting.

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Browser Testing and Code Coverage with Karma, Tape, and Webpack

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/07/20/karma-webpack-tape-code-coverage

Browser Testing and Code Coverage with Karma, Tape, and Webpack. 20 Jul 2015 edit. We recently set up a new project at Bazaarvoice for centralizing common UI modules. We started by using node-tap. For unit tests, but given that these are. Modules, we quickly switched to using tape. Because it has a fairly easy browser testing story with the help of Karma. One thing that node-tap provided that tape did not provide out of the box was the ability to measure the code coverage of unit tests. Karma. FileOvervi...

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Refactoring setInterval-based polling

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2013/02/04/refactoring-setInterval-polling

4 Feb 2013 edit. I came across some code that looked something like this the other day, give or take a few details. AppHelpers.checkSyncStatus = function() { if (App.get(syncCheck) { return; } var check = function() { $.ajax(/sync status, { dataType: json, success: function(resp) { if (resp.status = = done) { App.Helpers.reloadUser(function() { clearInterval(App.get(syncCheck) ; App.set(syncCheck, null); }); } } }); }; App.set(syncCheck, setInterval(check, 1000) ; };. You might have heard that. AppHelper...

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Austin

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2014/01/01/austin

1 Jan 2014 edit. I pitched my tent. I followed them to the free dinner being served for them across the street. I rode 150 miles - unencumbered by camping gear and all the rest - in the fund-raising ride for the next two days. I made new friends. They invited me to come stay with them for a few days in Chapel Hill. I lived with them for a month. I borrowed their 1990 Ford Festiva for a year. I got good at JavaScript. I traveled the world talking about it.

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Office Hours for Aspiring Speakers

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/01/11/office-hours

Office Hours for Aspiring Speakers. 11 Jan 2015 edit. Update: Office hours are on hold. For now while I settle into a new role at Bazaarvoice. This idea isnt mine; I was inspired by a similar effort by Jen Myers. Who has been offering mentoring sessions to aspiring speakers since 2013. Im forever indebted to the folks who helped me get through my first talk, and Ive been honored to give a gentle nudge to several other speakers in the years since. If youre interested, you can sign up here.

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Writing Conference Proposals

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/01/26/writing-conference-proposals

26 Jan 2015 edit. Ive had several office hours. Sessions in the last couple of weeks, and one topic that comes up again and again is how to write a talk description. If you think about it, conference organizers dont have a whole lot to go on when theyre choosing talks, unless they already know who you are. Even if your name is well-known, though, organizers may still not know who you are - lots of conferences are taking a blind approach. Paragraph 1: The context. Youve got the hang of this whole JavaScri...

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So You're Going on a Podcast

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/07/27/tech-podcast-recording-tips

So You're Going on a Podcast. 27 Jul 2015 edit. I got a fair bit of experience recording a podcast back in the yayQuery. Ive been recording the TTL Podcast. For a few months now; its a show with a different guest every week, so the tech challenges are different, and each show is completely different from the last. It has been great fun, and I cant believe how lucky I am to get to ask all of these people to talk to me and they keep saying yes. To record TTL at the suggest of Alex Sexton. The USB mic i...

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The TTL Podcast

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/05/11/ttl-podcast

11 May 2015 edit. Over the past several months, Ive been on a few. Plus Ive been having a lot of fun doing office hours. And generally talking a lot with other people who do the kind of work that I do. Ive particulary enjoyed talking about a subject that Alex Sexton dubbed Front-End Ops. And that sure was fun. While the initial focus has been on front-end ops, I can see the scope widening over time to cover, generally, the tools and challenges of doing front-end dev at significant scale. If you or so...

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Writing Unit Tests for Existing JavaScript

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2014/07/13/unit-tests

Writing Unit Tests for Existing JavaScript. 13 Jul 2014 edit. My team at Bazaarvoice. Has been spending a lot of time lately thinking about quality and how we can have greater confidence that our software is working as it should. Weve long had functional tests in place that attempt to ask questions like When a user clicks a button, will The Widget do The Thing? Until now, our unit tests have been entirely focused on utility and framework code - do we properly parse a URL, for example? Feature-related cod...