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I said this already on Twitter, but:

It’s been 2½ years since I started working on Ember.js. While I’m proud of the code we wrote, I’m even more proud of the community we built.

We have been lucky enough to attract the companies and individuals that are tackling the hardest problems in developing 100% JavaScript web applications; people for whom the only acceptable answer is solid engineering, not piles of hacks.

As we mention in the blog post, Ember.js went through a reboot midway through its life when we realized the thing we were building was not the thing that needed to be built. If you tried Ember.js previously and had a bad experience, I'd really encourage you to give it a whirl again. We've smoothed over the rough surfaces, and now have the documentation and community to help you get started.

If you'd just like to take a peek at what building an Ember.js app is like, I recorded a ~25 minute screencast that takes you soup to nuts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QHrlFlaXdI

Lastly, I'd like to express my personal gratitude to everyone that pitched in at the 11th hour to get this release out the door. I couldn't be more proud to call this awesome group of developers my friends.

Thank you for this video! It nearly convinced me to build my first EmberJS app (I'm coming from a BackboneJS background and I haven't decided yet between Angular and Ember). Will you continue this kind of videos? Building a series by continuing the current "story" could be really really nice.

There are plans to have a "cookbook" section on the EmberJS site that will be one of the go to places to answer the question of "How do I do X in Ember?". It's currently on the master branch for the site, so expect that soon. In the mean time here are some other video resources http://www.embercasts.com/ and http://ember101.com/. They may be slightly out of date but they are still relevant. Make sure to look in the console for warnings about deprecations.

If you're deciding between Angular and Ember, this video is a entertaining comparison with good examples - http://vimeo.com/68215606

More entertaining than informative I'm afraid. Project Lead v.s. Guy Who Uses. I don't mean that as a criticism of Rob, I just don't think it's fair or expected for him to have the depth of knowledge in AngularJS that Tom has with Ember. I'd have done worse.

I know it's a pain to have to evaluate all of these frikin' frameworks all the time just to get moving, but I'd really recommend building a non-trivial app in both ember and angular.

Around what time did this reboot occur? I remember being impressed with what you were working on when it was still called SproutCore 2, but it was so hard to follow, I ended up taking Handlebars RC3 and writing my own JS layer.

Thanks Tom (and team), Ember is fantastic.

I've compiled a list of learning sources (tutorials, videos and Ember focused blogs) that I've found very helpful in my path to Ember: http://bit.ly/1aQXnrz

Good work Tom, Yehuda, and team. I had very difficult time recommending Ember during the transition phase (mostly because the router was impossibly difficult to understand). I wanted to like it so bad, and now I finally think I can. I'm going to reboot the project I was working on and give Ember 1.0 a shot.

Thanks for sharing this video. It's been awhile since I checked out Ember, but this video would've been a great resource early on. I'm happy to see that it'll provide a high level glance of Ember to people deciding on a JS framework to use.

Fantastic video Tom - really enjoyed it.

Thanks for posting this, there's a lot of value in this screencast.

Have you got that screencast available as a download somewhere?

http://www.clipconverter.cc/download/zyfNNNfY/63145569/

Use youtube-dl:

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

No, but that's a great idea. Do you have any recommendations for a host that can serve up files of this size?

At the risk of offending some people.. Mega.co.nz gives 50 GB free storage.

You might try Dropbox.

S3

Nginx + S3 & CDN for blazing fast client side apps.

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