pascalo

I have worked a bit with angular lately, and am now knee deep into my first ember project (with ember-cli).

I agree with a lot of the points made in this Series, a really good write up.

In Ember I feel I have to write a bit more boilerplate around dealing with collections, (i.e. sorting).

Can't wait for HTMLBars, the script tags littered around the dom are just not very nice, and I find myself using :last-of-type CSS selectors and the likes a lot.

I also think that the directives in angular just work nicer than the components in ember, because there is more control over what's bound into their scope.

Ember's approach to structure is great though, and the router is really nice to work with, much much nicer than ui-router.

Both are great frameworks though, and I really appreciate the work of both teams to give me great tools like this to work with.

Thanks for the great tool. I use it daily at the moment. Gotten much better over the last few months as well.

I'm using an intel NUC i3 at the moment, which worked with 13.04 out of the box, takes 16gb ram and drives a 2560x1440 screen via thunderbolt. Sure, not as cheap, but the specs are more serious and the form factor similar.

Great game. Had 900 pts and then got cloud flare errors :(. Only thing you need to work on is to exclude repetition of clips when the game progresses.

I love it. Couple of suggestions:

You should use data urls or sprites for the CSS, then you don't have the the loading image coming in with delay.

Changing stuff once you have filled out the number is hard. You have to navigate your way back through the 4 blocks, and the auto-tab and the way it reacts to arrow keys means that the cursor doesn't end up where I anticipate it.

What's the cost for a semester these days? Did they introduce fees?

What you're doing would be a very unlikely scenario in systems where studying is setting you back a couple of thousands every term, i.e. Australia, UK or the US.

Good article, and most of it sounds very familiar. I went through the apprenticeship system in Germany after dropping out of Uni (I guess I wasn't cut out for German literature and philosophy after all).

At the time there was a true disconnect between the real industry and the schooling part of things, mainly due to the fact that unlike baker of carpenter, front-end programming was such a new thing, so it got thrown into the same basket as print publishing, and thus I had to spend my once-weekly days at school memorizing various paper-fold patterns and Colorspace and DPI settings which were highly irrelevant to what I was doing throughout my days building websites at a digital media agency.

Like the OP, I got taken under the wing by a guy called Thomas, who was a pretty decent coder, and to whom I owe a lot.

Germany wasn't doing so well economically at the time, so shortly after I migrated to the UK. My three years of industry-relevant experience gave me a great base to build my career upon, for which I am thankful to this day.