074 JSJ Grunt with Ben Alman

Published: Sept. 6, 2013, 11 a.m.

PanelBen Alman (twitter github blog) AJ O\u2019Neal (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Ryan Florence (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up)
Discussion
\xa001:34 - Ben Alman IntroductionBocoup
02:54 - \u201cCowboy\u201dCowboy Coder
06:53 - The Birth of GruntEnder make rake jake
14:34 - Installing Globally & PluginsJSHint grunt-cli lodash async
20:43 - Managing the project and releasing new versions
\xa022:32 - What is Grunt? What does it do?jQuery libsass SASS stylus
26:39 - Processes & Building Featuresnode-task guard grunt-contrib-watch node-prolog
35:29 - The Node Community and reluctance towards Grunt
\xa041:35 - Why the separation of task loading and configuration?
\xa046:18 - Contributions and Contributing to Grunt
\xa055:18 - What Ben would have done differently building GruntEase of Upgrade
PicksWeb Components (Ryan) Eliminate Sarcasm (Ryan) Bee and PuppyCat (Jamison) MONOPRICE (AJ) AJ O'Neal: Moving to GruntJS (AJ) The Best Map Ever Made of America\u2019s Racial Segregation (Chuck) Clean Off Your Desk (Chuck) Polygon (Ben) My Brother, My Brother and Me (Ben) Echofon (Ben) Bocoup (Ben)
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\xa0Transcript
\xa0RYAN:\xa0 We\u2019re potty training my son right now. So, I was up like eight times cleaning poo off of everything.[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.]\xa0[This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]\xa0[This podcast is sponsored by JetBrains, makers of WebStorm. Whether you\u2019re working with Node.js or building the frontend of your web application, WebStorm is the tool for you. It has great code quality and code exploration tools and works with HTML5, Node, TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Harmony, LESS, Sass, Jade, JSLint, JSHint, and the Google Closure Compiler. Check it out at JetBrains.com/WebStorm.]CHUCK:\xa0 Hey everybody and welcome to episode 74 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O\u2019Neal.AJ:\xa0 I\u2019m eating beef jerky.CHUCK:\xa0 Jamison Dance.JAMISON:\xa0 Hello.CHUCK:\xa0 We have a special guest. I guess you\u2019re a guest in filling in for Merrick and Joe and that\u2019s Ryan Florence.RYAN:\xa0 Hey, how\u2019s it going? I don\u2019t know if I can fill two shoes, but I will try.CHUCK:\xa0 Well, you have two feet, right?RYAN:\xa0 Okay. Well, that\u2019s four shoes.CHUCK:\xa0 [Chuckles] I\u2019m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.TV. We also have another special guest and that is Ben Alman.BEN:\xa0 Yo! What\u2019s up, everyone?CHUCK:\xa0 So, do you want to introduce your self, Ben, since you haven\u2019t been on the show before?BEN:\xa0 I\u2019m Ben Alman. Oh, okay.[Laughter]AJ:\xa0 That\u2019s not conceited.RYAN:\xa0 That\u2019s really all he needs.BEN:\xa0 That\u2019s it. The show\u2019s over, roll credits. So yeah, I\u2019m Ben. You can find me online as @cowboy on Twitter or GitHub and I\u2019m at BenAlman.com. And if you Google me, I have finally got enough SEO juice to beat the other Ben Alman who\u2019s the Orthopedic Surgeon for sick children in Canada. So screw you, guy who helps sick kids.[Laughter]BEN:\xa0 No, it\u2019s cool. It\u2019s cool, right? But for a while, I was like, \u201cDamn this guy.\u201d But I can\u2019t do anything because he helps sick children. So there\u2019s another Benjamin Alman out there doing things for society and me, I just code. So, I work at Bocoup. We\u2019re at Bocoup.com. Our logo is a rooster, Bob the Rooster, and we make a lot of cool web and open web and open source stuff. And so, I do training there. I teach people JavaScript and jQuery. But I also work on open source tools. I spend a lot of my time, actually, behind the scenes in Node writing JavaScript, experimenting, R&D, writing tools, et cetera.CHUCK:\xa0 Awesome. So,Special Guests: Ben Alman and Ryan Florence.

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