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Programming in the Wild West

Much like revisiting a neighborhood from my youth, when I reflect on my scant few years in software I’m astonished at how much has changed.

This might have also struck you at some point. Perhaps you were even a pioneer in your community’s wild west days, huddling in log cabins of your own construction, only to look around now and see yoga studios and gourmet cupcake shops.

A Sprinkling of Ember

Ember isn’t just for huge ambitious single-page web applications. It’s actually really easy to sprinkle over your static or server-side-rendered web page to add just a little bit of functionality.

You can even use it in a blog. A blog like this one.

Here is a text box. I want you to stick the url for your favorite gif in the text box (or click one of the items below).

Ember on Rails: #REALTALK

If you work in Rails and have ever wondered about Ember.js, you should know that Ember and Rails go together like Nutella and pretzels. (Which is to say, quite well indeed.)

Get an inside look of the experience of going from having never tried Ember to shipping a production application in it. What makes Ember a good match for certain types of applications?

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