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Training new developers on the hot new Meteor Platform, author's Sacha Greif & Tom Coleman share how they got started in Developer education space

· jeff

Simplifying full stack development with Javascript 9:00

Tom's introduction to Meteor and contributing to open source 9:40

Sacha's background is in design and also used Rails prior to finding Meteor 10:40

Big advantages of using Meteor over Rails 12:00

Comparing previous to next generation real-time frameworks 14:50

Is Meteor production ready? 16:50

Community support and plugin ecosystem 17:30

Where to host your application 19:01

Framework sustainability & reliability 21:00

Coexisting with other front end frameworks and tools like Angular 23:45

Will there be a widget universe for meteor? 26:45

Gaining interest and launching a blog before writing Discover Meteor 27:53

Leading the Meteor wave with open source, and building Telesc.pe as HackerNews for designers 31:00

The decision to sell a book versus giving it away 34:05

Book resource and screencasts 36:00

Pricing and what's included with the book 36:50

Bringing design to development 38:30

Getting customer feedback, supporting education and further discussions 40:30

What's the future look like as it becomes easier to develop rich internet applications? 42:55

What are common examples of Meteor applications? 44:20

The advantage of speed when building with Meteor 47:40

What's coming from Discover Meteor to grab our attention next? 49:00

The audience for Discover Meteor is developers, designers and non-developers 52:15

Google hangouts as an educational outreach tool 56:25

Collaborating in the browser using real time frameworks like Meteor 58:12

Weapon of choice for coding and text editing 1:00:28

Sacha tells us about his project Folyo.me 1:03:04

How to keep up with a pre 1.0 framework 1:12:42