Rebecca Murphey

austinee, sir or madam; I propose the following format for the remainder of this thread: We post awesome women engineers and developers for people to follow and be aware of. Let the rest of the internet wallow in its poisonous vat of sensationalist vitriol. Here, in our little corner of the internet, we will move the chain forward a few inches by enumerating incredible women in tech, the rest of the web be damned. Maybe no one will see it or care. But maybe - just maybe, some young lady will stumble across it and think "Hey, that could be me, too." and in that small chance will our entire effort henceforth be vindicated. Allow me to begin: (others feel free to contribute as well). Rebecca Murphey ( @rmurphey / http://rmurphey.com/ ) : I owe her so much for writing her infamous Jquery/Javascript training guide. She is certainly one of the most pivotal figures in the Javascript renaissance. Her writing hits the sweet-spot of technical depth and approchability. I firmly believe that she is the kind of innovator that whatever she is doing now, the rest of us will be doing in 5 yrs.

This is fun. Here's mine: - Brad fitzpatrick -- http://bradfitz.com/ - Julia Evans -- https://jvns.ca - Raymond Hettinger -- https://rhettinger.wordpress.com/ - Rich Hickey -- https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits - Peter Bourgon -- https://peter.bourgon.org/ - Rebecca Murphey -- https://rmurphey.com/ - Daniel Greenfield -- https://www.twoscoopspress.com/

I'd consider adding some articles from http://rmurphey.com/ ( that's where I started reading about large javascript apps), http://peter.michaux.ca/ (very interesting), and even some of the demo apps from http://rightjs.org/, like https://github.com/MadRabbit/typing-ninja, are pretty good for learning javascript. IMHO.

Also see http://rmurphey.com/blog/2011/07/25/switching-to-octopress Have to say, i also think Jekyll is a really nice compromise. Not something you could recommend to a client though...

"jQuery is primarily a JavaScript library for doing DOM manipulation, Ajax, events, and effects. Dojo is a more comprehensive toolkit that offers those same features, but also includes many other pieces that facilitate building rich web applications, such as patterns for code organization, tools for abstracting data syncing between server and browser, internationalization, accessibility, templated widgets, graphing and charting, rich UI widgets, and much more. Dojo also provides dependency management and build/optimization tools for creating a production-ready JavaScript application." Rebecca Murphey [1] Rebecca also gives a detailed description of her first foray into Dojo coming from jQuery. [2] Personally, I think Dojo's lack of good documentation/reference code, lack of 'marketing', and relative complexity keep it from becoming popular. It's much easier to get started with another library like jQuery because of all these factors. However, once you get over that initial steep learning curve, Dojo is great! [1] http://www.quora.com/Rebecca-Murphey/answers/Dojo-JavaScript-toolkit [2] http://rmurphey.com/blog/2009/11/12/dojo-confessions-or-how-i-gave-up-… edit: corrected name to Rebecca

http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end-developer… covers it better than I could.

I think Rebecca Murphey's latest "Baseline" post [1] covers this pretty well. Not sure I'd include Node, but ES2015, modules, testing and build tools/automation for sure. You should know your way around the browser dev tools, have a good handle on async and promises and understand the DOM and events. [1]: http://rmurphey.com/blog/2015/03/23/a-baseline-for-front-end-developer…

This is a good start: http://rmurphey.com/blog/2012/04/12/a-baseline-for-front-end-developer… All the links you'll ever need: https://github.com/christopherscott/frontend-toolbox and https://github.com/dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks