Zach Briggs
Special guest
Shipping JavaScript applications to the browser since 2012.
Zach Briggs has farmed, sorted mail 2nd shift, maintained industrial equipment, and created predictive models. He has built an SOA backed Backbone SPA for Call Copy, shipped production systems built in ClojureScript and JavaScript for Test Double, and lead the frontend at Splice (GitHub for musicians). Now he’s the JavaScript Practice Lead for Table XI where he ensures that the organization is rapidly shipping outcome focused, lean products. He has spoken or taught workshops at RailsConf, CodeMash, Barcelona Ruby Conf, KalamazooX, and many more.
Zach probably wants to be your friend. He lives in Chicago, IL.
Zach Briggs has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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Episode 19: Navigating the JavaScript World: A Panel Discussion
September 6th, 2017 | 1 hr 5 mins
developer, javascript
How do professional JavaScript programmers choose new tools or evaluate frameworks? What are the most important concepts in JavaScript development these days? This panel discussion was recorded live on Aug 24, 2017 with Zach Briggs, Trek Glowacki, Melanie Sumner, and Marques Woodson. Learn about their biggest JavaScript career battles and what resources they use to keep up to date.
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JavaScript: Islands, Sprinkles, and Frameworks with Zach Briggs and David Copeland
March 8th, 2017 | 42 mins 52 secs
developer, javascript
Dave Copleand (@davetron5000) and Zach Briggs (@theotherzach) join Noel Rappin (@noelrap) for a Tech Done Right discussion of JavaScript practices. When does it makes sense to build single page JavaScript app? How can your JavaScript and Rails interact? Is it an island of interactivity or a sprinkle of JavaScript? Which frameworks are handling community management well (hint: not Angular)? And how do you test any of this?