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- Website: jamesshore.com
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BUY ME A BEER: You love the idea, but you don't want the videos. That's okay. I'll toast you as I drink one of Portland's fine microbrews.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2012Pledge $10 or more
30 backers
FIRST MONTH: Get the first 8 "Live" & "Caffeinated" episodes and the first 2 "Lessons Learned" episodes. Viewable on the web & downloadable. DRM-free. Source code included.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $25 or more
190 backers Limited (10 of 200 left)
STARVING STUDENT: You are starving and/or a student. Get the whole series: 32 "Live" & "Caffeinated" episodes and 8 "Lessons Learned" episodes. Viewable on the web & downloadable. DRM-free. Source code included. HONOR SYSTEM: Please save this reward for the people who really need it! I won't be checking up on you, but you'll know if you cheated. AND YOU'LL FEEL BAD ABOUT IT.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $35 or more
321 backers
FULL SEASON: Get the whole season: 32 "Live" & "Caffeinated" episodes and 8 "Lessons Learned" episodes. Viewable on the web & downloadable. DRM-free. Source code included.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $40 or more
265 backers
EARLY ACCESS: Get access to videos as soon as they're ready! Regular viewers will get videos on a set schedule (such as one every Tuesday and Thursday); you'll get to see them the instant they're uploaded. Includes the whole season: 32 "Live" & "Caffeinated" episodes and 8 "Lessons Learned" episodes. Viewable on the web & downloadable. DRM-free. Source code included. NOTE: videos will be recorded & uploaded in batches, over the course of several months.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $50 or more
21 backers
HELP OUT A STUDENT: You get the "Early Access" reward AND I use the extra $10 in your pledge to make another "Starving Student" registration available. NOTE: This reward is automatically included with all "Early Access" rewards of $50 and more. I increase student registrations manually, so please allow up to 24 hours for new student registration slots to appear.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $75 or more
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SITE SOURCE CODE: You get the "Early Access" reward AND you also get the source code to the LetsCodeJavascript.com web site. This is in addition to the source code that comes with the screencast. NOTE: This reward is also bundled with all "Early Access" rewards larger than $75. Some third party code may not be included, depending on license restrictions, and art assets are not included. No support is included.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $100 or more
11 backers
GARAGE STARTUP (3-USER PACK): You and two of your best buds are going to change the world. To help you do it, you get three transferable logins for the "Full Season" reward.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $105 or more
15 backers Limited (35 of 50 left)
SIGNATURE EDITION: Get a signed copy of my book inscribed with a personal thank-you message, AND the "Early Access" reward. US shipping included. Add $10 for international shipping.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $250 or more
2 backers Limited (14 of 16 left)
SPONSOR AN EPISODE: I'll give a shout-out to you and your peeps at the beginning of a "Live" episode of my choice, including an NPR-style (brief & not excessively commercial) mention of your favorite product, company, or charity, AND you also get the "Early Access" reward.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $250 or more
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TEAM ROOM (8-USER PACK): Your team is rocking the Javascript. Now you get some rockin' videos, too. You get eight transferable logins for the "Full Season" reward.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $500 or more
0 backers Limited (3 of 3 left)
SPONSOR A LESSON: I'll give a shout-out to you and your peeps at the beginning of a "Lessons Learned" episode of my choice, including an NPR-style (brief & not excessively commercial) mention of your favorite product, company, or charity, AND you also get the "Early Access" reward.
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $625 or more
1 backer
FUNDED STARTUP (21-USER PACK): Bubble? What bubble? You're living the dream! And what better way to live than with some sweet, sweet Javascript videos. You get 21 transferable logins for the "Full Season" reward.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $850 or more
0 backers Limited (3 of 3 left)
AN EVENING OUT: I'll treat you and your guest to an evening of fine dining and conversation at one of Portland's best restaurants. You also get the "Early Access" reward. NOTE: Travel to Portland is not included.
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012Pledge $1,000 or more
0 backers Limited (3 of 3 left)
BE A STAR: Appear as my remote pair programming partner on up to four consecutive "Live" videos AND get the "Early Access" reward. (Be sure you have time free this summer for recording.)
Estimated delivery: Sep 2012Pledge $1,500 or more
0 backers
GOING CONCERN (55-USER PACK): You're pros. And pros know that coordinating large teams takes serious software development chops. These videos will help. You get 55 transferable logins for the "Full Season" reward.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012Pledge $5,000 or more
1 backer Limited (2 of 3 left)
THE PERSONAL TOUCH: I come to your site and spend a day with your team(s) discussing Agile or Javascript-related topics of your choice. We'll create the agenda in advance; options include speaking, consulting, and coaching. AND you also get 21 transferable logins for the "Full Season" reward. PLEASE NOTE: Travel expenses are not included and will be billed separately. This reward is non-refundable but I will happily delay or reschedule as your business needs dictate, subject to mutually agreeable timeframes in the future.
Estimated delivery: Aug 2012
Creator James Shore on January 18
@Trevor Thank you! Can I quote you on that? :-)
Creator Trevor on January 18
Ahh, what a little fool I am.
You've done a tremendous service to us, the only place I've been exposed to formal development is on the job. Which is to bad since many employers want prospectives to already have an idea about how the process works! I got lucky, but many of my friends haven't. This series has become a prime reference for my formal development process.
You're a gentleman, scholar, and a fine judge of whisky.
Creator James Shore on January 17
@Trevor It's next to the source code links. It says "Video link."
Creator Trevor on January 17
Um, where is the direct download link? I see the download source code and such, but I'm missing where I can download the video.
Creator James Shore on October 14, 2012
@Bob The direct download link on each video page is all there is, sorry.
Creator Bob Goetz on October 13, 2012
Is there an easy, simple way to download the videos? it appears that I need to open each lesson and then click the download button. That's makes it very inconvenient to take the content and load it to my tablet.
Creator James Shore on August 23, 2012
@briankb You're welcome! I'm glad you're enjoying it. There's always a risk with funding something you haven't seen yet, so thank you for trusting me. :-)
Creator briankb on August 23, 2012
I wish KickStarter would add a feature to allow us to leave a rating for projects after they have been funded. I'm about 50/50 on getting what I was promised. In your case you have exceeded my expectations. Thanks for that!!!
Creator Andriy Tyurnikov on August 15, 2012
@James Shore
Nah, I need no refund. I guess I sounded too agressive.
Talking to people who have no programming background helped me to understand how much effort it takes to become programmer and how many tools modern programmers use (by the way, kudos for not going BDD ;)
You better know your audience, I guess, just sharing feedback
Creator James Shore on July 18, 2012
@s Sorry to disappoint you. I've added instructions in the comments of video #1 for following along on Windows. There's nothing about the code or build that relies on WebStorm, so feel free to use a different editor or IDE if you like.
I'm afraid the command-line stuff is an important part of how I approach "professional, rigorous web development," so that's not likely to change. I'm happy to provide a refund--contact me at jshore@jamesshore.com if you'd like to take advantage of that.
Creator s on July 18, 2012
Video #1 impossible to follow if you are not using a Mac and WebStorm. Video #2 - worse. Why all the command-line stuff?
Creator James Shore on July 17, 2012
@Andriy Thanks for the feedback. I'm sorry your friends found the material too advanced. The "Lessons Learned" videos might help; they're more like a tutorial. If not, I'll be happy to provide a refund. You're the first person so far to say the difficulty level is too high, but I'll keep an eye out to see if anybody else is having trouble.
Meanwhile, let your friends know they can take advantage of the forums to ask questions and seek clarification. That's what they're there for. :-)
Sorry you didn't like the copy-and-paste of the lint options and lint runner. That was a conscious choice, although maybe not the best one. I want to make sure we spend as much time as possible on TDD'ing production code, so I decided to gloss over the Lint runner, since we've already got a video on that. (That video is listed in the index as "Lessons Learned #0", if you didn't see it.)
Regards,
Jim
Creator Andriy Tyurnikov on July 17, 2012
Hello James - watching first videos of the series, here is some feedback.
1) People without significant programming background just don't get it (I know 2 people who finished codecademy JS course, and they totally don't understand what are you talking about - build automation, continuos integration - if I know what those things are, than I probably already know how to do all that stuff)
2) Copy-pasting code and referencing other videos is just bad. Why bothering recording video then? :(
Creator James Shore on June 17, 2012
@Matt Thanks for the offer! Best of luck with your tour.
Creator Matt Hargett on June 14, 2012
Hey James,
I think you came over to my house one time with Rob Myers after a talk at Google :)
When I'm not busy being an Lean/XP coach, I'm an independent music artist. If you'd like to use fragments of my songs, I'm happy to oblige. One of them is up on Amazon/iTunes/Spotify:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0088UZR2A/ref=as_li_ss_tl…
I have my own Kickstarter going to help fund my EP release and small tour: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1951829028/the-making-of-the-making-of-ep-release-and-tour
Any promotion is greatly appreciated, whether you're interested in using fragments of songs or not :)
Can't wait to see the videos, hopefully you're doing them with Jamine!
Creator James Shore on June 6, 2012
@jpshackelford Thanks for the suggestions. I'm planning to do CI on camera, although it may be surprising. :-) Code coverage is less likely, unless there's a specific need for it, but it could be a good project for people to discuss in the forums.
Creator jpshackelford on June 5, 2012
Would really live to see video on setup of CI with tests breaking the build and code coverage reporting. I am using Dojo 1.7.x and have yet to figure out best way of doing this.
Creator Neil S on June 5, 2012
thanks for your work
Creator James Shore on June 4, 2012
@Stan Thanks! Just add $10 to your pledge and I'll note the extra slot manually. (If anyone else wants to do this, let me know you're doing it; there's no way for me to tell why you're pledging extra.)
Creator Stan Yamane on June 4, 2012
I'd like to move up from the 'Help out a student' level to the 'Garage Startup' level, but I don't want to risk kicking a student out of their spot. Can I just pledge $110 to keep the student slot? (Or $125 for help a student + making my 3 slots have early access?)
Creator InSL on June 4, 2012
I'm not a JavaScript-Programmer, but I backed your project because I really like your Let's Play TDD screencast :-) Thank you very much!
Creator JackSkellington on June 3, 2012
Thank you so much for adding more starving student options. I'm dual-majoring in Computer Science and Information Systems at Clarion University, so I'm excited to see this! Thanks again!
Creator Dan on June 3, 2012
Really, really looking forward to this. The timing of this project, for me anyway, could not be better :)
Creator James Shore on May 31, 2012
@Ismael The "Lessons Learned" videos are likely to have a transcript, but the "Live" and "Caffeinated" videos won't.
Creator Ismael Blesa on May 31, 2012
Are the videos going to have a transcription ? Sometimes it is helpful to be able to read and listen at the same time :)
Creator James Shore on May 26, 2012
I'm currently planning to do my continuous integration builds on a Windows VM, so yes.
Creator Andrei Vieru on May 26, 2012
any chance for spending few minutes on how to set things up on windows to follow along there as well? thanks
Creator James Shore on May 26, 2012
@Adam We were featured in Peter Cooper's Javascript Weekly: http://javascriptweekly.com/ .
Creator Adam Wendt on May 26, 2012
Where did the huge jump in backers come from yesterday?
Creator James Shore on May 25, 2012
@Adam Sure, just add $5 for every login that you want to have early access.
Creator Adam Wendt on May 25, 2012
@James Any chance of a way to add-on at least 1 early access to a GARAGE STARTUP?
Creator James Shore on May 24, 2012
@Alexandru Thank you! I'll keep you in mind when the time comes.
Creator Alexandru Vladutu on May 24, 2012
@James if you need any help with the site (aside from the design) I am willing to help.
Creator James Shore on May 23, 2012
Thanks! You took us over the $10,000 mark. :-) Getting close now!
Creator Alan Plum on May 23, 2012
Also, kudos for using WebStorm. It's certainly one of the best IDEs for writing both server-side and client-side JavaScript.
Creator Alan Plum on May 23, 2012
Pure awesome! I've watched the original until I got bored with the focus on Java. There simply aren't enough web shows on best practices in languages other than Java and Ruby. Only $2000 to go!
Creator James Shore on May 21, 2012
Great idea. I'll see what I can do on my end.
Creator Ben Best on May 21, 2012
Not sure how easy it is to influence the content but my guess is getting this project into the javascript weekly newsletter (http://javascriptweekly.com/) might get it some attention as well! Maybe if backers can tweet it to @peterc (the editor) then it might get in there for this week.
Creator James Shore on May 17, 2012
Thanks for the feedback! I'll turn off autocomplete next time.
This *is* a build process, but you're not the first person to be concerned about others misunderstanding that, so I'll add a note to the transcript page. Those are the sorts of issues that will be discussed in the Live channel.
Creator Alexandru Vladutu on May 17, 2012
I want to make 2 observations after viewing your sample video:
1) Please turn off autocomplete if you can, it kind of distracts my attention from what you're typing.
2) Try not to use synchronous functions with Node, and if you really want to use them specify that it's an exception (maybe a build process or something) and one should not do that all the time.
Looking forward to the early videos :)
Creator James Shore on May 15, 2012
Yep, LESS and Sass are both on the list of technologies to consider.
(Pew pew!)
Creator David Woldrich on May 15, 2012
Also, may I suggest you use LESS css for your static styles. It's pretty super if you're starting a green field project and working from scratch.
Creator David Woldrich on May 15, 2012
The game you create must contain lasers, or the deal is off! ;)