MMM, Javascript!

Having recently moved, all my arduino gizmos and 3d printers are packed away in the garage. (sadface!)   I figured in the interest of keeping my blog going, I'll shift gears a little bit.     I recently accepted the position of Senior Frontend Developer at a very well funded "startup" backed by an age-old brick and mortar.   This means I'll finally be able to shed much of the "burden" that being a Coldfusion developer has created in my career.  

I've been a fan of Javascript for a loooong time.   I remember making "dynamic" pages with lots of iframes and some very cryptic code.   It's aged well over the years with many new tools and several shifts in the overall mindset of its application.    Along came jQuery and I was in love - write less code?!   I'm in.    The newly-wed stage lasted for a few years and other trends came and went.   After attending some conferences that were less coldfusion-centric, my interest was ignited again when I was introduced to the world of "full stack javascript" and MV* frameworks for the front end.

I worked on several projects with NodeJS, then introduced MongoDB, then AngularJS.   I really started to sink my teeth into Angular!   Suddenly, I was writing large chunks of functionality with very few lines of code!  

I'm looking forward to writing more about the tools I'll be using in my new position, so please stay tuned!