Summary: Episode 184 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week our regular interview host Louis Simoneau (@rssaddict) interviews Colin Ihrig (@cjihrig) about the new website from Sitepoint called JSPro.com where Colin is the Managing Editor. Listen in Your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser — just click the orange “play” button below: Download this Episode You can download this episode as a standalone MP3 file. Here’s the link: SitePoint Podcast #184: JSPro.com with Colin Ihrig (MP3, 16:05, 15.4MB) Subscribe to the Podcast The SitePoint Podcast is on iTunes! Add the SitePoint Podcast to your iTunes player. Or, if you don’t use iTunes, you can subscribe to the feed directly. Episode Summary Louis and Colin talk about the launch of JSPro.com, what it’s aims are immediately, and how it aims to move forward. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1328644474660-10'); }); Browse the full list of links referenced in the show at http://delicious.com/sitepointpodcast/184. Interview Transcript Louis: Hello, and welcome to another episode of the SitePoint Podcast. With me on the show today is the managing editor of SitePoint’s latest content site, which is JSPro.com, Colin Ihrig. Hi, Colin. Colin: Hi, Louis. Louis: Hi, and welcome to the show. Colin: Thanks for having me. Louis: Yeah, so we’ve just launched a new site, really, all about JavaScript. Do you want to talk a little bit about what JSPro is and how you came to be involved in it? Colin: Okay, so JSPro is basically the SitePoint network’s new place for everything related to JavaScript. We’re going to be covering things like jQuery, Node.js, native JavaScript — plain old vanilla JavaScript — and just everything on the topic. The way I got involved was I was originally just a writer for SitePoint, and I asked Tom, the editor, “What could I do to be more involved?” And I was originally just planning on writing more articles, but he said, “Oh, well, we have this new site launching. How would you like to work with it?” I said, “Sure.” Louis: Right. So I take it you’ve been working with JavaScript for some time? Colin: I taught myself back in high school and, basically, every job I’ve had since then, I’ve been working with it. Louis: Right. One of the things that was surprising to me when I found out that this new site was being launched, I thought, “Oh, yeah, that’s great — a good, new site by JavaScript — that makes sense.” And then I thought to myself, “Well, that’s funny. I don’t know any other sites that spring to mind as a place to go to find tutorials and information by JavaScript.” So there was nothing off the top of my head, but then even when I looked into it, I couldn’t really find anything. So I wonder if it’s maybe just sort of a sign of a new stage in JavaScript’s development that it’s the right time for a site focused on JavaScript? I was thinking things like CoffeeScript and Backbone.js and Node have only been around for a few years, so does it seem to you like now is a good time for this? Colin: Well, I think it’s a combination of a few things. First, for a long time JavaScript had a bad reputation and it was just something that teenagers would put on their websites to make things blink. And second, there are a lot of blogs out there and random websites that have some content, but JavaScript has evolved to the point where there is so much with so many different libraries and everything — client-side, server-side – that to get everything in one place is just really hard, and we need a site that is collective of real people, or working lists such as JSPro. Louis: Yeah, I’m looking forward to seeing the kind of stuff you’ll be covering. Have you worked with Node.js, for example? Colin: Yeah, I have worked [...]
