Dec 4 2013
The Discover Meteor Workshop
The hardest part about learning a new skill is often starting out. You have no context or reference point yet, so you don’t even know how much you’ll need to learn before you’re operational.
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Dec 1 2013
Announcing The Iron Router Update
When we set out to write Discover Meteor, we knew we were signing up for a long-term job. Meteor evolves at a rapid pace, so from the start we promised to update the book and keep up with the changes.
Nov 22 2013
Finding Meteor Work
The other day I received this email from one of our readers:
I’m fascinated by Meteor and would like to take a freelance project related to it. Only I couldn’t find any. Could you please give an advice on how to find a good Meteor project to work on? Denis Gorbachev
Nov 3 2013
Illustreets: Mapping the UK with Meteor
A few days ago, we received this email from one of our readers:
I am a Meteor fan, and a reader (better said, learner) of your book. In February 2013 I started a project, which soon I ported completely to Meteor, despite this amazing framework being very young at that time. It was a bit of a challenge to get my head around it, but thanks to your book I learned to master it in days. – Manuel Timita
Oct 29 2013
Marketing Your Personal Projects
If you intend to make money from a personal project, you’ll sooner or later have to think about marketing. If not, chances are you’ll end up with yet another great product that nobody’s heard about.
Oct 15 2013
Meteor for the Enterprise: Scoutzie's Internal Dashboard
An important step for any new technology is being used in production by a major player: LinkedIn with Node.js, Twitter with Scala, Google with Go…
While this hasn’t happened with Meteor yet, under the surface many companies are already using Meteor for side projects and internal tools.
Oct 5 2013
Meteor Meetup in Beijing: An Introduction to Meteor
If there’s a prize for “Most Meteor Meetups Attended in Different Cities, I think I’m probably in the running. After San Francisco, London, and Paris (Tokyo is hopefully coming soon too!), I’ll have a chance to meet up with Beijing’s Meteor enthusiasts on October 18th at the first Beijing Meteor Meetup.
Oct 4 2013
Running Meteor Apps in the Browser with Nitrous.io
If I told you you can get a Meteor app up and running in 5 minutes without having to install anything locally, would you be interested?
Continuing our series on companies developing tools and services to help with Meteor development (see our previous post on Modulus), today I’d like to talk about Nitrous.io.
Sep 17 2013
Meteor for Front-End Engineers
(Note: this blog post originally appeared on David Walsh’s blog)
As part of my daily web browsing routine, I follow a number of front-end blogs. I’m always amazed at how far good front-end engineers can push JavaScript and CSS, and how well they are able to master the intricacies of web browsers.
Yet I also can’t help but notice that a lot of front-end developers seem to limit themselves to, well, the front-end.
Jul 25 2013
Meteor App Showcase: Mindmeld, a Real-Time Issue Tracker
The mission of Discover Meteor has always been enabling people without any Meteor knowledge to write their own app as quickly as possible.
Jun 26 2013
The Premium Edition is Complete
It took us a little longer than we expected, but we’re happy to announce that Discover Meteor’s Premium Edition is finally complete!
Jun 20 2013
Host Meteor Apps Anywhere With Demeteorizer
A while back I stumbled on Demeteorizer, a new way to package Meteor apps into regular Node apps. After seeing a few people using it, I decided to find out more about the project, and got in touch with project creator Brandon Cannaday from Modulus to ask a few questions.
Jun 6 2013
Testing Meteor Apps with Laika
Ever since we started working on our book, one of the most frequently asked questions was how to test Meteor apps. But we had to admit that we simply hadn’t found a good solution yet, which is why the book didn’t cover testing at all.
Jun 3 2013
Discover Meteor in .net Magazine
If you happent to live in the UK, pick up this month’s .net magazine and you’ll find a Meteor tutorial by none other than Tom and me.
May 27 2013
Running Meteor on Windows with Gabriel Pugliese
While working on the book, we collected a lot of material that ended up not making it into the final edition. So we decided to make this extra material available for free.
May 21 2013
Vote for Our Next Screencasts
We got a lot of great feedback on the two screencasts that we included in the Full Edition package. So for the Premium Edition, we decided to get Evented Mind’s Chris Mather to help us again with two more screencasts.
May 16 2013
An Interview with Matt DeBergalis
This is an excerpt from our interview with Meteor’s Matt DeBergalis. The full version is available in our full package
Mar 20 2013
Using Meteor and Atmosphere on Windows
If you want to learn about Meteor and you are a Windows platform, you are a little out of luck. Unfortunately, as of this writing, Windows is not included on the list of supported platforms. However all is not lost. Read on intrepid traveller!
Mar 12 2013
5 Meteor Misconceptions
For some reasons there are a lot of misconceptions floating around about Meteor. Maybe this is because when Meteor initially launched, it was missing a few key features, and many people are not aware that these shortcomings have long since been patched up.
Feb 20 2013
A Look at a Meteor Template
Building a simple app from scratch is one of the best ways to learn a new language or framework.
But after your sixth time building a to-do list app, you start craving something new. So for once, let’s look at some code from an actual app, in this case Telescope.
Feb 10 2013
Useful Meteor Resources
Taking those first couple steps with a new framework can feel daunting when you don’t know where to look. So here are some resources to help you join in:
Jan 30 2013
Getting Started with Meteor
So you’ve heard of this Meteor thing and you are wondering what it’s all about?
Let’s create a bare-bones application and have a play with it. Hopefully we’ll learn a thing or two along the way.
