Podcasts about envy ordinary lives

On this episode, Chelsey Stone, a freelance writer and book tour leader, describes herself as someone who reads to learn. She brings a lot of really great non-fiction books to the show, and while some of them can be a bit of a bummer, these books help Chelsey learn more about herself and the world while facing reality through reading.    NatGeo article about the Chicago River Read and Run on the Road in DC  Guided Tour of Lemont's Waterways    Book Talk and Signing for The Kat Bunglar with Tanima Kazi    Books mentioned in this episode:    What Betsy's reading:  The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich  West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge    Books Highlighted by: Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe  Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barabara Demick The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Alexander Solzhenitsyn The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of WWII by Iris Chang Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson  Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb  Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos  All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque  How to Read a Book by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer J. Adler    All books available on my Bookshop.org episode page.   Other books mentioned in this episode: Instagram for Dummies by Corey Walker, et al  Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe  Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe  Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck  Cannery Row by John Steinbeck  To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck  Travels with Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck  The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo  The Address Book by Deirdre Mask  Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders  A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse by Tara Nurin & Teri Fahrendorf  Life of Pi by Yann Martel  Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard  Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe  The Fate of Africa by Martin Meredith  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler  The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler 

Journalist and author Barbara Demick discusses her new, powerful, and must-read book "Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins". With a deep boots-on-the-ground experience, she details the brutality of China's one-child policy and the profound lasting effects it continues to have. She describes the scandalous adoption frenzy that took place, where officials illegally kidnapped Chinese children from their families and disappeared them. Demick found a needle in a haystack and managed to reunite one set of twins who were strewn across the planet, from America to China. Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rumble / Substack / YouTube Geopolitics & Empire · Barbara Demick: Abducted & Adopted, The Story of China's One-Child Policy #553 *Support Geopolitics & Empire! Become a Member https://geopoliticsandempire.substack.com Donate https://geopoliticsandempire.com/donations Consult https://geopoliticsandempire.com/consultation **Visit Our Affiliates & Sponsors! Above Phone https://abovephone.com/?above=geopolitics easyDNS (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://easydns.com Escape Technocracy course (15% off with GEOPOLITICS) https://escapethetechnocracy.com/geopolitics PassVult https://passvult.com Sociatates Civis (CitizenHR, CitizenIT, CitizenPL) https://societates-civis.com Wise Wolf Gold https://www.wolfpack.gold/?ref=geopolitics Websites Website https://www.barbarademick.com Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins https://www.barbarademick.com/book/daughters-of-the-bamboo-grove X https://x.com/barbarademick About Barbara Demick Barbara Demick is author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood and the recently released Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, published by Random House in July 2020.  She was bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and Seoul, and previously reported from the Middle East and Balkans for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Demick grew up in New Jersey and graduated from Yale College Her work has won many awards including the Samuel Johnson prize (now the Baillie Gifford prize) for non-fiction in the U.K., the Overseas Press Club's human rights reporting award, the Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy award and Stanford University's Shorenstein Award for Asia coverage. Her North Korea book was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She was a press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Bagehot fellow in business journalism at Columbia University and a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University.  She lives in New York City. *Podcast intro music is from the song "The Queens Jig" by "Musicke & Mirth" from their album "Music for Two Lyra Viols": http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Barbara Demick is a journalist, an essayist, and is the author of both "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" and "Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town." During our conversation, Barbara talks about how she became interested in North Korea, the founding of North Korea in 1945, how its society is structured, its ability to isolate its citizens from the outside world, its famine in the 1990's, the defectors she met who became the key characters in her book, and whether its leadership are true-believing Communists or primarily hungry for power.She also talks about her more recent book, "Eat the Buddha," which details the Chinese history and relationship with Tibet, the day-to-day lives of ordinary Tibetan citizens, what happened in 1958, Tibetan acts of self-immolation, and the influence of the Dalai Lama. As Barbara mentions during the interview, it's the role of the journalist to provide the truth, not to provide hope. And in both of these oppressed places, any enduring hope that may change the plight of North Koreans and Tibetans must start by having an accurate understanding of the tragedy, the history, and lived reality of its people.------------Support this podcast via VenmoSupport this podcast via PayPalSupport this podcast on Patreon------------Show notesLeave a rating on SpotifyLeave a rating on Apple PodcastsFollow "Keep Talking" on social media and access all episodes------------(00:00) Introduction(02:35) Early life and interest in studying North Korea(05:53) The creation of North Korea(08:50) North Korea from the 50s to 80s(11:32) Getting access to North Koreans(19:22) The traumas of the North Koreans(23:08) “Nothing To Envy” quotes and the book's impact on North Koreans(28:10) The North Korean famine of the 90s(31:31) Is the North Korean leadership evil, or committed Communists?(35:45) North Korea in 2022(39:27) “Nothing To Envy” quotes – abuse of power in North Korea(44:48) Threats to freedom in the US(48:34) Hope for North Korean people(49:01) Interest in studying the relationship between China and Tibet(55:09) The importance of the year 1958 for Tibet(59:58) “Eat The Buddha” quotes(01:05:37) Life of a Tibetan(01:12:06) Lesser-known truths about North Korea and Tibet

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. Image Credits: Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il Theme music by ProleteR.

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

Barbara Demick is the author of Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town (2020), Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (2009), and Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo neighborhood (1996). She spent 12 years as bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times in Beijing and Seoul and previously reported from the Middle East and Balkans for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Barbara has won many awards for her work, including the Samuel Johnson prize (now the Baillie Gifford prize) for non-fiction in the UK, the Overseas Press Club's human rights reporting award, the George Polk Award, the Robert F Kennedy Award, and Stanford University's Shorenstein Award for Asia coverage. Her North Korea book was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She was a press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Bagehot fellow in business journalism at Columbia University, and a visiting professor of journalism at Princeton University. She grew up in New Jersey, graduated from Yale College, and now lives in New York City.Barbara joins NuVoices board member Sophia Yan to discuss her most recent book, Eat the Buddha, which tells the story of Ngaba, a town high on a Tibetan plateau that is one of the most hidden corners of the world, and near-impossible for foreigners to visit. Through the rich tales of those linked to this town, Barbara illuminates decades of intertwined Tibetan and Chinese history, and explores what it means to be Tibetan today — to preserve a culture, faith and language despite all odds. Barbara talks about navigating reporting on China, despite the challenges, imparts sage writing advice, and previews her next book in the works. Recommendations:Sophia: Read Barbara's books! Eat the Buddha; Nothing to Envy; Logavina Street. Also this fascinating New Yorker article from May that I just read (the issues take forever to arrive abroad) about cutting-edge research on using electricity to regenerate limbs.Barbara: The Ministry for the Future, a science fiction book set in the near future about people trying to save the world from the ravages of climate change. I was reading it as the New York City subways flooded from the tail of Hurricane Ida. Evan Osnos' forthcoming Wildland: The Making of America's Fury, about how America is tearing itself apart with political polarization. Yes, I know you'd say not exactly soothing bedtime reading. More cheerful listening to podcaster Mike Duncan's Hero of Two Worlds about the Marquis de Lafayette.Self-Care Suggestions:Sophia: Not looking at your phone and emails/messages the minute you wake up! Try setting a timeframe – say half an hour – or perhaps until your morning routine is over (ie brushing teeth, washing face, making/having breakfast. Look out the window, enjoy your coffee/tea/Oatly/delivered jianbing! Then.... thumb scroll! Barbara: I'd say read before bed (don't watch Netflix or other streaming late at night) and turn off the lights before midnight. Researchers say if you don't get enough sleep in middle age, you increase your chances of dementia.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Support the Echo Offstage Podcast by making a tax-deductible donation to our PayPal! Find out more about Echo Theatre!FB: https://www.facebook.com/echotheatredallasTwitter: @echodallasInsta: @echotheatredallasStay tuned for the Echo Reads production of Catch as Catch Can by Mia Chung this July!Bay Area Playwright's Festival Ma-Yi Writer's LabPaula Vogel Bonnie MetzgarLisa D'AmourTracey Scott WilsonErik EhnJohn SteeberKen Rus SchmollNothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in N. Korea by Barbara Demick-----------------------------------Echo Offstage is a production of Echo Theatre Dallas, a non-profit theatre dedicated to solely producing work by women+ playwrights.Host: Catherine WhitemanExecutive Producer: Kateri Cale, Managing Artistic DirectorProducer & Podcast Manager: Eric BergEditor & Audio Engineer: Jonathan VillalobosTheme Music: Len Barnett with Brent Nance

Join us this month as Justin, Pierce, Vic, and Gavin explore some negatives for both sides of the Cold War, dive into the conflict itself, and talk about some lasting effects of the Cold War. Join the gang as they explore one of the darkest centuries in human history. - Follow us on Twitter - Tune in on the last Saturday of each month to hear us talk live on Twitch! - Check out our Goodreads page to see what we're reading! The books: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot (Vic's book) Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Justin's book) The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Pierce's book) Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell (Gavin's book) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In November 2014, hackers began releasing confidential data that was stolen from Sony Pictures Entertainment. During the hack, the perpetrators demanded that Sony halt the release of the Seth Rogen and James Franco assassination comedy, "The Interview", and they also threatened attacks at any cinemas screening the film. In this episode, Mariam and Aisha dig in to the controversy surrounding the film (spoilers ahead!), North Korean politics and history, and their favourite Seth Rogen films! Further Reading: On North Korea: The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story, by Hyeonseo Lee Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick The Orphan Master's Son, by Adam Johnson On Cyberwarfare: Pod Save The World: Cyber War On the Sony Hack: Everything You Need to Know About Sony's Unprecedented Hacking Disaster (Gawker) Follow us on Twitter: @KindofFunnyPod Follow us on Instagram: @KindofFunnyPod Email us: kindoffunnypodcast@gmail.com

فرمانده "جان جِی مک کلوی" از اعضای کمیته هماهنگ‌سازی نیروی دریایی ایالات متحده به دو سرهنگ جوان زیر دستش یه نقشه می‌ده و می‌گه 30 دقیقه وقت دارید که طرح پیشنهادی‌تون رو آماده کنید...!   روایت و تدوین: محسن خدابخشی | ترجمه و تحقیق: گلنار ابراهیمی | ضبط: فواد سمیعی | با تشکر ویژه از: علیرضا پورمسلمی، حمید محمدی و دکتر سارا اَزوجی   ما همه جا هستیم:ایمیل | توییتر | اینستاگرام | تلگرام از ما حمایت کنید (به صورت ریالی یا ارزی)     منابع: "Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea" (Book) By: Jang Jin-sung "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea" (Book) By: Barbara Demick "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" (Book) By: Blaine Harden "The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag" (Book) By: Kang Chol-Hwan, Pierre Rigoulot "A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea" (Book) By: Masaji Ishikawa "A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea" (Book) By: Eunsun Kim "The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea" (Book) By: Bandi "The Tears of My Soul" (Book) By: Kim Hyun Hee "North Korea (Nations in Transition)" (Book) By: Debra A. Miller "The Korean War" (Book) By: Michael V. Uschan

Erin wants the truth - even if you can’t handle it. From teacher to a lawyer - she’s fighting the good fight because discrimination isn’t always obvious. Defending the underdog in and out of the courtroom - she’s bringing equity and dignity to her clients and her community. And no matter what any outdated opinions she hears - Erin’s going to rock the pantsuit. = LEARN ABOUT ERIN’S WORK: https://fmr.law/attorneys/erin-m-heidrich/ MENTIONS... TV: Better Call Saul (AMC) BOOK: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Barbara Demick) PEOPLE: Barbara Demick (Journalist)

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

[rebroadcast] (Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.

Welcome to Reading Minds, where ordinary people talk about extraordinary books! This is the first of a new kind of episode called Season’s Readings, where I talk with my husband, Mason, about everything I’ve read the past three months and give an update on my reading life. Enjoy!   LET’S BE FRIENDS: Send us an email at readingmindspodcast@gmail.com   Here is a full list of all the titles mentioned on today’s show along with my ratings. For even more books I’ve read this summer, check out my Goodreads account: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/74525142-annie-bruza (And if you’re curious about what Mason’s been reading: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/41383254-mason-bruza)   JUNE Aru Shah and the End of Time- Roshani Chokshi **   The Richest Man in Babylon- George S. Clason ***   Hour of the Bees- Lindsay Eager *****   Unbroken- Laura Hillenbrand *****   Letters to my Daughters- Barbara Rainey ******   The Cow Book- John Connell **   The Cormoran Strike Series- Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling): The Cuckoo’s Calling **** The Silkworm *** Career of Evil **   The Professor’s House- Willa Cather ****     JULY Bachelor Nation- Amy Kaufman ****   The Read-Aloud Family- Sarah Mackenzie ****   The Gospel Comes with a House Key- Rosaria Butterfield *****   The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie *   You Think It, I’ll Say It- Curtis Sittenfeld ****     AUGUST The Ender’s Game Quartet- Orson Scott Card: Ender’s Game **** Speaker for the Dead ***** Xenocide **** Children of the Mind ****   The Wind in the Willows- Kenneth Grahame ****   Cutting for Stone- Abraham Verghese **   The Incendiaries- R.O. Kwon **   Lord of the Flies- William Golding **** https://www.amazon.com/Lord-of-the-Flies/dp/B0000E69E3/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1536174718&sr=8-1   Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux ****   Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea- Barbara Demick ****   Life, the Universe, and Everything- Douglas Adams ***   MENTIONED: The Newlywed Cookbook- Sarah Copeland Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky Wheel of Time series- Robert Jordan   Music: “Ukulele Whistle” and “Happy Ukulele” by Scott Holmes http://www.scottholmesmusic.com

LARB Radio was live at The Last Bookstore in Downtown LA this past Sunday at the Book Release Party for author Tim DeRoche's and illustrator Daniel Gonzalez's 21st century recasting of Mark Twain's American Classic: The Ballad of Huck and Miguel. Co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher facilitated the main event, a free flowing discussion with Tim and Daniel that captivated the overflow crowd with reflections on a book that, much like the original, illuminates many of the central concerns and crises of contemporary American society. Tim and Daniel explain the project's evolution: why Huck's companion Jim, a runaway slave, became Miguel an undocumented migrant; the Mississippi became the LA River; and how Los Angeles, with its limitless diversity and underappreciated nature, plays a staring role accentuated by Daniel's gorgeous prints. Once again, the searing social critique resonates because our hearts are drawn in by the battered-but-unbroken adolescent who finds on the river an older role model, something unavailable to him in "proper" society, in the person of a fellow outcast, Miguel - a human connection, as with Jim, all-but-forbidden by white America. Also, Dan Lopez drops by to share his Olympic Fever, by recommending a book that the Winter Games inspired him to read: Barbara Demick's study of life in the world's most closed and mysterious country, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea.

In this episode, we sat down with North Korea to conduct a podcast about The Interview (2014). Is North Korea’s nuclear weapon program a laughing matter or something to worry about? How does the Kim family stay in power? How to do you show ‘em what your worth when fireworks are banned in your city? Tim Westmyer and special guest Gabe answer these questions and more. This is the seventh in our Mini-Nuke episode series, where we overthink movies with a smaller slice of nuclear weapons plot than our usual full-sized episodes. Before we look to see if our tourist trip to North Korea had refundable airfare, we recommend checking out: -Arms Control Wonk podcast and blog -Barbara Dimmick, “Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea,” 2009 -North Korea Economy Watch -Team America: World Police I'll put up more resources in the coming days here and on show's website, SuperCriticalPodcast.com, for more resources and related items. We aim to have at least one new episode every month. Let us know what you think about the podcast and any ideas you may have about future episodes and guests by reaching out at on Twitter @NuclearPodcast, GooglePlay, SoundCloud, TuneIn, Stitcher Radio, Facebook, SuperCriticalPodcast@gmail.com, and YouTube. Enjoy!

Panel AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:11 - jQuery vs Prototype vs MooTools 10:50 - JavaScript Going Mainstream Fast Browsers Firefox Web Developer Tools V8 Web Stack 13:21 - Usable JavaScript 17:05 - jQuery Pros Cross-Platform CSS Selection Chaining 20:16 - jQuery Mobile 20:48 - QUnit 21:21 - Running jQuery in Node Scraping 22:32 - CSS Manipulation 24:14 - jQuery UI 25:19 - jQuery Community 26:31 - jQuery Plugins AJ’s image Merrick’s image 29:52 - Ender & Zepto.js 33:44 - jQuery Cons Custom Selectors Plugin Documentation API is too large How to build your own jQuery 52:15 - AJ lied about jQuery Picks The Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection (Joe) Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Joe) Human Connectome Project (Merrick) pahen / node-madge (Merrick) Hype Machine (Merrick) Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Jamison) Men’s Medium Tall (AJ) Ubuntu Phone (AJ) Interpreted Dance (AJ) Aaron Frost (AJ) aaronfrost / getusermedia-gestures-preso (AJ) AJ’s Blog (AJ) Hydrofarm Thirsty Light (Chuck) Powermat Power Dual 1200 Rechargeable Backup Battery (Chuck) Joe’s Pluralsight Page Transcript: MERRICK:  Do you want to see my face? [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 45 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal. AJ:  Yo! Yo! Yo! Coming at you live from the screencastosphere of Provo, Utah. CHUCK:  So, I have to ask, AJ. You realize this is a podcast and that it’s coming to no one live, right? [Laughter] AJ:  He’s got a good point. CHUCK:  We also have Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  Yeah, I’m Merrick. CHUCK:  Joe Eames. JOE:  I’m not Merrick, I’m Joe. MERRICK:  He’s Joe. CHUCK:  Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello friends. CHUCK:  And I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. And this week, we’re going to be talking about jQuery. So, I’m assuming we’ve all used jQuery at least a little bit. JAMISON:  Yes. MERRICK:  Yup. CHUCK:  If you’re doing web stuff, it’s pretty handy. MERRICK:  Actually, the first JavaScript code I ever wrote was messing with somebody’s little jQuery stuff on a form. And I remember I couldn’t get it to all work right. So I just had to set async to false. And I was like, “Man, this JavaScript language is stupid!” CHUCK:  [Laughs] AJ:  I wish my first experience had been with jQuery because I was not using jQuery when I was first using JavaScript and it was terribad. It’s like, “This works properly in no browsers!” Because each tutorial is wrong. CHUCK:  Yeah. Well, I remember back in the day when I was using Prototype for my web app. So, jQuery was a huge step up from Prototype, I have to say. MERRICK:  Why? CHUCK:  It’s just that the interface of the API felt better to me. I can’t really quantify how. MERRICK:  That’s fair. I was a big MooTools fan and I was kind of a hate Query, if you will. AJ:  As you should be, actually. MERRICK:  I didn’t hate jQuery per se, but I really loved MooTools just because the APIs were just so beautiful. And also, all of this new age, these structural libraries like Backbone and all that kind of thing was really natural in MooTools already, right? Because everything was so class-oriented and I’m not saying classes are the only way to organize your code.

Panel AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:11 - jQuery vs Prototype vs MooTools 10:50 - JavaScript Going Mainstream Fast Browsers Firefox Web Developer Tools V8 Web Stack 13:21 - Usable JavaScript 17:05 - jQuery Pros Cross-Platform CSS Selection Chaining 20:16 - jQuery Mobile 20:48 - QUnit 21:21 - Running jQuery in Node Scraping 22:32 - CSS Manipulation 24:14 - jQuery UI 25:19 - jQuery Community 26:31 - jQuery Plugins AJ’s image Merrick’s image 29:52 - Ender & Zepto.js 33:44 - jQuery Cons Custom Selectors Plugin Documentation API is too large How to build your own jQuery 52:15 - AJ lied about jQuery Picks The Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection (Joe) Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Joe) Human Connectome Project (Merrick) pahen / node-madge (Merrick) Hype Machine (Merrick) Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Jamison) Men’s Medium Tall (AJ) Ubuntu Phone (AJ) Interpreted Dance (AJ) Aaron Frost (AJ) aaronfrost / getusermedia-gestures-preso (AJ) AJ’s Blog (AJ) Hydrofarm Thirsty Light (Chuck) Powermat Power Dual 1200 Rechargeable Backup Battery (Chuck) Joe’s Pluralsight Page Transcript: MERRICK:  Do you want to see my face? [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 45 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal. AJ:  Yo! Yo! Yo! Coming at you live from the screencastosphere of Provo, Utah. CHUCK:  So, I have to ask, AJ. You realize this is a podcast and that it’s coming to no one live, right? [Laughter] AJ:  He’s got a good point. CHUCK:  We also have Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  Yeah, I’m Merrick. CHUCK:  Joe Eames. JOE:  I’m not Merrick, I’m Joe. MERRICK:  He’s Joe. CHUCK:  Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello friends. CHUCK:  And I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. And this week, we’re going to be talking about jQuery. So, I’m assuming we’ve all used jQuery at least a little bit. JAMISON:  Yes. MERRICK:  Yup. CHUCK:  If you’re doing web stuff, it’s pretty handy. MERRICK:  Actually, the first JavaScript code I ever wrote was messing with somebody’s little jQuery stuff on a form. And I remember I couldn’t get it to all work right. So I just had to set async to false. And I was like, “Man, this JavaScript language is stupid!” CHUCK:  [Laughs] AJ:  I wish my first experience had been with jQuery because I was not using jQuery when I was first using JavaScript and it was terribad. It’s like, “This works properly in no browsers!” Because each tutorial is wrong. CHUCK:  Yeah. Well, I remember back in the day when I was using Prototype for my web app. So, jQuery was a huge step up from Prototype, I have to say. MERRICK:  Why? CHUCK:  It’s just that the interface of the API felt better to me. I can’t really quantify how. MERRICK:  That’s fair. I was a big MooTools fan and I was kind of a hate Query, if you will. AJ:  As you should be, actually. MERRICK:  I didn’t hate jQuery per se, but I really loved MooTools just because the APIs were just so beautiful. And also, all of this new age, these structural libraries like Backbone and all that kind of thing was really natural in MooTools already, right? Because everything was so class-oriented and I’m not saying classes are the only way to organize your code.

Panel AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Jamison Dance (twitter github blog) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) Discussion 01:11 - jQuery vs Prototype vs MooTools 10:50 - JavaScript Going Mainstream Fast Browsers Firefox Web Developer Tools V8 Web Stack 13:21 - Usable JavaScript 17:05 - jQuery Pros Cross-Platform CSS Selection Chaining 20:16 - jQuery Mobile 20:48 - QUnit 21:21 - Running jQuery in Node Scraping 22:32 - CSS Manipulation 24:14 - jQuery UI 25:19 - jQuery Community 26:31 - jQuery Plugins AJ’s image Merrick’s image 29:52 - Ender & Zepto.js 33:44 - jQuery Cons Custom Selectors Plugin Documentation API is too large How to build your own jQuery 52:15 - AJ lied about jQuery Picks The Robert C. Martin Clean Code Collection (Joe) Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Joe) Human Connectome Project (Merrick) pahen / node-madge (Merrick) Hype Machine (Merrick) Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick (Jamison) Men’s Medium Tall (AJ) Ubuntu Phone (AJ) Interpreted Dance (AJ) Aaron Frost (AJ) aaronfrost / getusermedia-gestures-preso (AJ) AJ’s Blog (AJ) Hydrofarm Thirsty Light (Chuck) Powermat Power Dual 1200 Rechargeable Backup Battery (Chuck) Joe’s Pluralsight Page Transcript: MERRICK:  Do you want to see my face? [Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at BlueBox.net.] [This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.] CHUCK:  Hey everybody and welcome to Episode 45 of the JavaScript Jabber show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal. AJ:  Yo! Yo! Yo! Coming at you live from the screencastosphere of Provo, Utah. CHUCK:  So, I have to ask, AJ. You realize this is a podcast and that it’s coming to no one live, right? [Laughter] AJ:  He’s got a good point. CHUCK:  We also have Merrick Christensen. MERRICK:  Yeah, I’m Merrick. CHUCK:  Joe Eames. JOE:  I’m not Merrick, I’m Joe. MERRICK:  He’s Joe. CHUCK:  Jamison Dance. JAMISON:  Hello friends. CHUCK:  And I’m Charles Max Wood from DevChat.tv. And this week, we’re going to be talking about jQuery. So, I’m assuming we’ve all used jQuery at least a little bit. JAMISON:  Yes. MERRICK:  Yup. CHUCK:  If you’re doing web stuff, it’s pretty handy. MERRICK:  Actually, the first JavaScript code I ever wrote was messing with somebody’s little jQuery stuff on a form. And I remember I couldn’t get it to all work right. So I just had to set async to false. And I was like, “Man, this JavaScript language is stupid!” CHUCK:  [Laughs] AJ:  I wish my first experience had been with jQuery because I was not using jQuery when I was first using JavaScript and it was terribad. It’s like, “This works properly in no browsers!” Because each tutorial is wrong. CHUCK:  Yeah. Well, I remember back in the day when I was using Prototype for my web app. So, jQuery was a huge step up from Prototype, I have to say. MERRICK:  Why? CHUCK:  It’s just that the interface of the API felt better to me. I can’t really quantify how. MERRICK:  That’s fair. I was a big MooTools fan and I was kind of a hate Query, if you will. AJ:  As you should be, actually. MERRICK:  I didn’t hate jQuery per se, but I really loved MooTools just because the APIs were just so beautiful. And also, all of this new age, these structural libraries like Backbone and all that kind of thing was really natural in MooTools already, right? Because everything was so class-oriented and I’m not saying classes are the only way to organize your code.