Cross-Pollinating Communities: We all Win

You may have heard the quote, "Good artists copy, great artists steal."

Ember's origins were inspired by Cocoa. Ember has taken many cues from Rails, the biggest coming in the form of strong framework conventions. In 1.13, Ember's rendering engine was rewritten based on concepts pioneered by React. Instead of writing their own cli from the ground up, Angular has embraced ember-cli.

Let's examine past and future benefits of sharing ideas, and what it means for our favorite framework and our industry as a whole.

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1. Cross-Pollinating Communities: We All Win cball_
2. cball_ “Good artists copy; great artists steal.”
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4. cball_ “I mean, Picasso had a saying. He said good artists copy; great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.” Steve Jobs Apple
5. cball_ “Good artists copy; great artists steal.” Pablo Picasso Painter ◦
6. cball_ So if Picasso didn’t say it, who did?
7. cball_ “A good composer does not imitate; he steals.” Igor Stravinsky Composer
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9. cball_ “Immature artists copy, great artists steal.” William Faulkner Author
10. cball_ “Knowing what and when to steal is very much a part of the designer’s self- education.” William Faulkner Author
11. cball_ What does this mean?!?
12. cball_ Wait! these names sound familiar…
13. cball_ We are influenced by what has come before us.
14. cball_ Steal good ideas and make them your own.
15. Chris Ball
16. has “stolen” from 1. Communities 2. Communities that have “stolen” from is helping shape our industry 3. How
17. has “stolen” from 1. Communities 2. Communities that have “stolen” from is helping shape our industry 3. How
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20. cball_ Brought desktop-style MVC architecture
21. cball_ Brought desktop-style MVC architecture Component Template Route
22. cball_ KVO (key-value-observers)
23. cball_ get() and set()
24. cball_ Computed Properties!
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26. cball_ 2011 - Rework of Sproutcore to support auto-updating templates.
27. cball_ 2.0
28. cball_ "After a lot of soul-searching, we decided to start from scratch with SproutCore 2.0, taking with us the best, core ideas of SproutCore, but leaving the large, somewhat sprawling codebase behind."
29. cball_ 2.0 Amber.js
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31. cball_ http://yehudakatz.com/2011/12/08/ announcing-amber-js/
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33. cball_ Convention over Configuration
34. cball_ Powerful Tooling
35. cball_ The Router
36. cball_ "Happy Developer" functions
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38. cball_ One-way bindings
39. cball_ Data down, Actions Up.
40. cball_ Virtual DOM, DOM Diffing
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43. cball_ Lightweight Framework = lightweight functions.
44. cball_ modelForRoute modelDidLoad componentDidRender
45. cball_ model afterModel didRender
46. cball_ "With Ember.js, we've spent a lot of time borrowing liberally from concepts introduced by native application frameworks like Cocoa."
47. cball_ "When we felt those concepts were more hindrance than help - or didn't fit within the unique constraints of the web - we turned to other popular open source projects like Ruby on Rails and Backbone.js for inspiration."
48. has “stolen” from 1. Communities 2. Communities that have “stolen” from is helping shape our industry 3. How
49. has “stolen” from 1. Communities 2. Communities that have “stolen” from is helping shape our industry 3. How
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51. cball_ React Router
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56. cball_ Likely others, not all projects state these things explicitly.
57. has “stolen” from 1. Communities 2. Communities that have “stolen” from is helping shape our industry 3. How
58. has “stolen” from 1. Communities 2. Communities that have “stolen” from is helping shape our industry 3. How
59. cball_ Promises
60. cball_ Web Components
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63. cball_ TC39
64. cball_ Don't just create framework features; help out everyone.
65. cball_ Why does this matter?
66. cball_ Successful communities toggle between 2 modes on the path to greatness.
67. cball_ Mode 1: Experimentation aka “open mode”
68. cball_ Mode 2: Shared Solutions aka “closed mode”
69. cball_ Successful communities toggle between 2 modes on the path to greatness.
70. cball_ Successful communities toggle between 2 modes on the path to greatness. companies products developers designers etc
71. cball_ continues to innovate and iterate.
72. cball_ Um, yeah… I'm going to need you to go ahead and stick around for a few more years.
73. cball_ Build on what has come before you.
74. cball_ Look at other communities.
75. cball_ Look at other industries.
76. cball_ Be shameless about “stealing” good ideas.
77. cball_ Thanks!
78. cball_ http://networthhq.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Pablo-Picasso.jpg Image Credits http://img.sxsw.com/2015/films/F52361.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stravinsky_picasso.png http://cp91279.biography.com/ 1000509261001/1000509261001_1313105647001_Bio-Mini-Bio-Writers-Faulkner- SF.jpg https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/General/Conceptual/ DevPedia-CocoaCore/Art/model_view_controller_2x.png
79. cball_ http://www.elementscompiler.com/images/screenshots/Oxygene-Home-Cocoa-Code.png Image Credits http://wisdump.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/mobileme.jpg http://7-themes.com/6934143-hammock-under-palms.html https://www.viget.com/uploads/image/blog/wwf-code-small.jpg http://blog.bugsnag.com/img/posts/react-code.png http://www.simingshanghai.com/uploadfile/2011061115464987151.jpg