• Ext: code quality issues even worse with GWT
• jQueryUI: widget versioning hell
• Derby.js
• Sencha: Corporate sponsorship

Without even looking at the tools and anciliary:

• Mobile performance

• Look at the use case of the framework author to see if it fits with your goals
• No UI = no bugs
• JavaScript UI Frameworks mirror Python (Django) or Ruby (Rails)
• If you create a framework what are the costs for pulling in new users

• trees
• dialogs

See breakdown: https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc .

• Perpetual license
• MIT or push core /

• Ownership of the code
• Do you need to eat?
• It is a mental step to move into the product space
• Example: $2000 for tech exploration
• Launch, create pricing ($5000), sell or have rates
• Example: Cloud service for $500 but with custom option

• What is the target market
• Do you need a product or just a presentation
• Bring a tool-chain
• Custom code suffers bitrot as soon as it
• Is your client a special flower
• Shared source may be more palitable to clients
• Do you walk away after the project finishes
• Just don't sell to my competitor
• Win without pitching as anti-RFP
• Are you labeled as an expert (from https://gingerhq.com/)

• What are you offering?
• "If you're there just to write code you shouldn't be in consulting"
• "If you're not tracking your time and value you're doing it wrong"
• Are you building for R&D + maintenence
• Should you split the code into reuseable
• Do you create a perpetual term license
• Do you develop just for a contract or do you create
• Do you and the client both work to make the project a success
• You don't have to package or create a community, just add an MIT license
• Can value be accurately judged or measured
• When is your product failing (act as your own VC)

**

• performance
• usability
• monetization
• build
• app ontology
• adoption
• consumer -> developer -> app vendor -> browser vendor
• channel is marketing rather than technology

Went through the Resig Advanced JavaScript¹ slides.

// The .bind method from Prototype.js 
Function.prototype.bind = function(){ 
  var fn = this, args = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments), object = args.shift(); 
  return function(){ 
    return fn.apply(object, 
      args.concat(Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments))); 
  }; 
};

• how do you distinguish betw
• web vs. server programming
• server: debugging, npm
• problem with junior / intermediate is this context
• can you ignore the issue by moving to functional style

Util.hideButton = function() {
  this.hide();
}

• authentication https://github.com/plataformatec/devise

• http://torquebox.org/
• https://github.com/rails/arel
• http://www.iron.io/
• http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2009/09/23/albacore-a-suite-of-rake-build-tasks-for-net-solutions/