Answering questions on Joomla StackExchange, reaching 4,000

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Published: 12 May 2015

• Stack Exchange

A year ago, I started answering questions on Joomla StackExchange.

Until now, the experience has evolved from simple Q&A to pretty challenging answers, for example on Javascript Frameworks integration of Mobile Apps.

StackExchange is very helful to provide stats and badgets. Let's review the experience in numbers:

My Top Answers

• Upgrade from 2.5 to 3.x overview
• How can we get involved in Joomla! CMS Testing?
• How to build a RESTful API with Joomla
• Tracking contact form submissions for different pages with Google Analytics
• Should I change the way I include javascript into Joomla? If yes, why and how?
• Is there a way to have the article edit box stretch the full width of the screen in Joomla 2.5?Is there a way to have the article edit box stretch the full width of the screen in Joomla 2.5?

Reaching 4,000 reputation

Reputation has been steadily growing. I am devoting less time these months, but at least once per day I visit the site to check new interesting questions.

According to StackOverflow 2015 Developer Survey, I am on 0.9% of active users. Additionally, the survey claims that there is a link between compensation and reputation... let's see.

Even though, my wife always asks why I waste time on that site, I plan to be answering more questions!

AngularJS 2 and ES6 are coming, and nothing is going to be the same

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Published: 15 April 2015

• AngularJS
• Ionic
• Javascript
• ES6
• Ingles

Javascript world is about to change. ES6 is coming with the promise of many improvements and fixes for the bad parts.

ECMAScript 6, also known as ECMAScript 2015, is the upcoming version of the ECMAScript standard. This standard is targeting ratification in June 2015. ES6 is a significant update to the language, and the first update to the language since ES5 was standardized in 2009. Implementation of these features in major JavaScript engines is underway now.

On the other hand, AngularJS (by Google) is on the verge of a major change, adopting ES6 features, readying a fully incompatible new version, 2.0.

Why AngularJS?

HTML is great for declaring static documents, but it falters when we try to use it for declaring dynamic views in web-applications. AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop.

My notes about AngularJS 2.0 deprecated features:

• Controllers
• DDO (Directive Definition Object)
• $scope
• angular.module
• jqLite

And, to have a glimpse of this upcoming paradigm shift, Ionic team has published two articles in their blog with nice examples, taking advantage of Angular 2 and ES6. This is how an AngularJS component in Javascript ES6 looks like:

import {Component, Template} from 'angular2/angular2'

@Component({
  selector: 'my-component'
})
@Template({
  inline: "
Hello my name is {{name}}
"
})
export class MyComponent {
  constructor() {
    this.name = 'Max'
  }
  sayMyName() {
    console.log('My name is', this.name)
  }
}    	

Interesting Times Ahead in the Javascript World!