What's the role of Developer advocacy?

Many companies today have this role called Developer advocacy. What do they do? For example: Hadi Hariri from Jetbrains Rey Bango from Microsoft John Papa calls himself developer advocate of HTML/CSS and JavaScript.

What advice would you give to developers who switch companies continuously to increase pay scale?

What other languages do variable hoisting?

I remember learning variable hoisting when I was learning JavaScript for the first time. From MDN docs: Because variable declarations (and declarations in general) are processed before any code is executed, declaring a variable anywhere in the code ...

What was the worst piece of code you’ve ever written?

Code confessions, if you may… You grow as a programmer over time, and looking back at some piece of code, you’ve written a while ago would make you uneasy. Has this happened to you? I was going through my old code and found this: jQuery(jQuery('*', ...

Is it common to fetch data from the backend for every React view that needs access to data, or is there a different, efficient way to do this?

Fetching data for every react view “seems” a little inefficient, putting it inside the lifecycle hook: componentDidMount. Is it a common practice? How do you handle data fetches in your React apps?

What is the most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?

If I look back at my careers there are many ways I have tried to improve my coding skill : reading other's code, writing various programs, reading popular books, listening to many podcasts, watching screencasts and more. My question is: What is the m...

What is Apple's goal with Swift language?

What is Apple trying to achieve by launching an open source Swift programming language?

What is your current Atom theme?

Atom is awesome! One of the best open source projects. TBH, you can always find me loitering atom's packages section. I try to find new and good themes and keep my editor fresh and shiny always. :) Which atom theme are you currently using and what a...

How does Polymer fare against React?

I have read that Polymer has web components; does it also have a Virtual DOM that does the diffs with the DOM, or does it directly render to the DOM? Also, I’m curious to know, which is better as far as performance is considered?