I am an illustrator, turned front end developer, turned "just get it done" rails developer. I am currently working on a basic forum for a website that is 100% E

I am an illustrator, turned front end developer, turned "just get it done" rails developer. I am currently working on a basic forum for a website that is 100% Ember powered. Before finding Ember, I created "islands of richness" with Backbone.js. What was frustrating for me was my own lack of software engineering skills. I would design these hard to maintain apps that were just an absolute mess at the end. Like Rails, Ember opened this world of application development that has been such an absolute thrill to get into. It teaches me good practices, you instantly feel when you're doing something wrong. I have been working with Ember every day for the past two months, and yea there are times that I get lost and it's frustrating, like struggling with complex forms in Rails for the first time, but you eventually move past it and the feeling is gratifying. I'm not the best dev in the world, but Ember has shifted my vision on what I can create completely, and I am really excited for the first time in a while. For me, Ember isn't just a framework, I find myself using the Ember runtime everywhere. Where I used to take Backbone models and collections, I know take Ember core - even in a Node environment. I really appreciate what Tom and Yehuda have done as well as the rest of the community. It has me excited to create in this new way I had not been able to before.