JSConf 2010 Slides

For those of us who didn’t make it, I’ve compiled a list of slides + blog posts from the JSConf 2010 Track A speakers

Alex Russell – “Google Chrome Frame”
Post: http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/
Slides: http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/10/jsconf/gcf.html

Francisco Tolmasky – “Socratic: Documentation Done Right”
GitHub: http://github.com/tolmasky/socratic
Slides: ?

Aaron Newton – “Programming To Patterns”
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/guest2ee5e2c/programming-to-patterns-presentation (not up-to-date)

Jed Schmidt – “A (fab) approach to web apps”
GitHub: http://github.com/jed/fab
Slides: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tr4nslator/sets/72157623883700702/show/

Dmitry Baranovskiy – “Raphaël the Great”
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Dmitry.Baranovskiy/raphal-js-conf

Douglas Crockford – “Really, JavaScript?”
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Tobias Schneider – “Flash is dead, long live Flash!”
GitHub: http://github.com/tobeytailor/gordon
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/ConfEcho/flash-is-dead-long-live-flash

Makinde Adeagbo – “Primer: Facebook’s 2k of JavaScript to power (almost) all interactions”
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/makinde/javascript-primer

Steve Souders – “The Best of Steve”
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/souders/jsconf-us-2010

Jenn Lukas – “JavaScript and Web Standards Sitting in a Tree”
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/JennLukas/javascript-and-web-standards-sitting-in-a-tree

Ryan Dahl – “Less is More in Node.js”
Slides: http://nodejs.org/jsconf2010.pdf

Billy Hoffman – “JavaScript’s Evil Side”
Slides: ?

John David Dalton – “All you can leet”
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/johndaviddalton/jsconf-all-you-can-leet

Aaron Quint – “Making Bacon / Making Code”
GitHub: http://github.com/quirkey/sammy
Post: http://www.quirkey.com/blog/2010/04/20/making-baconmaking-code-jsconf-2010/
Slides: http://swinger.quirkey.com/#/preso/aq-jsconf/display/1
Video: http://bit.ly/9j7u3L

Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, and Matt McNulty – “The mobile web”
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/dion/the-mobile-web-2010-jsconf

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Node.JS and the WebSocket protocol

After reading Simon Willison’s post on Node.JS, I decided I’d give it a try myself. Today I released node.websocket.js

After a couple of months I’ve been watching the progress on the WebSocket protocol, which gives JavaScript developers full-duplex communications channels in the browser. This is a very exciting alternative to the COMET techniques we’re used to seeing.

Node.JS is a framework for networked, event-driven applications, where JavaScript has a natural fit. This particular implementation is built on top of the excellent V8 engine.

Running the server is as simple as:

$ node runserver.js

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Posted in Blog 9 months ago

Don’t repeat your moo

Given the Object-Oriented nature of the MooTools framework, code repetition is something that is long forgotten (or should be) in the scripts your write. With the avoidance of code repetition comes code reusability, which results in your website being easier to read, extend and maintain, and your scripts smaller in size.

At this point there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that DRY is a principle we should stick to. However, let’s examine how to achieve this in the right way.

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Posted in Client side about 1 year ago

Adding placeholders to inputs in Javascript

As I release my latest MooTools plugin, PlaceholderInput, that adds support for input placeholders, I decided to explain my solution, and what others are available.

An example of my implementation is seen on the Devthought sidebar, right next to this post. I’ll analyze next the different solutions that have been offered for this problem, and the upsides and downsides each has.

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Posted in Client side about 1 year ago

BSOD comes to the Web

In my unstoppable pursuit of the best user experience scripting techniques, I decided to bring the famous BSOD to the web developers’ world.

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I came up with a document describing the projections, possibilities and capabilities of my creation, which you can access here. It includes different scenarios and variations of this implementation.

Go to the project page for download and other useful links.

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Posted in Client side about 1 year ago

How Flash currently aids Javascript development

Most people tend to believe Javascript and Flash are meant to be rivals. However, for some important tasks, Javascript falls short and Macromedia comes to the rescue.

Let’s revise some of the most remarkable scenarios.

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Posted in Client side over 2 years ago