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Knud Möller — RDFa everywhere

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 23, 2010

In this talk, an overview will be given of the RDFa tech­nol­ogy in gen­eral, fol­lowed by an out­line of its lat­est devel­op­ments, such as the RDFa API and the def­i­n­i­tion of RDFa Core.

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Mark Nottingham — Browser Caching and You (A Love Story)

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 23, 2010

Over time, Web devel­op­ers have feared, hated and loved Web caching, at times try­ing to kill it, at oth­ers pro­fess­ing undy­ing love. Mark Nottingham (chair of the IETF HTTPbis Working Group and author of its revised Web Caching spec­i­fi­ca­tion) will exam­ine how browsers (mis)-treat your con­tent today, as well as where your rela­tion­ship with browser caching might go in the future.

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Divya Manian — Active web development

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 23, 2010

Web tech­nolo­gies are evolv­ing at such a fre­netic pace that it becomes almost manda­tory to learn on your own. A lot of us still depend on other peo­ple to do this learn­ing for us, and we tend to use their answers to solve our every­day prob­lems. Inconsistent imple­men­ta­tions, rapidly evolv­ing specs, ques­tion­able per­for­mance impacts and main­te­nance impli­ca­tions mean we can­not always depend on oth­ers for answers but must involve our­selves actively in the process of devel­op­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tions for new Web tech­nolo­gies. But how do we go about it? There are some sim­ple rit­u­als we can all do, which can have us be better-​​informed and also bet­ter inform the peo­ple and groups who are most directly involved in the devel­op­ment of new Web technologies.

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Patrick Lee — JavaScript Sprachraum

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 23, 2010

In this ses­sion Patrick will be look­ing at JavaScript out­side of the browser, focus­ing on how to use it for web server appli­ca­tions. Starting with the old in Helma and pro­gress­ing through var­i­ous usages to the most new and excit­ing with node.js, Patrick will talk about why JavaScript on the server mat­ters right now and show you how to get started using it.

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Myles Eftos — Building mobile web apps

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 23, 2010

This ses­sion will look at the mobile web devel­op­ment life­cy­cle from build­ing a pro­to­type in the browser, inte­gra­tion with the phone, app sub­mis­sion and some basic mar­ket­ing tricks.

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Michael Mahemoff — HTML5: Online and Offline

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 23, 2010

HTML5 intro­duces sev­eral so-​​called “offline” tech­nolo­gies: appli­ca­tion caching, local stor­age, and file access, to name a few. But these tech­nolo­gies are not just for purely offline apps; they boost startup per­for­mance, over­come net­work out­ages, and par­ti­tion con­tent away from the server. This talk will explain how you can incor­po­rate these tech­nolo­gies into your work today and iden­tify the fea­tures browsers will be sup­port­ing in the near future.

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Steve Souders — Even Faster Web Sites

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 22, 2010

Web 2.0 is adding more and more con­tent to our pages, espe­cially fea­tures that are imple­mented in Ajax. But our web appli­ca­tions are evolv­ing faster than the browsers that they run in. We don’t have to rely on or wait for the release of new browsers to make our web appli­ca­tions faster. In this ses­sion, Steve Souders dis­cusses web per­for­mance best prac­tices from his sec­ond book, Even Faster Web Sites. These time-​​saving tech­niques are used by the world’s most pop­u­lar web sites to cre­ate a faster user expe­ri­ence, increase rev­enue, and reduce oper­at­ing costs. Steve pro­vides tech­ni­cal details about reduc­ing the pain of JavaScript, as well as secrets for mak­ing your page load faster in emerg­ing mar­kets where net­work con­nec­tiv­ity is a challenge.

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Doug Schepers — SVG Today and Tomorrow

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• July 24, 2010

Thought SVG was dead? Think again. Once rel­e­gated to plug-​​in sta­tus, Scalable Vector Graphics is now spread­ing rapidly, in browsers, mobiles, and even tele­vi­sions, with broad native sup­port and graph­i­cal script libraries. It’s used on major web­sites like Wikipedia, Google Docs, and the Washington Post. Whether images or apps, stand­alone or inte­grated into HTML, CSS, or Canvas, SVG is a pow­er­ful tool in a devel­oper or designer toolkit. With full script­ing sup­port, ani­ma­tions, and advanced visual effects, SVG lets you reuse skills you already have. Learn how to use SVG to best effect to add standards-​​based bling to your webapp or site, see what works and what to avoid, and glimpse where the future lies.

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Rachel Andrew — Core CSS3

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• July 24, 2010

This ses­sion will be a solid intro­duc­tion to CSS3 by way of prac­ti­cal exam­ples that can get you started using CSS3 on your projects today.

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Tom Hughes-​​Croucher — An introduction to server-​​side JavaScript

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• July 19, 2010

Server-​​side JavaScript has really started to take off, with a num­ber of great projects pro­vid­ing dif­fer­ent pieces of the puz­zle. This talk will intro­duce server-​​side JavaScript and pro­vide an overview of the exist­ing projects as well as some ideas about where it’s all going in the future.

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John Resig — Testing mobile JavaScript

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• July 19, 2010

This talk will be a com­pre­hen­sive look at what you need to know to prop­erly test your web appli­ca­tions on mobile devices. We’ll look at the dif­fer­ent mobile phones that exist, what browsers they run, and what you can do to sup­port them. Additionally we’ll exam­ine some of the test­ing tools that can be used to make the whole process much easier.

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Patrick Lauke — Brave New World of HTML5

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• July 19, 2010

HTML5 was orig­i­nally called Web Applications 1.0, but that doesn’t mean it’s only for scripters – there’s plenty for markup mon­keys as well as JavaScript junkies.

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Remy Sharp — Browsers with wings: HTML5 APIs

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• July 19, 2010

HTML5 is all the rage with the cool kids, and although there’s a lot of focus on the new lan­guage, there’s plenty for web app devel­op­ers with new JavaScript APIs both in the HTML5 spec and sep­a­rated out as their own W3C spec­i­fi­ca­tions. This ses­sion will take you through demos and code and show off some of the out­right crazy bleed­ing edge demos that are being pro­duced today using the new JavaScript APIs. But it’s not all pie in the sky – plenty is use­ful today, some even in Internet Explorer!

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Steve Souders — Even faster web sites

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• July 11, 2010

Web 2.0 is adding more and more con­tent to our pages, espe­cially fea­tures that are imple­mented in Ajax. But our web appli­ca­tions are evolv­ing faster than the browsers that they run in. We don’t have to rely on or wait for the release of new browsers to make our web appli­ca­tions faster. In this ses­sion, Steve Souders dis­cusses web per­for­mance best prac­tices from his sec­ond book, Even Faster Web Sites. These time-​​saving tech­niques are used by the world’s most pop­u­lar web sites to cre­ate a faster user expe­ri­ence, increase rev­enue, and reduce oper­at­ing costs. Steve pro­vides tech­ni­cal details about reduc­ing the pain of JavaScript, as well as secrets for mak­ing your page load faster in emerg­ing mar­kets where net­work con­nec­tiv­ity is a challenge.

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Mark Stanton — Best practices for speeding up your site

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 9, 2009

As we pack our pages with AJAX and RIA good­ness we often lose sight of the fact that the key to excep­tional user expe­ri­ence is the respon­sive­ness of your site. Inspired by the excel­lent work by Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team, this talk will have some­thing that every site can ben­e­fit from. You will learn how to analyse what your end users are expe­ri­enc­ing and how to reduce your load times by 25–50% using a range of sim­ple techniques.

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Dmitry Baranovskiy — Canvas

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 9, 2009

In this ses­sion, JavaScript ninja Dmitry Baranovskiy takes us into the heart and soul of Canvas, look­ing at what it does well, and not so well, how well it is sup­ported, and how to use it in cross browser com­pat­i­ble ways. Developers with a good grasp of JavaScript will be able to add another dimen­sion to their web solu­tions based on what they learn in this session.

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Ben Galbraith — The state of developer tools

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• October 8, 2009

In this ses­sion, co-​​founder of Ajaxian​.com, and The Ajax Experience con­fer­ences, and now head of Mozilla Foundation’s new Tools team Ben Galbraith will take us on an expe­di­tion through the devel­oper tools land­scape. Learn what’s out there, and what they can do to make you more pro­duc­tive, your sites and appli­ca­tions bet­ter and faster, and your life as a devel­oper more enjoyable.

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