Coding | Web Directions - Part 2

Presentations about coding

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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Andy Clarke — Keynote: Hardboiled Web Design

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

Andy Clarke’s Hardboiled Web Design is an uncompromising look at how to make the most from modern design tools and browsers, up-​​to-​​date techniques and processes. In this practical, design focussed talk, Andy will discuss the ‘how’ as well as the ‘why’ and will challenge your preconceptions to help you make better work for the web.

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Ben Schwarz — Building a better web with HTML5

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

During my session we’ll look at where the future of HTML lies, including new structural elements. You’ll also grasp an introduction to associated technologies that have come into popularity with the steam of HTML5: SVG, Web Sockets, Web Workers, Geo-​​location and making applications useful offline.

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Max Wheeler — Location, location, geolocation

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

This session will take you through building a location-​​based mobile app using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Including cross-​​platform techniques for figuring out where your users are, and providing graceful fallbacks options for devices that don’t have geolocation support (or users that don’t want to tell you exactly). You’ll learn about geocoding to a physical address (and the other way around) and look at how to build a mobile-​​friendly map with local points of interest.

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Simon Pascal Klein — Setting standards-​​friendly web type

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

Web typography has in the past two years seen a resurgence in interest and many would agree only rightly so, with most of the content on the web still textual. However the range of technical options available for setting type on the web is quite broad—not to mention the range of stylistic choices available—and often confusing. This session aims to demystify the current techniques available to set type on the web by comparing and contrasting the various options at hand while offering a set of good defaults and safe advice for not only making it accessible but also pleasurable to read.

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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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