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Alex Mackey — Harden Up Your Ajax

Some solutions for dealing with common Ajax related issues such as timeouts & loss of connectivity.

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Mark Nottingham — What’s Happening in Transport Layer Security (TLS)?

Web browser security nerds have been really busy lately, with a lot of proposals, extensions and experiments to TLS (a.k.a. SSL) happening.

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Rod Vagg — Embrace the Asynchronous

Node.js takes asynchronous programming to a new level and has tracked the rise of new approaches to managing complex program flows.

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Dmitry Baranovskiy — You Don’t Know SVG

How to resurrect your content using Scalable Vector Graphics.

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Jared Wyles — On Readable Code

It's time to start talking about some of the established axioms of readability.

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Barbara Bermes — A publisher’s guide to 3rd party scripts

Performance and availability of 3rd party scripts doesn't have to be a worry.

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Ben Schwarz — CSS Variables

A head-first dive into the past, present and future of all things variable in CSS.

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Fiona Chan — The Declarative Power of CSS Selectors

The power of selectors is still a vastly under-utilised aspect of CSS after all this time.

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A quest for responsive imagery — video presentation by Simon Elvery

This session will compare and contrast the common techniques used for implementing responsive imagery. Simon will shed some light on the compromises that developers might need to make and the circumstances under which they might be acceptable or even desirable. Also check out the Responding to the Unknown: Choose Your Own Adventure web site.

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Validating forms with the HTML5 pattern attribute — video presentation by Chris Lienert

In the past, validating forms in the client has typically required doing some heavy lifting with JavaScript. But you may not know HTML5 changes all that. Browsers now check that the content of an input match its type (and we've got new types like email, url and number to make that even more useful). But, what you might not know about is the pattern attribute, which lets us use regular expressions directly in HTML to specify what format the user's input should have.

In this session, Chris Lienert looks at some of the common regex patterns you can use to validate user input, coupled with some of the many tricks he's learned to help users complete those forms we all love to hate.

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ECMAScript 6 — video presentation by Axel Rauschmayer

ECMAScript 6 is the next version of JavaScript (the current version is ECMAScript 5). It will be an official standard by the end of 2014, but there are tools that enable you to use it right now. This talk explains the goals for ECMAScript 6, how it is designed, what features it has, and how to use it on current JavaScript engines. Features include: block-scoped variables, arrow functions, better parameter handling, classes, modules and much more.

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Hack Yourself First — Troy Hunt

'Hack Yourself First' is all about developers building up cyber-offence skills and proactively seeking out security vulnerabilities in their own websites before an attacker does. It recognises that we have huge volumes of existing websites that haven't gone through sufficient security review plus we continue to create new content that even when built with security in mind, still needs testing from the perspective of a cybercriminal.

In this session Troy looks at website security from the attacker's perspective and exploit common risks in a vulnerable web application. The session is entirely web framework agnostic -- if your website uses HTML and is loaded over HTTP, this session is for you!

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CSS (finally) making the web a less blocky place — video presentation by Jared Wyles

The web used to be for squares (and rectangles). The future of CSS is going to change all that. Instead of having to change your content for the web. See how CSS will make the web work for your content in any size or shape, using CSS Regions and Shapes.

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Oh No! Spaghetti Code! — video presentation by Fiona Chan

Large, unmaintainable CSS code is a common problem for many websites. It is often neglected because things can still somehow work even when the CSS is really bad! But not only does this slow down performance, it also inhibits developers from producing quality code.But if you start your site with a solid foundation, developing a large scale website with maintainable CSS is actually not so hard. In this talk, I'll share with you some of the lessons I've learnt from building and maintaining large CSS files, and how Sass has helped to make that job easier.

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Modularity Matters — Anna Gerber

Breaking software down into de-coupled, reusable modules is a key development practice that improves code reusability, maintainability, scalability and testability. But how do we apply this practice within web applications?This talk examines and compares existing approaches for developing modular JavaScript components and discusses best practices and patterns for developing and managing components, dependencies, packaging, delivery and name-spacing, for client-side applications.

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