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Code 2015 presented by Web Directions

What is Code?

Code is two day, one track conference, featuring World leading experts in JavaScript and developing for the Web platform. Produced by Web Directions, and curated by John Allsopp, we've got over a decade's experience in professional events for the Web industry, and John has over 20 years experience developing for, teaching and writing about Web technologies.

Why Attend?

Think of Code as your once-a-year, supercharged refresher course on the current state of JavaScript, Web technologies and best practice in Front End Engineering.

What should you be focussing on right now? What's next? We bring the leading experts real world experts from around Australia and the World to share their insights and expertise and help you answer those questions.

Who's it for?

Code is for professionals and teams developing for the Web platform

• Front end developers and engineers
• Web developers
• engineering managers
• CTOs

If you build sophisticated stuff for the Web, Code will help you do it better.

Topics in a nutshell

Code covers the technologies and practices you need to build fast, engaging, secure Web products.

• Technologies like JavaScript, advanced CSS, and Web Platform APIs
• Patterns and practices focussed on security, scalability and performance

Speakers

Code, like all our events, will feature leading experts, with deep real-world experience from around the country and the World, delivered to your doorstep. It's carefully curated to ensure genuine value and relevance. Speakers at this year's Code are helping to shape the Web's core technologies, and include those serving on the W3C's Technical Architecture Group, the IETF's HTTP Working group, ECMA's TC39 Committee for Standardising JavaScript, and the jQuery board of advisors.

Alex Russell What comes next for the Web Platform?

What comes next for the Web Platform?

The Web has come a long way from the document focussed hypertext network it began life as. Almost from its beginning, developers have been pushing its capabilities, often in ingenious if not entirely safe ways.

In recent times, standards bodies and browser developers have been upping the pace in the development of the underlying technologies of our platform, and there's no one better to give us a sense of where we're at, and more importantly where these technologies are going than Alex Russell, who is part of both the W3C's Technical Architecture Group, and TC39, the committee standardizing JavaScript. Alex will set the scene for Code by asking "what comes next for the Web platform".

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HTML5 JavaScript Web Platform

About Alex Russell

Alex Russell is a software engineer at Google working on Chrome, Blink and the broader web platform via standards. He's a member of TC39, the committee standardizing ECMAScript/JavaScript and on the W3C’s Technical Architecture Group where he works with a group of like-minded reformers to improve the state of layering and API design for the web.

Previously, he was Director of R&D; at SitePen and built rich UIs for JotSpot and Informatica where he helped build Dojo.

Alex Sexton Current best practice in Front End Ops

Current best practice in front end ops

Alex Sexton gave a name to that big part of our life that we Front-End folks didn't previously have a name for–Front-End Ops–the knowledge, techniques and practices we use to make faster Web sites and applications, monitor errors, and build and deploy our work.

But nearly two years on, and with developments like HTTP/2, what's the state of Front-End Ops? Who better to tell us than the guy who came up with the name in the first place?

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Performance Engineering

About Alex Sexton

Alex Sexton works for Stripe as a Product Engineer. He lives and works in Austin, TX where he runs the TXJS conference. He’s on the jQuery Board of Advisors, the Dojo Foundation Board, and the Modernizr team and is a big fan of contributing to open source. Alex wrote the article that coined the term “Front-End Ops” for Smashing Magazine in June of 2013, thus adding much credibility to his List of Coined Terms™.

Kassandra Perch Stop the Fanaticism–using the right tools for the job

Stop the Fanaticism–using the Right Tools for the Job

When a JavaScript project is defined, we face a seemingly endless number of choices – from frameworks, to module loading, to dependency management, to code style. There are at least 2 tools for every job, and a group of people willing to argue the merits of each one until they are blue in the face. Fanaticism runs rampant, and we've started to ask the wrong questions when faced with new tools and ways of solving problems. This talk examines the decisions we as developers make, the way we make them, and how we can make these decisions better. We'll talk about framework fanaticism, dealing with large teams, and protecting yourself once you've made your choices.

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JavaScript Engineering Architectures

About Kassandra Perch

Kassandra (Kas) is a software developer / educator / roboticist living in Austin, TX. She works for Bocoup teaching open web education courses.

Her language specialty is JavaScript, and she also works her way around C/C++, Python, Arduino, and HTML/CSS.

Education is one of her passions, and she loves hearing about opportunities to help spread knowledge of the open web.

When she’s not working on software or robotics, Kas is either drawing, playing video games, or enjoying a good beer.

Rachel Nabors State of the Animation

State of the Animation

The post-Flash era is hardly free of animation. CSS animation is quickly becoming a cornerstone of user-friendly UI frameworks, and JavaScript libraries already exist to handle complex, interactive animations. And now there’s a new API coming to town specifically for web animations! In the wake of so much “CSS vs. JavaScript animation” infighting, you'll be introduced to the Web Animations API via the development styles and insights of four distinct groups of people: UI designers, interaction developers, library authors, and the browser teams implementing it.

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CSS JavaScript Animation

About Rachel Nabors

Rachel Nabors is an interaction developer and award-winning cartoonist. She travels the world, speaking about web animation and giving workshops. Her articles on the topic have been published in Smashing Mag, A List Apart, 24 Ways, and Net Mag. When not biking around her home city of Portland, Oregon in the USA, she makes interactive comics at her company Tin Magpie and publishes Web Animation Weekly.

Mark Nottingham What does HTTP/2 mean for Front End Engineers?

What does HTTP/2 mean for Front End Engineers?

HTTP/2, the long awaited update to the Web's venerable transfer protocol is now complete, and indeed supported in some browsers and by some servers. But we Front End Engineers don't need to worry about all that low level stuff right? After all it just makes everything faster between the client and server.

Well, it's not quite that simple. In fact there are plenty of things you're likely doing right now, best practices for performance over the network like using sprites, domain sharding, concatentating files and the like that not only won't you have to do with HTTP/2, but which might actually make things worse.

In this presentation we'll learn from the chair of the IETF working group that developed HTTP/2, Mark Nottingham about what HTTP/2 brings, and what you should and shouldn't be doing to get the most performance benefit from it.

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HTTP/2 Engineering Performance

About Mark Nottingham

Mark Nottingham has helped develop the Web and its associated technologies for more than fifteen years.

Currently, he's Chair of the IETF HTTP Working Group and a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group.

He currently works for Akamai, the world’s first, largest and best public Content Delivery Network.

Mark Dalgleish Dawn of the Progressive Single Page App

Dawn of the Progressive Single Page App

With the increasing popularity of single page applications, we've seemingly been forced to choose between progressive enhancement and rich, app-like experiences on the Web. Through the power of server-side JavaScript, we now have the ability to share our UI code between client and server, allowing us to get the best of both worlds by pre-rendering on the server. While extremely powerful, this technique only serves to highlight why progressive enhancement continues to be such a vital approach to web development.

After beginning with a refresher course in progressive enhancement, we'll cover the ways in which we can ensure our single page applications remain crawlable, accessible and resilient, even when JavaScript is completely disabled.

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JavaScript Engineering Patterns

About Mark Dalgleish

Mark Dalgleish is the lead organiser of MelbJS and Decompress, and a full-stack interaction craftsman at SEEK. Having got his start with HTML and UI design at a young age, he has since developed a love of software engineering, but always as a means to creating elegant, usable experiences.

With many more speakers still to be announced, and maybe even you? Read on for details

We want you to speak at Code

For more than a decade, uncovering new talent has been one of our goals here at Web Directions. We have provided the opportunity for hundreds of speakers from all over the world to further their career, by taking their first steps on the speakers stage. Many a household name like Nicole Sullivan and Dmitry Baranovskiy had their first significant speaking opportunities on the Web Directions stage (did you know that OOCSS was launched at a Web Directions conference?)

This year, we're offering you that opportunity, and most importantly providing the support you need to make it happen. There's up to ten places at our Code conference open to someone like you. We're offering anyone who submits a proposal some fantastic speaker training and mentoring, and a chance to gain experience and impress your peers on our What Do You Know stage in Sydney and Melbourne.

If you're keen, all the information you need is right here

Masterclasses

On June 24th, the renowned Rachel Nabors will be presenting her Web Animation Masterclass, 'The DOM in Motion'. With animated user experiences moving from nice to have to a necessity, get up to speed with what's possible, and best practice to ensure high performance, 'jank-free' animation on even everyday mobile devices.

For best value, register for a Gold Ticket, which includes Conference pass, the Master Class, and a place at the speaker dinner.

The DOM in Motion

Rachel Nabors

Animating DOM elements is crucial to developing interactive designs and interfaces, and CSS and the Web Animation API offer some of the most performant ways to animate today. This workshop gives attendees the future-facing tools they need to do just that. Rich with fun example code, demonstrations, and lectures, there’s a great mix here for people of all learning styles.

Key take aways

• Mastery of CSS transitions and animations
• How performance and rendering are intertwined
• Stateful Animation with JavaScript
• The Web Animation API
• Time Objects
• Controlling playback
• Animation events

Required equipment and knowledge

This workshop is for Web Developers and Designers who use JavaScript. Bring your laptop to work along on the day.

Pricing

Bring the team

Sending a team of 5 or more to Code is now even more valuable. For the price of a classic ticket per team member, you'll get:

• A Silver pass for each attendee (see below for details)
• An invitation for each member to our exclusive speaker Dinner June 25th.
• A Device Lab Pro with Ghostlab license.
• A team license to all the past Code videos, as well as videos from Code 2015

Just use the code team when you register.

I've only got 2016 Training Budget to spend!

We know Code comes right at the end of the financial year, so if you've got 2015 budget to spend, let us help you. But if you're all out of 2015 budget, get in touch, we hopefully can make something work for you!

Gold Pass

Conference, Dinner & Masterclass

Silver Pass

Conference & Dinner

Classic Pass

Conference only

MasterClass

• $1499 (Until May 7)
• $1599 (Until June 7)
• $1699 (until June 25)

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• $1199 (Until May 7)
• $1299 (Until June 7)
• $1399 (until June 25)

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• $999 (Until May 7)
• $1099 (Until June 7)
• $1199 (until June 25)

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• $599 (Until June 7)
• $699 (until June 25)
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In Person

• Code Conference June 25 & 26
• Exclusive Speaker Dinner Invitation June 25
• Masterclass June 24
• Code Happy Hour (& ½)
• Closing night party
• Awesome conference coffee
• Sensational catered breaks
• Closing night party

In Person

• Code Conference June 25 & 26
• Exclusive Speaker Dinner Invitation June 25
• Code Happy Hour (& ½)
• Closing night party
• Awesome conference coffee
• Sensational catered breaks

In Person

• Code Conference June 25 & 26
• Code Happy Hour (& ½)
• Closing night party
• Awesome conference coffee
• Sensational catered breaks

In Person

• Master Class June 24
• Catered Breaks

Videos

• Code Conference 2012-2014
• Code Conference 2015

Videos

• Code Conference 2012-2014
• Code Conference 2015

Videos

• Code Conference 2015

Videos

Your Investment

Register today, lock in the lowest price, and pay us later

• $1499 (Until May 7)
• $1599 (Until June 7)
• $1699 (until June 25)

Your Investment

Register today today, lock in the lowest price, and pay us later

• $1199 (Until May 7)
• $1299 (Until June 7)
• $1399 (until June 25)

Your Investment

Register today, lock in the lowest price, and pay us later

• $999 (Until May 7)
• $1099 (Until June 7)
• $1199 (until June 25)

Your Investment

Register today, lock in the lowest price, and pay us later

• $599 (Until June 7)
• $699 (until June 25)

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Classic Conference Pass

• $999 (Until May 7)
• $1099 (Until June 7)
• $1199 (until June 25)

Benefits

• Code Conference June 25 & 26
• Code Happy Hour (& ½)
• Closing night party
• Awesome conference coffee
• Sensational catered breaks

Register Now

Silver Conference Pass

• $1199 (Until May 7)
• $1299 (Until June 7)
• $1399 (until June 25)

Benefits

• Code Conference June 25 & 26
• Exclusive Speaker Dinner Invitation June 25
• Code Happy Hour (& ½)
• Closing night party
• Awesome conference coffee
• Sensational catered breaks

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Gold Festival Pass

• $1499 (Until May 7)
• $1599 (Until June 7)
• $1699 (until June 25)

Benefits

• Code Conference June 25 & 26
• Exclusive Speaker Dinner Invitation June 25
• Masterclass June 24
• Code Happy Hour (& ½)
• Closing night party
• Awesome conference coffee
• Sensational catered breaks
• Code Happy Hour (& ½)
• Closing night party

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Venues

Conference Venue

ANZ Pavilion,

Arts Centre Melbourne,

100 St Kilda Road,

Melbourne

Accommodation

Traveling from out of town on a budget? We’ve pulled together a bunch of cheap and cheerful (as well as slightly more extravagant) options for accommodation and put them on a map for you. Check out Wotif and Airbnb as well. You can almost always find something affordable only a short walk from the venues. But hey, if you or you boss are happy to stump up for the Hilton, don’t let us stop you!

Networking & socialising

Attending a conference like Web Directions Code is a whole lot more than what happens from 9 to 5, and Melbourne has countless great places to grab a drink or a meal at any hour of the night or day. Impress your new friends by taking them to one of the awesome places on our map. And Melbournites, don’t hold back with sharing any awesome hidden gems we don’t know about!

Join our speakers for dinner on June 25th

Exclusively for Gold and Silver attendees

As a Gold or Silver ticket holder, you'll receive an invitation to our speaker's dinner on the evening after the first day of the conference. A great chance to have a casual chat with a speaker or two, and enjoy a great meal with your peers.

Not quite sure yet?

Never fear. While you're deciding, why not jump on our once-a-week mailing list of hand picked design, engineering, and other top quality reading, delivered to your inbox in time for the weekend. There's also special discounts and offers exclusively for newsletter subscribers.

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About US

Web Directions

Co-founded and now run by John Allsopp, Web Directions has for over a decade brought together leading developers, engineers, visual, IxD, UX and product designers, Art and Creative Directors, indeed everyone involved in producing web and digital products to learn from one another, and the World's leading experts across this vast field.

We spend our lives thinking about what comes next, keeping up with trends in technology, practices and processes, and filtering the hype, to make sure you don't miss trends that matter, and don't waste time on hype that doesn't.

We promise attending one of our events will leave you significantly better versed in the challenges you face day to day, and in solutions for addressing them.

John Allsopp

John Allsopp has been working on the Web for over 20 years. He's been responsible for innovative developer tools such as Style Master, X-Ray and many more. He's spoken at numerous conferences around the World and delivered dozens of workshops in that time as well.

His writing includes two books, including Developing With Web Standards and countless articles and tutorials in print and online publications.

His "A Dao of Web Design" published in 2000 is cited by Ethan Marcotte as a key influence in the development of Responsive Web Design, who's rightly acclaimed article in 2010 begins by quoting John in detail, and by Jeremy Keith as "a manifesto for anyone working on the Web".

In short there's few better people anywhere to curate an event focussing on modern Web design.

Code of Conduct

For over a decade, we've worked hard to create inclusive, fun, inspring and safe events for the Web Industry. As part of our commitment to these values, we've adopted a code of conduct for all involved: ourselves, our speakers, our partners and our audience. If you have any concern or feedback, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Partners

Major Partners

Partner with Code

At Web Directions we work closely with partners to help make our events even better. Sponsor our coffee, a juice bar, a reception or drinks, and start, or grow your relationship with Australia's leading Front End engineers and JavaScript developers

Contact us for more on how we work can work with you to help you be even more awesome.