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Tantek Çelik – The Once and Future IndieWeb

Silos like Twitter and Facebook pose huge challenges for the longevity, integrity, and ultimately ownership of the content we create. If you care about these things, you need to checkout the IndieWeb.

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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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Paul Theriault – Taking Frontend Security Seriously

Some common client-side security issues and how to avoid them.

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Damon Oehlman – Streaming the web (it’s not what you think)

How you can use streams both for your benefit and for the benefit of your fellow developers.

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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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Ben Birch – JavaScript Generators

Introducing some of the new native data structures that are available in modern JavaScript

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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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Alex Feyerke – Offline First

Faster, more robust and more fun (web) apps.

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Dmitry Baranovskiy – You Don’t Know SVG

How to resurrect your content using Scalable Vector Graphics.

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Allen Wirfs-Brock – ECMAScript 6, a Better JavaScript for the Ambient Web Era

We’ve entered the Ambient Computing Era and ECMAScript 6 is its dominant programming language.

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Andrew Fisher – A Device API Safari

Let’s take a tour through the jungle that is the Device API spec and go looking for some new, interesting features of the API.

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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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Mark Dalgleish – this: Taking JavaScript out of Context

The ‘this’ keyword is one of the most perplexing aspects of JavaScript, but understanding function context needn’t be so intimidating.

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Rob Manson – The Augmented Web is Now a Reality

Web standards, browsers, devices and JavaScript libraries have matured enough to set AR free, making it possible to create AR that runs using “nothing but a web browser”.

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