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Web Directions Code Leaders

2nd August

8:30 am

Registration

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Serving barista coffee to get your heart started.

9:00 am

Welcome, and Breaking the Ice

John Allsopp, Web Directions

Take your assigned seat, we've got a big day ahead. We'll set the scene, and break the ice before kicking off with our first session.

9:30 am

JavaScript: Now and Next

Brian Terlson, Editor, ECMAScript Standard Microsoft

The landscape of JavaScript seems to be in constant flux. Not just the frameworks and build tools we use, but the very language itself now that new versions are being released annually. But where is it at right now, in 2017? And where is it headed in the near future? What changes will most impact the way you work in the coming years? How can you get involved in the process?

10:30 am

The State of Front End Technologies

Chris Lilley, Technical Director W3C

In our era of Web Apps, where JavaScript seems paramount, they're sometimes often overlooked, but the core technologies of the web: HTML, CSS, SVG, and the browser's DOM APIs still very much have a place when developing for the web. In this session, Chris Lilley gives us a sense of what's coming for the foundations of the web platform.

11:30 am

Lunch

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We've got something very special lined up for lunch. But you'll have to come to find out.

12:30 pm

The Changing Face of Loading Resources

Andrew Betts, Developer Fastly, W3C TAG

After serving us incredibly well for decades, the underlying transport mechanisms of the web, including HTTP and TCP, are being overhauled. In this session, Andrew Betts looks at the evolution of these largely out-of-sight but incredibly important protocols, with huge implications for performance and security, as they are being brought up to date for today's web.

1:30 pm

Modern Web App Architectures

Zero Cho, Software Engineer Twitter

What is the architecture of complex Web Apps? Few apps work at the scale of Twitter, with hundreds of millions of users, and billions of messages a month. Their Web App continues to be very widely used, and was recently completely rebuilt as a Progressive Web App, to take advantage of offline capabilities, notifications, and the native-like experience Web Apps can enjoy on Android, while still meeting the needs of its users on other platforms from a single code base. Hear about the architecture, and lessons learned building the modestly named "Twitter Lite".

2:30 pm

Afternoon Break

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Need more coffee? Or an increasingly hip tea? We've got you covered, plus a sweet afternoon pick-me-up.

3:00 pm

Designing a Culture that Fosters Growth

Josh Duck, Front End Team Lead ABC

Many companies say they want the best developers. But they don’t back that up with their actions. Facebook has invested heavily in designing a culture that grows developers over many years. In this session, Josh, now back in Australia managing a team at the ABC, shares lessons he learned working for Facebook, a company renowned for their engineering prowess, producing such widely used open source technologies as React and GraphQL despite growing its engineering head count at an almost unimaginable rate over the last decade.

4:00 pm

Re-imagining the Hiring Process

Elle Meredith and Lachlan Hardy, Founders BlackMill

We've all been on the other side of the table. A laundry list of required technologies and practices, white boarding code, logic puzzles, folks "hiring for culture fit". But do these practices ensure the best possible hires, and ultimately the best performing teams? Or are we cargo-culting our way to teams of people who look surprisingly (or perhaps unsurprisingly) similar? Can we develop a better hiring process and policies to help produce better teams? Elle Meredith and Lachlan Hardy have run teams, and hired developers, all over the world. They've worked with globally recongnised names to help them improve their processes, and we're privileged to hear their lessons.

5:00 pm

Happy Hour (and a half)

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Share a drink, a bite, and a chat with your peers, right here at the venue.

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About Us

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.

In 2016, we'll be organising Respond in Sydney and Melbourne, Transform in Canberra, Code in Sydney and Melbourne, and Direction in Sydney.

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".

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.