ffconf 2014
2014-11-07
Brighton, United Kingdom
ffConf ·
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as the organisers put it
ffconf, Full Frontal 2014 is a one day JavaScript Conference at the Duke of York’s Picturehouse in Brighton, UK on the 7th November 2014
who it's for
javascript developers, frontend developers, mobile web developers, open source maintainers, web performance engineers, build and release engineers, web audio developers
topics
Bluetooth Low Energy advertising; physical web URL broadcasting; PouchDB and CouchDB replication; IndexedDB offline storage; service workers progressive offline; appcache distribution gotchas; WebRTC peer-to-peer video chat; WebSocket versus WebRTC latency; Web Audio oscillator and scheduling; Web Audio Workers and offline context; ES6 generator iterator polyfills; patching JS engines and heap snapshots
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building the Physical Web together | Scott Jenson | 33m |
Claim: broadcast plain URLs from devices so phones discover web pages without apps. Implementation uses Bluetooth Low Energy advertising packets and Raspberry… | ||
| Moving seamlessly through offline and online | Caolan McMahon | 38m |
Builds a working offline-first web app that stores jokes locally with IndexedDB via PouchDB, persists edits with debounce and the changes feed, and replicates… | ||
| Navigating Open Source | Hannah Wolfe | 40m |
Ghost is a NodeJS blogging platform funded as a nonprofit with a hosted product Ghost Pro and a Kickstarter launch strategy that stays closed, runs an… | ||
| Self-hosted JS | Andy Wingo | 36m |
Claims that substantial engine code lives in JavaScript and demonstrates it: extracts and commits a JS array Foo added to JavaScriptCore, implements an… | ||
| Lean Mean CSS Machine | Tobias Bjerrome Ahlin | 26m |
GitHub compiles Sass into two CSS files (split for IE9’s ~4,000‑selector limit) and uses octicons to cut image requests. A specificity checker by Josh Peek and… | ||
| A Single Page Story | Henrik Joreteg | 37m |
Argues that the web now has two distinct kinds of apps — native web apps that treat the browser as a runtime and server‑side web apps — and shows concrete… | ||
| Tools for the 21st century musician | Soledad Penadés | 34m |
Explains how Web Audio actually works: oscillator nodes are single-use and must be recreated, the devtools include a Web Audio editor for tracking leaks, and… | ||
| Getting Close with the Web | Ben Foxall | 37m |
Compares actual transports by demoing WebRTC vs WebSocket latency and showing how long polling chunks as server delay increases, claims peer-to-peer cuts… | ||
| nothing matches | ||