Fluent 2014
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript Taking Both the High and Low Roads | Brendan Eich | 30m |
ES6 lands in top browsers with real features like modules integrated into HTML so module script is async by default and supports browser caching; ES7 explores… | ||
| Reading, Writing, Arithmetic,... and JavaScript? | Pamela Fox | 11m |
Khan Academy uses ProcessingJS canvas drawing to teach JavaScript with step-by-step exercises; about 330,000 students load the first H for Hopper challenge and… | ||
| Virtual Machines, JavaScript and Assembler | Scott Hanselman | 26m |
Argues that the web now runs millions of client-side virtual machines alongside hundreds of cloud VMs, shows concrete tools and demos: npm install azure to… | ||
| O'Reilly Web Platform Awards | 04m | |
Conference runs an open nomination process vetted by an advisory board that narrows dozens of nominees — including Mike Hostetler, Bill Scott, Brady Forrest… | ||
| The Humble Border-Radius | Lea verou | 14m |
Browsers proportionally scale border-radius when adjacent radii exceed the box size — a 900px radius can end up as 381px while a 90px companion becomes 38px… | ||
| Speed, Performance, and Human Perception | Ilya Grigorik | 16m |
Performance is not just milliseconds or kilobytes but a three-part function: actual system latency, wetware expectations, and UX that ties them to task… | ||
| Delivering the goods | Paul Irish | 23m |
Argues that user-perceived load tracks speed index not onload, shows TCP costs (DNS + handshake + TCP slow start) cause latency to dominate bandwidth, and… | ||
| Keynote With Jen Simmons | Jen Simmons | 12m |
Celebrates the web’s 25th anniversary and credits Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau for a system that removes central authority, lets anyone link without… | ||
| Understand Your User's Experience | Christine Sotelo | 04m |
New Relic adds two concrete front end capabilities to its existing back end tracing offering, giving end to end visibility from SQL traces to browser events… | ||
| Beyond Pushing Play | Susan E. McGregor | 09m |
A small open‑source platform called data docs layers arbitrary web content over video and syncs it to the timeline, using contributed plugins for Popcorn JS… | ||
| The Goodness of JavaScript | Aaron Frost, Dave Geddes | 12m |
Argues that JavaScript is everywhere—on servers with Node, in desktop apps via node-webkit, in databases via pv8 embedding V8 into Postgres, and on the JVM via… | ||
| Keynote With Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale | Yehuda Katz, Tom Dale | 23m |
Argues that a framework should encode community best practices rather than just offer maximally flexible primitives, comparing Ember and Angular: Angular… | ||
| Tony Parisi (Skybox) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Tony Parisi | 09m |
WebGL becomes a browser-standard way to do real-time 3D using GPU acceleration and the same APIs as OpenGL ES, enabling 60 fps game level demos from Unreal… | ||
| Yehuda Katz and Tom Dale (Tilde Inc.) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Yehuda Katz, Tom Dale | 21m |
Argues framework wars are overstated and shows why Ember trades flexibility for productivity by baking conventions into a larger codebase: Ember bakes in… | ||
| Patrick Mulder (Fidor Bank) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Patrick Mulder | 05m |
Backbone is an unopinionated library that gives a thin, controllable layer instead of a full MVC, it scales but takes effort to learn, it pairs commonly with… | ||
| Semmy Purewal (Netflix) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Semmy Purewal | 08m |
Argues that everyone should learn to code because computers are everywhere and coding belongs alongside reading and math, and recommends teach from… | ||
| Matt Debergalis and Emily Stark (Meteor) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Matt Debergalis, Emily Stark | 10m |
Meteor claims to be a one-stop full‑stack JavaScript stack that wires reactive templating and live data sync together so UI updates automatically, while… | ||
| Scott Murray (USF) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Scott Murray | 13m |
Visualization work requires web standards not plugins and favors D3 with SVG for interactive, mobile-friendly graphics; SVG lives in the DOM so code can change… | ||
| Spike Brehm and Pete Hunt interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Spike Brehm, Pete Hunt | 14m |
Defines isomorphic (same-form) JavaScript as code that runs on client and server and claims concrete wins: faster page loads, better SEO, and fewer duplicated… | ||
| Kathryn Rotondo interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Kathryn Rotondo | 07m |
Makes apps for kids and explains concrete design rules: handle tap vs long tap and avoid waiting for release because toddlers leave fingers down; teach… | ||
| Jen Kramer and Ray Villalobos (Lynda.com) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Jen Kramer, Ray Villalobos | 15m |
Argues that Bootstrap as productivity tool speeds site builds for non designers but requires prior HTML and CSS knowledge, shows using Sass and Compass for… | ||
| Ariya Hidayat (Shape Security) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Ariya Hidayat | 05m |
Argues for static polymorphism: reuse identical function and property names across similar widgets (radio, checkbox, slider) to reduce ambiguity, and prefers… | ||
| Steven Citron Pousty (Red Hat Openshift) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Steven Citron Pousty | 07m |
Demo shows building quick web maps by sending JSON from Express to Leaflet + OpenStreetMap, with the server returns points inside bounding box pattern so the… | ||
| Wesley Hales (Shape Security) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Wesley Hales | 07m |
Built a live audience voting app called onslide that uses WebSockets and SPDY as a probe toward HTTP/2, deployed at conferences and able to accept bursts of… | ||
| Kyle Simpson (Getify Solutions) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Kyle Simpson | 11m |
Book series claims to reverse the “black box” by inspecting the compiler and core mechanics, with concrete chapters on scope and closures and this and… | ||
| Kitt Hodsden (CodingClan LLC) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Kitt Hodsden | 06m |
Automation saves time by turning repeated work into reproducible steps: perform a task three times then automate so the third run is automated. Uses grunt for… | ||
| Brian Lonsdorf (loop/recur) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Brian Lonsdorf | 06m |
Argues pure functions increase portability and shows JavaScript pushed toward a functional style by writing point-free Haskell-style JavaScript. Demonstrates… | ||
| Brian Holt (reddit) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Brian Holt | 06m |
Argues frameworks are different tools for different jobs and picks Angular originally for largest mind share and marketing push, warns Angular churns when… | ||
| Raymond Camden (Adobe) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Raymond Camden | 07m |
Career moves from server side ColdFusion and Perl into front-end work with Backbone, Angular and Ember, and back again using Node.js plus Express on the… | ||
| Lara Swanson (Etsy) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Lara Swanson | 05m |
Etsy runs backend SLAs and runs “tons of experiments” to balance aesthetics and speed, moves from user-agent-sniffed mobile templates toward one responsive… | ||
| Jerry Chabolla (Xirsys) and Lisa Larson-Kelley (LearnFromLisa.com) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Jerry Chabolla, Lisa Larson-Kelley | 06m |
WebRTC is a peer-to-peer browser API that gives native access to webcam, microphone and arbitrary data channels without plugins, using JavaScript and existing… | ||
| Pamela Fox (Khan Academy) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Pamela Fox | 12m |
Khan Academy teaches programming using JavaScript with ProcessingJS so students make visual projects and simple games (Flappy Bird clones, Minecraft remixes)… | ||
| Chris Wilson (Google) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Chris Wilson | 08m |
HTML5 exposes real video and audio controls plus WebVTT timed text tracks that attach captions, metadata or coordinates to media and enable indexing and… | ||
| The Web Platform | 02m | |
A short promotional overview that repeats Fluent’s mission and lists technologies (WebGL, CSS3, Node.js, AngularJS, ECMAScript 6) without technical claims… | ||
| Glenn Block (Splunk) interviewed at Fluent Conference 2014 | Glenn Block | 06m |
Splunk presents itself as an operational-intelligence platform that exposes a JavaScript SDK and an extendable dashboard via a web framework toolkit so… | ||
| Sakari Poussa (Intel) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Sakari Poussa | 03m |
Crosswalk is an HTML5 application runtime that embeds the latest web APIs as a native layer below frameworks like Ember, not a competing framework, and it runs… | ||
| Langdon White & Ryan Jarvinen (Red Hat) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Langdon White, Ryan Jarvinen | 06m |
Red Hat packages recent runtimes like Node and Python 2.7/3.3 into Red Hat Software Collections and runs the same binaries on both OpenShift and native RHEL so… | ||
| Alex Gaynor (Rackspace) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Alex Gaynor | 02m |
Rackspace describes a practical path from code to hosted app, claiming developers can automate deployment and infrastructure management rather than… | ||
| Simon Wistow (Fastly) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Simon Wistow | 04m |
Fastly explains it caches whole pages including API responses and feeds rather than only assets, claims measurable speed and lower bounce rates for customers… | ||
| Nathan Taggart (New Relic) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Nathan Taggart | 02m |
New Relic launches a new browser monitoring product that injects a small script via a server snippet, watches applications running in the wild, and reports on… | ||
| Dave Carroll (Salesforce) interviewed at Fluent 2014 | Dave Carroll | 04m |
Salesforce presents a web‑only SaaS platform composed of Salesforce One platform, ExactTarget, Heroku and Force.com that developers access via common REST… | ||
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