jQuery Conference 2012 San Francisco
2012-06-28..2012-06-29
San Francisco, United States
who it's for
frontend developers, javascript developers, mobile developers, ui engineers, plugin authors, frontend architects, project maintainers
topics
jQuery core modular builds; Sizzle selector engine improvements; jQuery UI widgets and theming; jQuery Mobile performance tuning; Deferreds and Promises patterns; single page apps with Backbone and RequireJS; Grunt-based build and scaffolding; HTML5 game development on iPad; ICU MessageFormat localization; web performance measurement techniques; extensible jQuery plugin development; iframe garbage-collection reset
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| State of jQuery - Part1 - jQuery Core | Dave methan | 19m |
jQuery Core aims for a single major 1.8 release (July) with fixes, CSS vendor prefixes, smaller payloads and deprecations like live and $.browser; a… | ||
| State of jQuery - Part 2 - Sizzle | Timmy Wilson | 09m |
jQuery 1.8 ships with a rewritten Sizzle that raises matching and filtering speed about 5–10% overall and speeds element-rooted ID selections by roughly ~300%… | ||
| State of jQuery - Part 3 - jQuery UI | Scott Gonzalez | 17m |
jQuery UI ships a 1.9 beta released after eight milestone builds, bringing approximately 2098 commits, 201 tickets and a promise that 1.8 behavior coexists via… | ||
| State of jQuery - Part 4 - jQuery Mobile | Todd Parker | 21m |
jQuery Mobile reports concrete progress: stable 1.0 → 1.1 line, now shipping 1.1.1 RC with 50+ fixes (notably a transition safety valve that skips heavy… | ||
| Exterminating Common jQuery Bugs | Elijah Manor | 39m |
Shows concrete bugs and fixes: a delete button that re-zebras a table because hide() animates asynchronously so calling zebra() in AJAX complete runs too early… | ||
| I .promise() to show you .when() to use Deferreds | Alex McPherson | 27m |
Demonstrates seven concrete patterns using jQuery Deferreds: bundling three parallel Ajax sources with when to render a sidebar, storing a Deferred on page… | ||
| Beyond the DOM: Sane Structure for JS Apps | Rebecca Murphey | 30m |
Argues that apps must stop being DOM-centric and shows a small search app built with Backbone, RequireJS and tests in Mocha. Architecture: search view only… | ||
| Going Deeper with jQuery Mobile | Andy Matthews | 35m |
Covers three concrete how-tos: creating custom icons (adds ~55 icons and packages Font Awesome into a ~240‑icon pack), themes (use ThemeRoller, require at… | ||
| Creating a Dynamic Mobile Application using jQuery Mobile | Pat McLoughlin | 26m |
Demo shows JSON form templates and per-user entity data downloaded via the jQuery ajax api, rendered into a single-page jQuery Mobile container by string… | ||
| HTML5 Game Dev on the iPad | Daniel Cohen | 34m |
A hidden‑object game, Fashion Tale, is built in HTML5/jQuery with a canvas for the board, DOM/CSS for UI, and an Objective‑C wrapper instead of PhoneGap; two… | ||
| The UX of Language | Alex Sexton | 37m |
Concatenating strings for UI sentences produces embarrassing UX and explodes when plurals, gender, contexts or multiple counts appear; gettext/PO files handle… | ||
| New Perspectives on Performance | Menno van Slooten | 22m |
Defines web performance as three measurable goals: visibility interactivity responsiveness and insists on a baseline that is measurable repeatable stable… | ||
| jQuery Foundation Keynote | Richard D. Worth | 38m |
Organization incorporation in February 2012 as a 501(c)(6) trade association formalizes funding and governance after using a personal PayPal account and a… | ||
| What's jQuery Doing on Standards? | Yehuda Katz | 33m |
jQuery Foundation joins W3C/ECMA, pushes concrete fixes: replaces jQuery’s synthetic-id query hacks by driving a proposed findAll/querySelectorAll scoping bug… | ||
| Pitfalls and Opportunities of Single Page Applications | Jörn Zaefferer | 33m |
Covers concrete tradeoffs: uses Backbone and a tiny simple-history.js demo to show pushState over hashbang with working back/forward and no hash fallbacks… | ||
| Contextual jQuery Part III: Just In Time & User Actions | Doug Neiner | 36m |
Argues moving heavy initialization out of DOM ready and instead firing on concrete beacons (click/next, mousedown/touchstart) or probability signals… | ||
| Confessions of a jQuery Committer | Corey Frang, Kris Borchers, Adam J. Sontag, Rick Waldron, Mike Sherov | 35m |
Arepairs-history of contributions: people join by fixing bugs, use GitHub pull requests and IRC on freenode, and sometimes won an Xbox or an all-expense-paid… | ||
| Grow Up With Grunt | Ben Alman | 36m |
A command-line build tool that wires together linting, concatenation, minification, scaffolding and headless browser testing, demonstrated by scaffolding a… | ||
| Extensible jQuery Plugin Development | Shane Riley | 17m |
Explains a concrete jQuery pattern: store defaults and methods in an internal plugin object, give it a name property for namespaced events, attach per-element… | ||
| Frame Juggling: Building a Live Preview | Dar Cooper Smith | 36m |
Built a WordPress live preview that actually works with every existing theme by combining jQuery utilities and Deferreds, using postMessage and CORS where… | ||
| Faster jQuery With Category Theory | John Bender | 38m |
Shows that exposing the DOM-manipulating core of jQuery methods and composing them into a single pass reduces loops and gives measurable wins — roughly 5–10%… | ||
| Flying Satellites from a Browser | James Long | 31m |
A production JavaScript mission-ops UI controls SkySat-1 telemetry using jQuery on the front end and Jetty8/ActiveMQ middleware, proving a browser can run real… | ||
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