JSConf.eu 2009
2009-11-07..2009-11-08
Berlin, Germany
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who it's for
frontend developers, javascript engineers, web application developers, performance engineers, node developers, framework and tooling authors, enterprise architects
topics
Node.js server development; CouchDB edge applications; Wakanda application platform; Sprockets asset aggregation; HTML5 JavaScript APIs; HTML5 and CSS3 for UI; browser tracing and profiling; extreme JavaScript performance techniques; desktop-caliber web applications; Dojo gfx and charting; Bespin web code editor; JavaScript 2 enterprise edition
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Node JS | Ryan Dahl | 49m |
Claims that IO must be done differently and shows a usable stack: server-side JavaScript on Google’s V8, an event loop with non-blocking callbacks… | ||
| Writing apps on the edge with CouchDB | Alexander Lang | 30m |
CouchDB stores JSON documents and serves them over HTTP so apps talk straight to the database CouchDB HTTP+JSON. The database runs JavaScript views with… | ||
| Wakanda | Alexandre Morgaut | 31m |
Wakanda is a server platform that runs server-side V8 JavaScript directly against a 4D relational database so application code does not generate SQL but… | ||
| Aggregation with Sprockets | Christophe Porteneuve | 29m |
Sprockets provides a Ruby asset pipeline that concatenate+precompile via Sprockets Rails or run as a CGI, emits one consolidated asset and ships rake tasks for… | ||
| The Future of the Web-Apps | Dion Almaer | 54m |
Argues that the web can deliver desktop-class apps by showing tools and measurements: a browser-based code editor (bespin) uses canvas rendering and scales to… | ||
| The State and Future of JavaScript | Douglas Crockford | 01h 00m |
Standards process chronicle: ES4 gets abandoned, a minimalist ES3.1 becomes the candidate for a fifth edition and strict mode is the opt‑in repair path… | ||
| Autopsy of a Widget | Fabian Jakobs | 42m |
Builds a widget toolkit that composes UI from browser primitives and demonstrates a working spinner built from text input plus two buttons, using 2–3 DOM… | ||
| JavaScript in the age of HTML 5 and CSS 3 | Faruk Ateş | 40m |
Argues that progressive enhancement and feature detection (Modernizr/modernizer) beat browser hacks, shows a live demo swapping CSS for native HTML5/CSS3… | ||
| JavaScript in Browser Performance | Steve Souders | 48m |
This talk is from 2009 jsconf.eu. Front end dominates load time: with empty cache backend is often ~9% while browsers underutilize networks (target ~80%)… | ||
| Building Desktop-Caliber Web Apps | Francisco Tolmasky | 40m |
A JavaScript Cocoa port named Cappuccino claims desktop-class parity by shipping a new language Objective-J, CommonJS-based tooling (Jake) and a build that… | ||
| HTML5 JavaScript APIs | Remy Sharp | 29m |
Claims that the JavaScript APIs are the big part of HTML5 and even bets a 2022 date for interoperable browser support; demos show web forms validation reducing… | ||
| JavaScript - From Birth to Closure | Robert Nyman | 44m |
History and mechanics of JavaScript from 1995 to modern engines, with concrete demos: polyfilling Array.push to fix old browsers, explaining why == vs ===… | ||
| JavaScript 2 Enterprise Edition | Malte Ubl | 20m |
A bootstrapping meta object system called Juice extends JavaScript with classes, roles (traits), method modifiers and declarative type coercion while still… | ||
| Using dojox.gfx and dojox.charting | Peter Svensson | 46m |
Dojox.gfx draws vector shapes across SVG canvas VML Flash with an API that composes surfaces groups transforms and animations kept separate from rendering… | ||
| Extreme JavaScript Performance | Thomas Fuchs | 29m |
Argues concrete micro-optimizations with measurements: inlining function calls and inlining instead of repeated calls removes call overhead, unrolling loops… | ||
| Tracing JS Performance | Alois Reitbauer | 33m |
A demonstration of dynatrace HX Edition claims it records exact browser activity in Internet Explorer: per-event transactional traces… | ||
| Bespin | Julian Viereck, Dion Almaer | 26m |
An open web editor prototype built at Mozilla Labs ships a basic editor with syntax highlighting, a built‑in command line, canvas-based UI experiments and a… | ||
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