The ruby guy that goes javascript

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Timeline of concrete moves: a transition from Prototype to jQuery and then to Raphael to build a working vector-based font editor that runs in the browser; a first serious web app used to search multi-resistant pathogens; discovery that Node.js brings V8 power to server-side and that Ruby and JS start to blur (Ruby calling into V8); creative hacks like a JS1K jump‑and‑run in ~1.2KB that outperforms compiled minimizers.

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1. 0:00Ruby to JavaScript journey
2. 3:05Early JavaScript 1999 2003
3. 5:32Ruby on Rails Prototype.js era
4. 8:01Rediscovering JavaScript 2009
5. 10:06JavaScript community Berlin
6. 12:40First serious JavaScript project
7. 15:17JavaScript conferences creativity
8. 17:08Community cross-language collaboration
9. 18:55Live coding modern JavaScript
10. 20:01JavaScript duct tape for web

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