Side View 2013
2013-11-09
Brighton, United Kingdom
who it's for
front-end developers, JavaScript developers, UX designers, tooling authors, hiring managers, product designers
topics
smart TV and set-top browsers; game console browser support; service workers programmable cache; getUserMedia screen sharing; native JavaScript promises; device light event mapping; Web Speech API synthesis and recognition; navigator.vibrate patterns; Grunt automation and plugins; no backend workflows and BaaS; frontend apprenticeship programs
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Are You Browsing Comfortably | Steve Workman | 36m |
Statistics show 7 million UK households (39%) can put the internet on their main TV but only ~7% have smart TVs and average lifespan is seven years so old slow… | ||
| Taming the browsers of tomorrow | Flurin Egger | 26m |
Six concrete demos: native promises for chaining and Promise.all (avoids callback hell, in Firefox Safari and Chrome 32+), a device light event that maps lux… | ||
| Grunt your Way to Glory | Shaun Dunne | 26m |
Grunt claims to replace chunky XML and paid GUI tools with JavaScript config and npm plugins, installs via global CLI and per-project package.json, and runs… | ||
| Life Behind The Curve | Westley Knight | 20m |
Claim is that keeping up is impossible without filtering; concrete counts back that claim: 1,500+ Grunt plugins, following ~500 people on Twitter, a curated… | ||
| I have a Dreamcode: Build Apps, not Backends | Alex Feyerke | 31m |
Claims that noBackend or Backend as a Service lets front-end developers build full apps in the browser, not just UIs: concrete examples include using Tumblr… | ||
| Developing Developers | Paul Verbeek | 27m |
Argues for hiring ambitious beginners and growing them into frontend developers through hands‑on apprenticeship: a typical program is three months at 40 hours… | ||
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