Web Directions Code 2013
2013-05-02..2013-05-03
Melbourne, Australia
[Web Directions Code 2012, Web Directions Code 2013, Web Directions Code 2014]
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Making things with maths | Steven Wittens | 54m |
Shows how math turns small building blocks into working visuals and tools using WebGL Canvas Web Audio and GLSL, with live examples like a 1KB demo that… | ||
| Put on your asynchronous hat and node | Marc Fasel | 41m |
Node.js runs JavaScript on a single thread and gets massive concurrency by offloading slow IO to the OS — IO can be ~100,000× slower than CPU work — so… | ||
| Ghost in the Shadow DOM | Ryan Seddon | 13m |
Shadow DOM provides true DOM encapsulation in Chrome via webkitShadowRoot and the content tag for node distribution, letting a component inject its own <style>… | ||
| What every developer should know about REST | Michael Mahemoff | 50m |
Overview of REST from a front-end angle with concrete rules: use clean URIs and correct methods (GET/PUT/POST/DELETE), return proper HTTP status codes (200… | ||
| HTML, CSS and the Clientside App | Garann Means | 50m |
Argues that HTML5 and CSS are active parts of client-side apps, not mere presentation: use native features like contenteditable inline editing and built-in… | ||
| See the tries for the trees | Jared Wyles | 49m |
Covers concrete algorithm choices and tradeoffs: uses Big O to compare lookup speeds, shows hash tables for O(1) property access, binary trees for O(log n)… | ||
| Taking JavaScript Seriously with Backbone.js | Jeremy Ashkenas | 54m |
Backbone.js extracts client-side data and logic out of the DOM so models and collections drive the UI, using models and collections plus Underscore for… | ||
| The Politics of JavaScript | Angus Croll | 47m |
Argues that tribalism, fear and automation are shrinking JavaScript practice and offers concrete examples: JSHint breaks a natural-compare by forcing ===… | ||
| An introduction to the File API | Cameron McCormack | 13m |
Introduces the DOM input.files list, shows using a FileReader with readAsText, readAsDataURL and readAsArrayBuffer to get a string, a data URL and an… | ||
| Source maps for debugging | Elle Meredith | 12m |
Explains how to generate and chain Source Maps: compile CoffeeScript with -m to emit application.js plus application.js.map, then run uglifyjs with… | ||
| JavaScript's Slightly Stricter Mode | Glen Maddern | 15m |
Strict mode makes JavaScript throw concrete errors instead of silently failing: assigning without var raises a ReferenceError that prevents implicit globals… | ||
| CSS preprocessor performance | Nicole Sullivan | 57m |
A practical case study of a living style guide and component library for Trulia: a living style guide built from a grep-based inventory and automated visual… | ||
| What's ECMAScript 6 Good For? | Julio Cesar Ody | 21m |
Covers concrete ES6 features and how to try them now: new class syntax with extends and super, default parameters and rest arguments, destructuring assignment… | ||
| Create impact with CSS3 filters | Alex Danilo | 12m |
Explains that CSS filters run as the final render step, are simpler CSS wrappers around SVG filters, and already run with GPU acceleration in modern browsers… | ||
| Highlights | 04m | |
Web Directions Code, in Melbourne on May 2 and 3 2013, was two awesome days for web developers that were all about learning connecting and geeking out. Check… | ||
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