Fronteers Videos

A few simple tips and tricks for getting over your fear of public speaking and/or presenting - something everyone needs to do at some point, regardless of occupation or specialization.

New CSS properties like transitions, gradients and, of course, pseudo-elements — :before and :after. People use them to create complex things just on a single html element, for some extra decorations without any bloated markup and for so much more. However, pseudo-elements have a major drawback — you couldn't use CSS transitions on them. Until now! Right now the only browser who know how to transition values on pseudos is FireFox. But I'll talk about the method any modern browser would understand — and by which any modern browser could show you transitions for most of the CSS properties right on the pseudo-elements. It's a hacky, quirky way, it won't work for any property, but it's better than nothing — with transitions on pseudo-elements a lot of things would be possible — and I'll show some live examples during my talk.

Covering the 3 most important things one needs to consider when building utilities/libraries for others to use. (robustness, simplicity, flexibility)

Implementing CSS in JavaScript in 10 easy steps.

10 minutes about RingoJS, a Node.js-like CommonJS environment, which supports threaded JavaScript on the server (aka "Workers").

Why is it that every web build system needs you to adapt to its way of working? Why do you have to write manifest files, put files into a specific directory structure and do a lot of manual work to have an optimized production build of your web site. If your browser can see the unoptimized assets in your web page, why shouldn't your build system be able to as well? This will be a very short presentation of the thoughts and decisions behind the node based web optimization framework assetgraph and a demonstration of some of the features it has.

Development of a formula for selecting clients. Or better: how can a selection be improved if you have the choice? Customers send out signals before you make the contract. Read, analyze and understand them. So the goal has to be not a customerMatchAll(), more a matchCustomer() paired with giveMeMoneyAndShutUp(true). But some exceptions are allowed on the road to success ;-)

The idea is to show about 5 short tips/tricks/hints about CSS and HTML – you know, like I do on http://bricss.net. Haven't yet figured out exactly which 5 subjects I'll pick, but that will also depend on the topics that are circulating in the front-end world around that time...

How we were asked to build a continuous, full-screen, interactive animation for a client and the hilarity that ensued. A tale of feature detection, CSS animations and transitions, scripted animation, hardware acceleration and performance.

Iacobien and Rian will talk about accessibility and the WP- Accessible project. The main goals of this project are to help everyone use and maintain an accessible WordPress website.