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.

I'll be starting off by trying to identify the difference (UI wise) between Web Sites and Web Apps. Then I'll be showing how CSS Flexbox greatly simplifies creating Web Apps. Not just by talking about it using slides, but rather through live coding and examples.

Being Russia's search giant, Yandex employs thousands of developers, who are daily challenged by a huge amount of frontend development problems. Such as fast developing, maintaining long-lived services, code reusing, team scalability an many more. I would like to share with the comminity our solutions to these problems and speak about how they evolved through time and technological changes.

The web has changed but the way we approach new web projects hasn't. In this talk I'll compare the old defaults we used to work with, like desktop screen sizes, mouse interaction and some ideas about site structure with new defaults, new ideas based on the current web.

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Progress is a process, and like most man-made processes progress can be sped up and slowed down. As the victims and beneficiaries of progress in the browser space, it pays to understand not just what's holding us back, but what could be helping us move forward faster as well. This talk examines the feedback loops that create and hinder progress, why that process will never be pretty, and why now is perhaps the best time ever to be a web developer. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/sessions/the-web-platform-and-the-process-of-progress-alex-russell

Maybe you've inherited some smelly code, or maybe you've written some yourself, rushing to get a feature out the door knowing that you're leaving yourself a mess to clean up later. No matter how you end up with smelly code, eliminating smells is an important step toward making code easier to work with -- for you and your fellow developers -- reducing opportunities for introducing bugs, and making your code easier to test. Heck, it can even help you get a new job. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/sessions/js-minty-fresh-rebecca-murphey

For years front-end developers had to rely on custom Javascript tools and libraries to create animations we can now accomplish with a simple CSS transition. Transions however still have their limits, especially so when it comes to live interaction by users. In this session Peter shows how to step beyond some of these limits, and the benefits from doing so. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/sessions/beyond-simple-transitions-with-a-pinch-of-javascript-peter-nederlof

The word is getting out. Great web site experiences require careful development and crafty execution in the front end. Squeezing every drop of performance out of your user's browser is tough, but Steve Souders and friends have mobilized an army, and we are all having a bloody good go.

But there is a common threat to doing great work in the front-end. It lurks in the back-end and clients love it. It's the content management system, and more often than not, it stinks. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/sessions/i-can-smell-your-cms-phil-hawksworth

A mix of innovation, collaboration through standards, reverse engineering, content studies, and fussy politics, has created the somewhat messy yet beautiful platform we have today. It enables us to publish anything from a simple document to a complex application. This talk will dive into some of the low-level details of that platform as well as explain those fussy politics. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/sessions/building-the-web-platform-anne-van-kesteren