Fronteers Videos

Writing code is hard. Especially when you have to work in a team and everyone writes his or her code differently. As if it wouldn't be hard enough to understand and implement the functionality of an app. To work against barriers of understanding code define how your team writes code. Set up coding guidelines and style guides so you can focus on funcionality. This is not limited to your JavaScript-Code: Give some love to your HTML and CSS as well. As a result you reduce the time you spent doing tasks that are less to your joy and let you focus more on the work that you love.

Choosing you defaults is important to have a good workflow. Making decisions all over again is bad for productivity and your lifestyle. In this session you'll learn how thinking about future decisions will improve work and life.

Usually game development in web use flash, canvas or webgl. But today you may use also CSS with little bit of js. I want to show couple of tricks and explain why CSS sometimes may be good decision.

Responsive images are the hot topic this year and we are finally getting to an end. An editor's draft has been written for the W3C. But now you might wanna now, where we go and what to use. I'll give you a quick overview. And show how it could work on devices.

A compilation of the 2012 conference. Subscribe to our new podcast for all 2012 sessions.

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