Fronteers Videos

Implementing CSS in JavaScript in 10 easy steps More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/jam-session/css-from-scratch-robbert-broersma

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... More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/jam-session/bricss-on-tour-lennart-schoors

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. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/jam-session/writing-awesome-code-hans-christian-reinl

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. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/jam-session/the-road-to-responsive-images-anselm-hannemann

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. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/jam-session/a-different-approach-to-build-systems-peter-muller

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. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/jam-session/dont-think-just-play-scott-kosman

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 wor and life. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2012/jam-session/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-defaults-eric-eggert

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". You show something ordinary and build up anticipation. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. The third act, the hardest part, is "The Prestige". This is when you bring the extraordinary back to the real world. As web developers we nowadays seem to be addicted to magic tricks and we want to see more and more extraordinary things on stage and in blogs and articles to distract us from the mundane day to day jobs we have to do. This is not healthy and it is time to remember what we are here for. We do live in a magical world of development and it is time we start to use it in the real world and change our "best practices" and methodologies of the past to accommodate the needs of today. In this talk Chris Heilmann will show how each and everyone out there can do their part to make us all part of the magic instead of sitting back and consuming the show without learning the tricks.

Every great magic trick consists of three parts or acts. The first part is called "The Pledge". You show something ordinary and build up anticipation. The second act is called "The Turn". The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. The third act, the hardest part, is "The Prestige". This is when you bring the extraordinary back to the real world. As web developers we nowadays seem to be addicted to magic tricks and we want to see more and more extraordinary things on stage and in blogs and articles to distract us from the mundane day to day jobs we have to do. This is not healthy and it is time to remember what we are here for. We do live in a magical world of development and it is time we start to use it in the real world and change our "best practices" and methodologies of the past to accommodate the needs of today. In this talk Chris Heilmann will show how each and everyone out there can do their part to make us all part of the magic instead of sitting back and consuming the show without learning the tricks. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/the-prestige-of-being-a-web-developer-chris-heilmann

We finally have the ability to serve custom fonts to all popular browsers. However, like everything in our profession, there’s a minefield of gotchas and peculiarities between browsers, devices and operating systems. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/in-your-font-face-jake-archibald