Fronteers Videos

This talk will cover how the jQuery project has worked to provide the best possible experience for its users and has fostered a community around contributing back to the project. We'll look at what the project has done to create this environment and see how it can apply to other projects or companies. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/jquery-and-the-open-source-process-john-resig

From particle systems to blending effects, optimised animations, gaming and good old maths creativity, Seb Lee-Delisle (@seb_ly) has more than a trick or two to share with us. If you’re interested in bringing a little visceral beauty to your websites, apps and games, then this is the session for you. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/creativejs-seb-lee-delisle

This talk will go through one very important, and often painful, part of the web. That is, how can end users interact with a web site through forms, and for web developers, how do we develop them in the most efficient manner? More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/html5-forms-kiss-time-robert-nyman

Working on websites is no longer a task that requires notepad and a browser to complete. The previous web developer revolution was about the semantics, but now we have real technologies that are being specced out and browsers in a race to implement. Your website is no longer a static page with headings and semantic markup. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/the-new-developer-workflow-divya-manian

There's a lot of tension between today's markup and the semantics we're trying to express in our apps. HTML5 adds a few new types to help describe common cases, but what about when there's no allegory in markup for what you're building? What we need now is infrastructure, not guilt about being "non-semantic". This talk explores new standards-track work in WebKit that's going to enable say-what-you-mean development in completely new ways. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/web-components-and-model-driven-views-alex-russell

Passion. Purpose. Promise. Pursuit. These are the 4 P's that create a Map for Awesomeness. Discover how to: embrace your passion, define your purpose, foster your promise, and engage your pursuit. Learn how to do this in a creative environment that encourages collaboration. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/passion-purpose-promise-pursuit-leslie-jensen-inman

Modern CSS is amazing, but even more wonderful stuff is in the pipeline and currently being experimented with in browsers. Tab Atkins will explain the soon-to-be-new hotness in simple terms and show how it will drastically change the way you write web pages for the better. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/the-future-of-css-tab-atkins

In this session, Stephen will introduce, discuss and give examples of CSS3 Regions. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/go-with-the-flow-stephen-hay

With all the whizzbangs of canvas and multimedia, the Ooh!s of the History API and the Aah!s of Appcache, the 30 new elements in HTML5 are often overlooked by developers coming to terms with what's new in the HTML Hood. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/html5-semantics-bruce-lawson

By now most of you know how to use the popular new CSS3 features in your stylesheets, like embedding custom fonts or creating rounded corners, drop shadows, and scalable designs with media queries. However, below the surface, there are many other things that CSS3 brings and most web developers have never heard of. In this talk Lea will present many CSS3 features that are useful but underrated, as well as uncommon ways of utilizing the CSS3 features you already know about, in order to do much more with even less images and code. More info at: https://fronteers.nl/congres/2011/sessions/css3-secrets-lea-verou