Remote Conferences - Video (Small)

Many of your have heard about ES6 among the chatter in the community. However, it can be tough to find one place to go that will answer all your ES6 questions and show you all of the ES6 features. As part of the show, Aaron show you each of the new pieces, a long with some guidance on how to start using ES6 today.

The most critical and valuable life learnings of one of the most prominent open-source JavaScript developers, compressed into a 40 minute talk.  

Javascript has become widely popular for developing hybrid mobile technologies by the advent of tools like Phonegap, Kony, Telerik App Builder. In this talk, I will demo how to create a Hybrid Mobile app using Javascript - AngularJS & Ionic Framework.

In the late 80s, Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham came up with HotDraw (http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HotDraw), a two-dimensional graphics framework for structured drawing editors, originally written in Smalltalk-80. Since then, many implementations have been created, and the principles applied in a lot of places. While a lot has been learned, the original HotDraw still outshines many of its successors.

In the last few years, RoleModel Software was asked to build several systems with a complex underlying model where the user input was primarily direct graphical manipulation. This included:

* a system to support educational innovators at the Friday Institute, using direct manipulation tasks to test and teach various mathematical concepts to elementary age children.

* a deck designer for decks.com, to design and produce a 3D rendering, materials lists, and permit-ready plans to help do-it-yourselfers get professional designs in seconds.

The solution in both cases included a HotDraw-like JavaScript approach to drawing and direct manipulation on an HTML5 Canvas, almost completely test driven using Jasmine.

We'll go over the highlights of the cool technical feats and show how JavaScript is not just for manipulating the DOM.

The Angular.js team answers questions about Angular.js, its future, the framework, and anything else you want to ask about it.  

The key to quickly learning JavaScript MV* Frameworks is to break them down into a series of features. The main features of an MV* application are routing, data binding, templates/views, models, and data access.

In this talk I’ll describe these features and show code examples from AngularJS, Backbone, and Ember for each feature.

You will begin to concretely understand what these frameworks are trying to help you accomplish and realize they are more alike than they are different. In fact, it becomes apparent that most of the frameworks borrow heavily from the successes of the others.

Let's turn the page on programming robots with a flowchart. Robotics should be done with a hierarchy of state machines, best if self-modifying. I'll demonstrate how a js framework can prove the idea, on a Firefoxos phone even. It's a great place to set base camp and opens up more excursions like machine learning and genetic programming.

We talk about refactoring, as if beautiful code is all we need. But that's only a start. Small services are lovely to reason about internally, but they push complexity outward. Systems these days aren't so much written as assembled.

We write some code, our precious business logic, and then the real work is hooking everything together. Databases, web servers, routers, monitoring systems, search tools. Plus the easy stuff like version control, issue trackers, continuous integration.

Every piece both adds and takes away complexity. Even the most elegant technology is disaster when we implement it without befriending its internal concepts, or when we use it for an unsuited purpose.

Join Jessica as she finds both pain and beauty in the complexity of our systems. Will we ever find simplicity? or is the light at the end of the tunnel an oncoming enterprise service bus?