In Case You Missed It: JSConf.eu 2010 (day 2)

As expected, Day 1 of this weekend's JSConf.eu JavaScript conference in Berlin was, as the kids say, EPIC. So much so, in fact, that I found myself following the Twitter channel all morning, and retweeting WAY more often than usual. Of course, a lot of those retweets were to presenter-uploaded slide decks, but here they all are in one place, in case you missed it:

Speaker(s)	Topic
THEATRE (TRACK A)
Douglas Crockford	Loopage
Jens Arps	The hitchhiker's guide to client side persistent data storage
Ryan Dahl	Techniques for a single stack world
Jed Schmidt	Getting functional with (fab)
Tom Hughes-Croucher	Don't write spaghetti code in server side JavaScript
Kevin Dangoor, Joe Walker & Patrick Walton	BespinSkywriter: The JavaScript Programmer's Editor
Jörn Zaefferer & Nikolai Onken	Robotic JavaScript
Mark Wubben	Browser Extensions for Web Hackers (code)
Alexander Lang	Not your unit test (note: Chrome on OS X)
Stoyan Stefanov	Performance Patterns
Chris Williams (JSConf co-creator)	Community.js
MUSIC SCHOOL (TRACK B)
Paul Irish	The State of HTML5 : Inaugural Address (note: Webkit/Chrome required) (sidebar on polyfills)
Tobias Schneider	Not your Mother's JavaScript!
Sebastian Werner	Introducing Unify - A Framework for Cross Platform Applications
Guillermo Rauch	Socket.IO: Web Sockets for Everyone (nodestream, demo)
Thomas Steiner	Pirating the Semantic Web with JavaScript
Rotislav Hristov	The Art of deep linking and AJAX crawling
Kris Kowal	CommonJS, I Promise
Aaron Quint	The Front-end Takeover
John David Dalton	Srsly R1pp3d J@vaScript
embedJS team	What is embedJS (I don't see this one on the schedule, only in the Twitter stream; where was it?)

Undoubtedly there will be more slide decks uploaded as presenters return home over the next day or two, and when they do, I'll update this post to reflect those additions. For now, though, I've got plenty of reading material to digest, and to share with my co-workers. ;)

Projects released and/or updated this weekend (as compiled by Brian Leroux):

• Cloud9 IDE (by Javascripters, for Javascripters)
• Unify: single-stack project for developing cross-platform, native-looking mobile apps
• Scripty2 beta 1
• apparat.io: packaging HTML5 apps for mobile app stores
• PhoneGap's hosted build service
• Joyent's node.js hosting
• VaporJS: the smallest, fastest, (most useless) JavaScript framework ever!
• soca: Sammy on Couch App
nodestream: Realtime apps made easy with templating

Yet another great conference has come and gone, but now we can start looking forward to JSConf 2011. And next time, I'm going to do all in my power to give my recap first-hand.

Updates:

• 9/27 0747 - Added link to Jed Schmidt's slides
• 9/27 1403 - Added link to Sebastian Werner's slides
• 9/27 1732 - Added link to Tom Hughes-Crouche's slides
• 9/28 1108 - Added link to Jens Arps' slides
• 9/28 1442 - Added link to Alexander Lang's slides (note that they require Chrome on OS X for best experience)
• 9/28 2330 - Added link to Tobias Schneider's slides

In Case You Missed It: JSConf.eu 2010 (day 1)

This weekend, the second annual JSConf.eu conference was held in Berlin, Germany. If you've been keeping track, this JSConf juggernaut just keeps getting bigger and more epic with each successive iteration. Continuing my series, In Case You Missed It, let's take a peek at this weekend's published schedule and the accompanying Twitter stream to see if the trend continues.

Day 1: Saturday, September 25, 2010

Speaker(s)	Topic
THEATRE (TRACK A)
Dion Almaer & Ben Galbraith	Using the Web to deliver the next wave of computing experiences
Peter Higgins	Your library sucks, and why you should use it
Jenn Lukas	JavaScript + Web Standards II: The Quickening
Tim Caswell	Techniques and Tools for Taming Tangled Twisted Trains of Thought (PDF)
Ulrike Müller	Server-side JavaScript the untold story
Nicole Sullivan	CSS Lint for Massive Sites
Brian LeRoux	PhoneGap: Love the Web and Lose the SDK
Ben Firshman	Lessons learnt pushing browsers to the limit (links: 1 2 3 4)
Mutwin Kraus	Using canvas to develop classic 2D games
Rebecca Murphy	The jQuery Divide
Pete LePage	Chakra: Building A New JavaScript Engine For Internet Explorer 9
/be (Brendan Eich)	Proxies are Awesome!
MUSIC SCHOOL (TRACK B)
Robert Nyman	HTML5 APIs - The new Frontier
Nicolas Garcia Belmonte	Creating Interactive Data Visualizations for the Web
Sebastian Deutsch & Stephan Seidt	If it moves they will watch (sample code)
Paul Bakaus	Aves Engine: High performance browser games
Mikeal Rogers	node.js + CouchDB == Crazy Delicious
Felix Geisendörfer	Dirty NoSQL (code, blog)
Philip Hofstetter	node.js in production use: tempalias.com
Markus Franz	Better Life with shared resources
Joe McCann	Rapid Prototyping for Multiple Platforms with JavaScript
Fabian Jakobs	Kick ass code editing and end-to-end Javascript debugging

Some of my favorite finds/revelations of the day:

• Transformie: provides CSS Transforms for Internet Explorer by mapping the native IE filter API
• Zynga buys out HTML5-based Aves game engine
• Transloadit: cool new service to provide robust file uploading (with image resizes, video encoding, etc)
• vapor.js, the smallest, fastest JavaScript library ever
• Cloud9 IDE: the Javascript IDE by Javascripters, for Javascripters

Look for tomorrow's recap late in the afternoon, and as always, if there are slide decks from other talks online that I don't have linked here, please note it in the comments below, and I'll update accordingly.

Updates:

• 9/26 0530 - Added link to Rebecca Murphey's slide deck
• 9/26 1813 - Added links to Jenn Lukas & Fabian Jakobs' slide decks, and removed speakers whose sessions were cancelled.
• 9/26 1839 - Added link to Philip Hofstetter's slide deck
• 9/26 1847 - Added link to Mutwin Kraus's github repository (which includes the slides)
• 9/28 0549 - Added link to Brendan Eich's slides
• 9/28 1119 - Added link to Felix Geisendörfer's slides & recap

In Case You Missed It: TXJS

Last Saturday was the inaugural TXJS (Texas JavaScript) conference in Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, as with JSConf, I wasn't able to attend, but I still wanted to stay abreast of its happenings. Just as I did with JSConf, I've looked over the schedule, picked through the Twitter stream, followed the presenters, and where possible, found links to the slides they each presented. All for you, Dear Readers (well, for me too... but mostly for you ;) ).

So anyway, without further adieu, here we go!

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JSConf 2010: Final Thoughts and Links

Today I saw in my blog reader that Guillermo Rauch over at DevThought has posted his list of JSConf links, similar to mine (Day 1 and Day 2). He's got a few links I haven't got in mine, but I have some he doesn't, too (he only listed Track A talks). So in the interest of cross-pollination, I've updated my posts and will give him a heads-up of my additions as well, when I can (my work firewall blocks his site for some reason).

Also, in the interest of pointing out other coverage of the best pirate-themed JavaScript conference on the East Coast, here are a few other blogs that have posted cool wrap-ups:

• Cowboy, a.k.a. Ben Alman, posted this great summary of the talks he attended, complete with photos
• Kevin Dangoor posted a similar wrapup to his own blog, with some nice commentary on Day 1 talks.
• Ted Leung did a great overview of the conference as a whole
• Rey Bango posted a bunch of awesome video interviews he took while attending. Go. Watch. I'll wait.

Oh, and in only-slightly-related news, I'm now on Reddit. Don't know that I'll post there much, but thought it was worth mentioning.

Finally, a note on plans. I think enough people appreciated these "In Case You Missed It" posts, that I'm going to try to keep doing them — at least when the conference interests me. Here are the next few I've got my eye on covering, time permitting:

Conference	Date
GDC Canada	6-7 May
Google I/O	19-20 May
TXJS	5 Jun
VSLive!	2-6 Aug
GDC Austin	5-8 Oct
JSConf.eu	25-26 Sept

In Case You Missed It: JSConf.us 2010 (day 2)

Here's part 2 of my attempt to distill the juicy bits from last weekend's JSConf presentations (here's part 1). Of course, this is only a pale imitation of the experience of actually attending the conference, but hopefully it will serve to keep you, dear readers, up to speed on the latest, bleeding-edge movements within the JavaScript community. Let's get to it:

In Case You Missed It: JSConf.us 2010

Day 2: Sunday, April 18, 2010

Speaker(s)	Topic
TRACK A
Mike Ball & Evin Grano	SproutCore: Introducing Greenhouse
Dmitry Baranovskiy	Raphaël the Great
CommonJS Panel Discussion	JavaScript Outside of the Browser - Where it is and where it's going! (wait for the video)
Makinde Adeagbo	Primer: Facebook's 2k of JavaScript to power (almost) all interactions
John-David Dalton	All you can leet - Coding for performance, CSS engines, and sandboxed natives
Felix Geisendoerfer	Dirty NoSQL (cancelled due to Icelandic ash)
Jed Schmidt	A (fab) approach to web apps
Justin Meyer	Thin Server Architecture and JavaScriptMVC 3.0 (site)
Steve Souders	The Best of Steve
Marak Squires, @ScurvyConf Master	hook.io: the crowd favorite from ScurvyConf
Billy Hoffman	JavaScript's Evil Side (introducing Zoompf)
/be (Brendan Eich)	"An Introduction to JavaScript" (was actually a discussion of JS's future; wait for the video)
Alex Russell	Google Chrome Frame
TRACK B
Jonathan Julian	Hangover.js
Shea Frederick	Ext JS App UI Morphing
Kyle Simpson	Dude wheres my UI Architecture
Adam Moore	Running YUI 3 on Node.js
Dean Landolt	Pintura, Perstore and Awesome-Oriented Persistence
Suvajit Gupta	Colossal JavaScript
Malte Ubl	JavaScript - The Private Parts
David Furfero	Sexy.js Boots Bundles Binding
Rob Tsuk	Mojo: Developing and Building a touch UI framework for mobile using the Web (or, Writing webOS Services in JavaScript)
Gonzalo Cordero	Creating custom modules using YUI3
Alexandre Morgaut	Taking over the enterprise one hook at a time (cancelled due to ash)
Jan Lehnardt	Evently: Declarative CouchDB Applications that practically write themselves
Brian LeRoux	PhoneGap Hack Around
Tom, Jenn, Adam & Derek	JavaScript. @$#*% yeah. (wait for the video)
Ray Morgan	Mustache is simplifying your templates
Brian LeRoux	best of wtfjs

As with Part 1, this is what I've been able to find so far. A lot of the Track B and panel discussions were largely unscripted, and I'm pretty sure Track B wasn't taped, so A lot of the slide decks haven't shown up online yet, so I've tried to link to the most relevant blogs talking about the topics in question. In a few instances (e.g. Rob Tsuk's talk on Mojo/webOS development for Palm), I've failed to find much of anything relevant online, so we'll have to wait and see what (if anything) eventually finds its way online. This is of course one of the big reasons why actually attending a conference is preferable to just reading about it after the fact, and I highly encourage you to take that opportunity when it presents itself.

As before, if there are slide decks from other talks online that I don't have linked here, please note it in the comments below, and I'll update accordingly.

Updates:

• 2010-04-23: @Getify corrected my bad assumption about the Track B talks, so I've revised the last paragraph.
• 2010-04-26: Gonzalo Cordero just posted his YUI3 talk slides, so I've added them.
• 2010-04-27: Dude sent me the link to JDalton's slide deck, so I've added it to the Track A listing.
• 2010-05-05: Paul Irish graciously shared his copy of Justin Meyer's JavascriptMVC notes, so I've linked them in.
• 2010-05-12: Tom Hughes-Croucher posted his JSConf recap on the YDN Blog, and it included refs to a couple of the Yahoo presentations that I'd been missing. They're now linked into the table.

In Case You Missed It: JSConf.us 2010 (day 1)

Last weekend, the second annual JSConf conference was held in Washington DC. If you've been reading for a while, you know I went last year and loved it. This year, unfortunately, my work and personal schedules conflicted, so this week I'm playing catch-up: looking over the published schedule, then picking through the Twitter streamfirehose to find the presenters, and where possible, the slides they presented.

In doing this, it occurred to me that there may be value in what I'm putting together, at least until the conference's producers can catch their breath and upload the session videos (which, experience tells me, might take a little while). With that introduction, I present to you the first of what may become an ongoing series, which I'm calling In Case You Missed It:

In Case You Missed It: JSConf.us 2010

Day 1: Saturday, April 17, 2010

Speaker(s)	Topic
TRACK A
Douglas Crockford	Really. JavaScript.
Michael Erlewine	Mozilla's JetPack
Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer, & Matt McNulty	Solving Device Fragmentation: How Do You Support 12,320 Different Mobile Platforms?
Francisco Tolmasky	Socratic: Documentation Done Right
Jenn Lukas	JavaScript and Web Standards Sitting in a Tree
Ryah Dahl	Less is More in Node.js
Tobias Schneider	Flash is dead, long live Flash! (Gordon: a pure-JS Flash replacement)
Aaron Newton	Programming To Patterns (per Guillermo Rauch)
Tom Hughes-Croucher	Piratin' the YQL way
Aaron Quint	Making Bacon: Making Code (video, blog)
TRACK B
Chris Williams (JSConf co-creator)	How I Pulled off JSConf
Brian Mitchell	JavaScript's Twin (Lua for JavaScript developers)
Jeremy Ashkenas	A Cup of CoffeeScript
Paul Irish	Progressive Advancement on the High Seas of Web8
Zach Carter	Build your own programming language with JavaScript
Michael Mahemoff	The Lost Hacks Ridiculous Browser Tricks from the World of Single-Page Applications
Nikolai Onken	The browser controlling hardware real pirate hackery
Nikolai Onken & Tobias von Klipstein	What the heck are HTML5 Apps?
John Resig	Call for a better DOM API
Kevin Dangoor & Patrick Walton	Bespin: the extensible in-browser code editor
Jeffrey Van Gogh	The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
Alistair MacDonald	WebGL Demo Overload
Matthew Fowle	New Web Architecture *

As of this morning, this is what I could find. If there are slide decks from other talks online that I don't have linked here, please note it in the comments below, and I'll update accordingly.

Footnotes:

• This is actually Matthew Fowle's ScruvyConf presentation; he did his Track B presentation slides on the fly.

Updates:

• 2010/04/20 1:12pm - akahn mentioned in the comments that the title of Aaron Quint's talk was wrong; I took the original published name, but the slides carry a different one. The table now reflects both.
• 2010/04/20 2:35pm - Looking over this table, I realized I'd left off the entire back half of Track B. It's there now.
• 2010/04/20 10:13pm - Ray mentioned in the comments that Jed Schmidt's (fab) talk was moved to Day 2 Track A, so I've removed it from the Track B list here.
• 2010/04/25 - Matthew Fowle sent me his contact info, so I've linked him up above.
• 2010/04/28 - Chris Williams has provided me more of the slide decks that the presenters gave to the JSConf organizers. I will be putting these online and linking to them as they become available; this morning I've linked up Tobias Schneider's Gordon slides.
• 2010/05/04 - Guillermo Rauch over at DevThought has posted his list of JSConf slides, and had a few I'd missed; I've added these now.