Sessions at JSConf 2009 on Friday 24th April

This session will provide a high level overview of the Objective-J language and Cappuccino frameworks. We'll spend a short period of time discussing both these technologies and the reasoning behind them. Then we'll dive right into showing you how to use them to create beautiful and immersive user interfaces for your web applications that parallel those found on the desktop. We'll cover how to add features such as drag and drop, copy/paste, undo/redo, and autosave.

In this presentation you will learn about the TaffyDB Library. TaffyDB acts as a thin data layer within your JavaScript applications that makes it easy to manage, manipulate, and query your data without returning to the server. In this presentation you will get an overview of how TaffyDB works and how easy it is to start using it in your applications. You will also learn how putting TaffyDB at the core of your application can help you create faster, more flexible, and more innovative experiences for your users.

In this topic, Jeff will discuss how to build and deploy desktop rich applications using Titanium which run seamlessly on Windows, OSX and Linux desktops using Javascript and HTML.

Using CouchDB to create "edgy" web applications that are stored in the database. CouchApps allows you to store not only data in a database like CouchDB, but also full applications, which lends to some rather interesting use cases. Not only do applications then scale up and out, but their ability to revision control themselves comes for free. The CouchApps are pure JavaScript applications that sit on top of the power of CouchDB, and then allow the applications and data to become instantly portable and shareable through replication. This tag team presentation will give you some powerful insight into the concepts of CouchDB and CouchApps.

The integration of JavaScript to control a virtual reality and vehicle simulation software modeling software package called SimCreator. The talk will discuss the ability to script real-world events and behaviors such as traffic patterns, pedestrians, urban situations, warfare simulations, and vehicle testing.

Mastering server side technology should not be limited to DBAs and backend specialists. Every web developer already has the knowledge needed to make powerful applications. Axiom Stack, an open source web framework, provides the flexibility of Javascript alongside the power of the JVM's libraries and ecosystem. This talk will be about the design and architecture of Axiom Stack: what makes it tick and how it can help you.

Grown tired of the AJAX buzzword blues? Jack Moffitt takes us on a whirlwind tour of Strophe for building beautiful XMPP based applications in pure JavaScript using Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) which will most likely be the next evolution of web technologies. The focus concept is the "Real Time Web" and how to actually accomplish low latency rich data applications that put AJAX to shame. With Strophe you can leverage all the goodness of XMPP at the client side. It is a very exciting technology and great deep tech talk from the one of the geniuses behind the brand new Collecta.

Dojo teaches fundamentally sounds techniques for high performance JavaScript applications across the board. In this session, you will learn how these techniques are used internally provide a stable, professional-grade foundation for creating highly maintainable, scalable projects of any size. Learn about the powerful dojo.data and RPC APIs, and other internal favorites of Dojo Ninjas. From the smallest use cases covered by Base Dojo to fully featured Rich Applications, the Dojo Toolkit provides quality tools for every step of the way.

John Resig presents his mystery topic, which is actually three topics that strike his interest. First up is measuring performance and a quick introduction to benchmarking (and its positives and negatives). This is followed by JavaScript Games which he unveils some super cool hidden functionality (cheat codes++) on the jQuery web site. This is followed up by the introduction of John's distributed continuous test framework platform, Test Swarm. It is jam packed with Nirvana and goodness so be sure to watch both parts.