Sessions at JSConf EU 2009 with slides

Saturday 7th November 2009

• HTML5 JavaScript APIs

  by Remy Sharp

  Remy Sharp (who is also doing the Full Frontal JavaScript conference (which we highly recommend)) will be talking about the HTML5 JavaScript APIs. HTML5 is all the rage with the cool kids, and although there's a lot of focus on the new language, there's lots of interesting new JavaScript APIs both in the HTML5 spec and separated out. This presentation will take you through demos and code behind the new JavaScript APIs, and explore where these features can be used.

  • HTML5
  • JavaScript

  At 12:15pm to 1:00pm, Saturday 7th November

  Coverage slide deck video

• Loading JavaScript: Even A Caveman Can Do It

  by Kyle

  No matter how awesome your JavaScript code is, we all face the same problem: how to squeeze it down the wire and get it loaded and running in the browser as quickly and efficiently as possible. There are about as many ways to approach this problem as there are developers trying to solve it, which makes the landscape of JavaScript Loading solutions confusing and painful to navigate. But it doesn't have to be so ugly. We're gonna break it down so you can come away feeling more confident in how best to load your JavaScript. Several common strategies will be covered, including:
  •Build-time versus on-the-fly techniques
  •Code organization/compression (minification, gzip, etc)
  •File concatenation
  •Inline scripts
  •Dynamic parallel loading of JavaScript resources (LABjs, etc)
  •Cache optimization (initialization profiling, on-demand loading, pre-fetching, etc)

  • JavaScript

  At 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Saturday 7th November

  Coverage slide deck

Sunday 8th November 2009

• Wakanda: a new end-to-end JavaScript platform (SquirrelFish), with remote JS debugging, JS/REST database

  by Alexandre Morgaut and Jean-Michel Biraghi

  Wakanda is an exciting project including a server, a studio, and some useful Web tools. It helps you creating web apps that integrate nicely with a backend and a native REST and JavaScript database. It makes REST and Entity Model, a very intuitive way to build applications. We'll see a quick but detailed rundown about its architecture: its database engine, SquirrelFish, a data provider, Ajax framework adapters (YUI, ExtJS, jQuery, ...), and a full development environment. I'll expose part of its client and server-side APIs (JSON-RPC, data services), and some innovating features like JavaScript remote debugging, or unit testing on JavaScript and HTTP using Wakanda Studio and Firefox extensions.

  • CommonJS
  • JavaScript
  • REST
  • SSJS
  • Wakanda

  At 4:15pm to 5:00pm, Sunday 8th November

  Coverage slide deck video

Unscheduled

• JavaScript - From Birth To Closure

  by Robert Nyman

  • JavaScript
  Coverage video slide deck write-up

• node.js, Evented I/O for V8

  by ryah

  Node.js, Evented I/O for V8 Javascript It is well known that event loops rather than threads are required for high-performance servers. Javascript is a language unencumbered of threads and designed specifically to be used with synchronous evented I/O, making it an attractive means of programming server software. Node.js ties together the V8 Javascript compiler with an event loop, a thread pool for making blocking system calls, and a carefully designed HTTP parser to provide a browser-like interface to creating fast server-side software. This talk will explain Node's design and how to get started with it.

  • Node.js
  Coverage slide deck video

• Testing, Performance Analysis, and jQuery 1.4

  by John Resig

  Coverage slide deck