jQuery Conference: Boston 2010 schedule

Saturday 16th October 2010

• OOCSS for JavaScript Pirates

  by John "unscriptable" Hann

  At first glance, Object-Oriented CSS looks like yet another rehash of CSS "best practices". Maybe the OO part caught your attention briefly before you dismissed it as a gimmick. Who cares about CSS anyways? I'm a JavaScript Pirate! CSS is for lollygaggers and deck scrubbers!
  That's what these JavaScript Pirates thought, too, at first. But now that we're skilled in the arcane art of OOCSS, we've come to realize that it not only helps us write better CSS, but it also helps us write much better JavaScript!

  You too will be able to create kick-ass web apps that are engineering marvels -- able to withstand high seas and hurricane-force winds -- er... or at least unreasonable customer demands.

  First, we'll review the basics of OOCSS. Then, we'll delve deeper. Way deeper.
  Attending pirates will learn how to:

  1) use OOCSS principles to modularize HTML into reusable components, 2) mate these components with CSS rules and JavaScript ""controllers"", and 3) identify and implement inheritance patterns in CSS, HTML, and JavaScript.

  More importantly, pirates will discover several little-known secrets about OOCSS. These ""secrets"" are tips and techniques that you won't find in any book, tutorial, or treasure map. They're not even divulged on the OOCSS Github repository! Once you see them in action, you'll never want to do it the ""old way"" again.

  For certain, by the end of this session, you will: 1) have a much greater appreciation for CSS, 2) understand several simple, yet powerful, techniques for applying OOCSS, and 3) feel much more confident about creating and maintaining large web apps.

  Arrrrrr, matey!!! Let the wind blow!

  • CSS
  • CSS3
  • CSS Layout
  • Maintainable CSS
  • OOCSS

  At 1:30am to 2:15am, Saturday 16th October

  Coverage slide deck write-up link write-up note

• Keynote: State of jQuery, Fall 2010

  by John Resig

  • jQuery

  At 10:05am to 11:00am, Saturday 16th October

  Coverage slide deck

Sunday 17th October 2010

• Building Distributed JavaScript Widgets with jQuery

  by Ben Vinegar

  • Disqus
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery

  At 1:00am to 1:30am, Sunday 17th October

  Coverage slide deck

• jQuery's Best Friends

  by Alex Sexton

  At 11:00am to 11:50am, Sunday 17th October

  Coverage link

• Getting Involved in jQuery

  by Ralph Whitbeck

  Are you looking to get more involved in jQuery? Have you determined that you'd like to contribute to an open source project and you would like to contribute to jQuery but don't know what you can do to help? Do you want to make a difference and be recognized for your contributions to jQuery? Not everyone is a John Resig, Brandon Arron, Yehuda Katz, Jörn Zafferer or Scott Gonzalez and can sling JavaScript APIs that are used by 30% of the active web sites on the internet. But that doesn't mean there isn't something that you can contribute back to the community. More than likely there is a direct way for you to get involved.

  In this talk, we'll explore various options available to jQuery designers and developers to be able to contribute back to the jQuery Community. We'll discuss ways to have a big impact on a great number of people—from offering help on the forum to sharing plugins to writing tutorials. And we'll look at the proper procedures for reporting bugs and submitting patches.

  This talk is meant for anyone who is interested in jQuery, from the very beginner to the more advanced user who is looking to get more involved with the community.

  • jQuery

  At 5:30pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 17th October

  Coverage slide deck

Unscheduled

• Functionality Focused Code Organization

  by Rebecca Murphey

• The Mobile Open Web for BlackBerry

  by Adam Stanley and Tim Neil

  • Ajax
  • BlackBerry WebWorks
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • WebKit