Sessions at From The Front - Back to the Front about JavaScript

Thursday 29th September 2011

• Javascript Test Driven Development is between us (workshop)

  by Marco Cedaro

  Javascript & browsers have been for years a complex and unsafe environment for a web developer, now we have the right tools to gain control on what we are distributing in our web applications. During the workshop you will learn first-hand basic Javascript Test Driven Development practices including testing, refactoring and related agile practices such as continuous integration and pair programming.
  Program: an introduction to test driven development & continuous integration in js development; tests basics (unit vs functional and what’s worth testing in clientside development, mocking & stubbing, managing dependencies); development of a modular event driven application.
  Requirements a medium knowledge of native javascript interface (you have to be able to write your own code).

  • JavaScript
  • Test Driven Development

  At 9:00am to 1:00pm, Thursday 29th September

  Coverage slide deck

Unscheduled

• Your browser, your database

  by Francesco Fullone

  Complex applications need a persistent database to store, search and join data: till now a dedicated server was needed to do this, and no offline usage of the app was possible. With the introduction of HTML5 and the concept of Web Databases, we don't need an external server anymore: everything is stored within the user browser and thus the web app can be used offline as well as online.

  • File API
  • HTML5
  • indexeddb
  • JavaScript
  • wpo
  Coverage audio clip slide deck