Sessions at Strange Loop 2011 about JavaScript in Gateway 3

Monday 19th September 2011

• Building Applications with jQuery UI

  by Scott González

  We’ll start with an overview of jQuery UI and the widget factory. We’ll dive into how the widget factory works, how it provides a unified API across all jQuery UI widgets and how to leverage it to build your own widgets. We’ll also cover the jQuery UI CSS Framework and how to leverage existing themes with your own custom widgets, as well as how to build a new theme that will work with any widget that uses the CSS Framework.

  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery UI

  At 10:30am to 11:20am, Monday 19th September

  In Gateway 3, Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark

Tuesday 20th September 2011

• A Tale of Two Runtimes

  by Matthew Taylor

  Server side JavaScript is exploding, and web applications written with NodeJS now have two JavaScript runtimes: Browser and Web Server.

  I’d like to introduce Mojito, Yahoo!’s nascent web presentation framework that takes advantage of these two runtimes in a unique way. The core of the web framework deploys itself from the server runtime into the browser runtime, allowing Mojito programmers to write web modules that can be executed agnostically within either runtime. This opens up interesting client-server integration possibilities, and ways to decide at runtime in which context user code will be executed.

  In this talk, I’ll introduce the concepts behind this framework and talk about the architecture and design behind it. I’ll also discuss the possibilities it introduces for bringing client and server closer together.

  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • Web Development

  At 10:30am to 11:20am, Tuesday 20th September

  In Gateway 3, Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark