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Saturday 15th October 2011
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CommonJS Everywhere
CommonJS is a community-driven effort by volunteers with diverse backgrounds and interests to converge on a minimal common ground that is sound and scalable. The goal is to make writing portable JavaScript applications that run on servers, browsers, desktop applications, and secure sandboxes not only possible, but also accessible to developers and development tools without vendor lock-in or steep learning curves.
Christoph will attempt to paint us a picture of where CommonJS is today and where it is headed. CommonJS is well on its way to realizing the dream of portable JavaScript applications composed of libraries from all over the Internet. That is, modular JavaScript that runs everywhere.
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JavaScript Everywhere with Wakanda
by Dave Terry and Dan Wasserman
Experts Dave Terry and Dan Wasserman will present Wakanda, an open-source development platform using JavaScript at every level. You will discover the power of Wakanda and how you can use it to build sophisticated business web applications for desktops, mobile devices, and tablets. Learn all about the different editors that make Wakanda unique in the JavaScript world.
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SSJS in the Cloud
by Scott Andrews and Mark Fisher
Cloud Foundry is the first open platform as a service (PaaS) project supporting multiple frameworks, multiple cloud providers, and multiple application services all on a cloud-scale platform. Cloud Foundry allows developers to focus on writing applications instead of worrying about infrastructure or needing to configure application and database servers.
This talk will focus on Cloud Foundry's rich ecosystem of application frameworks (including Node.js), data services, and cloud providers. Showing the ease of deploying apps, consuming services in the cloud, and moving your application between different clouds.
You can sign up for a free account at http://www.cloudfoundry.com/ and join the open source community at http://www.cloudfoundry.org/.
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AMD versus CommonJS. Which is better?
We all know that modules are in our future. ECMAScript.Next modules (aka "Harmony" modules) will start appearing in browsers in early 2012. Too bad Harmony modules won't be universal 2021 when IE9 will finally be dead.
No need to wait! AMD and CommonJS Modules/1.1 are fully supported in a wide variety of environments already. But why are there two standards? Which one should I pick?
We'll take a quick look at each of the formats, compare and contrast their features, discuss the benefits of using modules now, and finally draw some conclusions.
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The Future of Server-Side JavaScript
Node.js has captured the attention of early adopters by clearly differentiating itself as being asynchronous from the ground up. Now that server-side JavaScript is at the cutting edge of the asynchronous, real-time web, it is in a much better position to establish itself as the go-to language for synchronous CRUD webapps and gain a stronger foothold on the server.
Oleg’s talk will cover the current state of server-side JavaScript beyond Node by mapping out the key standards and technologies as well as their respective positions in the stack. He will introduce Common Node, a synchronous CommonJS compatibility layer using node-fibers, which bridges the gap between the different platforms. He will give us a tour of Common Node’s internals, compare its performance to that of other implementations, such as RingoJS, and go through some ideal use cases.
A case will be made for a cross-platform, synchronous, Rails-like framework. In conclusion, he will identify new areas where server-side JavaScript can really shine, including API mashups, collaborative development and crowdsourced functionality.