Sessions at Fluent with slides in Continental 4

Tuesday 29th May 2012

• Writing robust Node.js applications

  by Tom Hughes-Croucher

  In this tutorial we are going to build a clustered chat server that supports Socket.io. You'll learn how to build a real-time app that scales, doesn't fall over and is easy to extend and add features to. There are lots of tutorials that will teach you how to throw together some Node.js code. This tutorial isn't that.

  • Node.js
  • Socket.io

  At 1:45pm to 5:15pm, Tuesday 29th May

  In Continental 4, Hilton San Francisco Union Square

  Coverage slide deck

Wednesday 30th May 2012

• High Performance Snippets

  by Steve Souder

  Ads, buttons, widgets - third party content is popular on today's websites. JavaScript provides a great way to mashup content from different sources. Unfortunately, in most cases each JavaScript snippet is capable of bringing down the entire site.

  • JavaScript
  • webperf
  • Web Performance

  At 11:50am to 12:30pm, Wednesday 30th May

  In Continental 4, Hilton San Francisco Union Square

  Coverage slide deck video

• Realtime Web Applications in the Wild

  by Phil Leggetter

  It's been possible to instantly push information from a web server to a web browser for at least 10 years, but this technology has finally gone mainstream. Phil will discuss the past, present and future of client/server communication technology, the realtime web and provide a number of use cases and demonstrations of how the technology is used today.

  • Real Time

  At 5:05pm to 5:45pm, Wednesday 30th May

  In Continental 4, Hilton San Francisco Union Square

  Coverage slide deck