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Tuesday 27th November 2012
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CSS3 Master Class
A practical, hands-on workshop that will see attendees schooled in the very latest CSS3 techniques. From structures and semantics to transitions and animations, this option offers a full day of front end learning to help you integrate the latest and greatest design advancements into your own work.
What you'll learn:
- Hands on exercises to help you hone your new skills.
- The latest CSS3 techniques.
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From Spaghetti To Scalable: A JavaScript Web App Workshop
Learn how to build highly maintainable web applications using modern JavaScript frameworks and a polished tooling workflow. Building a maintainable web app these days can be a challenging process. With over 30 frameworks available for structuring your JavaScript alone, any developer would be forgiven for feeling completely overwhelmed with where to start. This workshop will give you everything you need to take your code from spaghetti to scalable in under 8 hours. Google’s Addy Osmani will take you through how to refactor your applications so that they’re more maintainable, taking you through modern architectural design patterns, frameworks and tools that can help make writing an app a joy again.
What you'll learn:
- Application refactoring 101
- Effectively selecting and using an MVC/MV* framework
- Modern application architecture techniques
- A better tooling workflow to help you focus less on process and more on your app
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Getting Going With Node.js
Want to learn how to build high performance, scalable Internet and web applications with Node.js? This is the workshop for you. Attend to get a great grounding and some hands on experience in your new skill.
What you'll learn:
- How to get Node.js running
- How to create a web app using express.js
- How to create sockets using node.js and socket.io
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Marketing Your App
You've put blood, sweat, and yes some tears into your app and now you are ready to get it out there! But, how to make a big splash, generate excitement and get the download party started? During this workshop, we'll explore proven tactics that you can use to take your app to the top of the list.
What you'll learn:
- 10 techniques for marketing on a shoestring
- Branding tips to catch the eye
- Exercises to go from planning to action
Wednesday 28th November 2012
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Opening Keynote: The New Wave Utility Belt
by Addy Osmani
Whether you're using JavaScript or CoffeeScript, LESS or SASS, building an awesome webapp these days usually requires a plethora of boilerplates, frameworks, tools and a lot of glue to get them to work together. In short, you need a kick-ass utility belt. From performance tuning to build tools, in this session you'll get a complete overview of the current tooling ecosystem and learn about a new tool for app developers by Google that tries to bring all of the pieces of this ecosystem together for you. It's called Yeoman and we think it's going to make your life simpler.
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Sass & Compass: Untangle your Stylesheets
In this session, Roy will cover the rationale behind Sass, syntax, new features and best practices. Writing CSS isn't fun. Repeating the same selectors over and over, hand-crafting sprites and writing vendor prefixes make CSS the source of many headaches. Sass and Compass fix those issues and many more. This is why concepts from Sass are making their way into the W3C specifications right now. While Sass already was powerful, the soon to be released version 3.2 brings great new features. Learn that working with media queries will be more intuitive and placeholder selectors really do make for Sahara-like DRY code.
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Web Fonts Backstage and On Stage
by Tim Ahrens
The “big bang” of Web fonts in 2010 — when browsers started supporting downloadable fonts — started a revolution in Web typography. Being able to choose from a wide variety of fonts has given us new forms of expression and almost closed the gap to the printed world. Now that there are no major technical challenges any more and Web fonts are easy to “get to work”, it is time to raise the bar: how can we make them look great? How do type design and rendering technology interact? What do Web fonts look like inside? How do foundries optimize their fonts? What can the font user contribute to make the final result look as good as it possibly gets?
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Lessons Learned From Starting a Web Based Business
In September 2011 Keir and Elliot Jay Stocks formed Viewport Industries. Originally intended to be an entity to publish "Insites: The Book" it quickly morphed into a fully fledged business. In early 2012 they both decided to move their focus away from design and development client work to building products - both analogue and digital - to be sold via the web. In this session Keir will share a number of personal insights from the journey so far - the good, the bad and the occasionally ugly tale of turning a side project into a web based business. Topics include: + Choosing you collaborators + Setting up your business + The hidden fees + Opening up shop online + Ways of supplementing your income stream + Why you should share and give things away for free
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Something from Nothing (Exploring Where Creative Ideas Come From)
by Mike Kus
Finding a creative starting point for any project is difficult, but sometimes that starting point can come from almost anything. In this talk Mike will explore how ideas come to life and how sometimes they come from the most unlikely places.
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Node.js
Session description coming soon
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To Hell With jQuery: A Comprehensive Guide to Performance Optimization by JavaScript Avoidance
Have you ever wondered why developers tend to use jQuery and other JavaScript libraries while their goals can be easily achieved in plain CSS? Both CSS3 and future CSS specifications give us endless possibilities for styling, animations and selecting objects without unnecessary DOM manipulations. A how-to for JS avoidance.
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Augmented Reality and the Web
With new interfaces coming up (think of Google Glasses) service providers are facing the challenge to adapt their mobile offering to the new "screen" Augmented Reality. Web technologies are the right solution to tackle that problem. We are going to dive into creating Augmented Reality content based using standard web technologies and tools - namely HTML, JavaScript and CSS. Starting with basic interaction elements like Head-Up displays and geo-based POIs, the session will also cover interactive elements, multi-media support and marker based (image recognition) Augmented Reality. Where sensor-based and marker-based AR were seen as two separate approaches, the combination of both produces the best results in user experience. Demos and samples built using Wikitude’s ARchitect toolkit will highlight the current possibilities of modern Augmented Reality engines.
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Simplification: Designing and Building for Mobile
by Rob Borley
Clients will often have very complex ideas in mind when they come to us. Our challenge: to take them through a process of getting to the heart of what they are trying to do, whilst stripping everything else back. With the increasing amount of work being taken on to create services and products for mobile consumption, in this session we'll look at the focus and simplicity that are required when designing and developing for these kind of services.
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HTML5: What's New, What's Next?
With HTML5 offering so many new types of clever interaction, we're dedicating this session to updating you with some of the latest tips and tricks. Expect plenty of demos, examples and takeaways. As ever, we'll also cast our eyes ahead to what's on the horizon for HTML5, and what that will mean for us as web designers.
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Ruby: Where Are You Going?
A look at the past, present and future of web development in Ruby. How does Rails work internally? What is going to happen in Rails 4? What are the plans for Sinatra? Right now, there are at least two replacements for Rack in the makings. But it is the underlying technology used by Rails, Sinatra and nearly any other Ruby web framework out there. Yet, it's the framework authors pushing for the changes. So, what's wrong with Rack? And what does that mean for us as web developers? Head to this session for answers!
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Closing Keynote: How To Destroy The Web
The future of the Web is a dangerous Babylon: people talking to each other to do business, organise revolutions, express their feelings, meet their friends, transcend their disabilities and economically empower themselves. Obviously, this must be stopped. Bruce will show you his top tips and tricks that you can use to destroy the web.
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Closing Keynote: How To Destroy The Web
by bruce lawson
The future of the Web is a dangerous Babylon: people talking to each other to do business, organise revolutions, express their feelings, meet their friends, transcend their disabilities and economically empower themselves. Obviously, this must be stopped. Bruce will show you his top tips and tricks that you can use to destroy the web.
Thursday 29th November 2012
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Opening Keynote
To kick things off for the final day of FOWA / FOWD Prague, we're delighted to welcome Vitaly Friedman to our stage. As editor of industry favourite, Smashing Magazine, a regular speaker and author, we're really looking forward to Vitaly's keynote session.
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Safety First: Building Secure Web Apps
Hosters reject insecure code, and users reject insecure services. With the apps and sites that we build expected to handle ever-increasing transactions and private data collection, what can we do as developers to safeguard our users and what challenges can we expect to come up against in the future? A technical session, which will look at the state of our industry's security to date: who's doing this right and who is getting it scarily wrong...
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The Future of UX Design
It's been a hot topic for so long: but what has UX design theory delivered to date - and more importantly, as interactions with the web become the daily norm for more and more individuals, in every aspect of life, what developments can we expect to see and work with in the future?
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Scalability Issues: Cure First, Prevent Later
by Thijs Feryn
The "it works on my machine" mentality has resulted in numerous face palm moments. This is even more painful when a your app is under heavy load due to a marketing campaign. With some minimal code changes and some smart utilities, you can maximize your scalability and performance. Keywords: Varnish, PHP-FPM, Nginx, APC, CDN, Memcached and a proper server setup. I'll show you how you can make a slow app with a crappy code base go mighty fast on one and even multiple servers. The focus of this talk is to cure first and eventually learn and prevent.
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Technical Tips for Responsive Web Design
With Google officially announcing that responsive web design is now their recommended configuration, it's looking like the one size fits all approach is here to stay. Join us for a session covering some of the best ways to ensure a success responsive site, from media queries to adaptive content, pixel density to progressive enhancement.
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The Need for S.P.E.E.D. (Losing The Project Fatigue & Bringing Back The Fun)
by Matt Gifford
The day-to-day focus for many businesses and agencies is to simply ‘get this project out’. However, constant set backs during delivery can cost unnecessary time and money, increase workplace dissatisfaction and impact overall operational effectiveness.
Not cool.
The sad irony is that the time and costs it would take to analyse and address these operational deficiencies is FAR LESS than the hours and resultant costs of not addressing them.
Join Matt to discover how you can break out of the ‘just get it out’ mind-set, stop fighting fires and bring joy back into your working life and projects.
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The only PHP framework you'll need: Symfony2
If you don't know what Symfony2 is, you *have* to come, you can even ignore the remainder of this abstract. On the other hand, you might have heard of this new framework called Symfony2, but never got a chance to use it. This talk goes through the main futures and benefits of Symfony2 framework and most importantly tries to apply them to practical use cases and how those would be solved. In the end, you'll leave with a better understanding of why this framework (arguably) currently has the fastest growing user base and very likely you'll join it too.
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Responsive Headache Relief for Android
Android comes in a multitude of screen forms, sizes and densities which can be a real headache for many mobile app designers. To help alleviate this pain, the Android platform contains a potent cocktail of tools in the framework which are designed to provide targeted relief. In this session you will learn how to administer a swift dose of new responsive design concepts into Android applications.
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Rebranding: A Second Chance to Make a First Impression
by Jon Setzen
The toughest branding exercise you’ll ever embark on is a rebrand. A rebrand is so much more than just a shiny new website. A rebrand is your brand’s chance to reassess, to start again, to reposition and redesign. It’s a chance for your brand to evolve into the thing it’s always wanted to be. In this session we’ll discuss when and why you should rebrand, the steps to get it done and how to make it successful. From visual design to client workshops, from messaging to mood boards - you’ll learn tips, techniques and the seven things every rebrand can’t live without. We’ll turn your rebrand into one of the most gratifying adventures of your career. This is a great session for any creatives working in-house, working with clients or even working on a personal rebrand.
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CSS3: Beyond Rounded Corners
We all love CSS3, and think we know all about the awesome features that it can bring to our style sheets. This session will push the boundaries of what CSS3 is capable of, helping you to use familiar features in exciting new ways, as well as teaching some all new tricks, to enhance your future designs with even less code.
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Designing For Retina Display
by 'femi
The MacBook Pro’s new high-res retina display: an exciting opportunity for beautiful web design - or a huge headache for designers trying to create web pages that live up to the new possibilities whilst still catering to users still stuck on our overheating old workhorses? In this session, we look at the transformative innovation, and what it'll mean for the future of web design.
Future of Web Design Prague 2012
Czech Republic Czech Republic, Prague
27th–29th November 2012
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