Sessions at jQuery UK 2012 about jQuery

Friday 10th February 2012

• The State of the jQuery Project

  by Ralph Whitbeck

  In this talk you will learn how the jQuery project is structured, from the jQuery Board to our membership in the Software Freedom Conservancy. We’ll cover the state of jQuery Core, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile and get a glimpse of what might be coming in the near future. We’ll also look at some of the other projects that are being worked on by the jQuery team.

  • jQuery
  • jQuery Mobile
  • jQuery UI

  At 10:05am to 10:35am, Friday 10th February

  Coverage sketch note video slide deck

• Lightning Lunch: Develop like a BOSS with these 10 jQuery Tips

  by Wes Nolte

  Our combined jQuery experience over the years has put us in the privileged position of learning which tips - programmatically and otherwise - are most useful to us as a development house. Join us to learn what you can do to improve yourself as a developer with our top 10 jQuery tips.

  • jQuery

  At 1:20pm to 1:35pm, Friday 10th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• Lightning Lunch: Effective jQuery Testing with QUnit - tips from the trenches

  by Laurent Delcambre

  Traditionally testing on any project is left till last, but even then testing of client-side code is usually overlooked entirely.

  With the rise-and-rise of jQuery the world at large is finally recognising that JavaScript is not a second-class citizen.

  Web applications the world-round are leveraging JavaScript - and in particular jQuery - to build large scale applications that serve millions. Of course to ensure a high-level of quality and robustness it's necessary to test all this code.

  Enter stage left - QUnit.

  • jQuery
  • qUnit
  • Testing

  At 1:45pm to 2:00pm, Friday 10th February

  Coverage video slide deck

• Embracing and celebrating redundancy

  by Christian Heilmann

  JavaScript was always the language to make the web more interactive and fill the gaps that browsers had when it comes to interaction with the user.

  With jQuery we moved even further and concentrated on that task, replacing the unwieldy native DOM with a simpler way to spice up our web sites. With browsers moving ahead it is time though to reflect and see just how much code we write that actually is not needed any longer as browsers give us native controls in HTML5.

  In this talk Chris Heilmann of Mozilla will show just in how many ways modern browsers make it easy for us to offer a rich experience without having to create that on our own. We'll look at UI elements, multimedia capabilities, drawing, animation and how to tie into our user's browsing and web behaviour without forcing a certain path on them.

  We have amazing technology to play with, we should use it and look ahead instead of patching for the past.

  • JavaScript
  • jQuery

  At 2:15pm to 2:45pm, Friday 10th February

  Coverage slide deck video sketch note

• Building Large-scale Applications With JavaScript (and jQuery)

  by Addy Osmani

  Developers creating JavaScript applications these days usually use a combination of MVC, modules, widgets and plugins for their architecture. They also use a DOM manipulation library like jQuery.

  Whilst this works great for apps that are built at a smaller-scale, what happens when your project really starts to grow?

  In this talk, Addy presents an effective set of design patterns for large-scale JavaScript (and jQuery) application architecture that have previously been used at both AOL and Yahoo amongst others.

  You'll learn how to keep your application logic truly decoupled, build modules that can exist on their own or be dropped into other projects and future-proof your code in case you need to switch to a different DOM library in the future.

  • decoupled
  • facade
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • Large-scale JS
  • mediator
  • pub/sub

  At 4:05pm to 4:35pm, Friday 10th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• Contextual jQuery

  by Douglas Neiner

  The enemy of maintainable code is extensive configuration and over-declaration – both of which tie your code to specific pages and sections in your application.

  Since so much instructional data is described by the HTML of your site, why should you need to redefine it all again in JavaScript?

  In this session, learn how to develop clean, responsible jQuery code that responds to its context instead of the traditional, define everything, top-down approach.

  This session will cover how event delegation, traversal methods and advanced selectors all work together to let you write more efficient and less wasteful code.

  • jQuery

  At 4:35pm to 5:05pm, Friday 10th February

  Coverage slide deck video