Sessions at nodePDX 2012 with slides

Saturday 11th February 2012

• Object-Oriented Patterns in JavaScript

  by Jesse Hallett

  JavaScript is a language that is tremendously flexible, but that comes with few clear conventions. Code organization is one are that has been reinvented perhaps more times than there are JavaScript programmers. I will examine a few tools that are intended to improve the experience of writing object-oriented code.

  Some of the specific tools that I plan to examine are traits.js, CoffeeScript, Prototype, and JiverScripts. The goal is to get a look at different ideas to see what each approach has to offer. We will discuss inheritance versus composition, and question when it is or is not appropriate to use object-oriented code.

  Audience participation is encouraged: if you have a favorite OO implementation, or experiences with JavaScript code organization, feel free to come and to share.

  • CoffeeScript
  • JavaScript
  • JiverScripts
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Prototype

  At 1:00pm to 1:45pm, Saturday 11th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• ql.io - Consuming HTTP APIs at Scale

  by Subbu Allamaraju

  Node.js is a great platform for building I/O bound apps. At eBay, my team applied node.js to solve a very common chore - how to get data from server-side HTTP APIs (or "web services") quickly. ql.io is a result of this work.

  ql.io consists of two parts

  A SQL + JSON inspired DSL for HTTP
  A runtime that you can can either deploy as an HTTP gateway or use as a JS API for node.js based apps.

  In this talk, I will show how you can use ql.io, the agility and performance gains that ql.io can bring in, and then take a deep dive into some of the design choices we made under the hood.

  Speaker Bio

  Subbu has been working with HTTP based APIs for over four years, first at Yahoo! and now at eBay. As an architect and the creator of ql.io at eBay, he is responsible for improving the way HTTP is consumed by apps and pave way for near-real-time and conversational end user experiences. He was also one of the key drivers in adopting node.js at Yahoo.

  Links

  Blog: http://subbu.org
  Project site: http://ql.io
  Twitter: @sallamar
  Company: http://ebay.com/
  Github: https://github.com/ql-io/ql.io and https://github.com/s3u

  • DSL
  • HTTP API
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js
  • ql.io

  At 3:00pm to 4:00pm, Saturday 11th February

  Coverage video slide deck