Schmonference 2012 schedule

Friday 29th June 2012

• Ember.js in the Wild

  by Peter Bergström

  Ember is an amazing JavaScript MV* framework that, via its pub/sub system, makes it easy to build responsive applications that auto-update the UI whenever application state changes occur.

  Come hear Peter talk about some real world use cases of Ember and find out how you can start using it today.

  At 9:00am to 9:45am, Friday 29th June

  In Groupon (Palo Alto)

• RaptorJS

  by Patrick Steele-Idem

  RaptorJS: A Modular JavaScript Framework by eBay

  In this talk, Patrick will share with you the details of RaptorJS, a JavaScript library developed at eBay that supports defining modules and classes that work seamlessly across all JavaScript environments–including Node and Rhino. RaptorJS also provides an adaptive module loader and packager that allows modules to conditionally include code based on the target environment, target device or any other desired criteria. In addition, the system is easily extensible to support any type of resource, not just raw JavaScript and CSS files, and it has allowed eBay to completely decouple itself from tedious build-time packaging systems required by other libraries and tools.

  The developers of RaptorJS are excited to be open sourcing RaptorJS and believe that it will be a huge benefit to the web development community.

  At 9:45am to 10:30am, Friday 29th June

  In Groupon (Palo Alto)

• Meteor

  by matt debergalis

  Meteor is a new application platform for this new era. It is a set of Smart Packages that address each of the main challenges that developers face in this new world, such as updating a web page automatically when data changes, or performing a "hot code push" to update a running application without users noticing the change.

  Matt, the creator of Meteor, will show you what this platform can do. Get ready to see the future of web application development.

  At 10:30am to 11:45am, Friday 29th June

  In Groupon (Palo Alto)

• Foundation

  by Jonathan Smiley

  Foundation is an easy to use, powerful, and flexible framework for building prototypes and production code on any kind of device. Jonathan will talk about the problems that he, along with Zurb, have solved with Foundation and how they are keeping their front end clean and maintainable.

  At 11:45am to 12:30pm, Friday 29th June

  In Groupon (Palo Alto)

• Introducing "CoffeeScript II: The Wrath of Khan"

  by Michael Ficarra

  At 1:40pm to 1:55pm, Friday 29th June

  In Groupon (Palo Alto)

  Coverage slide deck video

• The Virtues of Simplicity

  by Myles Byrne

  At its core, the classic web has a simple programing model. Your program draws the screen, then a user stares at it for a while, then maybe fills out a form or clicks a link, then they stare at the loading animation of their mouse cursor while you draw the whole screen again. It's never been the best experience but it does have one huge advantage: it's pretty darn easy to program and reason about.

  This model is not dead. It has survived many shifts of paradigms. This talk is about why you might still want to use JavaScript to write programs of this kind and how to optimize them.

  At 2:00pm to 2:45pm, Friday 29th June

  In Groupon (Palo Alto)

  Coverage slide deck

• Leaving JSPs in the Dust

  by vybs

  Vee works at LinkedIn where they have been making heavy use of HTML5 for their native and web mobile apps. Come hear how they are continuing to push the envelope while making their desktop web apps fast and maintainable by using client side rendering with the powerful dust.js templating engine.

  At 2:45pm to 3:30pm, Friday 29th June

  In Groupon (Palo Alto)

  Coverage slide deck

• Compass

  by Chris Eppstein

  Compass is an open-source CSS Authoring Framework that among other things makes cross-browser CSS3 simple, provides reusable mixins for common CSS paradigms, and makes spriting a breeze.

  Chris is the creator of Compass and a core team member of Sass and currently works as a Software Architect at Caring.com. Come find out how to get the most out of SASS and Compass and hear Chris's take on CSS best practices for structure, organization, and naming to keep even your largest applications light and maintainable.

  At 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Friday 29th June

  In Groupon (Palo Alto)