New web developers have trouble distinguishing jQuery from JavaScript. We frequently point developers to three.js for doing 3D on the web, but what is raw WebGL and what tools do we have for debugging 3D web applications?
NodeBots have been around for several years now, but with every presentation, there is always someone who asks, "But... JavaScript?! Why on earth would you make robots with JavaScript?"
It's a fair question, and one worthy of more than a hand-wavy answer about how it's cool... or something.
In this talk, let's ...
JavaScript programmers like to use words like, “event-loop”, “non-blocking”, “callback”, “asynchronous”, “single-threaded” and “concurrency”.
We say things like “don’t block the event loop”, “make sure your code runs at 60 frames-per-second”, “well of course, it won’t work, that function is an asynchronous callback!”
If you’re anything like me, you nod and agree, ...
This talk speculates about the next language after JavaScript, and what to do in the mean time about some of the new features in ES6.
There will be an emphasis on simplicity and quality. The web is cluttered and full of errors. The talk will also touches on why you should ...
Anthony Bull believes that all MVC frameworks make trade-offs, but that Ember.js provides the best balance for developing well-factored and ambitious web applications. This talk at the SF HTML5 User Group meetup on January 31st, 2013, features:
-an introduction to ember.js
-comparisons to other frameworks
-code to demonstrate the ember.js syntax.
Find ...
How do we resolve the question, "is this better than that?" This talk discusses ideas for improving how we handle conflict in the programming community through the lens of evaluating whether Node.js is better than other technologies like Ruby. ...
Jafar Husain discusses interesting features that can be used today in JS6, such as Object.observe, async functions and async generators, while also giving a peek at what's being explored for JS7 to make async programming easier. ...
Jafar Husain shares how Netflix uses the Reactive Extensions (Rx) library to build responsive user experiences that strive to be event-driven, scalable and resilient. Learn the power of the Observable and how Netflix has simplified code through the ability to filter, aggregate, compose and project data streams.
This talk discusses how ...
We live in a time of vast computational resources - many of us carry around in our pockets what just thirty years ago would have been considered a supercomputer. But it's not just the hardware, these bite sized supercomputers run software using state of the art dynamic compilation techniques to ...
Erik Bryn (@ebryn), our friendly neighborhood Ember core team member, spoke about the plans for Ember 2.0 and how we can start preparing our apps for Ember 2.0 today. Erik is also going to be providing Ember 2.0 training classes in several cities this summer. You can preregister for them ...
Learn from John Papa's talk "10 AngularJS Patterns" from Code on the Beach 2014 at One Ocean Resort & Spa, Atlantic Beach, Florida. Sunday, August 10, 2014. www.codeonthebeach.com
Abstract:
"Once you get beyond the AngularJS basics there are many decisions to be made on how to build robust and maintainable apps. Come ...