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The Future Is Layered
Alex Russell discusses the state of web technologies, the internal tensions between specifying new features for a platform and its adoption, and what could be done to achieve a layered architecture.
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Dart: A Modern Web Language
Kasper Lund discusses the virtues of JavaScript and its weak points, showing why a new programming language for the web was needed, and how Dart meets that need.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, JavaScript and PhoneGap
Christophe Coenraets presents how PhoneGap helps creating cross-platform HTML and JavaScript applications that access native device functionality.
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A Few of My Favorite [Python] Things
Mike Pirnat presents some tips and tricks, standard libraries and third party packages that make programming in Python a richer experience.
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Distributed Systems with ZeroMQ and gevent
Jeff Lindsay discusses creating distributed and concurrent systems using ZeroMQ – a lightweight message queue-, and gevent – a coroutine-based networking library.
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Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go
Brian Ketelsen introduces Skynet, a platform for polyglot, distributed and composable services that communicate with each other over RPC/JSON.
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Wink - Mobile Innovation
Jérôme Giraud introduces Wink Toolkit, an open source mobile JavaScript framework for HTML5 web or hybrid apps, showing widgets and interactions.
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HTML 5 Design and Development Tooling
Greg Wilson and Christophe Coenraets demo Adobe Edge, a motion and interaction tool, CSS Regions and Shaders, and PhoneGap.
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Polyglot Programming: The Power of Hybridization
Bruce Eckel emphasizes using different languages within a project, each one for the task it is better fitted for, and giving several such examples: Python+Scala, Go+Python, Python+CoffeeScript.
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The JavaScript World Domination Plan at 16 Years
Brendan Eich recaps the major milestones and controversies in JavaScript’s history, the performance improvements, the current work on the next version of JavaScript, ending with some demoes.
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Hybrid Mobile Applications using PhoneGap
Dave Johnson introduces PhoneGap: how to write apps with it, the existing community, an API overview, extending PhoneGap, tooling, libraries, and an argument on web vs. native apps.
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JavaScript Today and Tomorrow: Evolving the Ambient Language of the Ambient Computing Era
Allen Wirfs-Brock reviews the evolution of JavaScript, observing its current status and foreseeing its near future, supporting the idea that JavaScript’s role will be even more predominant.
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