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Chasing the Golden GOOS
Alex Aitken and Nick Faulkner share lessons learned building a cross-platform HTML5 application based on GOOS principles (Growing Object-Oriented Software).
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Get a Leg Up with Twitter Bootstrap
Howard Lewis Ship introduces and demoes some of the most interesting features of Twitter Bootstrap.
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Elm: Making the Web Functional
Evan Czaplicki introduces Elm, a functional reacting programming language meant to replace HTML/CSS/JavaScript, optimized for creating web GUIs, supporting complex user input and avoiding callbacks.
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River Trail: Adding Data Parallelism to JavaScript
Richard L. Hudson introduces River Trail, a JavaScript parallel programming API enabling a JavaScript developer to take advantage of the hardware’s parallel computing capabilities.
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Roy
Brian McKenna introduces Roy, a functional JavaScript variant implementing type inference, structural typing, sum types, meta-programming, whitespace-aware syntax, monads and pattern matching.
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ClojureScript - Better Semantics at Low Low Prices!
David Nolen unveils optimization techniques behind ClojureScript: code size, expression-oriented semantics, numerics, operations on JS primitive types, persistent data structures, etc.
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Panel: Shogun Showdown
Yehuda Katz, Jeremy Ashkenas, Nick Small, Alex MacCaw, and Igor Minar explain what can be done with their JavaScript frameworks, Ember, Batman, Angular, Backbone, Spine.
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A Gentle Introduction to Ember
Tom Dale demoes creating an RSS reader in Ember.js, a JavaScript framework for creating complex web applications.
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Asynchronous User Interfaces - How to Lie, Cheat and Steal
Alex MacCaw discusses the importance of asynchronous UIs, suggesting using Spine, an MVC JavaScript framework, to avoid blocking the UI, storing state + rendering on the client, and preloading data.
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Knockout.js
Steve Sanderson demoes creating a web application with a dynamic UI using Knockout.js - a MVVM JavaScript library.
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The State of JavaScript
Brendan Eich reviews the history of JavaScript, then introduces and demonstrates some of the new features coming in ES6.
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Pushing The Limits of Web Browsers … or Why Speed Matters
Lars Bak presents several language virtual machines (Self, Strongtalk, Hotspot), why they matter and how they influenced V8 and Dart. His talk is centered on performance.