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TXJS 2011 Intro Video
The video that was played at the beginning of TXJS 2011 - Mostly instructional, but there were a few requests to put it up.Cast: SlexAxtonTags: txjs
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TXJS 2011 A1 - Douglas Crockford - JavaScript Programming Style and Your Brain
Computer programs are the most complicated stuff that people make. Computer programs must be perfect, and people are not good at that. JavaScript is one of our least perfect programming languages. But...
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TXJS 2011 B1 - Adam J. Sontag - Fixing These jQuery: A Guide To Debugging
The road to jQuery success is paved with the guts of bugs slain along the way. At “Fixing These jQuery”, you’ll understand how to approach your jQuery and JavaScript problems methodologically, and...
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TXJS 2011 A2 - Ben Combee - The JavaScript Behind HP webOS: Enyo and Node.js
HP webOS is a platform powering devices as diverse as the world’s smallest smartphone, the HP Veer, to power dual-core HP TouchPad tablet. Underneath it all is WebKit, HTML, and JavaScript, powering...
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TXJS 2011 B2 - Matthew Eernisse - Full-Stack JavaScript Fallacies
With the mainstreaming of server-side JavaScript, the possibility of full-stack JavaScript development finally seems to be coming to fruition. Writing once, and running the same code everywhere seems...
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TXJS 2011 A3 - Yehuda Katz - The Road to SproutCore 2.0
As more and more applications are moving into the client-side, developers are looking for new abstractions that help eliminate repeated code and simplify the development of applications. SproutCore’s...
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TXJS 2011 B3 - Justin Pope - jQuery Templates
The jQuery Templates plugin is a great way to help you reign in complex DOM updates and flexibly handle HTML returned from countless AJAX requests. I will cover samples of code based on production code...
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TXJS 2011 A4 - Brian LeRoux - Buildin’ Apps
Professional automation for PhoneGap based application development. That’s it. I'm going to teach you how to rockstar your next mobile project without hunting around a vendor IDE like a goof. This will...
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TXJS 2011 B4 - Divya Manian - Taking presentation out of JavaScript one...
Way too many of today’s presentations use JavaScript for needless bling. Use CSS for simple animations and present static content for browsers that do not support them. Let go of your need to control...
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TXJS 2011 A5 - Rebecca Murphey - Lessons from a Rewrite
In late 2010, Toura Mobile had developed a PhoneGap-based platform for creating content-rich mobile applications, and customers were buying. The problem was that customers were also asking for more and...
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TXJS 2011 B5 - Ben Vinegar - Modern iframe programming
When you first think of iframes, you probably think of embedded YouTube videos and web forms. But iframes can do a lot more than just embed third-party content. As an inline, sandboxed DOM environment,...
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TXJS 2011 A6 - Brendan Eich - Ecma TC39: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Fresh off the May TC39 meeting, I will give an update on "ES.next", Harmony beyond that, how things are working and not working. It will be sweaty, bloody, and thrilling. No Ennio Morricone score,...
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TXJS 2011 B6 - Joe McCann - Choose Your Mobile Framework Adventure
This whole mobile internet thing is probably gonna work out, but you may be asking yourself, with all the various ways of building mobile apps with web technologies, which one is right for me? There...
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TXJS 2011 A7 - Andrew Dupont - The State of Animation in 2011
The idea of animating HTML elements with JavaScript was first proposed centuries ago, even before computers existed, but has only been possible for roughly fifteen years. Now, in 2011, we've got about...
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TXJS 2011 B7 - Paul Campbell - The Ingredients of Fine Web Applications
The top chefs in the world are specialists in taking basic ingredients, combining them in new and novel ways, and presenting them in ways that delight and amaze their guests. As frontend programmers,...
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TXJS 2011 A8 - Paul Irish - HTML and the DOM
The special relationship between your HTML markup and browsers is one more interesting than you'd think. In this session we'll cover pedantic differences like "elements" vs "tags" but also get into...
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TXJS 2011 B8 - Garann Means - Change your markup, change your life
It doesn't matter whether you write JavaScript for the client, the server, or for both. It doesn't matter what library or framework you use. It doesn't matter what templating engine or node modules you...
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TXJS 2011 A9 - Alex Russell - Life Of A Button Element
What actually happens when you set a property on an element's style? Or when you add a stylesheet? This talk walks you through a bit of how modern web engines think about these sorts of things and how...
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TXJS 2011 B9 - Mikeal Rogers - Scraping the web with jQuery and node.js
Who needs an API? Scrape that sh*t! HTML is the new RSS. DOM is the new DOM. Your Mom is still your Mom. Slides: github.com/mikeal/slides/tree/master/spidering twitter.com/mikeal This was the ninth...
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TXJS 2011 B10 - Ralph Holzmann - Putting the Micro in Micro Framework
Co-author of yepnope.js and developer of Send to Dropbox, I work for GroupCard out of Milwaukee as a front end Software Engineer. Micro frameworks are the new HTML5, and I'll show you how to squeeze as...
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