TXJS 2013 in 10 minutes

As seen by Eugene Lazutkin

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TXJS 2013 venue Paramount theatre

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TXJS 2013 Really early in the morning...

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Keynote Harper Reed

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Harper Reed

• CTO at Threadless

• CTO of Obama for America

• Obama 2012 hired engineers to do engineering

• a B$ op, 18 months, web scale, from zero, 1000s servers, ~290 products.

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Harper Reed

• Manage by outbox, not inbox.

• Build great team, practice failure, facilitate community.

• The AWS rule: if Netflix down, you are down too, if Netflix is up, but you are down - you are screwed.

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Harper Reed

• The movie Groundhog Day is really just about multivariate A/B testing.

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TXJS 2013 HTML5 / CSS3 section

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HTML: do we really need L? Dave Rupert

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Dave Rupert

• New "home base":

• Tiny screen,

• Slow connection,

• Touch (fat fingers)

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Touch screens are everywhere, except on the one platform almost all web devs use.

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OOCSS and Preprocessor in a tree Nicole Sullivan

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Nicole Sullivan

• SASS and OOCSS

• Suggests constantly checking the output of CSS processors to control the quality.

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Nicole Sullivan

• The Inception rule of CSS:

• Never go more than three levels deep.

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CSS is for Computers Chris Coyier

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Chris Coyier

• All the web is just a layer of abstractions.

• SASS is just one layer higher than CSS.

• CSS is for computers, write SASS.

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TXJS 2013 Web applications section

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Beyond Front-end Developer Trek Glowacki

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Trek Glowacki

• Gave a historic overview of presenting content.

• Skip Photoshop. It doesn’t present your medium.

• Designers should know JS.

• "How to add two numbers in JS? - I think there is a jQ plugin for that!"

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Apps that Build Themselves Rebecca Murphey

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Rebecca Murphey

• Discussed modern configuration-driven apps.

• Example: Octopress

• Used Firebird by bazaarvoice.com for the rest of the talk.

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Rebecca Murphey

• "For efficiency we don't create HTML with DOM, just shove in HTML snippets, then use classes to plug in behaviors."

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Rebecca Murphey

• "For loose coupling we use an app-wide global message bus."

• Message bus + Config = App (in ideal world)

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Culture change for creating better UX Frances Barriman

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Frances Barriman

• Building web apps requires radical changes in culture.

• Principle #8: build services, not apps.

• Be clear in your goals: users come first.

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TXJS 2013 node.js section

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Faking Browsers for FFUU and Profit Jed Schmidt

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Jed Schmidt

• Discussed server-side tools to parse HTML, and work with web sites in general (scraping, testing, snapshotting, inspecting).

• PhantomJS

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Jed Schmidt

• Single-page apps do not lent themselves for crawlability and SEO.

• Google has defined (and Bing adopted) #! convention to retrieve snippets via _escaped_fragment_ parameter.

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The Evolution of Node Isaac Schlueter

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Isaac Schlueter

• Slowness is a bug.

• "Errors must be handled" not ignored, the system should enforce this paradigm.

• callback => EventEmitter => stream.

• When you grok event stream, you grok node.js.

• Like Unix - assemble rather than invent.

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Isaac Schlueter

• Node is pretty stable, the core boundaries are set, 1.0 will be similar to what we have.

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Streeeams, probably Marco Rogers

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Marco Rogers

• Node streams are modeled on Unix piping, it is an async way to deal with streaming.

• Streaming/piping leads to smaller code, and less buffer memory.

• Base classes - readable/writeable, transform, duplex, passthrough streams.

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TXJS 2013 Rethink.js section

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All Open Source Everything Charlie Robbins

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Charlie Robbins

• CEO at Nodejitsu

• Thinks that 3D printing is the next big thing after the internet, and it will grow much faster.

• Attribution - how to do it correctly? There is no law for that (yet).

• Talks about open source and legal issues, which are forced by open source crossing into physical world (like 3D printing)

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Charlie Robbins

• When ideas (design, soft) are free, only raw materials matter - do we marginalize ourselves?

• Soft is either free or not, no "enterprise version".

• Not everything can be/should be open sourced, or eventually you'll be a slave to raw material owners.

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Execute Drew Wilson

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Drew Wilson

• “Execute” the book is written in 3 days, printed in 8.

• Build when inspired.

• Launch the simplest possible version, than improve - it is never finished.

• A project should be validated; launch to validate.

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Drew Wilson

• Design to delight.

• He likes to build for himself - no research.

• Build the smallest possible version to communicate your ideas.

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I can smell your CMS Phil Hawksworth

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Phil Hawksworth

• Url design is a craft, CMS and your technology should not dictate them.

• Frequently CMS bleeds into a web site: urls, UI hooks, admin stuff, and so on

• WYSIWYG is frequently WYSIWTF

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TXJS 2013 And it ends...

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