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So you wanna make a jQuery plugin… jHERE deconstructed.

Out there on the Internet web developers can find a big universe of jQuery plugins for any need you can think of. Do you need a tooltip? There’s a plugin for that. Do you need to handle cookies?...

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Taming asynchronous programming (beyond promises)

Description: JS developers must deal with asynchronous programming everyday. This is a complex subject and one of the most common causes of spaghetti code and hard to maintain code bases, specially if...

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A highly scalable cross-platform mobile app development strategy

When it comes to deciding what technologies to use in creating a cross-platform mobile app, there’s plenty to choose from.  Each has their own benefits, but to be able to target all the major platforms...

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Building a unified back-end for your apps

In this session, we will explore a way to build a single back-end for your iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8 and HTML/JS apps using Azure Mobile Services, a magic box service, that seamlessly and...

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Vector Graphics with SVG & RaphaelJS

Computers screens come in all different sizes. To handle graphics for different cases, most web applications serve multiple different sizes of images. Now with retina displays it is only compounding...

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GitHub’s Long-distance Relationships with Robots

GitHub is a fundamentally remote company, with less than 20% of the company heading in to the office each day. This is no accident: absence makes the team grow stronger. In this talk, we’ll show some...

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Writing Efficient Javascript Code

Modern web applications often include fairly complex Javascript code on the client side, and the performance of this code can become a critical factor limiting application features. From the...

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Javascript: Evolution and Perspectives

Javascript is a programming language, but what kind of language is it? How did it become what it is? Is it “the right tool for the job”? Does it even matter if it is the right tool or not? Is it...

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Writing testable code

We’ve been told many times that we should write unit tests for our code. We have read the theory and we have applied automatic testing to our projects, sometimes successfully but often times not so....

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You are not service-oriented enough

The UNIX philosophy of doing one thing and doing it well applies to web apps as well. Ruby gems, NPM and all of their cousins are great for modularizing code. Yet most developers bundle dozens after...

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