Thanks to open APIs and emerging technology, JavaScript can now empower devices and technology in our day to day life. Soon we'll be controlling and securing our homes, manipulating appliances from afar and having a bunch of fun bringing data from the web to new exciting uses in the physical world. In this talk, I'll demonstrate how you can get started combining Ninja Blocks with other JavaScript APIs and devices to bring your JavaScript skills to a whole new realm of possibility!
An introduction to ES6 with emphasis on its practical aspects. See what it can do for you today, and learn how you'll be able to better structure client–side programs with this next step in the evolution of JavaScript.
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For most of the history of what might loosely be termed computer games, dedicated consoles (and handheld gaming devices) ruled the roost. And none loomed larger on the landscape than Nintendo, with combined sales of hundreds of millions of units.
The dominance of this handful of device makers (essentially Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft) meant that developing games for wide distribution on these devices was expensive, and tightly controlled by the device manufacturers. And games generally cost $50, $100 or even more.
The success of smartphone and tablet platforms has impacted these traditional dedicated devices,and their entire ecosystem tremendously. Sales of consoles and gaming handhelds are down dramatically (down 27% in the US in 2012, year on year), as are sales of games (down 23% for the year in 2012).
In response, Nintendo recently announced the Nintendo Web Framework
a development environment based on WebKit technologies, supporting application development on the Wii U system using HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. It also supports the Wii U GamePad controller, Wii Remote controllers, and JavaScript extensions such as video playback. With the Nintendo Web Framework, development times will be reduced and Wii U applications can be easily developed using common Web technologies
We can only hope that games built with the framework will also be able to be run (legally and technically) on other platforms, at least within reason.
Regardless, developing games for this once exclusive platform promises to become a whole lot easier, and more democratic. And if you think games built with HTML5 aren't a reality, the entire UI for SimCity is built with web technologies
the whole UI is done in javascript running a custom version of webkit. :D
Angus Croll ponders the emergence of moralizing and faith-based JavaScript and discusses how an alternative approach grounded in knowledge, experience and understanding will make us all better coders and encourage creativity and innovation.
The browser used to be a meek sandbox, shut off from all the things that native apps could do. But now we’ve grown up, and with WebGL, Canvas, Web Audio, Device Access and more, we have a lot of power at our fingertips. To really unlock this potential and make all this data dance, we need maths. Steven Wittens amazing presentation was the perfect closing for Web Directions Code 2013.
This presentation was recorded at Web Directions Code in Melbourne on May 24 2012.
Session description
Some time ago now JavaScript stopped being a toy language and became a serious player. Yet when you browse through the plethora of code and different discussions you get the sense that a lot of people, even those who use it every day, are still quite confused about the language — its great power, and your great responsibility toward it as a developer. Demystifying this is the purpose of the entire second day of Web Directions Code, which Dmitry will introduce in a keynote you won’t forget for a long time.
Dmitry started his journey over a decade ago as a backend developer, then a designer and has now finally settled and accepted his fate as a frontend developer. Despite his deep knowledge of CSS and HTML, he mainly specializes in JavaScript and is well known as the creator of Raphaël as well as other JavaScript libraries.
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Some time ago now JavaScript stopped being a toy language and became a serious player. Yet when you browse through the plethora of code and different discussions you get the sense that a lot of people, even those who use it every day, are still quite confused about the language — its great power, and your great responsibility toward it as a developer. Demystifying this is the purpose of the entire second day of Web Directions Code, which Dmitry will introduce in a keynote you won’t forget for a long time.
Closure. Ever wanted to stop faking it and really learn how it works? 15 mins of your life spent on this presentation from Mark Dalgleish will be time well spent!
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An in-depth look at how JavaScript’s first-class functions and lexical scope allow us to write powerful and expressive code. Through the single topic of immediately invoked function expressions, we’ll touch upon function scope, closures, JavaScript “classes”, CoffeeScript and ECMAScript 5.
Thanks to open APIs and emerging technology, JavaScript can now empower devices and technology in our day to day life. Soon we'll be controlling and securing our homes, manipulating appliances from afar and having a bunch of fun bringing data from the web to new exciting uses in the physical world. In this talk, I'll demonstrate how you can get started combining Ninja Blocks with other JavaScript APIs and devices to bring your JavaScript skills to a whole new realm of possibility!
ES6 is here and it's bringing some awesome new features to Javascript. My favorite? Generator functions. No matter what kind of code you're writing, from graphics processing to simple AJAX requests, generators are an excellent tool to make your code more performant and more maintainable at the same time. It's a bold claim, but in this session you'll learn how ES6 generators keep your code timeless while delivering the infinite on a finite platter.
ECMAScript 6 is the next version of JavaScript (the current version is ECMAScript 5). It will be an official standard by the end of 2014, but there are tools that enable you to use it right now. This talk explains the goals for ECMAScript 6, how it is designed, what features it has, and how to use it on current JavaScript engines. Features include: block-scoped variables, arrow functions, better parameter handling, classes, modules and much more.
Breaking software down into de-coupled, reusable modules is a key development practice that improves code reusability, maintainability, scalability and testability. But how do we apply this practice within web applications?This talk examines and compares existing approaches for developing modular JavaScript components and discusses best practices and patterns for developing and managing components, dependencies, packaging, delivery and name-spacing, for client-side applications.
Functional programming, now gaining ground in the mainsteam, is a radical way of rethinking logic. By expressing computation in terms of simple mathematical relationships, and following simple discipline, you can vastly improve code correctness, modularity and reuse. In this session we explore how to apply these principles in everyday JavaScript, so you too can write incredibly concise programs that compose well together and are much easier to reason about.
This session looks at both page delivery and user interaction to highlight patterns and areas of improvement starting with proper benchmarking and profiling.
An introduction to ES6 with emphasis on its practical aspects. See what it can do for you today, and learn how you'll be able to better structure client–side programs with this next step in the evolution of JavaScript.
Like what you see? Want a piece of the action next time around? Then get along to Web Directions South in Sydney October 24 and 25 2013.
For most of the history of what might loosely be termed computer games, dedicated consoles (and handheld gaming devices) ruled the roost. And none loomed larger on the landscape than Nintendo, with combined sales of hundreds of millions of units.
Angus Croll ponders the emergence of moralizing and faith-based JavaScript and discusses how an alternative approach grounded in knowledge, experience and understanding will make us all better coders and encourage creativity and innovation.
Like what you see? Want a piece of the action next time around? Then get along to Web Directions South in Sydney October 24 and 25 2013.
The browser used to be a meek sandbox, shut off from all the things that native apps could do. But now we’ve grown up, and with WebGL, Canvas, Web Audio, Device Access and more, we have a lot of power at our fingertips. To really unlock this potential and make all this data dance, we need maths. Steven Wittens amazing presentation was the perfect closing for Web Directions Code 2013.
Like what you see? Want a piece of the action next time around? Then get along to Web Directions South in Sydney October 24 and 25 2013.
Some time ago now JavaScript stopped being a toy language and became a serious player. Yet when you browse through the plethora of code and different discussions you get the sense that a lot of people, even those who use it every day, are still quite confused about the language — its great power, and your great responsibility toward it as a developer. Demystifying this is the purpose of the entire second day of Web Directions Code, which Dmitry will introduce in a keynote you won’t forget for a long time.
An in-depth look at how JavaScript’s first-class functions and lexical scope allow us to write powerful and expressive code. Through the single topic of immediately invoked function expressions, we’ll touch upon function scope, closures, JavaScript “classes”, CoffeeScript and ECMAScript 5.
Some time ago now JavaScript stopped being a toy language and became a serious player. Yet when you browse through the plethora of code and different discussions you get the sense that a lot of people, even those who use it every day, are still quite confused about the language — its great power, and your great responsibility toward it as a developer. Demystifying this is the purpose of the entire second day of Web Directions Code, which Dmitry will introduce in a keynote you won’t forget for a long time.
An in-depth look at how JavaScript’s first-class functions and lexical scope allow us to write powerful and expressive code. Through the single topic of immediately invoked function expressions, we’ll touch upon function scope, closures, JavaScript “classes”, CoffeeScript and ECMAScript 5.