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Ben Birch – JavaScript Generators

Introducing some of the new native data structures that are available in modern JavaScript And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014.

Rod Vagg – Embrace the Asynchronous

Node.js takes asynchronous programming to a new level and has tracked the rise of new approaches to managing complex program flows. And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014.

Alex Feyerke – Offline First

Faster, more robust and more fun (web) apps. And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014.

Andrew Fisher – A Device API Safari

Let’s take a tour through the jungle that is the Device API spec and go looking for some new, interesting features of the API. And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014.

Jared Wyles – On Readable Code

It’s time to start talking about some of the established axioms of readability. And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014.

Ben Schwarz – CSS Variables

A head-first dive into the past, present and future of all things variable in CSS. And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014.

The politics of JavaScript – video presentation from Angus Croll

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 […]

HTML5 technologies and game development – Rob Hawkes

Photo of Rob HawkesWith Angry Birds, Cut the Rope and other block­buster games now working in modern web browsers, it’s fair to say native, browser based gaming has arrived for real. But how do they do it? In this session, Mozilla Technical Evangelist Rob Hawkes looks at the features now in your browsers to help develop games (and other interactive web based experiences) including the Canvas and WebGL, HTML5 Audio API, Mouselock and the Joy­stick API.

Designing in the browser – Divya Manian

Photo of Divya ManianEach website is a product used daily by people to take actions, not just read the content on it. Your product is amorphous, it takes the shape of whatever container it fills: a mobile browser, a touch enabled desktop browser, or a 30″ iMac that is connected to the Internet via tethering. Photoshop is just one of the means to an end in this new age of utilitarian web sites. The new technologies available in HTML5 already allow you to create prototypes quickly in the browser. Learn how to create a prototype from start to finish using these new technologies while taking advantage of quick prototyping tools.

The Web’s Third Decade – Faruk Ateş

Photo of Faruk AteşOur medium has entered its third decade of existence, and is ready for some growing up. Our definitions and understand­ing of the web are rapidly getting out of date, as, too, are our practices for building on it. It is time to re-evaluate where things are and, more importantly, where they are going.

Getting offline: appcache, localStorage for HTML5 apps that work offline – John Allsopp

Photo of John AllsoppOne of the perceived benefits of “native” apps is that they can be installed on a device, then run when the user isn’t connected. But web apps can do this too. In this session, John Allsopp will show you how to use HTML5 features such as appcache and webStorage to create apps that the user can install, and which will work even when the user is cruising at 30,000 feet with no web connection. These features also have the added bonus of helping to improve the performance of web sites and apps, and even work in all modern browsers and devices, including IE8 up!

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Thanks for an amazing few days Web Directions. So many great themes of empathy, inclusion, collaboration, business impact through design, and keeping our future deeply human.

Laura van Doore Head of Product Design, Fathom