JSConf 2013

A quick overview of my visit to JSConf, for lightning talk presentation at my company's Friday lunch meetup.

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1. JSConf 2013
2. • No lightning talks • No dedicated tutorials day • Shorter talk periods • Esoteric topics Schedule: http://2013.jsconf.us/schedule Talk videos: http://www.youtube.com/jsconfeu Differences
3. • Andrew Dupont: Learning New Words • Carter Rabasa: APIs and Making Humankind Better at Programming • Angelina Fabbro: JavaScript Masterclass • Angus Croll: JavaScript is Literature is JavaScript • Peter Flynn: Performance Tuning Secrets • Brendan Eich: Toward a language-neutral browser VM • Nicole Sullivan: For the love of style guides • Ben Farrell: Using the Microsoft Kinect with Javascript • Brian Leroux: Put a TopCoat on PhoneGap Highlights
4. Extra Special Highlights Rebecca Murphey: Optimizing for Developer Happiness • Make onboarding easy • Keep code modular and explicit • Avoid global dumps • Automate all the things • Listen! Selena Deckelmann: PLV8 • speakerdeck.com/selenamarie/schema-liberation-with-json-and-plv8-and- postgres • chesnok.com/daily/2013/05/31/json-plv8-and-postgres-9-3/ • chesnok.com/daily/2013/05/31/more-about-javascript-and-postgresql/
5. NodeBots! “Team up (or go solo) to hack together Arduino based robots and program it all using just JavaScript!” ‣ JSConf Catbot 1.0: youtube.com/watch?v=hIW53s4Y2gc ‣ Typing Bot: youtube.com/watch?v=kjTO2OkGnD8 ‣ Demosphere Toro Nodebot: youtube.com/watch?v=qrEzbl3wSm4 Overview: http://nodebots.io/events/jsconf2013.html Free Day
6. NodeCopters! “Team up (or go solo) to hack a quadcopter using node.js to make a flying robot do your bidding.” ‣ “Flying our drone with code”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqhKrISobUg ‣ NodeBot Owns NodeCopter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgdyrvWOkUo Free Day Overview: http://nodecopter.com/hack#getting-started