JavaScript and The Monomyth

JavaScript and The Monomyth explores the story of JavaScript as you've never seen before.

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1. JavaScript and the Monomyth
2. @tiandavis
3. JS Dynamic Prototypical Functional Familiar
4. JS Dynamic Prototypical Functional Familiar
5. IDEAS THAT SPREAD, WIN -Seth Godin
6. JS Browsers
7. JS Servers
8. JS Hybrid Mobile Apps
9. JS Games
10. JS Drones
11. JS Micro Controllers
12. JS Atwood’s Law Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.
13. Have we seen this before?
14. Monomyth The Hero’s Journey
15. The Hero’s Journey
16. It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. -Jospeh Campbell
17. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. -Jospeh Campbell
18. The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. -Jospeh Campbell
19. The thing in the cave that was so dreaded has become the center. -Jospeh Campbell
20. Departure Initiation Return
21. Departure Initiation Return
22. Departure Initiation Return
23. Departure The Call to Adventure
24. Brendan Eich Recruited to bring scheme to the browser.
25. Departure Refusal of the Call
26. Scheme
27. Scheme ! ! JAVA WITHOUT CLASSES?
28. JavaScript
29. Common Mythic Element Lone Animal Chased Into Enchanted Forest
30. Star Wars Princess Leia’s R2D2 distress hologram requesting rescue
31. The Matrix Neo “follows the white rabbit” to the nightclub where he meets Trinity
32. Dune House Atreides follows exclusive spice mining contract to Arrakis
33. JavaScript Create Scheme for the Browser
34. Departure Supernatural Aid
35. Tight Release WRITES JAVASCRIPT IN 10 DAYS
36. Internet Explorer + VBScript Intense. Fear. Netscape Killer
37. Departure Crossing the Threshold
38. Brendan Eich Rewrites JavaScript.
 Extracts SpiderMonkey.
39. Microsoft JScript released with IE3
40. JavaScript JScript is Douglas Crockford
41. Common Mythic Element The Mentor
42. Star Wars Obi-Wan Kenobi
43. The Matrix Morpheus
44. Dune Duncan Idaho
45. JavaScript Douglas Crockford
46. Rhino Created Java Fork of SpiderMonkey
47. Departure Belly of the Whale
48. Brendan Eich Mozilla Project March ‘98
49. Aol. Buys Netscape March ‘99
50. Aol. Closes Netscape July ‘03
51. Brendan Eich Creates Mozilla Foundation July ‘03
52. SpiderMonkey Firefox is its new home Feb ‘04
53. Brendan Eich CTO Mozilla Corporation Aug ‘05
54. Departure JavaScript no longer tied to a specific browser.
55. Departure JavaScript now funded indefinitely.
56. Departure Initiation Return
57. Initiation The Road of Trials
58. The DOM is a MESS Many Browser Vendors Many Browser Bugs
62. var ua = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase(); 
 if (ua.indexOf('safari') != -1) { if (ua.indexOf('chrome') > -1) { //alert(‘I HAZ CHROME SKILLZ’); } else { //alert(‘ALL UP IN YOUR SAFARI’); } }
64. No Separation of Concerns Embedded CSS Inline JavaScript
65. JavaScript Organization
66. JavaScript Organization
67. Initiation The Meeting with the Oracle
68. John Resig BarCamp NYC Jan ‘06
69. Non-Obstrusive JavaScript Birth of a Best Practice
70. Cross Browser JavaScript We Dared to Believe
71. Common Mythic Element The Oracle
72. Star Wars Yoda
73. The Matrix The Oracle
74. JavaScript John Resig
75. Initiation Temptation away from the true path
76. The Framework Wars
77. jQuery versus MooTools
78. jQuery versus Prototype
79. jQuery versus ExtJS (Sencha)
80. jQuery versus Dojo
81. KEEP! CALM! AND! CODE! ON
82. Common Mythic Element Failed Hero
83. Star Wars Biggs
84. The Matrix Morpheus once believed Cypher was “The One”
85. JavaScript MooTools, ProtoType …
86. Initiation Atonement with the Father
87. The Framework Wars
88. jQuery.noConflict May ‘08
89. jQuery The Effect
90. From MooTools My Swtich from MooTools to jQuery
91. Initiation Apotheosis God-Like
92. May ‘08 Douglas Crockford
93. Sep ‘08 Microsoft
94. Mid ‘09 Douglas Crockford JSON
95. Mid ‘09 Ruby on Rails
96. Oct ‘09 SVG RaphaelJS
97. FLASH DEAD IS
98. ISH…
99. R.I.P. Flash Java Applets Silverlight
100. The web is not a movie.
101. The web is not a plugin.
102. The web is not a single vendor.
103. The web is not a single technology.
104. The “truthiness” of these things is part of what makes the web better.
105. Initiation The Ultimate Boon
106. Initiation Cross Browser JavaScript is a REAL Thing
107. Initiation “Real” Developers Use JavaScript Now
108. Departure Initiation Return
109. Return Refusal of the Return
110. John Resig Resigns Mozilla Corporation & Fulltime Work on jQuery
111. Lightweight Mobile Optimized DOM Libraries
112. Zepto.JS
113. Zepto jQuery 9kb 84kb
114. jQuery 2 71kb IE6, IE7, IE8
115. Return The Magic Flight
116. Designer Languages
117. CoffeeScript or JavaScript
118. GWT May ‘06
119. Objective-J Late ‘08
120. CoffeeScript Dec ‘09
121. Dart Aug ‘11
122. ClojureScript Aug ‘11
123. TypeScript Aug ‘12
124. Common Mythic Element Wearing Enemy’s Skin
125. Star Wars Luke and Han wear stormtrooper outfits
126. The Matrix Neo jumps into Agent Smith’s skin
127. JavaScript GWT uses Java to write frontend code
128. package com.example.foo.client;! ! import com.google.gwt.core.client.EntryPoint;! import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;! ! public class Foo implements EntryPoint {! public void onModuleLoad() {! GWT.log("Hello World!", null);! }! }
129. Common Mythic Element The Shapeshifter
130. Star Wars Han Solo
131. The Matrix Cypher
132. JavaScript CoffeeScript
133. Return Rescue from Without
134. NO Flash on iOS devices
135. Adobe drops support for Flash on mobile devices
136. Drops support for IE6
137. Return Crossing the Return Threshold
138. JavaScript Organization
139. JavaScript Organization
140. JavaScript Organization Micro MVC Libraries
141. JavaScript Organization Backbone
142. JavaScript Organization KnockOut
143. JavaScript Organization Spine
144. JavaScript Organization JavaScript MVC (CanJS)
145. Open Sources V8 JavaScript Engine
146. JavaScript on the Server is Legit Now. Node.JS
148. Canvas HTML5
149. WebSockets HTML5
150. LocalStorage HTML5
151. WebRTC HTML5
152. Browser Normalizers Gain Popularity HTML5
153. Socket.IO Normalizers
154. Store.JS Normalizers
155. MicroControllers
156. Drones
157. MongoDB BSON
158. Return Master of Two Worlds
159. JavaScript Frontend Backend
160. Workflow, Security, API Backend
161. Core Business Logic Frontend
163. Common Mythic Element Two Worlds: Mundane vs. Special
164. Star Wars Planetside vs. Death Star
165. The Matrix Reality vs. The Matrix
166. JavaScript Backend vs. Frontend
167. Single Page Applications
168. Modern Frontend Frameworks
172. Designer Language Optional…
173. JavaScript is now for SERIOUS engineers.
174. Return Freedom to Live
175. Return Frontend development is now a legitimate software profession.
176. Return Focus on the Frontend or the Backend. The choice is yours.
177. Return JavaScript is the most popular language on the planet Earth.
178. JAVASCRIPT IS LEGITIMATE
179. JAVASCRIPT IS FULLSTACK
180. JAVASCRIPT IS EVERYWHERE
181. WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE…? JS
182. Thanks.
183. Tian Davis @tiandavis tiandavis.com/talks