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Video of my YUIConf talk about open web app development
The YUIConf folks have just posted their recording of a talk I gave there last year. I had planned to talk generally about the Firefox Marketplace, how it differs from other app stores, and how those differences create an overall … Continue reading
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DevCon5 — on learning from games, Monty Sharma, Mass Unity
Monty Sharma gave a great talk this morning at DevCon5 about the current trends in games and what the rest of us can learn from them. He centers on three big ideas: Free-to-Play. Find a way to let dedicated users … Continue reading
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jsEverywhere: From Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery by Morten Nielsen
Morten‘s presentation is a hilarious, compelling fable of what happens when a .NET shop relying on manual processes becomes a victim of its own success and ends up with an exploding number of software versions in the field. The fable … Continue reading
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jsEverywhere: End-to-End W3C APIs by Alexandre Morgaut
Alexandre is giving a great overview of the history of JavaScript, popular API’s, and the role of W3C and other standards bodies. He gives a shoutout to Kevin Dangoor for CommonJS, then proposes the idea that remote CommonJS processes can … Continue reading
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jsEverywhere: Single Page Applications, Josh Powell
Josh Powell is giving a great talk about how to make single page web applications with JavaScript. The main focus is on how to break free of the web 1.0 tyranny of doing a page load for every new piece … Continue reading
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David Kaneda and Josh Clark @ DevCon5 NYC
This session has David and Josh riffing about designing for mobile. Device context is different from User Context. Just because you know they have a small screen, you don’t know whether they’re focused or distracted, having a short or a … Continue reading
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Allan De Consta Pinto (Microsoft) @ DevCon5 NYC
Allen is a technical evangelist, he’s here to talk about building native Windows 8 Apps with HTML. He emphasizes that Windows 8 makes Touch and the Windows Store first-class citizens. Nice detail: you can set up a visual gesture password … Continue reading
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