TXJS 2013 as seen by me presented at ClubAjax (Dallas, TX).

1. TXJS 2013 in 10 minutes
As seen by Eugene Lazutkin
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2. TXJS 2013 venue Paramount theatre
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3. TXJS 2013 Really early in the morning...
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4. Keynote Harper Reed
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5. Harper Reed
• CTO at Threadless
• CTO of Obama for America
• Obama 2012 hired engineers
to do engineering
• a B$ op, 18 months, web
scale, from zero, 1000s
servers, ~290 products.
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6. Harper Reed
• Manage by outbox, not inbox.
• Build great team, practice
failure, facilitate community.
• The AWS rule: if Netflix down,
you are down too, if Netflix is
up, but you are down - you are
screwed.
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7. Harper Reed
• The movie Groundhog Day is
really just about multivariate A/
B testing.
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8. TXJS 2013 HTML5 / CSS3 section
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9. HTML: do we really
need L?
Dave Rupert
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10. Dave Rupert
• New "home base":
• Tiny screen,
• Slow connection,
• Touch (fat fingers)
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11. Touch screens are everywhere, except on the one platform almost all web devs use.
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12. OOCSS and
Preprocessor in a tree
Nicole Sullivan
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13. Nicole Sullivan
• SASS and OOCSS
• Suggests constantly checking
the output of CSS processors
to control the quality.
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14. Nicole Sullivan
• The Inception rule of CSS:
• Never go more than three
levels deep.
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15. CSS is for Computers Chris Coyier
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16. Chris Coyier
• All the web is just a layer of
abstractions.
• SASS is just one layer higher
than CSS.
• CSS is for computers, write
SASS.
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17. TXJS 2013 Web applications section
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18. Beyond Front-end
Developer
Trek Glowacki
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19. Trek Glowacki
• Gave a historic overview of
presenting content.
• Skip Photoshop. It doesn’t
present your medium.
• Designers should know JS.
• "How to add two numbers in
JS? - I think there is a jQ
plugin for that!"
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20. Apps that Build
Themselves
Rebecca Murphey
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21. Rebecca Murphey
• Discussed modern
configuration-driven apps.
• Example: Octopress
• Used Firebird by
bazaarvoice.com for the rest
of the talk.
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22. Rebecca Murphey
• "For efficiency we don't create
HTML with DOM, just shove in
HTML snippets, then use
classes to plug in behaviors."
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23. Rebecca Murphey
• "For loose coupling we use an
app-wide global message bus."
• Message bus + Config = App
(in ideal world)
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24. Culture change for
creating better UX
Frances Barriman
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25. Frances Barriman
• Building web apps requires
radical changes in culture.
• Principle #8: build services, not
apps.
• Be clear in your goals: users
come first.
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26. TXJS 2013 node.js section
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27. Faking Browsers for
FFUU and Profit
Jed Schmidt
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28. Jed Schmidt
• Discussed server-side tools to
parse HTML, and work with
web sites in general (scraping,
testing, snapshotting,
inspecting).
• PhantomJS
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29. Jed Schmidt
• Single-page apps do not lent
themselves for crawlability and
SEO.
• Google has defined (and Bing
adopted) #! convention to
retrieve snippets via
_escaped_fragment_
parameter.
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30. The Evolution of Node Isaac Schlueter
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31. Isaac Schlueter
• Slowness is a bug.
• "Errors must be handled" not
ignored, the system should
enforce this paradigm.
• callback => EventEmitter =>
stream.
• When you grok event stream,
you grok node.js.
• Like Unix - assemble rather
than invent.
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32. Isaac Schlueter
• Node is pretty stable, the core
boundaries are set, 1.0 will be
similar to what we have.
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33. Streeeams, probably Marco Rogers
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34. Marco Rogers
• Node streams are modeled on
Unix piping, it is an async way
to deal with streaming.
• Streaming/piping leads to
smaller code, and less buffer
memory.
• Base classes - readable/
writeable, transform, duplex,
passthrough streams.
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35. TXJS 2013 Rethink.js section
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36. All Open Source
Everything
Charlie Robbins
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37. Charlie Robbins
• CEO at Nodejitsu
• Thinks that 3D printing is the
next big thing after the internet,
and it will grow much faster.
• Attribution - how to do it
correctly? There is no law for
that (yet).
• Talks about open source and
legal issues, which are forced
by open source crossing into
physical world (like 3D printing)
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38. Charlie Robbins
• When ideas (design, soft) are
free, only raw materials matter -
do we marginalize ourselves?
• Soft is either free or not, no
"enterprise version".
• Not everything can be/
should be open sourced, or
eventually you'll be a slave
to raw material owners.
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39. Execute Drew Wilson
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40. Drew Wilson
• “Execute” the book is written in
3 days, printed in 8.
• Build when inspired.
• Launch the simplest possible
version, than improve - it is
never finished.
• A project should be validated;
launch to validate.
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41. Drew Wilson
• Design to delight.
• He likes to build for himself - no
research.
• Build the smallest possible
version to communicate your
ideas.
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42. I can smell your CMS Phil Hawksworth
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43. Phil Hawksworth
• Url design is a craft, CMS and
your technology should not
dictate them.
• Frequently CMS bleeds into a
web site: urls, UI hooks, admin
stuff, and so on
• WYSIWYG is frequently
WYSIWTF
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44. TXJS 2013 And it ends...
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