[aerogear-dev] Empire JS day 2

[Lucas Holmquist]

Now for Day 2,

going off topic for a second, i realized that after the first day, my jeans weren't skinny enough. Ok back to the talks

Build Artifacts in Source Control

by Clay Smith

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxqVtsnP6Ko - part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViPsP7HzMJ4 - part 2

this talk was about how it is bad to put compiled production distribution stuff in git/vcs

also talk about using the github release api

and that we need better tools for production builds

Preventing XSS & CSRF

by Jeremy Stashewsky

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jubb3g1HVg

this was a cool talk about Cross Site Scripting and Cross Site Request Forgery and some techniques to help prevent it

Bits of Nodebots.Next / Animating with Javascript

by Rick Waldron

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-6_iA1zZDk

An awesome talk. Just watch the video

Hacking Webforms with Phantom.js

by Alyssa Ravasio

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYKP0vZsTSI

a interesting talk about using phantom.js to fill out forms.

Her business is a camping booking site. Existing booking sites for campsites are crappy, and there is only really one. There is no public API for camp listings, so a user goes to her site, books their campsite on a nice looking/nice experience site, then in the background, phantom.js goes to the crappy site and books the camp site.

MyDB

by Guillermo Rauch - socket.io author( i think )

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jwygdZW-r0

kind of a neat talk about sync, probably somewhat relevant to what we might be doing

BigPipe

by Arnout Kazemier - from nodejitsu

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYArq4XhdFo

BigPipe is something that Facebook was suppose to deliver, but never really did, so these guys did there own thing

it's basically the ability to render different parts of the page asyncly, using what they call pagelets

an example of BigPipe in use is browsenpm.org

Transitioning Groupon to node.js

by Sean McCullough

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWVblTpUlxM

kind of a neat talk about moving groupon's rails stack to node.js and some of the challenges and why it was right for them

Hacking Art with Node.js and Image Analysis

by John Resig - Author of a little know library called jQuery

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JrJdD2Ssnk

showing off some library's that he wrote to do image analysis, didn't really show any code though

WebRTC can be easy

by Michelle Bu - author of PeerJS

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONxw9R1Fxfs

pretty neat talk about WebRTC and making it easier to use.

The hidden benefits of static analysis

by Kirill Cherkashin and Tsering Shrestha

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZqTvexCtZM

talk about how JS tools can be awesome even though JS is a dynamic language.

showed some WebStorm IDE js autocomplete stuff

and some other libs like spy-js

Easing into ECMAScript 6 and Beyond

by Ben Newman - works at facebook

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXY9hIPKuLQ

showing off his library "recast" and how we should always be transpiling to code for the future without choking on it

Pixel Art and Javascript

by Vince Allen

youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6tP3nJp3NM

Needed to leave to catch a train, so i missed this one, so just watch the video
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