Scotland js 2015 - private notes
ScotlandJS is a great event organized annually in Edinburgh, Scotland. It's gathering lots of interesting people from around the web focused on JavaScript. That was the third time I joined the conference personally and wanted to share some of the notes. I hope they're going to be useful to some.
Thursday
10:00am - Dave Kennedy - @bangline_ - TDD in the real world
10:25am - Katie Fenn - @katie_fenn - Chrome DevTools, Front to Back
- presentation from the author: http://slidr.io/katiefenn/chrome-devtools-front-to-back#1
- Youtube video
10:50am - Colin Gemmell - @colin_gemmell - Look Ma No Framework
11:30am - Ben Longden - @blongden - Adaptive and evolvable applications
- presentation from the author: https://speakerdeck.com/blongden/adaptive-and-evolvable-apps
- Youtube video
11:55am - Gleb Bahmutov - @bahmutow - Journey from procedural to reactive JavaScript with stops
- details on the speaker’s blog - http://glebbahmutov.com/blog/journey-from-procedural-to-reactive-javascript-with-stops/
- Youtube video
12:20pm - Greg Tarnoff - @gregtarnoff - UX of Stairs: When Simple Tasks Aren’t So Simple
- the presentation from a different event - https://vimeo.com/110360523
1:40pm - Varya Stepanova - @varya_en - Driving the Style Guide Driven Development
- smashing magazine.com: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/03/05/automating-style-guide-driven-development/
2.05pm - Daniel Perez Alvarez - @unindented - The one trick to scaling your frontend codebase
- presentation slides: https://unindented.github.io/frontend-scaling-presentation/#/
2.30pm - Chris Price - @100pxls - Creating D3 components: a journey of pain, joy, frustration, and enlightenment
- slides from the presentation from the author: http://slides.com/chrisprice/creating-d3-components#/
3.10pm - Orde Saunders - decadecity - Cascade, Specificity and a Single name space or: How I learned to stop worrying and tolerate CSS
- Orde Saunders notes from the presentation: https://decadecity.net/talks/cascade-specificity-and-a-single-name-space
3:35pm - Chris Lowis - @chrislowis - A Brief History of Synthesis with the Web Audio API
Friday
9:00am - Francisco M.S. Ferreira - @fmsf303 - JavaScript Craftsmanship
9:25am - Andrew Duncan - @andrewmduncan - Memory Leak Health Check - Our Quest to Diagnose & Cure
- presentation from the speaker: https://speakerdeck.com/andrewmduncan/memory-leak-health-check
9:50am - Joe Nash - @jna_sh - A Monad is a Burrito and other Functional Myths
10:15am - Kim Joar Bekkelund - @kimjoar - Writing Beautiful JavaScript Tests
- presentation from the author: https://speakerdeck.com/kimjoar/writing-beautiful-javascript-tests
- "If your test doesn't fail it doesn't have any value."
11:00am - Mark Connell - @mconnell - Accessibility & JavaScript-based websites
11:25am - Sam Beckham - @sambeckham - Improving pattern libraries, with Polymer
- presentation from the author: http://slides.com/samdbeckham/improving-pattern-libraries-with-polymer#/
11:50am - Hubert Sablonniere - @hsablonniere - Exploring multi-screen web techniques
- the same presentation from a different event found (French) - http://www.paris-web.fr/2014/conferences/les-recettes-du-web-multi-ecran.php
- working using two or more screens
- e.g. DZslides - http://paulrouget.com/dzslides
- chromecast - for multi devices if you don’t need server
- localStorage - two windows open share local storage (hacky)
- shared worker - if you start a port you can send messages to other devices on the same origin
- service workers
- to come - w3c presentation api
1:10pm - Amy Wibowo & Matt Baker - @sailorhg - Programming Building Block
- application developed: http://sailorhg.github.io/legoizer/
- Youtube video
- color - convert rgb to cie - npm - color-diff
- use web workers for more complex js calculations
1:35pm - Philipp Reither - @philreither - Fire your Sysadmin: use Docker to Build, Ship and Run Any App, Anywhere
- solves shipping code issues
- Youtube video
2:00pm - Jaume Sanchez Elias - @thespite - What are Shaders (Webgl) and what can they do for me?
- Shaders in Webgl can be used to make complex calculations
- slides and code available from author’s blog: http://www.clicktorelease.com/talks/#scotlandjs-2015
- Youtube video
2:40pm - Phil Holden & Ellen Huang - Intelligent Responsive Typography
- song lyrics in browser
- measure font size (measure) problem (DOM, Canvas, SVG, Webgl)
- Youtube video
3:05pm - Lewis Cowper - @lewiscowper - How I went from forklift driver to developer in 9 months
- hoodie community
- Youtube video
3:40pm - Lena Reinhard - @lrnrd - Keynote Speaker
- “tech is full of privilege”
- “the software we build actively endangers marginalised people”
- presentation from the author: https://speakerdeck.com/ffffux/a-talk-about-nothing
- Youtube video
Companies:
Some photos from the event
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