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Today’s JavaScript is a decent language for writing small scale scripts. But even for beginners, it has too many minefields between
what beginners learn and what they need to know. And JavaScript is now increasingly used for serious software engineering projects –
straining to carry a load it was not designed for.
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In this talk we explore web development and debugging strategies with Firebug. An overview of new and improved features and how to use them is presented. We wrap-up with a peek at FireUnit, a new Firebug extension by John Resig and Jan Odvarko, and it’s role in unittesting Firebug itself. (more…)

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All of us know how painful it is to wait – waiting in a line, waiting for a table, or waiting for a web page to load… If a business makes its customers wait too long, the customers will often leave and take their business elsewhere.

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Web developers now have the ability to store large amounts of persistent data on the client-side, way beyond the 4K limit of cookies. Options include HTML 5 Storage, Gears, Dojo Storage, and more. Brad Neuberg talks about the latest ways to achieve browser-based client-side storage and how it can help you make better web apps.

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Very interesting video describing the events in JavaScript and how the different browsers fires them. Actually it’s very interesting the understand the different ways between handling an event in different browsers. What Peter-Paul Koch does is an extreamly deep research on js events, helping other web developers to understand the issues and advantages in that field.

Gears and the Mashup Problem

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Mashups are the most interesting innovation in software development in decades. Unfortunately, the browser’s security model did not anticipate this development, so mashups are not safe if there is any confidential information in the page. Since virtually every page has at least some confidential information in it, this is a big problem. Google Gears may lead to the solution.

Speaker: Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford is the world’s foremost living authority on JavaScript. He is an architect with Yahoo’s Ajax Strike Force. He is the founder of two startups, and was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm Ltd., Director of New Media at
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Matt Sweeney, Senior Engineer on the YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library) team at Yahoo!, delivers a talk on best practices in frontend engineering at Yahoo!’s Developer Day/Open Hack Day, September 29, 2006. Matt explores the concepts of semantic markup and separation of content, presentation and behavior for modern web browsers, showing examples of best practices.

TaskFox: Lifting up Ubiquity


Taskfox Prototype from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.


Taskfox Mouse: Iteration 0 from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

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