More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries
This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at the annual SXSW conference, down in Austin, TX. I participated in a panel discussion called 'More Secrets of JavaScript Libraries' (a follow-up panel to last year's talk). The synopsis was as follows:
In a reprise from last year's popular panel - the JavaScript libraries authors are getting together again to impart their what they've learned from their experience in developing solid, world-class, JavaScript libraries. Covering everything from advanced aspects of the JavaScript language, to handling cross-browser issues, all the way up to packaging and distribution. A complete set of knowledge for a JavaScript developer.
The talks went really well - we each gave a quick 10 minute presentation on a topic that interested us and finished up with some Q&A. The individual talks were as follows:
- Getting Loaded (All about network performance and file loading) - by Nate Koechley of YUI.
- Meta-Language Frameworks (Talking about the abstractions provided by frameworks) - by Andrew Dupont of Prototype.
- Real World Accessibility (A quick examination of the upcoming ARIA specification) - by Becky Gibson of IBM and Dojo.
- Performance and Testing (Looking at various performance analysis and testing techniques) - by John Resig of jQuery.
The full presentation and audio can be found online.
More information about my talk can be found in my follow-up post: JavaScript Testing Does Not Scale.
Tags: jslibs, conferences, javascript, panels
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