I am living in San Francisco for 3 months on an assigment for Tradeshift as a Front-end developer.
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http://www.igvita.com/slides/2012/html5devconf/#1
https://twitter.com/#!/igrigorik
really good slides about google analytics + reading the data about different segments/devices and identifying bottlenecks worldwide, which we wouldn’t catch otherwise; also some js/connection timing stuff which doesn’t require too much effort, but seriously improves the users’ experience!
http://www.jeremyckahn.com/misc/0-60/0-60.pdf
https://twitter.com/#!/jeremyckahn
not so readable without video, but it’s a nice presentation about animation
(I saw cameras, so it should go online some time soon)
interesting stuff is actual benchmarks comparing css and js (css is faster!)
(@wiredearp told us a long time ago)
60fps is the limit of human perception, so we don’t need to go higher, but we should keep it at 60fps
dom minimize reflows -> use css transformaitons instead of position absolute/fixed
when scaling stuff, use the biggest size as 1.0, because everything gets rasterized when resizing
javascript <3 css
https://speakerdeck.com/u/getify/p/html5-javascript-on-crack-v3
https://github.com/getify/wepuzzleit/
http://test.getify.com/wepuzzleit/
this might be all known by some people, but it’s nice to see all html5 features (with some heavy feelings against appcache) collected in one set of slides/game with code
of course, websockets failed while doing the presentation =P
(but the hotel internet was awful)
Douglas Crockford held a “keynote”; contents: 29.5% - software patents suck and I’m going to get rid of them! [this part was nice, because patents are really not working out for inventors]; 69.5% - yahoo sucks and management sucks and they should feel bad; 1% - don’t forget to use your semicolons;
https://twitter.com/#!/angularjs
we also met the angular.js guys, they gave a presentation, but I only caught the end and I saw some new demos I haven’t seen before, but I’m sure they are still keeping the big upcoming angularjs google product a secret!