HTML5 and Modern Web Languages

There's no disagreement that HTML5 is fostering a new web endowed with a cornucopia of functionality and power. But as developers, how do we create and harness all these features for this new web? What types of new programming languages and development environments beyond vanilla JavaScript are available to help us build truly sophisticated and innovative applications. And most importantly, we need new tools, techniques and mechanisms that help us build more maintainable and manageable systems.

Day of week:

Wednesday

Location:

Grand Ballroom - Salon F

Host:

Frank Greco

Presentations

Component-Oriented Web Development with Dart

5:10pm - 6:00pm

By: Kevin Moore

Dart helps developers be productive when building complex, full-features web experiences. Along with integrated language, tool, and core library features, Dart allows access to bleeding-edge web technologies today. Dart Web UI introduces features that taken for granted in traditional application environments, but that have been limited on the web. Learn how to use client-side data-binding, visual templates, and custom HTML elements in modern browsers while offering forward compatibility with emerging web standards.

Dart makes building rich experiences in the browser more practical while making large, component-based systems possible.
Look Ma, No Connections! Building offline-capable web apps with HTML5

1:40pm - 2:30pm

By: Bijan Vaez

Building web applications with offline HTML5 storage is more than just for users with poor connectivity. Client-side caching yields significant performance gains and is easy to implement.

This session will walk through an example of an offline-capable HTML5 app and discuss the strategies, tools, and techniques required to increase the performance of your app and make use of new HTML5 capabilities.
Meteor -Web Development Like You've Never Seen

10:20am - 11:10am

By: Matt Debergalis

Those of us building modern applications in HTML5 and JavaScript face a new set of challenges, distinct from those of the previous era of server-centric web applications.

How, for example, do we transition the web from a "dumb terminal" model that is based on serving HTML, to a client/server model that is based on exchanging data? How do we design software to run in a radically distributed environment, where even everyday database apps are spread over multiple data centers and hundreds of intelligent client devices, and must integrate with other software at dozens of other organizations? How do we prepare for a world where most web APIs will be push-based (realtime), rather than polling-driven? And in the face of escalating complexity, how can we simplify software engineering so that more people can do it?

Meteor is a distribution of modular, open-source packages that solve these problems in a principled and off-the-shelf way. This talk will highlight some of those components and show how they work together to dramatically shorten the development cycle, whether you're a team of expert developers or just getting started.
You Don't Know Beans About CoffeeScript

4:00pm - 4:50pm

By: Aseem Kishore

You've heard of CoffeeScript. It's a "little language" that compiles to JavaScript. And you've probably seen it, too. It gets rid of parentheses and braces and has significant whitespace, like Python or Ruby.

But do you really *know* it? If you haven't written a whole application in it, I claim that you don't.

Sure, on the surface, CoffeeScript looks like it's just a syntax change. But under the covers, there's an astounding breadth of features that make the language richer, more expressive, and more robust than JavaScript.

Paul Graham talks about the ""Blub Paradox"": we can't recognize languages more powerful than the ones we know. CoffeeScript is a prime example: until you truly learn it, you won't appreciate it.

So come challenge yourself and learn about the real CoffeeScript! You'll be glad you did -- I guarantee it.
Wrangling WebRTC: Challenges and Opportunities for real-time communication

2:50pm - 3:40pm

By: Gustavo Garcia

WebRTC promises to alter the landscape of real-time communication by providing the fundamental building blocks needed to develop truly high quality voice and video chat applications on the web.

While the standard may still be in its infancy, developers are already leveraging WebRTC to solve real-time communications issues today.

But as the appetite for WebRTC grows, developers are finding through real world application of the standard, that there is a real gap between what WebRTC enables, and what consumers and enterprises want (and developers need) in market.

This discussion will explore actual use cases for real time communication in verticals ranging from telepresence to healthcare, where WebRTC fits and where it falls short, and what developers can do about it.
HTML 5 Unconference

11:30pm - 12:40pm

By: Dio Synodinos

Meeting each other in the context of conversations we care about is why at QCon we are giving prime time to the unconference format; it creates a space for peer-to-peer learning, collaboration and creativity.

First we’ll father in a circle to be guided through creating an agenda using open space technology. Then there will be three three 20 minute time slots, each with 5 concurrent break out discussions that were designed by you.

Attendees often know more than the speakers! Bring your questions, ideas - be prepared to be surprised.