Iterating faster, avoiding bugs through tools, and improved automated testing are great ideas, but in this keynote presentation from HTML5DevConf, Google’s Paul Irish will show how to really incorporate them into a functional and realistic developer workflow. Additionally, Paul gives us an overview of Yeoman and shows how this set of tools and libraries can help developers quickly build elegant and compelling web apps.

Learn how to deploy and manage real-time applications on Cloud Foundry using common Node.js examples and Redis key-value store capabilities. Common applications being built on Node.js like social networking and chat require real-time scaling capabilities across multiple instances. Developers need to deal with sticky sessions, scale-up, scale-down, instance crash/restart, and more. Cloud Foundry PaaS provides a ready platform to achieve this quickly.

The wonders of monads are finally revealed without resorting to Category Theory or Haskell. It turns out that monads are trivially expressed in JavaScript and are one of the key enablers of Ajax. Monads are amazing. They are simple things, almost trivially implemented, with enormous power to manage complexity. But understanding them is surprisingly difficult, and most people, once they have that ah-ha moment, seem to lose the ability to explain them to others.

In this “State of jQuery” talk, Yehuda (who is one of the core members of the jQuery team) covers the updates in jQuery 1.4.3, as well as the plans for jQuery 1.5, due next year. He also gives a quick overview of other initiatives of the jQuery project, including jQuery Mobile and ongoing work on formalizing the governance of the jQuery project.

The new JSON datatype in Postgres 9.2 is interesting enough on its own, however when combined with PLV8 Javascript it becomes very exciting. Never before has there been a datatype and a PL designed to work with together. Combining these two transforms PostgreSQL from a standard relational database into a schema-less document store and opens up several new use cases.

Do you want to convert your single-page web apps to a desktop environment? Learn how to apply your development skillset – including HTML5, JavaScript and CSS as well as media queries, templating and data binding – to desktop application development.

Writing code is hard. Especially when you have to work in a team and everyone writes his or her code differently. As if it wouldn’t be hard enough to understand and implement the functionality of an app. To work against barriers of understanding code define how your team writes code. Set up coding guidelines and style guides so you can focus on functionality. As a result you reduce the time you spent doing tasks that are less to your joy and let you focus more on the work that you …

YUI team member Reid Burke talks about testing software and writing code that works. His talk is richly illustrated with demos of the tools that Reid has built for testing JavaScript in the browser and includes a discussion of the software testing philosophy and the special place that testing holds in the development process.

JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford discusses the relationship between programming style and your brain. Session Overview: The systems in our brains that make us vulnerable to advertising and propaganda also influence our programming styles. This talk looks systematically at the development of a programming style that specifically improves the reliability of programs. The examples are given in JavaScript, a language with an uncommonly large number of bad parts, but the principles are applicable to all languages.

There are many implementations of JavaScript, meant to run either on the JVM or standalone as native code. Both approaches have their respective pros and cons. The soon-to-be open sourced Oracle Nashorn JavaScript project is based on the former approach.