More and more applications are being written in dynamically typed languages like JavaScript and Ruby. Theoretically, this is progress. But, what happens when they go bad? What are the recovery options. This talk explores methods for making sense of, and recovering large legacy code bases in dynamically type languages. It …
There are several current trends that are forcing application architectures to evolve. Users expect a rich, interactive and dynamic user experience on a wide variety of clients including mobile devices. Applications must be highly scalable, highly available and run on cloud environments. Organizations often want to frequently roll out updates, …
Facebook chat used to be notoriously unreliable. User complaints about disconnection, incorrect message counts, and missed messages dominated Facebook’s overall product feedback. New code frequently caused regressions because of untracked dependencies in our ginormous, monolithic Javascript codebase.
Learn how a team developed a lightweight JavaScript real-time event-driven platform utilizing WebSockets and proven open source technology such as jQuery to enable a cross platform mission operations center.
Almost two decades after the birth of JavaScript, its creator gives a whirlwind history of the language with stories (and dirt!) dished out from each era. What worked well for JavaScript and what has continued to make developers groan? What’s coming in ES6 and where next for the JavaScript community? …
There are 1 thing(s) that you have probably noticed about l10n and I18n in your JavaScript App(s). The sentences, even in english, are as ridiculous as the first one in this paragraph. Sure, you may be used to it, but it’s a crappy user experience. There’s lots you can do …
