JSConf Europe 2014 Highlights

Javascript atau biasa disebut dengan JS, merupakan client side scripting yang dapat membantu web developer untuk menciptakan halaman dinamis dari sisi browser. Dengan mengoptimalkan browser , pengguna dapat merasakan pengalaman lebih menarik dan lebih gegas jika web yang kita bangun menggunakan pula Javascript.

Sebelumnya di bulan Mei 2014 JSConf diselenggarakan di sekitar Omni Amelia Island, Amerika Serikat. Di konferensi tersebut terdapat salah satu demo yang memperlihatkan bagaimana caranya membangun sebuah QuadCopter dan Robot menggunakan NodeJS. Ada pulak topik yang membahas cara menjalankan DVD menggunakan Javascript. Di waktu yang berbeda hadir pula JSConf di Eropa yang diselenggarakan di Berlin.

Acara dibagi menjadi tiga bagian, yaitu Conference Day 1 pada tanggal 13 September 2014 di Universal Osthafen, Conference Day 2 pada tanggal 14 September 2014 di Universal Osthafen, dan Relax.js yang diselenggarakan pada tanggal 15 September 2014 di Datscha Cafe. Selain itu terdapat pula beberapa party yang diselenggarakan sesudah acara konferensi bagi para pengunjung.

[caption id="attachment_1896" align="aligncenter" width="323"] Pembicara di JSConf Europe 2014 (sumber: https://2014.jsconf.eu/speakers/)[/caption]

Tentunya yang menarik selain tempat penyelenggaraan adalah topik - topik yang diangkat di JSConf. Berikut ini adalah daftar topik yang diangkat di JSConf Europe 2014:

• William Lewis & Pavel Dovbush: Building a maintainable bi-directional cross platform protocol
• Tim Messerschmidt: Supercharging Node with Kraken
• Sergii Iefremov: Runtime.JS: V8 JavaScript Kernel
• Ray McDermott: How Toyota Motor Europe use Heroku to manufacture web sites on the web
• Federico Musto, Ph.D.: Linino.IO - A Whole New Take
• Dan Mané: Why are there so many Javascript charting libraries?!?
• Carter Rabasa: A Community of People, Not Projects
• Sebastian Markbage: Minimal API Surface Area - Learning patterns instead of frameworks
• Raquel Vélez: Evolution of a Developer
• Matthew Podwysocki: Async and Streaming JS - Are we doing it wrong?
• Drew Petersen: Developing Games Using Data not Trees
• Dave Cridland: Air Crashes
• Michael Poltorak Nielsen: Alternative Smartphone Interactions based on Sensor Data
• Lindsay Eyink: Know Your /'s
• Jaswanth Sreeram: Parallel JavaScript
• Adrian Perez de Castro: JavaScript in JavaScript: Inception
• Raul Fraile: How GZIP compression works
• Michael Donohoe: Deep-link to Anything on the Web
• Jan Monschke: Using the web for music production and for live performances
• James Coglan: Practical functional programming: pick two
• Amy Palamountain: Enemy of the State
• Tim Pietrusky: Nerd Disco
• Sebastien Cevey: Server-less applications powered by Web Components
• Sara Robinson: What Harry Potter Can Teach Us About JavaScript
• Nikita Vasilyev: Future of Web Tooling
• Brennan Novak: Secure Crypto for Browser Based Apps
• Lena Reinhard: This is bigger than us: Building a future for Open Source
• Jan Monschke: Using the web for music production and for live performances
• Arne Martin Aurlien: Implement an Esoteric Programming Language for Fun and... Well, Fun
• Timothy Mwirabua: How To Write JavaScript That Works for Africa
• Stephan Seidt: The Meaning of Words
• Rob Ashton: Got Make?
• Michele Guido: It Takes a Village to Make a Programmer
• Lloyd Watkin: You've played with realtime, let's do it properly...
• Rik Arends: Beyond HTML and CSS: Fusing Javascript and shaders for live graphics and UI programming
• Mark Knichel: JavaScript Tools at Scale Using Type Information
• Jenna Zeigen: The Linguistic Relativity of Programming Languages
• Iliyan Peychev: HTTP 2.0 and QUIC - protocols of the (near) future
• Glen Maddern: GIFs vs Web Components
• Tim Taubert: Keeping secrets with JavaScript: An Introduction to the WebCrypto API
• Shirmung Bielefeld: == ? === ??? ...#@^%
• Mathias Bynens: JavaScript ♥ Unicode
• Jan Jongboom: Abusing phones to make the internet of things
• Frederik Braun: We're struggling to keep up (A brief history of Browser Security Features)
• Vyacheslav Egorov: invokedynamic.js
• Rosie Campbell: Designing for displays that don't exist yet
• Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway?
• Jake Archibald: The ServiceWorker is coming, look busy
• Hunter Loftis: We Will All Be Game Programmers
• Mathieu 'p01' Henri: Monster Audio-Visual demos in a TCP packet
• Marcy Sutton: JavaScript for Everybody
• Dominikus Baur: Web-based data visualization on mobile devices
• Christoph Martens: JavaScript Level 9000
• Brad Bouse: Usefulness of Uselessness

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