Two Excellent JS Talks

Coding across devices

Ben Foxall (from pusher.com and organiser of JSOxford)

I'll take us through building a JavaScript editor that distributes and runs code to several browsers instantly.
We'll then use this tool to explore multi-device development - how we can build interactions that span several devices. We'll touch on 3d rendering, device orientation, web audio & realtime data visualisation.

Memory Management in V8

Hadi Michael (Software Engineer, now at Judge Business School)

Long garbage collection pauses in JavaScript, can lead to noticeable performance degradation and poor user-experiences. Understanding this garbage collection mechanism is essential to building advanced applications with effective memory management. This talk will cover the fundamentals of automatic memory management in the V8 JavaScript engine. We will also discuss some upcoming optimisations that are aimed directly at tackling garbage collection jank. Finally, we will explore some common memory problems, as well as the tools and techniques available for diagnosing them.