talk.js PayPal Edition

Douglas Crockford is visiting Singapore. We have come out with this special event with PayPal and invited Douglas to give a talk to the SingaporeJS community!

Upgrading the Web

The web was originally imagined to be a simple distributed document retrieval system. It is now being used for applications that go far beyond the system's original capabilities and intentions. We have found ways to make it work, but they are difficult and far too fragile. Many times companies have offered to replace the web with superior proprietary systems, but we rejected them. We have been adding features to the web, but this does little to correct the deep underlying deficiencies, increasing instead of reducing its complexity.

This talk suggests a way forward, taking inspiration from our successful transition from NTSC to HDTV. There is a way forward to a web that is safer, easier, and as good as we desire.

Douglas Crockford is best known for his ongoing involvement in the development of the JavaScript language, for having popularized JSON, and for developing various JavaScript tools such as JSLint and JSMin. He is currently a senior JavaScript architect at PayPal, and is also a writer and speaker on JavaScript, JSON, and related web technologies.

Location:

PayPal Singapore
Suntec Tower 5
5 Temasek Boulevard #09-01
Singapore

Venue, free drinks and pizza sponsored by PayPal.

Remember to bring photo ID to get through building security.

Feel free to ask questions in the SingaporeJS gitter room: https://gitter.im/SingaporeJS/discussions

See you there!