Framsia at CiA 2012 - Responsive, realtime and Zombies!
Details
Framsia will once again attend and contribute to this years Communities in Action (https://wiki.cantara.no/display/PE/CiA+2012+-++Bridging+the+gaps) (CiA). CiA is an event to showcast all the awesome communities in Oslo.
Framsia will host the following talks at track 11:
ZombieTDD (Norwegian)
About half a year ago Magnar Sveen (https://twitter.com/#!/magnars) sat down with the goal of making a game 100% written in JavaScript. It has JavaScript both in the client and on the server (running on node.js) and as the perfectionist Magnar is it's written TDD style. This turned into a series of JavaScript TDD screen casts (http://zombietdd.com/) he has put online.
Magnars will share his thoughts and experience on doing TDD JavaScript development and how his experiments with reusing the same code on both client and server turned out.
Responsive Design (English)
The traffic from hand held devices are growing for each day and being available on these platforms are becoming more and more important. Being available on these platforms involve making our websites adapt to all the different screens out there. Freelance developer and W3C (http://www.w3.org/) chair member Wilhelm Joys Andersen (https://twitter.com/#!/wilhelmja) will guide us trough the principals of "Responsive Design" and how we can bring our content to the mobile world.
socket.io (English)
Internet have for many years been limited by the half duplex in HTTP. This is about to change with the WebSocket specification recently landed as a native part in modern browsers. WebSockets are full duplex communication between the server and the browser. Tough, the need for doing full duplex communication have been present for a long time and there has been several attempts to provide that even before WebSockets.
socket.io (http://socket.io/) is a node.js (http://nodejs.org/) library which implements the native WebSocket API found in modern browser and provides fallback strategies for older browsers. Einar Otto Stangvik (https://twitter.com/#!/einaros) has implemented his own WebSocket library (https://github.com/einaros/ws) for node.js and are a core developer on socket.io. He will take us trough the exiting world of full duplex communication between the server and browser.
Our schedule:
17.30 - 18.15 - Food and mingling
18.15 - 18.25 - Welcome and some info about The Web Rebels Conference (http://webrebels.org/) (tickets and stuff!!!).
18.25 - 19.10 - ZombieTDD (in Norwegian)
19.20 - 20.00 - Responsive Design (in English)
20.00 - 20.30 - Break
20.30 - 21.10 - socket.io (in English)