Front End Medley 2

Front-end coding often involves working with a variety of technologies, frameworks and languages to achieve your objectives. At our medley meetups we get a number of speakers to each do a 15-30 minute deep-dive into a particular subject.

This time we'll have two presenters.

We'll have Tristan Bhagwandin talking about Prototypal Inheritance in JavaScript - covering the basics of prototypical inheritance and class/subclass creation. Many web developers and designers never touch this powerful and sometimes confusing part of JavaScript. Learn how it should be used and when it shouldn't.

This is a great talk for those a little jQuery heavy who want to extend their understanding of one of the core features of JavaScript.

Also we'll hear from Zubin Tiku. He'll be covering (in his own words) "Weird ass unicode characters".

We all know that unicode characters can represent many languages' alphabets, numbers, punctuation and symbols. But it's more powerful than that - some characters can change the direction of text, others can help you control how words wrap, whilst there are even some that can… well, you'll just have to come and see. Designs and layouts that would usually require CSS, JavaScript or special HTML attributes can actually be achieved using a simple, single unicode character in your page.