VanJS: CoffeeScript SDKs and Hashing

Time for another VanJS! On Tuesday, December 2nd we have two new talks:

1. Building a SDK in CoffeeScript for Client and Server
   Robb Lovell, Mojio

"One of the issues writing an SDK for Mojio was writing a code base once and using it both in browser client side applications and NodeJS server side applications. Both the Http and SignalR libraries are specific (and different) depending on whether code is being used server or client side. The solution is to use a template to generate both, with shim code to handle differences between the client and server libraries. Coffeescript is used to simplify the readability of the code and ease the maintenance of the code base. Covered is the environment used for coding and debugging coffeescript, the Mocha test framework, browser code minification, and scripting for building and testing."

2. Hash Functions and You: Partners in Freedom
   Curtis Lassam, Sauce Labs "Hash functions are one of the unsung heroes of software development, and they're behind dozens of useful techniques that are crucial to modern web development. We're going to talk about hash functions, hash tables, bloom filters (the fast, weird, probabilistic data structure), hashes in security (PBKDF, and why you shouldn't be writing authentication code if you don't know what it is), and a bit of a talk about why hashing things in Javascript is less secure than you think."

3. Beer

We'll be in the smaller Room 1800 so it'll fill up fast!