Unicode and Progressive Web Applications

We're gonna have Kim Ahlstrom (https://twitter.com/Kimtaro) (OpenTable) talking about Unicode and Tom Martin (https://twitter.com/tpgmartin) (OpenTable) talking about Progressive Web Applications.

Unicode

Unicode, that wonderful thing that gives us 😆, �, and headaches over garbled text. Let's have a brief look at what it actually is, what it can help us achieve.

Progressive Web Applications

Progressive web applications promise to enable users to experience a more native app experience, with greater speed and reliability across a range of browsers and network reliability. Four key components come together to produce a progressive web application: service workers, cache API, indexedDB, and manifest file. Though there are experimental features, we can make use of lots of these technologies today with the latest stable browser releases.

This talk covers the basics of the technologies used to realise progressive web apps, with a few demonstrations and code samples from a live app.

Schedule

6:30 Doors open, drinks and pizza
7:00 Talks start
8:15 More drinks and networking, pub for the brave ones