js ≠ evil & angular2

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Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen is hosting as we reconsider dogmas surrounding JavaScript and look at the recently released Angular 2 with two international experts in Chris Heilmann and Tiberiu Covaci. Note that we're again starting a bit earlier than usual.

17:30 — Welcome

17:40 — "JavaScript isn’t evil", Chris Heilmann (https://twitter.com/codepo8)

18:30 — Drinks + sandwich

19:10 — "Angular 2, first look, and field impressions", Tiberiu Covaci (https://twitter.com/tibor19)

Javascript isn't evil

With Progressive Web Apps being the big thing and ServiceWorker allowing us to build applications resilient to unreliable networks we need to reconsider what we consider “best practices” for web development. Our world of Desktop machines with fat connections got replaced with a mobile one. Thus we need to reconsider some of the dogma we’ve built around the use of JavaScript. “JavaScript turned off” is not a thing – “JavaScript breaking without giving the user a way out” is something we need to find solutions for.

Chris Heilmann (https://twitter.com/codepo8) has dedicated a lot of his time making the web better. Originally coming from a radio journalism background, he built his first web site from scratch around 1997 and spent the following years working on lots of large, international web sites. He then spent a few years in Yahoo building products and explaining and training people including Yahoo Answers, Search, Local and Maps. He then worked at Mozilla moving HTML5 support forward and advocating Firefox OS as an open alternative to closed mobile systems. Chris wrote two and contributed to eight books on web development and wrote many articles and hundreds of blog posts for Ajaxian, Smashing Magazine, Yahoo, Mozilla, ScriptJunkie and many more. He also wrote the Developer Evangelism Handbook in use in many companies to coach evangelists. He is currently working with the Microsoft Edge team as a Program Manager for Developer Outreach.

Angular 2, first look and field impressions

In 2014 the Angular team decided to start from scratch to implement a new framework for modern web development. This new framework would support only greenfield browser and native mobile applications. They decided to call it Angular 2. The only thing this new framework has in common with the first version of Angular is the core team that started the development of the framework.

Tiberiu 'Tibi' Covaci (https://twitter.com/tibor19) is an independent consultant with 20 years of industry experience, specialising in .NET, web development, and Microsoft Azure. He holds two degrees in Computer Science - one from the Technical University of Timisoara, and one from the Royal School of Technology in Stockholm. He also is a book author, an instructor for developer training company DevelopMentor, and a former member of the Microsoft Learning Board of Advisors. Tibi has a broad set of skills in the web sphere, from client-side JavaScript, HTML5, Angular.js, Aurelia.js and Knockout.js, to intimate server-side knowledge of ASP.NET. He is a Microsoft MVP, and an active member of the ASP Insiders, Azure Insiders, and Azure Advisors groups.