sthlm.js #81 at Jfokus 2024

It's time to kick off the 2024 season with the traditional Jfokus x sthlm.js meetup! The wonderful organizers of the Jfokus conference have once again generously let us borrow their venue and top-notch international speakers. THANKS! ❤️

The meetup will be at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre on level 2

📅 Schedule
18:30 Doors open & food is served
19:00 MetaProgramming with JavaScript by Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
19:50 Gaming optimization design patterns you should apply to your web app by Yonatan Kra
20:35 Mingle, drinks and surprises at the Jfokus after party

🧠 MetaProgramming with JavaScript
Venkat Subramaniam - twitter.com/venkat_s

Tools/libraries/frameworks that rely on modern JavaScript heavily make use of metaprogramming capabilities that is relatively new in the language. In this presentation we will learn about the metaprogramming API, the benefits it provides, and how to benefit from this programming facility.

About the speaker:
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.

He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at https://www.agiledeveloper.com.

🕹️ Gaming optimization design patterns you should apply to your web app
Yonatan Kra - twitter.com/YonatanKra

The gaming industry leads the way when it comes to optimization and user experience. In this talk we will walk through optimization design patterns used in the gaming industry and see how each affects computer hardware like CPU, memory and more. Moreover, we will see how you can be utilize these patterns in your applications today!

About the speaker
Yonatan has been involved in some awesome projects in the academy and the industry - from C/C++ through Matlab to PHP and JavaScript. Former CTO at Webiks. Currently he is a Software Architect at Vonage and an egghead.io instructor.