@media Ajax Is Scarily Good

21 AUG

It seems that the @media Ajax site has just been updated. I was looking forward to it before but more speakers have been added including Brendan Eich who, according the abstract, will be demonstrating a working version of Tamarin in Firefox!

Also, Dojo’s Alex Russell, jQuery’s John Resig, YUI’s Douglas Crockford and Prototype’s erm, me will be representing the major libraries and then there’s the Ajaxians, Ben and Dion stepping up for a keynote. Finally, Mr Jeremy Keith will be hosting the hot topics panel in the traditional @media style – Hot Topics panel + JavaScript people should be quite explosive. As it was put in the Prototype Core Campfire the other day, “The JavaScript community is not so much of a community, more of a debating society” It’s going to be excellent. Of course, as it’s in London town you know we’ll be sinking a good few pints after. It will be a rare chance to get together with fellow scriptie types this side of the pond and the only pub conversation you’ll ever be allowed to mention closures in….surely that’s a good thing?

There are still early bird tickets left until the end of august so get your arse down to the site and sign up.

My presentation, Metaprogramming JavaScript, is for all those people who moan that they never learn things at conferences. It’s journey into the deep innards of JavaScript and I’ll be explaining the some of the metaprogramming techniques used in YUI, Prototype and Low Pro along with really getting into advanced JavaScript concepts like prototype inheritance, functional programming and closures. I defy you to turn up and not learn something new.

14 Comments (Closed)

I WILL be there :)

Mr Ben at 21.08.07 / 11AM

I WANT to be there – trying to work out funding options! If not I reckon I might be able to ‘umper loompa’ my way in ;> Either way I’m also looking forward to it!

Ross Bruniges at 21.08.07 / 12PM

Who is erm ?

Tobie Langel at 22.08.07 / 04AM

Tobie: heh, I think you misread it…it’s erm, me. I am going to be chatting a little bit about some of the internals of Prototype (mostly the new class system).

Dan Webb at 22.08.07 / 11AM

Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings.

Artikelverzeichnis at 01.09.07 / 14PM

better to sign up soon

conti correnti at 01.09.07 / 21PM

Already been booked in on behalf of work -1st time I’ve seen it mentioned anywhere else outside of their own website and Ajaxian, really must do more browsing ;)

The promise of beer is an added bonus.

bugrain at 15.10.07 / 23PM

Thank You for another very interesting article. So please try to keep up the great work all the time.

osram sparlampe at 29.10.07 / 00AM

good Infos!

boxbandagen at 03.11.07 / 20PM

Thanks for very interesting article. btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings.

Edelsteine at 06.11.07 / 02AM