Herding Code 79: JSConf Recap with Chris Williams, Rey Bango and Matt Podwysocki

Episode 79

This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Chris Williams, Rey Bango and Matt Podwysocki about this year's JSConf.

• Chris begins the show with a conference overview which will leave you chomping at the bit for JSConf 2011 registration to open. Hackers' Lounge. Multiple tracks. One killer speaker list. Hyper-caffeinated, hyper-intoxicated privates! Salmagundi. And lots of JavaScript!
• The guests discuss their favorite parts of the conference. Beyond the quality of the talks, Rey and Chris both comment about the invaluable conversations which were had out-of-session in the Hacker's Lounge and at the ScurvyConf. Quote of the Show: "I am a firm believer of drinking beer, and shooting the poop, and when you do that, magic happens." - Chris Williams
• Chris talks about the excitement around Tobias Schneirder's presentation on Gordon, an open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript.
• The guys talk about Alex Russell and Google Chrome Frame and how IE6 must Die.
• Chris praises Billy Hoffman's JavaScript's Evil Side presentation.
• K Scott and Chris talk about JavaScript outside of the browser and functional programming,
• Chris and Scott K talk about a seemingly new found interest in Server-side JS
• Jon asks about JS library duplication in competing platforms. Rey talks about what Resig has done with Sizzle and how each library has their own niche.
• Chris talks about the need to learn JavaScript and how we should be JavaScript developers, not just developers who use JavaScript libraries.
• Matt teases us by mentioning that he'll be talking about Reactive Extensions on next week's Herding Code episode.
• Jon asks which percentage of cool JavaScript stuff is just waiting on browser adoption.  Chris doesn't think too much and prompts Matt talks about progressive enhancements.
• Chris talks about the importance of security and how we shouldn't only be taught how to write good code but also how to break bad code.
• Kevin asks what is happening with JavaScript, the language itself.
• The show wraps with talk of diversity in computing, JSConf EU, JQuery Conference, JQuery UI 1.8 release, JavaScript conferences and craft beers in the D.C. area.

Show Links:

• JSConf 2010, JSConf EU 2010
• Chris Williams's Blog, @voodootikigod
• Rey Bango's Blog, jQuery, Ajaxian
• Matt Podwysocki's Blog
• Ken Henderson
• Dojo, Prototype, MooTools, YUI, ExtJs
• Brendan Eich
• Peter Higgins, Dojo, plugd
• Salmagundi
• Aaron Quint, Sammy.js, Making Bacon / Making Code
• Tobias Schneider, Gordon
• Greenhouse, Sproutcore, Ajaxian Post
• Alex Russell, Google Chrome Frame
• Douglas Crockford
• Scott Guthrie, IE9
• Narwhal, Tom Robinson, 280 North, Kevin Dangoor
• Ryan Dahl, Node
• V8
• nginx
• CouchDB
• Jaxer, Helma, Persevere
• Rhino
• SquirrelFish Extreme, Nitro
• Jeffrey van Gogh, Reactive Extensions
• CoffeeScript
• Jison
• Francisco Tolmasky, Socratic Documentation Tool
• Cappuccino, Objective-J
• Ross Boucher,
• John Resig, Sizzle
• NWMatcher, Acme (aka query.js)
• John-David Dalton 
• Sam Stephenson
• JavaScript and Web Standards Sitting in a Tree, Jenn Lukas
• Billy Hoffman
• ha.ckers.org, xssed.com
• JSConf 2010 - Video Interviews with Top Javascript Developers
• Makinde Adeagbo
• JSON Hijacking, Phil Haack
• HTML5
• ECMAScript5/Harmony
• @SaraJChipps
• JSConf Diversity in Computing Drive 
• JQuery Conference
• JQueryUI
• ChurchKey, Dogfish Head, Carpool, Rustico
• NoVALang
• nosqleast
• Tom Hughes-Croucher
• Scandinavian Web Developer Conference (SWDC)
• TXJS (Texas JavaScript Conference)

Show notes compiled by Ben Griswold. Thanks!

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Herding Code 79: JSConf Recap with Chris Williams, Rey Bango and Matt Podwysocki