Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford discovered that hidden deep inside of JavaScript there is a powerful and elegant programming language. He also discovered the JSON Data Interchange Format. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm Ltd and Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder of two startups. He is currently an architect at Yahoo!
Track abstract - Room G3 - Web
The Future of JavaScript. I mean ECMAScript
Unexpectedly, JavaScript has become the world's most popular programming
language. After ten years of stasis and acrimonious controversy, a new
edition of the language has arrived, and there is work on further
standards. There are many forces now pulling on this little language.
What will the future hold for this duckling?
Track abstract - Room G3 - Web
Patterns for Server Side JavaScript
There is growing interest in JavaScript in the server. Event driven,
asynchronous, turn-based processing promises high reliability and high
performance, but it is an unfamiliar model. A naive programming approach
results in deeply nested callback functions, which is ugly and brittle.
This talk explores the use of JavaScript's first class functions to give
a handle on elegantly managing programming in the server.
