Web Unleashed 2013

2013-11-07 00:00:00 2013-11-09 00:00:00 America/Toronto Web Unleashed 2013 FITC is back in New England for Web Unleashed 2013 with a ton of learning and collaborating opportunities over a two-day period: day one features a wide range of conference sessions focusing on front-end development and day two takes a deep dive into specific topics with… Waltham, MA FITC Waltham, MA

Building Mobile Hybrid Apps the RESTful Way, Using Sencha Touch & PhoneGap
Sencha Touch, a high-performance HTML5 mobile application framework, is the cornerstone of the Sencha HTML5 platform. Built for enabling world-class user experiences, Sencha Touch is the only framework that enables… Read more…
Workshop
Christopher Rhodes
Adventure Time with JavaScript & Single Page Applications
We’ve all seen the phrase ‘Single Page Application’ or ‘SPA’ everywhere and everyone talks about how they’re the best thing since sliced bread, but what is an SPA really?  Why… Read more…
Web Dev
Carl Bergenhem
Adventure Time with JavaScript & Single Page Applications workshop
We’ve all seen the phrase ‘Single Page Application’ or ‘SPA’ everywhere. Everyone talks about how they’re the best thing since sliced bread, but what is an SPA really?  Why are… Read more…
Workshop
Carl Bergenhem
AngularJS and PhoneGap Unite!
Native mobile development can be painful! So unless you are a masochist, there is a better way to develop mobile applications. This entire presentation will be dedicated to building a pain-free… Read more…
Web Dev
Lukas Ruebbelke
Animation for the Web Using the GreenSock Animation Library
Tired of using JQuery animations? Want to learn something new and refreshing? If so, this presentation is for you. You might have heard of GreenSock if you have ever created… Read more…
Workshop
Todd Shelton
Building Enterprise Apps with Sencha ExtJS/Touch & DeftJS
Learn how to build enterprise applications with Sencha & DeftJS. This session will discuss the build process and application architecture, as well as DeftJS integration — leave  with all of… Read more…
Web Dev
Ryan Canulla
Building Web Apps with the MEAN stack: Mongo, Express, Angular & Node
The MEAN stack is not only a great name, but an awesome stack to develop full stack web apps using just javascript. In this presentation attendees will learn how to quickly get… Read more…
Web Dev
Faisal Abid
Building Web Apps with the MEAN Stack: Mongo, Express, Angular & Node Workshop
The MEAN stack is not only a great name, but an awesome stack to develop full stack web apps using just JavaScript. In this workshop, attendees willl learn how to quickly… Read more…
Workshop
Faisal Abid
Consuming RESTful Services with Sencha Touch & Ext JS
Sencha creates development frameworks and tools that help you design, develop and deploy applications for desktop and mobile devices. Sencha Ext JS is the leading standard for business-grade web application… Read more…
Web Dev
Christopher Rhodes
Data Binding Best Practices
Whether you are interested in Angular, Ember or Knockout, data binding libraries are all the rage today, and for good reason. When used correctly, data binding libraries promote best practices… Read more…
Web Dev
Brendan McLoughlin
End to End Testing with AngularJS
AngularJS was built from the ground up to be testable; unit tests are great for testing isolated pieces of code but how are all of the pieces tested together?  With end-to-end… Read more…
Workshop
Fundamentals of JavaScript for Mobile Apps
The HTML5/CSS/JavaScript stack is becoming an increasingly popular choice for development of mobile applications. Using libraries like Cordova (aka PhoneGap) developers are not only able to create apps that run… Read more…
Workshop
Mark Lassoff
Getting Started with Responsive Web Design
In this workshop Brian will walk through the basics of responsive web design including fluid sizing, fluid grids and media queries. He’ll then demonstrate how to build a responsive layout using Adobe’s new… Read more…
Workshop
Brian Rinaldi
LocalStack
Getting To Know LESS, CSS Preprocessor
In this session Todd Shelton will talk about LESS, a CSS preprocessor. If you have ever created CSS stylesheets, then you know it would have been nice to have variables or functions written… Read more…
Web Dev
Todd Shelton
Hands-on with Polymer
Web Components allow for the viewing of web applications as a set of encapsulated, maintainable and reusable components. This half-day session will teach participants to work with the Polymer libraries to begin creating web… Read more…
Workshop
Introduction to Ember.js
If you are interested in creating ambitious web applications, Ember.js just might be for you! In this 1-hour session Brian Cardarella will overview many of the major concepts in Ember.js and live-code… Read more…
Web Dev
Brian Cardarella
Dockyard
Next Generation Streaming Video
There are dozens of different options to deliver video to mobile devices today, but none are more promising than MPEG-DASH and actual open standard for HTTP Delivery of media. Digital Primates has… Read more…
Web Dev
Jeff Tapper
Digital Primates
Node in Command: CLI Tools in Node
You’ve probably been hearing a lot about Node.js lately. However, even if you aren’t looking to change your back-end to server-side JavaScript, there are a ton of command line tools… Read more…
Web Dev
Brian Rinaldi
LocalStack
Overview of User Research for Design and Development
Good research is critical to ensuring the success of the experiences you design and develop. But research doesn’t have to be costly or take a long time; by conducting even… Read more…
Web Dev
Michelle Yaiser
Programming in the Reactive Style with Meteor JS
Meteor allows you to quickly create new web applications. Using a single code base for the client and the server, no-sql mongo, template-oriented UX organization and painless deployment, designing and… Read more…
Web Dev
Dave Anderson
Prototyping: Why You Should Fail Fast to Succeed Faster
It’s only too easy to not ‘look before you leap’ when starting a new development project, pretending to be an expert and placing too much emphasis upfront on the development… Read more…
Web Dev
Rich Gilbank
Shopify
Reaching for the Future with Web Components and Polymer
Web Components allow us to view web applications as a set of encapsulated, maintainable and reusable components, an approach which is necessary for scalability and large applications. However, they rely on… Read more…
Web Dev
Michael Labriola
Realtime “Eye Candy” with AngularJS
Learn how to make a fully interactive, realtime AngularJS application with snappy animation effects, sleek performance and clean, organized code. Top that off by testing all aspects of the application using Protractor… Read more…
Web Dev
Matias Niemelä
AngularJS Google
Super Heroic Responsive Grid Workflows
Frameworks like Sass & Compass give your CSS super heroic powers, but there is a good reason why you haven’t implemented them in your projects: workflows. Ray Villalobos, Staff Author for… Read more…
Workshop
Ray Villalobos
Lynda.com
Taking Control with Machina JS
Are you losing control? Are you tired of adding more if/else statements when you add new features to your application? Take control of your application’s complexity with machina.js, a Finite… Read more…
Web Dev
Douglas Neiner
Test-Driven Development of AngularJS Applications
AngularJS is an open-source JavaScript framework, maintained by Google, that simplifies development of single-page applications. This session will provide an overview of AngularJS framework and demonstrate test-driven development of single-page applications.… Read more…
Web Dev
Andy Pliszka
The Power of HTML5 Offline: Mobile and More!
Wanting to use your existing HTML5 skills and have a mobile application or website that works offline when your user isn’t connected to the Internet? This session is your key… Read more…
Web Dev
Jarvis Brown
Using HTML/CSS/JS to Create Windows 8 Applications
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are now first-class citizens for creating Windows applications. Applications created using web technologies are visually indistinguishable from applications created using C++ and they run almost as… Read more…
Web Dev
Eric Marthinsen
What’s So Great About Bootstrap 3?
Bootstrap has quickly become one of the hottest github projects ever with more than 58,000 stars and almost 20,000 forks. But is it a right fit for your project? Ray… Read more…
Web Dev
Ray Villalobos
Lynda.com