DevConFu – impressions – 28.05



DevConFu – impressions – 28.05

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devconfu2014


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DevConFu

impressions

by Toms Mikoss @tmikoss

background

  • held in Jūrmala, 28.05 - 30.05
  • the second installment of this conference
  • multiple tracks - mobile, agile, frontend, backend
  • mainly european speakers, with some exceptions

recap of sessions

well, those that I attended

28.05

workshops

didn't attend :(

positive comments from others

29.05

first day

Aral Balkan @aral

Free is a Lie

  • computing is integral to our life
  • Big Brother is real, and is called Facebook / Google / ...
  • your data is core of their business model, regardless what they say
  • government can easily request the data corps have
  • right to choose should be a civil liberty
  • building indiePhone, wants to take on iPhone

Jina Bolton @jina

In Search of the Single Source of Truth

  • have a living style guide
  • atomic web design - pages consist of reusable buidling blocks
  • sass / less / ... makes your life better
  • sass has hashes now
  • responsive design testing with iframes
  • Angular.JS components as building blocks

Phil Hawksworth @philhawksworth

Dynamic Static Site Strategies

  • dynamic static is basically continous deployment
  • high performance, portable, easy talent
  • works anywhere but user-centric sites
  • wide range of site genrators, including pure js
  • services that mimic dynamism (BitBalloon forms API, etc)

Jina Bolton @jina

Refactoring Web Interfaces

  • DOCUMENT IT
  • use sass already
  • read SMACSS
  • refactor based on components
  • phantom.js screenshots + breakpoints

Luke Murphy-Wearmouth @lurkmoophy

Clouds of Dust: Using user data to influence web design

  • monitor your users, there's gold in them hills
  • users impact product development
  • users change with generations
  • look for desire paths
  • google analytics has lots to offer
  • progressive reduction

Anton Keks @antonkeks

Building Security Into Your Web Apps

  • there are more loopholes than you can imagine
  • do penetration testing, you are not that good
  • 2-factor auth for login and important actions
  • a whole slew of vulnerabilities, just watch it

30.05

second day

Jean-Philippe Vergne @PirateOrg

Innovation from the fringes of cyberspace: Pirates, hackers, and Internet regulation

  • there are internetS
  • internet can be controlled on various levels
  • internet largely falls in USA jurisdiction
  • government - corporations - pirates
  • piracy is perception
  • hackers = tech, pirates = social

Shay Friedman @ironshay

Yes Yes Yes, It’s AngularJS!

  • Angular.JS is the bestestest
  • let's build glorified hello world app

Robin Hawkes @robhawkes

Using OpenStreetMap and WebGL to create real-world cities in 3D

  • robhawkes/vizicities
  • WebGL support is getting there, including mobile
  • OpenStreetMap has quite good data now
  • lots of tools & practices discussed

Aleksandr Motsjonov @soswow

Development of Single Page Web Application, a Modern Approach

  • Angular, Backbone are cool
  • don't use Backbone without Marionette
  • you don't have to write pure js
  • bower - package manager for js
  • grunt / gulp to automate workflows

Eduards Sizovs @eduardsi

Micro Service Architecture

  • small, single-purpose, 12factor compliant apps
  • deploy, scale, tune independently
  • use what makes sense in the domain
  • team independence
  • a hearty serving of Java related practices

Anatoly Ropotov @tolik

Cross-platform, Multi-platform – the Future is Here

  • web game development company
  • praise facebook
  • flash > webgl
  • more mobile gaming than pc / consoles
  • tablets are more like pcs than mobiles
  • game dev is hard work

the gist of it

couple gems

among otherwise lacking sessions

adequate organization

with room to grow

talk to the speakers

the sessions will be on youtube

thanks!

for sending me there

Toms Mikoss @tmikoss