Day One has been inspiring so far. Especially enjoyed the talk by Christian Heilmann about working effectively in larger development teams from his experience at the Javascript team at Yahoo (topics: code review, ignoring the inner hacker, a.o.). Hope some of his tips prove usefull in our rapidly growing development team at Netlog too.
Apart from that, I discovered some new projects in the Ajaxian.com talk (What about Caja?); Mike Stenhouse got me thinking about pair programming; Derek Featherstone emphasized the importance of investing resources in testing your site with your (disabled) users then buying some screenreader software package and Stuart Langridge got us convinced to join him in his quest to destroy the web (gotta say I’m contributing a fair bit here by not -yet- implementing Comet where any good developer the evil guys would tell me too) …
Oh, and am I missing out on some blog posts / irc channel / twittering or other sort of backlog for the conference? The fact there’s no stable WiFi at the conference makes for some missed opportunities, but hey, anyways, got lots of notes to go through and sort out. Hope to be sharing some of those soon.
Tomorrow’s titled “Advanced Development” so that’s when we’ll be seeing some actual code, right? Looking forward, all the big JS libraries represent …
[...] Day two of the @media ajax conference was definitely as interesting and inspiring as day one. It was much more on a technical level with some really neat talks by Dan Webb, Alex Russell (Dojo) and Douglas Crockford (JSLint), a hardcore session by Brendan Eich and an entertaining panel to finish the two days of pure javascript shizzle. The conference being so specialised (in topics as well as in audience), definitely made for an interesting two days without too much useless introductary mumbo jumbo. [...]
Posted by jurriaanpersyn.com » Blog Archive » @media ajax 2007, london (day two) on November 21st, 2007.