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ThemeRoller 2.0: Refactoring for Speed

These are my notes from Doug Neiner's talk at the jQuery 2010 conference in Mountain View, California. You can find Doug on Twitter @dougneiner

ThemeRoller 2.0 doensn't have a lot of new features, it just works faster. I was considering calling it SnowThemeRoller.

Overview of ThemeRoller

ThemeRoller allows you to easily apply colors, patterns, opacities, images and textures that you can apply to your site on the fly; once you've configured your theme you can download it and apply it.

Designing Interactions with jQuery

These are my notes from a talk given by Steve Smith at the 2010 jQuery conference in Mountain View, California. You can find Steve on Twitter @orderedlist.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

-Milton Glaser

Why You Care

You're not just an implementer or a "code monkey." You care about the project and doing things well. You care about the user experience and whether it's easy for the user or not. Designing interactions is a huge part of this.

Paul Irish's jQuery Craziness

This free-form talk was given by Paul Irish (see paulirish.com) at the 2010 jQuery conference in Mountain View, California.

Some sites Paul has done:

  • Moderniszr.com
  • css3please.com
  • html5readiness.com: A visualization of which HTML5 features are supported and which have less support.

I'm going to call this talk

10 things I learned from the jQuery source

In a lot of ways, jQuery is like a black box. We use it, but we don't find out what's inside of it, even though there's a lot of value in that.

The first thing is how it starts:

Web Workers with jQuery

These are my notes from the talk "Web Workers with jQuery" talk given at the 2010 jQuery conference in Mountain View, California. The speaker was Rick Waldron.

When I talk about workers, most people don't see much use for them. Nick Zakas gave a great overview earlier today.

What are workers?

The API is based on the Gears WorkerPool API (since deprecated.) They allow you to run non-blocking scripts parallel to the main page. You can keep your main thread (the browser window) free of blockage from heavy-duty processing, whether it be data, processing, or so forth.

Future-proof HTML5 with jQuery

These are my notes from a talk given by Mike Taylor at the 2010 jQuery conference in Mountain View, California. You can follow him on Twitter @miketaylr

I live in Brooklyn. My talk is about the future.

I don't want to say it's about philosophy, because that sound pretty fancy. I just want to share what I've been thinking about.

The future is about HTML 5. It has nothing to do with robots, (unless they have DOM parsers.) I believe in:

Mike Taylor on stage

  • New semantic elements

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