2013 Post conference write up
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Post conference write-up from Simon & Elaine
Hi!
Wow, can't believe our 3rd JSinSA conference has come ... and gone.
Post conference blues have definitely kicked in, as it does every year. Chocolates
and left-over cupcakes ease the lack-of-organizing-pain though. :-)
We were blown away with the level of support from sponsors
this year, particularly
local ones. Great to see companies wanting to promote their
wares to local devs. We had sponsors from all sectors of business:
coffee roastery to cloud hosting; big data to gaming magazine ... and a
lot in between!
For the second year in a row, we sold out the entire conference during the early-bird
special. And pleas for spare tickets continued until the night before!
Demand was sky-high this year and we half expected to see ticket scalpers roaming
outside the venue trying to make a quick buck. Our wait list topped out at 20, causing
us to use the word sorry in most of our emails leading up to the big day.
We started with an great opening video from the legendary Al Lowe followed by the return of Rey Bango!
After that, the local talent took over and gave a day's
worth of technical presentations on topics ranging from javascript
data-binding libraries to HTML5 graphics...
We were spoilt by generous sponsors this year that provided
many great prizes at the end of the day. A full list can be found here.
Keep an eye on our Twitter account @JSinSA for early news about upcoming events.
Lot's of curly-brace love from,
Simon & Elaine
2 July 2013
Some pictures from the day
SLIDES and DEMOS FROM JSinSA 2013
SESSIONS:
Gerrit van Huyssteen - Multi-platform games with Quintus
@gerrit_vhwww.gvh.co.za
Web application and game developer
Slides & demos here
Evan Knowles - Intro to HTML5 canvas & Web Audio API - Bits of Sound
www.entelect.co.zaEntelect on Facebook
Team Lead at Entelect Software
Slides & demos here
Garren Smith - Tips, tricks and hacks for building a successful single page application
@garrensmithblog
Red Comet Labs
Founder at Red Comet Labs
Slides & demos here
Lance Gleasain - D3 Data Visualization
@lgleasainPolyglot Programming Inc
Founder/CEO at Polyglot Programming Inc.
Pieter Germishuys - LeafletJS, Zero to hero with MVC & AngularJS
@pgermishuysblog
Developer
MVC & AngularJS Slides & demos here
LeafletJS slides here
Kenneth Kalmer - Unleashing the Rails Asset Pipeline
@KennethKalmerValuationUP.com
Chief Rocket Scientist
Slides here
Daniel Temme - Using lineman to build fat JS apps independent of the server-side
@DTemmethoughtworks.co.za
Slides here
Rouan Wilsenach - Using lineman to build fat JS apps independent of the server-side
thoughtworks.co.za
profile
Software developer
Slides here
Martin Cronje - The 10 most awesome things I found in my favourite JS libraries' source code
@martincronjeSlides here
Steven McDonald - CoffeeScript - Why the hardcore hate?
@stevenmcd_codeChase Software
Developer at Chase Software
Slides here
Kevin McKelvin - Building Resource Guru's Bookings Calendar v2.0 with Backbone
blog@kmckelvin
Platform45
Senior Ruby Developer at Platform45
Mark Pearl - Pair programming - do's and don'ts
Driven Software
Developer Coach at Driven Software
@MarkPearlCoZa
Here is the
slidedeck we used at the start of the conference.
Here is the slidedeck
showing all the prizes we gave away at the end of the conference.
