2014 Post conference write up
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Post conference write-up from Simon
It's done. It's DONE!
We can't believe our 4th JSinSA conference is already behind us.
Our speakers did a brilliant job of providing +-14 hours worth of content split over 2 tracks. It was great to see some new speakers on the list, including someone giving his 1st tech talk at a conference! We need more of this.
A big thank you to all our fantastic sponsors this year! We can't run a conference like this without you.
Here's an article from a local tech journo who was there and wrote about the day.
For the first time this year, we asked the attendees some survey questions, here are the results:
| Would you attend hackathons | 85 % yes | ||
| Do you regularly attend user groups | 40 % yes | ||
| Should there continue to be competition in JavaScript frameworks, or should a dominant player emerge? | 100 % yes for competition | ||
| Are there enough JavaScript skills in the local market? | 0 % yes | ||
| Is the JavaScript stack appropriate for large scale enterprise solutions? | 35 % yes | ||
| Is the HTML5 brand a good thing, or is it confusing customers? | 15 % yes, a good thing | ||
| Which has the better dev workflow, Mac or Windows? | 50 % |
We look forward to hosting more events in future and thank you all again for the support over the past 4 years.
If anyone would like an invite to the Dropbox folder with all photos, please ping us.
Simon
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SPEAKERS
We really value the time and attention that the conference gets from local experts and consider it an honour to host this annual event.
SESSION SPEAKERS:
Rishal Hurbans
3D Programming with JS
@RishalHurbansEntelect
prolificidea.com
Team Lead at Entelect
Steven McDonald
Intro to Gulp.js & Including Gulp in .Net workflow
@StevenMcD_codeChase Software
www.stevenmcd.me
Garren Smith
Building offline first apps with Pouchdb
@garrensmithblog
Red Comet Labs
Founder at Red Comet Labs
Rouan Wilsenach
Annotator - bring the conversation to your content
@rouanw
thoughtworks.co.za
profile
Software developer
William Brander
Of Dragons & Driftwood - HTTP Caching Myths and Tricks
@WilliamBZABBD, http://www.bbd.co.za
Luke Venediger
Real-time Front-end Metrics for Impatient People
@lukevenedigerDerivco
lukevenediger.me
Kevin Ashton
Full Stack F# - From the Server to the Browser with Strongly Typed Functional Programming
@ashtonkjLion of Africa Insurance
Kevin McKelvin
Ambitious Web Apps with Ember.js
blog@kmckelvin
Platform45
Senior Ruby and JavaScript developer at Platform45
Evan Knowles
Data visualisations that actually work across browsers/devices
www.discovery.co.zaTeam Lead at Discovery
Kudakwashe Murungu
How To Build Mobile Apps using the Ionic Framework
www.databuild.co.zaDeveloper at Databuild
@k_mvet
Jarrod Hermer
Microsoft Azure for hipsters
@JarrodHermerMicrosoft
Technical Evangelist at Microsoft
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