20 — 21st
September 2013
Bangalore
JSFoo 2013 will feature original creations with JavaScript. This year’s edition has been themed to showcase innovations on the mobile, server and client-side, and expose participants to cutting-edge developments – flying robots, hybrid mobile app framework, interactive physics simulation in the browser, etc.
Listen to full-length talks of 40 minutes, crisp 15-minute presentations on new ideas and frameworks, and present a short talk during the flash talk session open to the audience!
Schedule — 20th Sep
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8:30 am
Registrations and breakfast – 45 mins
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9:15 am
Introduction to HasGeek and JSFoo – 15 mins
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9:30 am
Bringing the open web and APIs to mobile devices with Firefox OS – 45 mins
Robert Nyman
Technical evangelist, MozillaLearn about the vision behind Firefox OS, and the open web technologies available for building HTML5 apps, including WebAPIs and Web Activities. This talk will help you get started with developing HTML5 apps for Firefox OS and the open web. -
10:15 am
Frontend dev ops – 45 mins
Aditya Yadav
Developer, 6Wunderkinder GmbHAs the browsers are becoming more powerful and Webapps more complex, the way we deploy them is changing too. This talk will cover a few topics related to building and deploying rich webapps to production and automating as much as possible. -
11:00 am
Tea break – 30 mins
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11:30 am
Generating tests from code - or how to test better and faster – 45 mins
Olivier Crameri
Co-founder, BugBusterUncover the power of dynamic analysis to improve the coverage of your tests and find bugs before your users do. This talk will describe techniques to automatically create more tests starting from a single, simple unit test, and demonstrate how it helps JavaScript developers create better code. -
12:15 pm
Who's talking | Real-time peer-to-peer collaboration with JS and HTML5 – 45 mins
Om Shankar
Web Development Engineer and UI Specialist, AmazonThis talk focuses on ways to use JS, HTML and CSS, with new features to build simple yet cool apps, that can replace other desktop apps and browser plugins which have dominated the communication realm on internet. -
1:00 pm
Lunch – 1 hr 30 mins
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2:30 pm
Javascript is a DJ – 20 mins
Jaison Justus
Front-End Developer, Bang The TableAdd audio to your webapps and learn to make them more immersive -
2:50 pm
Programming flying robots – 20 mins
Sreekanth Vadagiri
Developer, ActiveSphereMake the ArDrone quadcopter do interesting things like fly and move, flip with a few lines of javascript. -
3:10 pm
Using Camera Motion Detection in JS for Gestures based Interaction – 20 mins
Vinci Rufus
VP, Neev TechnologiesLearn the concept of invoking the camera and detecting motion by using HTML5 canvas and JavaScript. -
3:30 pm
RedRaphael - JavaScript graphics library on steroids! – 45 mins
Sushant Sudarshan
Senior JavaScript developer, FusionChartsThis talk introduces RedRaphael, a graphics library built on top of raphaeljs that takes rendering graphics on the browser to the next level. -
4:15 pm
Tea break – 30 mins
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4:45 pm
Killing passwords with JavaScript – 45 mins
Francois Marier
Software engineer, Mozilla Identity TeamAttendees will understand why asking users for passwords is a bad idea. They will also learn the basics of the BrowserID protocol so that they can take advantage of Persona on their own sites or webapps. -
5:30 pm
Sponsored Talk, Microsoft – 45 mins
TBA
TBA -
6:15 pm
Bot using NodeJS and the HTML5 Audio API – 20 mins
Ameya Karve
Student, IIT MadrasThe speakr will show how to build a robot that is controlled using a NodeJS server. The bot uses the HTML5 Audio API to actuate its motors. -
6:35 pm
Visualising Bollywood with Javascript – 20 mins
Anand S.
Data scientist, GramenerScrape bollywood material from a variety of sites via server-side JS and visualise these with client-side JS. -
6:55 pm
Offline in the browser- with IndexedDB, AppCache and LocalStorage – 20 mins
Manan Bharara
Developer, ThoughtWorksLearn the benefits and possibilities of storage in the browser, segregation of concerns offered by the various HTML5 APIs, how Angular JS plays with HTML5 offline and browser support. -
7:15 pm
Party at Woodrose Club – 3 hrs
Schedule — 21st Sep
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8:30 am
Registrations and breakfast – 1 hr
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9:30 am
HTML5 for the masses - making the future the now – 45 mins
Christian Heilmann
Principal Developer Evangelist, MozillaThis talk explains how to use HTML5 right here, right now, to create products that are ready for a market where people consume on low-end mobile devices. -
10:15 am
Your webapps should talk not just in English, but in español, Kiswahili, 廣州話 and অসমীয়া too. – 45 mins
Sucheta Ghoshal
Wikimedia FoundationThis talk will help web developers understand what localization is and why it is important. The speaker will explain how MediaWiki / Wikipedia handles internationalization and how you can do it for your own apps, via jQuery.i18n (or other frameworks). -
11:00 am
Tea break – 30 mins
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11:30 am
FlatSurface: build a quality API faster – 20 mins
Jonathan Maim
Co-founder, Minsh and BangaloreJSLearn about ways to build a quality API faster. -
11:50 am
GIF animations - Now with sound! – 20 mins
Hage Yaapa
Architect, SourcebitsIntroduction to talking image, the JavaScript library to 'unmute' GIF animations. -
12:10 pm
Potential gotchas in making a Backbone app – 20 mins
Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Front-end engineer, RecruiterboxThe talk would cover zombie views, extending routes and default error handlers for ajax calls. -
12:30 pm
First un-learn and then more to learn: Our experience building a complex web app entirely in AngularJS – 45 mins
Adhil Azeez NV and Praneet Koppula
Bang The TableIn this talk, the speakers will share their experiences of building a complex web app for mobile devices using AngularJS. Attendees can learn from these experiences on what to look out for while starting to build your AngularJS app and how to embrace this new framework which is fast becoming the default way of building apps. -
1:15 pm
Lunch – 1 hr 15 mins
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2:30 pm
Distributed, offline-enabled point-of-sale system using Google Apps Script – 45 mins
Kingsley Jegan Joseph
Co-founder, TripThirstyThis talk will cover design and usability of POS systems in general and how the speaker created a minimal, elegant UI that requires little to no training, how the offline-enabled system syncs with Google Spreadsheets, operational deployment and future possibilities. -
3:15 pm
Memory profile your JavaScript applications for high performance – 45 mins
Jaideep Singh
Front-end developer and UX engineer, ThoughtWorksThis session will help developers to understand javascript garbage collector, analyze memory usage of their applications, various factors which affect memory usage and performance, detecting memory leaks and dealing with them, and some best practices for writing memory efficient javascript. -
4:00 pm
Tea break – 30 mins
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4:30 pm
Flash talks – 45 mins
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5:15 pm
Node Robo - Robo powered by Raspberry Pi, Node, Arduino, Firebase and Phonegap – 45 mins
Sreejesh Karunakaran
Manager / Specialist Interactive Development, Sapient Global MarketsThis talk shows the power and reach of JavaScript which spreads across platforms. It is on mobile (phonegap), controlling hardware (johnny five) and running as a server platform (node). -
6:00 pm
Feedback and closing – 30 mins
Venue
MLR Convention CentreJ. P. Nagar
Address
MLR Convention Centre, J.P. Nagar
Brigade Millenium Complex, J.P. Nagar 7th Phase
Bangalore, Karnataka India.
Phone: +91 8861386058, 9886123435, 9880405439, 080-40182222
Map
Directions
From Airport
MLR Convention Centre is 45.1 kms from the airport. It is housed in the Brigade Millenium apartment complex in J P Nagar 7th Phase. In peak hours, it can take up to 2.5 hours to reach the venue. During non-rush hours, you can get to the venue within 1.5 hours. Bus number 5 from the airport will bring you to J P Nagar 6th phase. From there, you can take an auto to get to MLR Convention Centre. Alternatively, you can take a taxi (with registered services such as MERU, Easy Cabs and KSTDC) from the airport which will charge by the meter.
From Majestic
MLR Convention Centre is 11.6 kms away from the Majestic bus and railway station. BMTC AC and non-AC buses going towards Bannerghatta National Park and Arekere will bring you to Arekere junction. The Convention Centre is 1.5 kms from the main road on Arekere. You could also take an auto rickshaw or book a taxi (with Ola, Taxi for Sure and other services).