Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Category: JavaScript, Presentation
The slides are now up, and the podcast is forthcoming:
The group covered:
I hope that SXSW ramps up a little on the technical talks next year.
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I wish there was footnotes of the actual talk. The slides are obviously just visual aids for the talk.
tj111:
They’ll be releasing the audio of the talk as a podcast in a couple of weeks.
Regards
Quality over quantity. Not the other way around.
Wouldn’t hurt to talk about something *new* instead of something blogged or presented on before.
Am I the only one not impressed?
ibolmo:
SxSW isn’t the most…um…technical audience. John and the rest of us had a hard time trying to figure out what to cover, and eventually we decided to cover what was essentially common-ground amongst the toolkits, in part because the big “secrets” of JS development aren’t about any of the APis but rather the tradeoffs we all make when designing toolkits and frameworks. To that end, there was good discussion of those points which wasn’t captured in the slides.
Regards
Understandable. This quarter has been a wonderful/horrible experience with a professor of mine and his lectures on presentations so I seem to have vented some frustration on you guys. :D
I still think the professor makes a good point: if it’s not on the slides then it’s not a good point. In other words, perhaps less code and instead more good points should be on the slides. The subtle differences, like you mentioned, are sometimes the most important and the “real” secrets between frameworks. I know why, however, you guys don’t want to talk about the differences.
In all I might not have been impressed, but I never said it wasn’t good. For the target audience it would have sufficed.
I was there, it was a good presentation. I think the only downside was that we had all these talented people all in once place, but the presentation was only an hour. Same thing with the SXSW “browser wars” talk.
I agree that SXSW needs more technical presentations. I found many of them to be overly general, and then most the tech talks I wanted to go to were crammed into the last two days.
There’s a comparison of different javascript library syntaxes here:
http://ajax.wikispaces.com/functional_comparison
RobRobRob:
In the ready-room for the toolkits talk we all realized that *none* of the toolkit guys had gotten into the Browser Wars talk. Heh.