Speakers

Stop eating glue …with micro-frontends for multi-team scale

We’ve been gluing so many layers in our mono-frontend builds, that when you’re asked to integrate with the functionality of other teams (maybe acquired companies) you might feel stuck! “They have totally different libs and frameworks” you cry! “We don’t want to end up eating their paste!” …Well relax! Pull the popsicle sticks off your elbows and hear this story of how micro-frontends, web components and other ingredients can help you make new unified platforms for huge multi-team scale.

Perfecting Your Most-Used Tool

You use it almost every hour every day, but have you ever really taken much notice of your keyboard? It might not seem like much, but using the perfect keyboard can make every day just that little bit nicer, and even help prevent common injuries. In this session we'll cover how you can design and build your very own mechanical keyboard. From choosing your parts to programming your unique layout, we'll see what makes it such a fun and rewarding project. You deserve it!

Making Games with Electron

In the talk Making Games With Electron, Inga will walk you through the process of developing your first game using most popular technologies. Starting with flow diagram, making your way through frontend-backend communication and all the way to testing with Jest. The technologies we will touch upon:

• Electron
• Node.js
• TDD with Jest

But most importantly - you will see how to transform your vague idea into a solid plan of the game you can make on your own.

Building a cross browser extension with JS

WebExtensions API are the future of browser extension. With this API, Developers can write extensions that can work in almost all browsers. Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JS is enough to write an extension of your own. In this session, I will walk you through the anatomy of WebExtensions, how to create your first web extension, introducing various API’s like Context Menu, tabs, Alarm & notification API. Finally on how to run and debug the extension.

Your web page never listens to me

Siri, Alexa, Cortana and “Hey Google” - the big companies are all building services that can talk to us, and that we can talk back to. These are great for setting timers, adding reminders, playing a song, but compared to the sheer amount of information and interaction available to us on the web, they’re quite limited.

Have you wanted to include speech driven interfaces in the pages or apps you build? Did you know there are well supported web standards for teaching your page to talk? And there are emerging standards for the harder job of teaching your app to listen?

Let’s explore the possibilities of combining voice with the natural strengths of the web platform, see how speech driven interfaces can help us move to a more accessible and inclusive web.

Build Your Own Compiler

"Compilers" are usually-mysterious things that a lot of us actually use and rely on from day to day, eg. the JavaScript V8 engine+compiler (that Node.js and Google Chrome use to run JavaScript), or the TypeScript compiler. Some parts of compilers can appear in other tools too, such as linters and code formatters.

Digging into how these work can be satisfying in of itself, like sleuthing a good puzzle, but some of the ways we implement them can appear in other forms, such as when validating user input or writing a wrapper library.

This session will be kicked off by a quick talk that introduces the main parts of a compiler, followed by a "Stream Adventure"-style guided workshop through building a little compiler of your own

Demystifying UI Animations with Vue.js

This talk showcases examples of different types of animation across the web, from simple button color changes to whimsical character-driven login screens. It will clarify the role and significance of animation in the user experience. And show how to build them in Vue.js via a series of CodePens inspired by "Good to great UI animation tips" by Pablo Stanley.

Don’t Quit Your Day Job: Secrets to Running a Business in Your Spare Time

Do you like to build things? Of course you're a developer. Would you like a side hustle? Is the idea of starting up little businesses on the side appealing? Maybe a store selling tech tee shirts or posters. Have you identified a niche in the market that you could fulfil?

When you have a side hustle you have full control. So by having full control over this thing you can experiment and try different things that you wouldn't be able to do in your nine to five.

I've recently started working as a Launch Engineer for Shopify and want to show you how easy it is to set up your own online store. As a developer you can create a custom API that connects to the fulfilment centre and to your store.

Come along with an idea and find out and make your own store. Yes, You Can Be an Entrepreneur With a Day Job.

Stop hating retrospectives

Stay in one place long enough and you'll see problems that recur. Introducing: institutional memory, retrospectives, and the magical art of writing things down and remembering to read them again.

CampJS Game Jam

CampJS IX coincides with Ludum Dare 42 so why not hack on a game at CampJS?

Lilly and Nathan will get you started making a game using Phaser.js and introduce you to a few handy tools for creating graphics, levels, and sound effects.

You'll also be let in on a few tips from their years of experience with making games at hackathons.

WebAssembly 101

An introduction WASM using the Rust programming language and tools to show off the possibilities of using WASM in the browser. This workshop will go through the basics of what WASM is and how it fits into the browser and will end with creating a useful foundation for creating wasm projects with a toolchain that is easy to use.

JavaScript can do anything, and so can you …but should you?

JavaScript programming - a path to enlightenment, or a highway to hell?

In this talk we examine the deepest existential nature of programming and being a programmer.

Lessons and perspective gained from 35 years of coding. More questions than answers. Something for everyone.