Douglas Crockford To Speak at the Yahoo! Widgets Conference on "JavaScript: The Good Parts"

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Douglas Crockford To Speak at the Yahoo! Widgets Conference on "JavaScript: The Good Parts"

May 29, 2007 at 9:08 am by Eric Miraglia | In Development |

The friendly folks at Konfabulator (the engine behind Yahoo! Widgets) are hosting their first ever Konfabulator Developer Day on Thursday, June 7, in Sunnyvale. See the Developer Day blog post on the Yahoo! Widgets Blog for more on this event and what will be covered.

Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford will be keynoting the conference with a talk entitled "JavaScript: The Good Parts." This brand-new presentation grows out of Douglas’s conviction that JavaScript is a muddle. Much of it is incredibly good; much of it is flawed. The standards bodies won’t fix JavaScript because they can only add to what’s there…they can’t remove the parts that are ill-conceived or harmful. Douglas advises that developers approach JavaScript the way Michaelangelo approached an unsculpted block of marble — that is, with an eye toward its intrinsic beauty. In this talk, he’ll try to guide you toward the intrinsic beauty of JavaScript.

The YUI Theater hopes to be there to record the talk, but if you’re a Yahoo! Widgets developer (or are interested in becoming one) and you’d like to hear Douglas’s latest thoughts about the language, this is a great opportunity to catch one of his lectures in person.

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“…this is a great opportunity to catch one of his lectures in person.”

Well, we do have two free round-trip continental tickets good ’til the end of June… woops sorry, we’re already scheduled for a trip to NYC the day after the speech.

I’m sure I’ll see it here in the theater when I get back though (assuming I make it out of NYC alive lol - I hear they’ve cleaned it up real nice since I was last there back in ‘88). The wife can’t get Sinatra’s song out of her head - a first timer…

btw: I hope you have the camera setup to capture the speaker and the screen in one shot, panning is kinda hokie IMO, but who am I? I can’t even figure out all the buttons on my new Sureshot and Lord knows I need to for NYC lol!

Comment by BillyG — May 29, 2007 #
@BillyG — No worries — we don’t pan, we splice! I don’t know of a great way to do it from a single camera angle without splicing unless there is nothing small on the screen. With tech videos, there’s almost always some code on the slides, and trying to do a fixed position for video and still get good enough rez on the code doesn’t work well. Have fun in NYC. -Eric

Comment by Eric Miraglia — May 29, 2007 #

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