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Programming to Patterns
The JavaScript frameworks make it increasingly easy to write highly expressive and concise functionality that enhances an HTML component, but the power of JavaScript's somewhat hidden inheritance model shouldn't be lost in that power. As programmers gain greater control over user experience design, it's more important than ever to write functionality that is reusable, scalable, and as cheap to maintain as possible without affecting performance. Architecting nearly everything you author into objects that can be extended and reused presents a lot of benefits. T
The speakers (Aaron Newton of MooTools and Dylan Schiemann of Dojo) will each tackle the same problem with code examples in MooTools and Dojo to illustrate the concept.
About Aaron Newton
Aaron Newton is a product manager, developer, interface designer, and writer. He is a contributor to the MooTools Javascript framework - where he writes code, the documentation, free online tutorials and the first Mootools book published by Apress. His experience includes founding music startup, Epitonic.com, launching CNET's Download.com Music, and several years product managing application development for various projects at CNET Networks. He is currently the lead User Experience at Cloudera in San Francisco, CA.
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Dylan Schiemann is CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, an open source JavaScript toolkit for rapidly building web sites and applications, and is an expert in the technologies and opportunities of the Open Web. Under his guidance, SitePen has grown from a small development firm to a leading provider of inventive tools, skilled software engineers, knowledgeable consulting services, and top-notch training and advice. Dylan is a contributing author to the O'Reilly book "Even Fast Web Sites". Dylan's commitment to R&D has enabled SitePen to be a major contributor to or creator of pioneering open source web
development toolkits and frameworks like Dojo, cometD, DWR, and Persevere. Prior to SitePen, Dylan developed web applications for companies like Renkoo, Informatica, Security FrameWorks and Vizional Technologies. He is a co-founder of Comet Daily, LLC, a board member at Dojo Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board at Aptana. Dylan
earned his Masters in Physical Chemistry from UCLA and his B.A. in Mathematics from Whittier College.
