Aaron Newton

Presentations

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.

Choosing Between Two Great JavaScript Frameworks: jQuery and MooTools Compared

For individuals new to JavaScript and the numerous frameworks available, choosing one can be daunting. jQuery adoption has quickly taken off over the past two years or so and it continues to attract new users of the framework. MooTools has been around for roughly the same amount of time but presents a steeper learning curve.

This talk aims to focus on just these two frameworks (there are certainly other excellent libraries to consider beyond these two) and compare their functionality and design principals in depth. For anyone who is curious about either, or who has dedicated a lot of time to one or the other but is curious to see how things work in an alternative, this presentation should give some perspective into what makes each framework similar, different, and compelling.

An Introduction to MooTools 2.0

MooTools is a fully featured JavaScript Development Framework. This session is a high-level introduction for users who are curious about the framework or who are new to it.

The talk will cover the functionality found in the entire core framework including native object enhancements (Arrays, Functions, etc), the framework's inheritance model and development patterns, as well as plugins and functionality such as effects, AJAX, and other features.