Keynote: How to Survive 20 Years Developing Apps

In this talk, I will go through 20+ years of app dev covering everything I have learned in the process: What we are still doing wrong? What has improved? We will discuss what your focus should be and how to stop frustrating yourself (and your users)

Building something Sweet! Delicious treats from large scale mobile development.

Join Nathan to dive into how JavaScript helped deliver a fun and engaging mobile experience for Sweet. Gain insight into the mobile app’s setup and critical lessons learned in this large scale development.

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Lunch! 🍲

Webpack Performance Trickery

I’ll show you how in an 8 week period, we turned the CarGuru site’s performance around, and how we cut our build times from 20 minutes to 4. I’ll show off a set of plugins we wrote and webpack best practices that can make your apps scream.

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Afternoon Break! 🥤

Tale of Two Titans: Flutter and NativeScript

Discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of Flutter and NativeScript and how they approach the things differently to allow you to solve different problems with the right tool.

Building User Adaptive Interfaces

How can we make computers aware of how focused or tired a user is? Using a simple JavaScript library, we can tap into a wealth of information about users to radically change they way we present information to them.

Happy Hour Party! 🥳

Client-Side Data Storage

A deep dive into how browsers enable websites to store data for your users. This will include a look at the options, discussions of when to use what, and a look at libraries to make them easier to use.

How to Build Better Tutorials with Mixed Reality

We have evolved as humans to navigate a 3D world for millions of years. Yet, in the last 2000 years we are trying to represent our 3D world in 2D instructions. Abstracting 3D information on a 2D space has been the most efficient way to transfer knowledge and served us well. Today we are not limited by the technology anymore. In this talk, we will learn how to use Mixed Reality to create tutorials made for humans.

Lunch! 🍲

Embedding V8 in the Real World

In this session, we will cover various topics based on our experiences with the V8 engine - from GC synchronization, through implementing a multithreading model, up to practical advice for optimizing start up time.

JavaScript Mobile Testing and CI in the Cloud

Mobile application testing is crucial for today’s software development market, since almost every enterprise wants to develop and deliver first class mobile apps. In this session, I will show one of our approaches to transparent CI process in the cloud with zero local infrastructure, using popular services like Travis-CI, SauceLabs and GitHub.

Afternoon Break! 🥤

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Dark Patterns in UI — What NOT to Do to Your Users

In this talk I will go over some very obvious (and some not so obvious) patterns that are used to manipulate users. Understanding usability gives us a lot of power as web and mobile designers/developers.

What AR You Waiting For?

Let’s sit down together and look at the current state of augmented reality and explore an option that doesn’t require you to reverse a binary tree every 10 lines of code.

Lunch! 🍲

Alexa, Top Me Up!

Join me to learn how to build your own Alexa skill. We will build a chatbot that will help the customers of C-Mobile check their balance and top up their phones.

Automating Hockey Team Management with Serverless

I’m Canadian so it’s safe to assume that I love hockey and I do. For over 10 years now I’ve organized a weekly hockey game with my friends. There are a lot of repetitive manual tasks needed to manage the game. Join me on my journey to completely automate the process using Node.js and Serverless.

Afternoon Break! 🥤

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