NordicJS 2014
By Anders Olsen Sandvik on
So this is my write-up on the NordicJS conference.
I will update with all the slides and videos as soon as they are posted.
List of slides #
Day 1 #
Robert Nyman: "Keynote: Five Stages of Development"
Emily Rose: ["TBA"]
Sergi Mansilla: "The fourth dimension"
Leah Culver: "Dropbox APIs for JavaScript developers"
Jina Bolton: "Style Guide Driven UI Design"
Caroline Drucker: ["I'm a feminist and so can you!"]
Kim Joar Bekkelund: "Writing Beautiful JavaScript Tests"
Day 2 #
Ellen Sundh: ["Node.js physical interactions"]
Douglas Crockford: ["The Better Parts"]
Tiffany Conroy: "Lions and Tigers and Handling User Capabilities"
Reginald Braithwaite: "The Art of the JavaScript Metaobject Protocol"
Kassandra Perch: "Stop the Fanaticism!"
Hakim El Hattab: "Visual JavaScript Experiments"
Tom Dale: ["The Road to Web Components"]
Day 1 (September 18th 2014) #
We took some 🚢 (boats) to the conference.
På Cinderellabåt genom Baggensstäket. Trodde inte att det skulle gå faktiskt. #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/Z0THWjpXod
— Ann-Cathrin Näsström (@ankan_nasstrom) September 18, 2014Got a small cheese bread roll for breakfast on the boat.
Breakfast bags and coffee in place! Nordic.js day 2 is about to begin. #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/3KFrgY7fyD
— Stefan Hedman (@schteppe) September 19, 2014Very beautiful out here. #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/QQl9pdDgJy
— Denis Dervisevic (@iEchuu) September 19, 2014and the last nature in focus for this great convention location @nordicjs #NordicJS pic.twitter.com/sN324NIsCk
— Vinicius Dallacqua (@WebTwitr) September 19, 2014Lots of balloons 🎉🎈.
Well good morning sweden #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/7wqDL1Rdtx
— Graham Gilchrist (@grahamgilchrist) September 18, 2014Funny and entertaining host @pushmatrix.
He had lots of creative ways to annonce the next speakers and inform us.
Want to buy the shirt I’m wearing at #nordicjs? https://t.co/zKKHMuL3nA!There’s a discount code in your bag pic.twitter.com/6VkEfdSaV4
— Daniel Beauchamp (@pushmatrix) September 18, 2014If I ever succeed at throwing a conference, I'm hiring @pushmatrix to be the host. #nordicjs
— ₍˄ุ.͡˳̫.˄ุ₎ (@jina) September 19, 2014More scenic shots.
Beautiful out here at #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/r83vL5YVK9
— Teddy Zetterlund (@teddyzetterlund) September 18, 2014More balloons.
I'm totally having two awesome days at #nordicjs! The amount of balloons is just perfect! 👌 pic.twitter.com/iYm40QuqKN
— Lovisa Dahl (@indiefarmor) September 19, 2014Sweet stage!
Wow. Awesome venue and stage at #nordicjs! pic.twitter.com/iThI5h1pDV
— Peter Müller (@_munter_) September 18, 2014"Keynote: Five Stages of Development" #
Speaker: Robert Nyman
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Talk: Mostly talks about the Firefox developer tools.
Firefox Dev tools to debug all browsers (yeah well, we'll see about IE), both desktop and mobile. Awesome! #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/is6LYCG5Ap
— Carl Littke (@CarlLittke) September 18, 2014["TBA"] #
Speaker: Emily Rose
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Talk: She made a relative keytar or JavaScript Samchillian in Node.js. Most of the talk is with people playing it.
Okay, now @pushmatrix & @nexxylove are doing interpretative dance to the sound of a relative keytar! #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/B6OyTZz3I1
— Pop Bergqvist (@peppelorum) September 18, 2014"The fourth dimension" #
Speaker: Sergi Mansilla
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Talk: Functional reactive programming
“Programming should be more about the WHAT than about the HOW.” #nordicjs
— Andreas Eldh (@eldh) September 18, 2014#nordicjs reactive programming pic.twitter.com/DX8WHzabBE
— Sergej (@nonradioactive) September 18, 2014"Dropbox APIs for JavaScript developers" #
Speaker: Leah Culver
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Talk: She talked about the Dropbox API.
The Nordic.js scene is a sine wave heightfield.. #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/isocsYoGTb
— Stefan Hedman (@schteppe) September 18, 2014"Style Guide Driven UI Design" #
Speaker: Jina Bolton
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Theo
Talks: Basically style guides. Single source of truth. Theo
Nice talk about Style Guides by @jina today at #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/iaolkvKB5t
— Joakim Westerlund (@joakwest) September 18, 2014"Theo" styleguide theme generator from @jina talk at #Nordicjs pic.twitter.com/8Yl6Ev4QbK
— Filip Michałowski (@fmmm) September 18, 2014Theo: a theme token npm module. Sass, less, stylus, aura, etc. #nordicjs #styleguide #nodejs
— Emil Wall (@erif89) September 18, 2014["I'm a feminist and so can you!"] #
Speaker: Caroline Drucker
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Talks: Privilege and equality.
Excellent talk by Caroline Drucker on privilege and equality from a women-in-tech perspektive! @bougie #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/6YLqDH8JDU
— Johanna Gustafsson (@mittistormen) September 18, 2014Question company culture, or you'll miss out on diversity. @Bougie #nordicjs #techfeminism
— Emil Wall (@erif89) September 18, 2014"Writing Beautiful JavaScript Tests" #
Speaker: Kim Joar Bekkelund
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Talk: In my humble opinion this was todays best talk. It was about testing and lessons learned.
The most important thing that yours tests do is to fail. #nordicjs
— Jesper Petersson (@PeterssonJesper) September 18, 2014Make sure your tests FAILS when they are supposed to. @kimjoar #javascript #test #jasmine #nordicjs
— Kimpa Kofot (@ze7en) September 18, 2014Lightning talks #
Lightning talk 1 #
Talk: Beers.js
The beers.js framework from my lightning talk @nordicjs https://t.co/ovoMhOAVMj #nordicjs
— Otto Vehviläinen (@Mumakil) September 18, 2014Lightning talk 2 #
Talk:
Lightning talk 3 #
Talk: NaCl
Yay! @JohanObrink från @Iteam1337 pratar om NaCl. #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/TQoSTwEdQ4
— Martin Loman (@martinloman) September 18, 2014Lightning talk 4 #
Talk: @KidsHackDay
@paulobarcelos and @murilopolese from Oakwood are talking about their involvement in @KidsHackDay at #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/rjXE5z8LfT
— Oakwood Creative (@oakwoodcreative) September 18, 2014Lightning talk 5 #
Talk: RFID Thing
Festen! - Dinner and Party @ Trädgården
Best party ever!! #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/O4rAiPmMZC
— Ruben Teijeiro (@rteijeiro) September 18, 2014Day 2 #
Ready for day 2.
Great people at this great conference #NordicJS pic.twitter.com/uqn7SwnIen
— Vinicius Dallacqua (@WebTwitr) September 18, 2014["Node.js physical interactions"] #
Speaker: Ellen Sundh
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Talk: Arduino, Raspberry PI and a big robot claw.
Perfect start of day 2 at #nordicjs. @ellensundh shows how she built the largest claw machine w. raspberry pi & JS! pic.twitter.com/c7MEYMx42p
— Daniel Öhrlund (@rockdanne) September 19, 2014"I use JavaScript on the backend, the frontend and in the hardware." #nordicjs @ellensundh very cool embedded stuff!
— Steen H. Rasmussen (@steenhulthin) September 19, 2014@ellensundh going through hardware projects based on #nodejs #raspberrypi and #arduino at #nordicjs . Nice with actual code being shown :-)
— Emil Giljam (@eGiljam) September 19, 2014["The Better Parts"] #
Speaker: Douglas Crockford
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Talk: The better parts of ES6 according to Crockford
Douglas Crockford!! The Better Parts.#nordicjs pic.twitter.com/XY2Q3vDaag
— Lady Zahra (@ZeeJab) September 19, 2014ES6 gets proper tail calls. "JS will be a real functional language." - Douglas Crockford #nordicjs
— Steen H. Rasmussen (@steenhulthin) September 19, 2014#nordicjs For that person designing THE future language this is for you, with love from Crockford pic.twitter.com/NGgoYGuLEx
— Geries Handal (@gtothesquare) September 19, 2014The key take away from Douglas Crockfords talk: realising and admitting that you are wrong is how you progress. #nordicjs
— Henrik Hansson (@hagerhink) September 19, 2014["Lions and Tigers and Handling User Capabilities"] #
Speaker: Tiffany Conroy
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Talk: User capabilities with good UX.
"If you want to learn something, do a talk about it. You will learn so much!" ~@theophani #nordicjs
— Kristofer Palmvik (@KPalmvik) September 19, 2014["The Art of the JavaScript Metaobject Protocol"] #
Speaker: Reginald Braithwaite
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Talk: Controll your state.
.@raganwald on stage at #nordicjs https://t.co/Ye2kntljJu pic.twitter.com/2g3ZHMHAM2
— Nordic.js (@nordicjs) September 19, 2014Very interesting idea: 'double' versioning of software. one version number for the interface and one for the impl. @raganwald #nordicjs
— Steen H. Rasmussen (@steenhulthin) September 19, 2014["Stop the Fanaticism!"] #
Speaker: Kassandra Perch
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Talk: Have an open mind about tools or frameworks and don't hate.
Spot on talk by @nodebotanist regarding fw-hate. It’s a hot topic during the breaks at #nordicjs. Use the right tool for the right purpose.
— Patrik Wibron (@wibron) September 19, 2014Best talk yet by @kassandra_perch / @nodebotanist, bashing Crockford's fanatism totally! #nordicjs
— Martin Kurtsson (@mkson) September 19, 2014.@nodebotanist is really delivering! Awesome talk about having an open mind about tools or frameworks that you may not like #nordicjs
— Elin Nilsson (@hejelinnilsson) September 19, 2014["Visual JavaScript Experiments"] #
Speaker: Hakim El Hattab
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Talk: Cool inspiring canvas demos and Slides.
Cool and inspiring HTML/JS canvas demos by @hakimel at #nordicjs
— Kristofer Palmvik (@KPalmvik) September 19, 2014“You need a box to think outside of the box” - @hakimel at #nordicjs
— Plamen Todorov (@pltod) September 19, 2014Hakim taking us on a tour of some magical beautiful fun projects. Feeling excited about code :) @hakimel #nordicjs #passion
— Emma Rose Metcalfe (@erm___) September 19, 2014["The Road to Web Components"] #
Speaker: Tom Dale
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Talk: Web components and live coding!
Lightning talk 6 #
Talk:
Lightning talk 7 #
Talk:
Lightning talk 8 #
Talk: Acid Rain
Lightning talk 9 #
Talk: Node.JS and Raspberry Pi.
Lightning talk 10 #
Talk: GooTech
A tech heavy conference where half of the headliners are #womenintech. Fantastic work, #nordicjs!
— Carl-Erik Kopseng (@kopseng) September 19, 2014Yeah and there was lots of Fika.
Fika #NordicJS pic.twitter.com/QCYCf3SALk
— Anders Olsen Sandvik (@Andersos) September 19, 2014Thanks for the conference!