fronteers 2015
09:00 – 09:50Delivering Responsibly - Scott Jehl
- critical css
- http2 solves some issues but not all
- fontfaceobservers → font-swap
09:50 – 10:40Digital Governance - Lisa Welchman
- Group size - Resource proximity
- Clearer Guidance required in bigger teams
- Stop running your 100 person team like a jazz trio
- Effective scaling operates from standards
- frameworks
- who is working on your website
- establish vision and who establishes it
- must dos & must not dos
- who decide nature of what you are making
- teams
- core team (make the rules)
- distributed team (following & asking about rules)
- working groups & committees (bridges)
- extended team (impact)
10:40 – 11:10Break
11:10 – 12:00 Lightning Fast Sass - Chris Eppstein
- libsass 98% features
- eyeglass.rocks
12:00 – 12:50Walking the Tightrope Between Mediocrity and Bankruptcy - Primate
12:50 – 13:50Lunch break
13:50 – 14:40jsmpeg: Why a JavaScript Video Decoder Actually Makes Sense - Dominic Szablewski
- jsmpeg → play mpeg1 movies in JavaScript with full browser supprrt in 14kbs
14:40 – 15:30Front-end Style Guides - Anna Debenham
- about Style guide types
- element inventory
- style tile (design snippets)
- element collages (large canvas collage)
- style prototype
- CSS guidelines
- pattern primer
- Pattern lab → generate style guide
- Starbucks open source
15:30 – 16:00Break
16:00 – 16:50What is the Business Case for Accessibility? - Alice Bartlett
- Accessibility widens audience → more revenue
- tenon.io
- wave accessibility
16:50 – 17:40Modern Progressive Enhancement - Jake Archibald
- Service workers
- Backgroundsync
18:00 – 01:00Fronteers 2015 party at Grand Café Ovidius. We pick up the tab!
Friday 9th October08:50 – 09:00Opening words by Bruce Lawson09:00 – 09:50
Static Sites Go All Hollywood - Phil Hawksworth09:50 – 10:40
- fewer vulnerabilities
- portability
- Jekyll goro
- hipster tax
- source content on buildtime instead of runtime
- cms aas (contentful roots)
- netlify
- put distance between user and complexity
Modern Workflow + Tooling for Front-end Developers - Wes Bos
- gulp-imagemin
10:40 – 11:10Break
11:10 – 12:00An Introduction to Open Data - Sally Jenkinson
- 7 Open data is not necessarily free
- rdfs → link data
So you’ve got things like the 2013 McKinsey and Company report which estimated that open data could generate $3 trillion in additional value per year across seven different sectors.
12:00 – 12:50Freedom Can Be Designed - Rejo Zenger
- Bits of freedom
- Dont ask data you dont need
- Encrypt everything
12:50 – 13:50Lunch break13:50 – 14:40Hands-On Web Audio - Soledad Penadés
- audio context runs in separate thread and processes scheduled events
- github.com/sole/howa
14:40 – 15:30But What About Old Browsers?!? -Rachel Andrew
- Flexbox
15:30 – 16:00Break
16:00 – 16:50The Art of Debugging - Remy Sharp
- passieve state
- interactive state
- screenshots visual debugging
16:50 – 17:40Of Gaps, Fillers and Empty Spaces… -Christian Heilmann17:40 – 18:00Closing words