Web Rebels Conference kontor@webrebels.org https://webrebels.23video.com en-us Visualplatform http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Rebels Conference episodic no http://webrebels.23video.com/bittorrent-streams-and-javascript-by <p>A deep dive into the world of peer to peer. What if you could stream the contents of a torrent? What if these streams were real-time and data was fetched based on demand? What if you could play around with these streams in JavaScript? This talk will be about answering these questions - expect mad science.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/bittorrent-streams-and-javascript-by"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930401/dd7dce276713377162a27c8731e0c4c8/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930401 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:02:30 GMT Bittorrent, Streams and JavaScript by Mathias Buus Madsen A deep dive into the world of peer to peer. What if you could stream the contents of a torrent? What if these streams were real-time and data was fetched based on demand? What if you could play around with these streams in JavaScript? This talk will be about answering these questions - expect mad science. A deep dive into the world of peer to peer. What if you could stream the contents of a torrent? What if these streams were real-time and data was fetched based on demand? What if you could play around with these streams in JavaScript? This talk... Web Rebels Conference 32:15 <p>A deep dive into the world of peer to peer. What if you could stream the contents of a torrent? What if these streams were real-time and data was fetched based on demand? What if you could play around with these streams in JavaScript? This talk will be about answering these questions - expect mad science.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/bittorrent-streams-and-javascript-by"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930401/dd7dce276713377162a27c8731e0c4c8/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> bittorrent webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/the-lebron-stack-its-a-slam-dunk-by-max <p>Named after the best basketball player in the NBA, the&nbsp;<a href="http://lebron.technology/">LEBRON</a>&nbsp;(<a href="http://leveldb.org/">LEveldb</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://browserify.org/">BROwserify</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npmjs.org/">Npm</a><span>) stack is a group of technologies that have arisen out of the Node community that are useful for building all types of applications with JavaScript. npm let's you share small JavaScript modules, Browserify makes them work in web browsers, and LevelDB is a database that works on the server and the client that currently has over 200 plugins/modules on npm. This talk will talk about what these technologies are good for and why they are getting so popular.<br><br></span></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/the-lebron-stack-its-a-slam-dunk-by-max"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930699/20a643f0965fece21f7f001a73768ea4/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930699 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 09:01:57 GMT The LEBRON Stack: It's a Slam Dunk by Max Ogden Named after the best basketball player in the NBA, theLEBRON(LEveldb,BROwserify,Npm) stack is a group of technologies that have arisen out of the Node community that are useful for building all types of applications with JavaScript. npm let's you share small JavaScript modules, Browserify makes them work in web browsers, and LevelDB is a database that works on the server and the client that currently has over 200 plugins/modules on npm. This talk will talk about what these technologies are good for and why they are getting so popular. Named after the best basketball player in the NBA, theLEBRON(LEveldb,BROwserify,Npm) stack is a group of technologies that have arisen out of the Node community that are useful for building all types of applications with JavaScript. npm let's you... Web Rebels Conference 52:37 <p>Named after the best basketball player in the NBA, the&nbsp;<a href="http://lebron.technology/">LEBRON</a>&nbsp;(<a href="http://leveldb.org/">LEveldb</a>,&nbsp;<a href="http://browserify.org/">BROwserify</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npmjs.org/">Npm</a><span>) stack is a group of technologies that have arisen out of the Node community that are useful for building all types of applications with JavaScript. npm let's you share small JavaScript modules, Browserify makes them work in web browsers, and LevelDB is a database that works on the server and the client that currently has over 200 plugins/modules on npm. This talk will talk about what these technologies are good for and why they are getting so popular.<br><br></span></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/the-lebron-stack-its-a-slam-dunk-by-max"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930699/20a643f0965fece21f7f001a73768ea4/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/ndarray-modular-multidimensional-arrays <p>Multidimensional arrays are a fundamental data type, with diverse applications in geometry, graphics, vision, DSP, machine learning, scientific computing and much more. Many of these tasks are also interesting for web applications, but exploration here is hampered by the lack of efficient multidimensional array in JavaScript. ndarrays solve this problem by introducing a simple data structure for manipulating slices of higher dimensional data. This talk will cover how ndarrays work, and give an overview of the growing modular ecosystem around ndarrays</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/ndarray-modular-multidimensional-arrays"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930430/a359cdebd7676492c5e64f579b29faf7/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930430 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:37:27 GMT ndarray: Modular multidimensional arrays for JavaScript by Mikola Lysenko Multidimensional arrays are a fundamental data type, with diverse applications in geometry, graphics, vision, DSP, machine learning, scientific computing and much more. Many of these tasks are also interesting for web applications, but exploration here is hampered by the lack of efficient multidimensional array in JavaScript. ndarrays solve this problem by introducing a simple data structure for manipulating slices of higher dimensional data. This talk will cover how ndarrays work, and give an overview of the growing modular ecosystem around ndarrays Multidimensional arrays are a fundamental data type, with diverse applications in geometry, graphics, vision, DSP, machine learning, scientific computing and much more. Many of these tasks are also interesting for web applications, but exploration... Web Rebels Conference 34:56 <p>Multidimensional arrays are a fundamental data type, with diverse applications in geometry, graphics, vision, DSP, machine learning, scientific computing and much more. Many of these tasks are also interesting for web applications, but exploration here is hampered by the lack of efficient multidimensional array in JavaScript. ndarrays solve this problem by introducing a simple data structure for manipulating slices of higher dimensional data. This talk will cover how ndarrays work, and give an overview of the growing modular ecosystem around ndarrays</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/ndarray-modular-multidimensional-arrays"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930430/a359cdebd7676492c5e64f579b29faf7/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/transforming-websockets-by-arnout <p><p>The WebSocket draft got implemented by browsers in February 2010, that’s 4 years ago. It must surely be ready for production now, right?</p><p>You implement it and spend the following months in pain: debugging dropped connections, full browser crashes, failed connections, rewriting your app to a framework only to figure out that it leaks memory and DDOSs your server so you can do a rewrite of your rewrite. But real-time doesn’t have to be this way. In this talk I will introduce the state of WebSockets and how you can use Primus fix this.</p></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/transforming-websockets-by-arnout"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930386/361d71079d68a5963007808b1096dea7/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930386 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:30:57 GMT Transforming WebSockets by Arnout Kazemier The WebSocket draft got implemented by browsers in February 2010, that’s 4 years ago. It must surely be ready for production now, right?You implement it and spend the following months in pain: debugging dropped connections, full browser crashes, failed connections, rewriting your app to a framework only to figure out that it leaks memory and DDOSs your server so you can do a rewrite of your rewrite. But real-time doesn’t have to be this way. In this talk I will introduce the state of WebSockets and how you can use Primus fix this. The WebSocket draft got implemented by browsers in February 2010, that’s 4 years ago. It must surely be ready for production now, right?You implement it and spend the following months in pain: debugging dropped connections, full browser crashes,... Web Rebels Conference 37:34 <p><p>The WebSocket draft got implemented by browsers in February 2010, that’s 4 years ago. It must surely be ready for production now, right?</p><p>You implement it and spend the following months in pain: debugging dropped connections, full browser crashes, failed connections, rewriting your app to a framework only to figure out that it leaks memory and DDOSs your server so you can do a rewrite of your rewrite. But real-time doesn’t have to be this way. In this talk I will introduce the state of WebSockets and how you can use Primus fix this.</p></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/transforming-websockets-by-arnout"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930386/361d71079d68a5963007808b1096dea7/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> webrebels websockets http://webrebels.23video.com/stop-being-perfect-by-angus-croll <p>As JavaScript developers we obsess about doing things the right way. Drawing from copious examples I'll attempt to show that there's no right or wrong, that dogma is your enemy and conventional wisdom is no match for self-discovery.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/stop-being-perfect-by-angus-croll"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930209/1c3c4f0ddb4e32645776ec3796fa3ea1/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930209 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:30:24 GMT Stop being Perfect by Angus Croll As JavaScript developers we obsess about doing things the right way. Drawing from copious examples I'll attempt to show that there's no right or wrong, that dogma is your enemy and conventional wisdom is no match for self-discovery. As JavaScript developers we obsess about doing things the right way. Drawing from copious examples I'll attempt to show that there's no right or wrong, that dogma is your enemy and conventional wisdom is no match for self-discovery. Web Rebels Conference 28:55 <p>As JavaScript developers we obsess about doing things the right way. Drawing from copious examples I'll attempt to show that there's no right or wrong, that dogma is your enemy and conventional wisdom is no match for self-discovery.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/stop-being-perfect-by-angus-croll"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930209/1c3c4f0ddb4e32645776ec3796fa3ea1/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/git-it-share-it-by-jessica-lord <p>Share what you know and roll a terminal app with the workshopper module. This talk will focus on the Git-it module, how it uses workshopper to build an app for non-coders, adds an interactive real-time server side bot with Node.js and the GitHub API, and creates GitHub Pages hosted site for much win. Git-it is used at NodeSchool events and GitHub Patchwork nights and teaches Git and GitHub fundamentals to beginners.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/git-it-share-it-by-jessica-lord"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930277/259af63a2c91986e505c9d23aebe292c/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930277 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:40:33 GMT Git-it, Share it by Jessica Lord Share what you know and roll a terminal app with the workshopper module. This talk will focus on the Git-it module, how it uses workshopper to build an app for non-coders, adds an interactive real-time server side bot with Node.js and the GitHub API, and creates GitHub Pages hosted site for much win. Git-it is used at NodeSchool events and GitHub Patchwork nights and teaches Git and GitHub fundamentals to beginners. Share what you know and roll a terminal app with the workshopper module. This talk will focus on the Git-it module, how it uses workshopper to build an app for non-coders, adds an interactive real-time server side bot with Node.js and the GitHub... Web Rebels Conference 28:09 <p>Share what you know and roll a terminal app with the workshopper module. This talk will focus on the Git-it module, how it uses workshopper to build an app for non-coders, adds an interactive real-time server side bot with Node.js and the GitHub API, and creates GitHub Pages hosted site for much win. Git-it is used at NodeSchool events and GitHub Patchwork nights and teaches Git and GitHub fundamentals to beginners.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/git-it-share-it-by-jessica-lord"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930277/259af63a2c91986e505c9d23aebe292c/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> github webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/not-mobile-unfriendly-ui-components-with <p><p>React is a fairly new UI library for JavaScript. Yes, there’s literally a ton of those around, but React is a product of out-of-the-box thinking and does things a bit differently than most of the others.</p><p>All the cool people are using React these days, so let’s jump on that bandwagon and add some more buzzwords (mobile! Topcoat!) for good measure. This talk will give you a quick introduction to what React can do and show you how to write simple components, and we'll take a quick look at how you can make sure your components don’t crash and burn on mobile.</p></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/not-mobile-unfriendly-ui-components-with"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930412/846f3077bdc5bfe28b7d1aa9bbe0aa65/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930412 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:40:18 GMT Not Mobile-Unfriendly UI Components With React by Arne Martin Aurlien React is a fairly new UI library for JavaScript. Yes, there’s literally a ton of those around, but React is a product of out-of-the-box thinking and does things a bit differently than most of the others.All the cool people are using React these days, so let’s jump on that bandwagon and add some more buzzwords (mobile! Topcoat!) for good measure. This talk will give you a quick introduction to what React can do and show you how to write simple components, and we'll take a quick look at how you can make sure your components don’t crash and burn on mobile. React is a fairly new UI library for JavaScript. Yes, there’s literally a ton of those around, but React is a product of out-of-the-box thinking and does things a bit differently than most of the others.All the cool people are using React these... Web Rebels Conference 34:27 <p><p>React is a fairly new UI library for JavaScript. Yes, there’s literally a ton of those around, but React is a product of out-of-the-box thinking and does things a bit differently than most of the others.</p><p>All the cool people are using React these days, so let’s jump on that bandwagon and add some more buzzwords (mobile! Topcoat!) for good measure. This talk will give you a quick introduction to what React can do and show you how to write simple components, and we'll take a quick look at how you can make sure your components don’t crash and burn on mobile.</p></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/not-mobile-unfriendly-ui-components-with"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930412/846f3077bdc5bfe28b7d1aa9bbe0aa65/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> reactjs webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/got-tls-an-overview-of-why-you-need-it <p>Today more than ever, https support is a requirement if you care about your users' security and privacy. This talk will overview real threats to web applications served over HTTP, what TLS protects against (and doesn't), and some common implementation myths and gotchas.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/got-tls-an-overview-of-why-you-need-it"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930527/be24e24afa9baa7a279b31b0d155af9f/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930527 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 09:40:00 GMT Got TLS? An overview of why you need it and how to do it right by Parisa Tabriz Today more than ever, https support is a requirement if you care about your users' security and privacy. This talk will overview real threats to web applications served over HTTP, what TLS protects against (and doesn't), and some common implementation myths and gotchas. Today more than ever, https support is a requirement if you care about your users' security and privacy. This talk will overview real threats to web applications served over HTTP, what TLS protects against (and doesn't), and some common... Web Rebels Conference 44:37 <p>Today more than ever, https support is a requirement if you care about your users' security and privacy. This talk will overview real threats to web applications served over HTTP, what TLS protects against (and doesn't), and some common implementation myths and gotchas.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/got-tls-an-overview-of-why-you-need-it"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930527/be24e24afa9baa7a279b31b0d155af9f/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> security webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/rebel-and-evolve-moving-beyond <p><p>I don't want a web where I move a pointer around the screen for the rest of my life.</p><p>In 25 years the web has gone from a small collection of scholarly articles to a rich and diverse soup of information, games, leisure, and work. From accessing it with what pretty much amounted to electric typewriters, we now use a myriad of vastly different devices. Yet we still channel almost all interaction into a point-and-click analogue.</p><p>Responsive design has taken care of the many screen sizes, and progressive enhancement address the differing capabilities. I want to talk about the next step: All the wonderful ways in which it is becoming possible to play, talk, and move our way around the web. And how we, the people who in some small but significant ways decide what the web is, can embrace and exploit these possibilities.</p></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/rebel-and-evolve-moving-beyond"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930300/668940f5db67974949d808c1389b2077/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930300 Fri, 27 Jun 2014 07:20:09 GMT Rebel and Evolve: Moving beyond point-and-click by Anette Bergo I don't want a web where I move a pointer around the screen for the rest of my life.In 25 years the web has gone from a small collection of scholarly articles to a rich and diverse soup of information, games, leisure, and work. From accessing it with what pretty much amounted to electric typewriters, we now use a myriad of vastly different devices. Yet we still channel almost all interaction into a point-and-click analogue.Responsive design has taken care of the many screen sizes, and progressive enhancement address the differing capabilities. I want to talk about the next step: All the wonderful ways in which it is becoming possible to play, talk, and move our way around the web. And how we, the people who in some small but significant ways decide what the web is, can embrace and exploit these possibilities. I don't want a web where I move a pointer around the screen for the rest of my life.In 25 years the web has gone from a small collection of scholarly articles to a rich and diverse soup of information, games, leisure, and work. From accessing it... Web Rebels Conference 25:56 <p><p>I don't want a web where I move a pointer around the screen for the rest of my life.</p><p>In 25 years the web has gone from a small collection of scholarly articles to a rich and diverse soup of information, games, leisure, and work. From accessing it with what pretty much amounted to electric typewriters, we now use a myriad of vastly different devices. Yet we still channel almost all interaction into a point-and-click analogue.</p><p>Responsive design has taken care of the many screen sizes, and progressive enhancement address the differing capabilities. I want to talk about the next step: All the wonderful ways in which it is becoming possible to play, talk, and move our way around the web. And how we, the people who in some small but significant ways decide what the web is, can embrace and exploit these possibilities.</p></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/rebel-and-evolve-moving-beyond"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930300/668940f5db67974949d808c1389b2077/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/-processenvnode_env-production-for-all <p>A tale on building stable node.js services with a focus on performance. We will discuss what we learned over the years running node in production, and what tools and processes we use to help customers with large production node.js services find bottlenecks in their applications. Bullet proof!</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/-processenvnode_env-production-for-all"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930351/bcfbab3318a929076f1e7719fb7aa5d9/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930351 Fri, 27 Jun 2014 07:19:56 GMT # process.env.NODE_ENV === 'PRODUCTION' for all your 'webscale' apps! by Nuno... A tale on building stable node.js services with a focus on performance. We will discuss what we learned over the years running node in production, and what tools and processes we use to help customers with large production node.js services find bottlenecks in their applications. Bullet proof! A tale on building stable node.js services with a focus on performance. We will discuss what we learned over the years running node in production, and what tools and processes we use to help customers with large production node.js services find... Web Rebels Conference 30:12 <p>A tale on building stable node.js services with a focus on performance. We will discuss what we learned over the years running node in production, and what tools and processes we use to help customers with large production node.js services find bottlenecks in their applications. Bullet proof!</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/-processenvnode_env-production-for-all"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930351/bcfbab3318a929076f1e7719fb7aa5d9/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> nodejs webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/crooked-mirrors-of-performance-by <p>This is a fairy tale of programmer traveling through the strange land of microbenchmarks. Are they reflecting the truth, lies or maybe something in between? We will shatter the illusions and look behind their surface to reveal the fundamental truth: it's easier to spot a bad microbenchmark, than write a good one.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/crooked-mirrors-of-performance-by"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930442/eddbc90a40361ed94a285ee0d882b750/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930442 Fri, 27 Jun 2014 07:19:45 GMT Crooked Mirrors of Performance by Vyacheslav '@mraleph' Egorov This is a fairy tale of programmer traveling through the strange land of microbenchmarks. Are they reflecting the truth, lies or maybe something in between? We will shatter the illusions and look behind their surface to reveal the fundamental truth: it's easier to spot a bad microbenchmark, than write a good one. This is a fairy tale of programmer traveling through the strange land of microbenchmarks. Are they reflecting the truth, lies or maybe something in between? We will shatter the illusions and look behind their surface to reveal the fundamental... Web Rebels Conference 26:53 <p>This is a fairy tale of programmer traveling through the strange land of microbenchmarks. Are they reflecting the truth, lies or maybe something in between? We will shatter the illusions and look behind their surface to reveal the fundamental truth: it's easier to spot a bad microbenchmark, than write a good one.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/crooked-mirrors-of-performance-by"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930442/eddbc90a40361ed94a285ee0d882b750/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> performance webperf webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/getting-touchy-an-introduction-to <p>Beyond smartphones and tablets, touchscreens are finding their way into laptops and even desktop computers. With hardware support for touch becoming increasingly ubiquitous, it's time to explore what new possibilities are available to developers. This session will cover the basics of handling touch events - from making sure simple single-tap interactions are as responsive as possible, all the way to examples of full multitouch, gesture-enabled elements.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/getting-touchy-an-introduction-to"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930340/0eb03cac30bfa701d3ee6da196058c4d/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930340 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:54:24 GMT Getting touchy - an introduction to touch and pointer events by Patrick H. Lauke Beyond smartphones and tablets, touchscreens are finding their way into laptops and even desktop computers. With hardware support for touch becoming increasingly ubiquitous, it's time to explore what new possibilities are available to developers. This session will cover the basics of handling touch events - from making sure simple single-tap interactions are as responsive as possible, all the way to examples of full multitouch, gesture-enabled elements. Beyond smartphones and tablets, touchscreens are finding their way into laptops and even desktop computers. With hardware support for touch becoming increasingly ubiquitous, it's time to explore what new possibilities are available to developers.... Web Rebels Conference 01:09:00 <p>Beyond smartphones and tablets, touchscreens are finding their way into laptops and even desktop computers. With hardware support for touch becoming increasingly ubiquitous, it's time to explore what new possibilities are available to developers. This session will cover the basics of handling touch events - from making sure simple single-tap interactions are as responsive as possible, all the way to examples of full multitouch, gesture-enabled elements.</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/getting-touchy-an-introduction-to"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930340/0eb03cac30bfa701d3ee6da196058c4d/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/geography-for-web-mapping-the-good-the <p><p>Good news, you no longer need a graduate degree in GIS and cartography to make maps. But is only very recently that maps have moved from hand drawn to digitized on the web. There are so many high quality open source tools for mapping and working with geographic data, which do you choose and how do they work?</p><p>The history of cartography has left odd fingerprints all over the tools available for web mapping, and working with geodata can be challenging without an understanding of the implicit assumptions of mapping.</p><p>What's the difference between GIS and web mapping? How do I convert my data into something useful? What’s web mercator? KML? GeoJSON? Tiles? Like for bathrooms? Lat, Lon or Lon, Lat?</p><p>I'll offer insight into the common questions we encounter at Maptime SF, and some of the tools we teach including Leaflet.js, Mapbox.js, and Tilemill.</p></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/geography-for-web-mapping-the-good-the"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930511/cbec9d68d5ccff1f2867841bf26bb80f/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930511 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:53:58 GMT Geography for Web Mapping: the Good, the Bad, and the Stuff You Can Forget by... Good news, you no longer need a graduate degree in GIS and cartography to make maps. But is only very recently that maps have moved from hand drawn to digitized on the web. There are so many high quality open source tools for mapping and working with geographic data, which do you choose and how do they work?The history of cartography has left odd fingerprints all over the tools available for web mapping, and working with geodata can be challenging without an understanding of the implicit assumptions of mapping.What's the difference between GIS and web mapping? How do I convert my data into something useful? What’s web mercator? KML? GeoJSON? Tiles? Like for bathrooms? Lat, Lon or Lon, Lat?I'll offer insight into the common questions we encounter at Maptime SF, and some of the tools we teach including Leaflet.js, Mapbox.js, and Tilemill. Good news, you no longer need a graduate degree in GIS and cartography to make maps. But is only very recently that maps have moved from hand drawn to digitized on the web. There are so many high quality open source tools for mapping and working... Web Rebels Conference 31:28 <p><p>Good news, you no longer need a graduate degree in GIS and cartography to make maps. But is only very recently that maps have moved from hand drawn to digitized on the web. There are so many high quality open source tools for mapping and working with geographic data, which do you choose and how do they work?</p><p>The history of cartography has left odd fingerprints all over the tools available for web mapping, and working with geodata can be challenging without an understanding of the implicit assumptions of mapping.</p><p>What's the difference between GIS and web mapping? How do I convert my data into something useful? What’s web mercator? KML? GeoJSON? Tiles? Like for bathrooms? Lat, Lon or Lon, Lat?</p><p>I'll offer insight into the common questions we encounter at Maptime SF, and some of the tools we teach including Leaflet.js, Mapbox.js, and Tilemill.</p></p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/geography-for-web-mapping-the-good-the"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930511/cbec9d68d5ccff1f2867841bf26bb80f/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> maps webrebels http://webrebels.23video.com/the-ghost-of-javascript-future-by-james <p>The future of javascript is coming, but many of the parts are already here! In this talk I cover the ecosystems that are paving the way for the future of javascript: webrtc, webgl, mathematics, and databases galore!</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/the-ghost-of-javascript-future-by-james"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930531/9f50d47ff08a951a0f040baf9e6b4906/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> http://webrebels.23video.com/photo/9930531 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:33:02 GMT The ghost of javascript future by James 'substack' Halliday The future of javascript is coming, but many of the parts are already here! In this talk I cover the ecosystems that are paving the way for the future of javascript: webrtc, webgl, mathematics, and databases galore! The future of javascript is coming, but many of the parts are already here! In this talk I cover the ecosystems that are paving the way for the future of javascript: webrtc, webgl, mathematics, and databases galore! Web Rebels Conference 26:27 <p>The future of javascript is coming, but many of the parts are already here! In this talk I cover the ecosystems that are paving the way for the future of javascript: webrtc, webgl, mathematics, and databases galore!</p><p><a href="http://webrebels.23video.com/the-ghost-of-javascript-future-by-james"><img src="http://webrebels.23video.com/9826383/9930531/9f50d47ff08a951a0f040baf9e6b4906/standard/download-thumbnail.jpg" width="600" height="338"/></a></p> webrebels