Come one, come all!

jQuery Conference is back and it's better than ever! We're headed to Portland for the first time, but we're back with two tracks, 31 talks, and something for everyone! We know that jQuery users run the gamut from newcomers to experts, but that everyone relishes the opportunity to level up with new tools and techniques. That's why we've gathered some of the best minds in the industry to discuss jQuery – and a whole lot more. The only thing missing is you!

Program

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Day 1 • Thu June 13
	Track A • Splunk Room	Track B • AppNexus Room
8:00 – 9:00	Breakfast & Registration Portland Ballroom Lobby
9:00 – 9:50	jQuery Keynote Dave Methvin
10:00 – 10:40	TJ VanToll jQuery UI Widgets vs. HTML5 HTML5 has brought native capabilities to the browser that were previously only available through JavaScript libraries such as jQuery UI. Examples include <input type="date"> vs. datepicker, <input type="range"> vs. slider, <input type="number"> vs. spinner, and <datalist> vs. autocomplete. The overlapping functionality leaves web developers to choose between native options and JavaScript based widgets. In this talk we'll discuss the pros and cons of each approach to help you decide which makes sense for your application.	Rachel Nabors JavaScript for Designers Coming to JavaScript from design without programming experience can be disorienting. jQuery makes it easy to get things done without a computer science degree. But dig a little deeper and you find yourself in unknown territory: What exactly does an object look like? What’s a method? Or a class? And what is up with the turf warfare over functional vs. OOP? This talk is great for anyone without programming experience who wants to understand JavaScript and basic programming concepts better. Expect lots of “ah-ha!” moments and funny illustrations.
10:50 – 11:30	Jessica Dillon When to .stop() using .animate() and #start using .css3-animations There are a lot of considerations to be had when building out animations, one of the most basic being what language is appropriate to use and when. In this talk, you will walk away with knowledge about the differences between using CSS3 and JavaScript to perform animations. This also includes some of the tradeoffs that come with each in regards to ease of use, browser support, performance and extensibility.	Alex McPherson Widening your JavaScript Application: Organizational Tips from the (Front End) Front Line JavaScript applications need an amount of infrastructure and tooling commensurate with their complexity. Simple apps can (and do!) easily work with one file with one $(document).ready() callback, but what happens when that file grows up? This talk will show you how to gracefully adopt various strategies to cope with a quickly growing app, as well as how to identify 'breakpoints' where those strategies are especially useful. We'll take a look at tools like folder and file organization, object oriented Javascript, event and component management, tests, AMD modules with require.js, and implementing a build process with Grunt.
11:40 – 12:20	David Furfero The Story of jQuery UI Touch Punch The story of jQuery UI Touch Punch is the story of a piece of code that was almost never written yet now runs on over 60 million websites. It's a story about helping others, sharing your work and following your creative impulses without regard for the consequences. And the bleeping consequences.	Alex Sexton Depending on jQuery Over the last several years people have shifted from building sites that have small chunks of dom-centric code for quick interactions, to building full-fledge web applications that require hundreds of thousands of lines of code. We also see people shifting from centering their applications around jQuery, to using it as a dependency in an MVC-style app. Let's chat about how you might build a large application with jQuery, how you might modularize your app, and how you might deploy it for optimal speed. Big surprise, Alex is talking about large apps and jQuery. Expect some Backbone, Require.js, and a few boring network graphs.
12:20 – 1:30	Lunch Oregon Ballroom
1:30 – 2:10	Paul Verbeek Device Advice Knowing what JavaScript APIs work on which desktop browser is already as hard as it is, but knowing from the top of your head how everything behaves on mobile phones or gaming devices is nearly impossible. So how are you going to handle that? You need to test, a lot. Testing for devices can be hard, time-consuming and boring. In my presentation I'm going to show a few ways how JS testing can be better and faster, and especially fun! There are a 1001 devices and your JavaScript must be tested on all of them. Boring? Time-consuming? Let me help you with that.	Eric Mann Unit Testing: Minutes Now Will Save Hours Later Imagine a world where your code automatically tests itself each and every time you deploy. Where your code can tell if anything broke since the last time you shipped. Where your deployment environment points out any mistakes you made so you can fix them before a customer calls to complain. That world exists. And you can get there today. Drafting unit tests for JavaScript isn’t glamorous, but it will save you time down the road and make your application more robust. Integrating testing with an existing Grunt workflow automates the process and makes it that much more useful.
2:20 – 3:00	Robin Raymond Using jQuery to build a federated, real-time video chat app Watch and learn as Robin walks through the process of creating a real-time video chat app using jQuery, & JS. Complete with federated social identities, eg. Login with Facebook or LinkedIn and chat with any of your contacts on either social network. No browser plugins required.	Tessa Harmon Everything I Wish I Had Known About Building Single-Page Apps There are many pitfalls on the path to single page app nirvana. Few patterns or best practices are available, and practical concerns are relegated to trial and error. From a beginner’s perspective, this talk will cover single-page app “gotcha's" and new concepts that developers need to be aware of in order to build a great software. We'll cover how to single-page app development differs from classic server-side apps, various code architectures and organization, crucial CSS and JavaScript performance optimization, and tips for dealing with memory leaks. Attendees will leave with a great starting point for building their own awesome, blazingly fast, highly responsive, single page-apps.
3:00 – 3:30	Snack Break!
3:30 – 4:10	Timmy Willison The Future of Selectors What's the difference between Sizzle and native querySelectorAll in modern browsers? Will selector engines become obsolete in the future? Will we be able to do custom selectors with querySelectorAll at any point in the future? I'll answer all of these questions, provide some background on selector engines and the selectors specification, and give some insight into the their future and what that will mean for web development.	Katie Cunningham Making Websites for Everyone Is making a website accessible AND interactive an impossible task? Absolutely not! During this talk, I will go over the basics of accessibility, who it covers, what tools they use, and how you can make a dynamic website that can be used by everyone. What is accessibility? Who does it cover? Tools used by these groups The numbers Myths (Yes! You can use Javascript!) Introduction to ARIA ARIA in jQuery Examples Tools for testing Resources
4:20 – 5:00	Nathan Wall Writing High-Integrity JavaScript JavaScript is a highly flexible language where practically anything can be modified. This property makes JavaScript a versatile and fun language to use, but it can also be an obstacle for library developers who want to write consistent, tightly encapsulated code. In this presentation, I will share techniques for writing high-integrity JavaScript. We will explore various ways to implement private state in JavaScript, how to harmonize private properties with prototypal inheritance, common security problems and solutions, and tips for hardening code to run safely alongside third party scripts. We will also take a look at the future of the language, ECMAScript 6, and the tools it will provide for writing securable JavaScript.	Sam Breed Fixing Broken Windows: 10 Small Things That Will Instantly Improve Your Project Informal social controls have a big impact on how what's considered acceptable behavior. Building on the theory that a single broken window on an urban block can lead to the perception of lawlessness and will actually contribute to criminal behavior, my talk will focus on how to spot and repair the "broken windows" in your JavaScript applications. Even seemingly-trivial anti-patterns like commented-out code, mixed spaces and tabs, or missing documentation can be "broken windows" that lead to further decay and software entropy in your large jQuery projects. Sam will cover 10 things to look for, from minor mis-steps, to organization and to common design patterns that will restore order in your applications.
5:10 – 6:00	jQuery's Open Source Infrastructure – And You! Clark Allan, Corey Frang, Scott González, Adam J. Sontag

8:00 – 10:00	Party! sponsored by Jive Software Oregon Ballroom

Day 2 • Fri June 14
	Track A • Splunk Room	Track B • AppNexus Room
8:00 – 10:00	Breakfast & Registration (Foundation Members: Breakfast Reception Downstairs)
10:00 – 10:50	jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile Keynote Scott González, Ralph Whitbeck
11:00 – 11:40	Patrick Camacho Beyond DOM Manipulation: Building Stateful Modules with Promises and Events State management can be a difficult problem to solve when building web applications with Javascript. Web apps are inherently stateful, as opposed to traditional web sites. I'm going to outline an approach to state management that uses modules to keep code clean and organized, but also relies on promises and events to allow safe, asynchronous communication between modules and within the module itself. This approach saves time in development, reduces code bloat, prevents callback chains, and safely shares information between modules using the observer pattern.	Rushaine McBean Straight from the Source Reading the source code - it's one of those things every developer knows they should do, but most never get around to. Although many of our applications thrive off of open source software today, how often do we go through the source code of projects we use or want to use? While many developers only dare to read source when available documentation just isn’t enough, even for those perfectly documented libraries, gems, and frameworks, reading the source code has huge benefits. It not only gives us a better understanding of how the code behaves, it changes how we think about and write our code. In this talk we’ll start leveling up our programming skills by dissecting some source code.
11:50 – 12:30	Howard Abrams A/B Testing: How To with jQuery We've all attended meetings where the designer and the copy editor can't agree on a critical part of your web application. They each argue their case before the boss, who ultimately chooses. However, since no customers attended the meeting, how would the boss know the best choice? The solution? Perform an experiment on some of your customers as test subjects. Show one group Choice A, and another group Choice B. Easy, right? Just remember, the grouping needs to be well distributed as well as random, and you'll need to measure and report the results. Multivariate Testing (also called A/B or Split Testing) lets you determine the best "choice" by showing a choice to a subset of your customers and measuring the results. Of course, you've already heard about it since Google has been doing these sorts of experiments for years, but how to begin? Does this require backend support or can this be done completely in jQuery? If your company is anything like mine, you'll have many concurrent tests, so make sure not to pick on some customers too much, or you'll skew the results. I'll show you the tools you'll need and code you'll write, with plenty of examples and a jQuery A/B Testing plugin. I'll share tips and tricks from the trenches to improving your customer experiments, and making your decisions more scientific.	Katie Gengler jQuery Isn't Enough: An Introduction to Ember.js Your client-side code deserves to be treated at least as well as your server-side code. In this talk, learn why and how to make use of Ember.js, a client-side MVC framework. Ember.js makes developing your application easier and faster, by allowing you to focus on your domain, rather than on the mechanics of JavaScript development. This talk will introduce you to Ember.js and how it alleviates the tedium of micromanaging events and the DOM. It will also show how Ember.js frees you from the chore of managing state, automatically keeping your data in sync across your UI.
12:30 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 – 2:10	Greg Franko Making Modular jQuery Plugins with the jQuery UI Widget Factory, Grunt, and DownloadBuilder.js This talk will focus on making modular jQuery plugins that allow users to make custom plugin builds on the command line or web UI. jQueryUI Widget Factory design patterns will be shown how to modularize jQuery plugins, Grunt will be used to show how to create custom plugin builds from the command line, and DownloadBuilder.js will be used to show how to create custom plugin builds from a web UI.	Jenn Schiffer Learn Code, Make Art: Using the Right-brain as a Code Education Tool Do you want to learn a language or library, but have hit a wall on what kind of project to start in the process? There are infinite ideas for projects that foster programming education, but creating art using code can be a breath of fresh air and inspiration for new programmers and seasoned developers alike! I'll show you some art projects that involve code, and tell of my own experience with using art to learn and continue practicing jQuery. We'll explore the different ways that you can use code to not only make art, but make existing creative works more stimulating and engaging for both you as the artist and those who are viewing your work.
2:20 – 3:00	Lon Ingram BUGWILD, or, RESOLVED INCOMPLETE WORKSFORME WONTFIX There is a great deal of advice about how to use a growing list of powerful tools and techniques to build robust JavaScript applications. That's not what this talk is about, though, because none of it will save you: in spite of your tests and your best practices, your app will fail in the hands of your users and it will do so in ways that surprise you. I will instead discuss what to do when it all goes sideways. I'll show you how to detect failures in the first place, what to tell your users and when, and how to gather the forensic data available in the browser. Finally, I'll demonstrate Reanimator, an experimental framework for capturing and replaying failures in JavaScript applications.	John K. Paul I Like My jQuery Plugins Warm and Toasty: Wrapping jQuery Plugins with Backbone.js With Backbone, don’t leave your jQuery plugins shivering out in the cold production air. We can keep them warm and toasty in a coat of Backbone view goodness. Gone are the days when we just copy and paste plugin files and start hacking in our script tags. Now that we have the expressiveness and modularity of Backbone views to manage our application behavior we can build a reusable facade for jQuery plugins. I’m going to provide a guide to wrapping our jQuery plugins cozily in Backbone views. I’ll be giving you an alternative to large spaghetti .render() methods that make every jQuery plugin initialization call. I’ll walk you through the key tactics in decomposing a plugin into it’s core functionality and explain how to flexibly build your backbone view. We will also discuss the best patterns and styles for wrapping different kinds of jQuery plugins. Most notably, I’ll be going through the process of wrapping jCarousel in a Backbone view that can be reused in many different situations.
3:10 – 3:50	Angelina Fabbro Building Modular Web Applications: How To Build a Good Component Front end trends are changing quickly with the mainstreaming of features of web components and shadow DOM. What does this mean for jQuery users and how we build web applications? This talk will explore the basics philosophy behind writing modular, reusable code blocks for front-end use, and explain some of the basics of new browser APIs such as web components and shadow DOM.	Raquel Vélez Front-End Development in Node.js You know HTML and CSS. You know (or at least may have heard of) HAML and SASS. Introducing: Jade and Stylus! Welcome to front-end development in node.js! As more applications are built in node, front-end devs need to make them beautiful, generally using the node front-end toolkit. But what are the tools? How do you get started? What if you've never used node before? Join me as we use Express to spin up a simple node server and serve up a super basic index page. Then we'll use Jade and Stylus to layout and style it. Finally, we'll all chuckle about how easy it was and begin scheming about what we'll do next!
3:50 – 4:20	Snack Break!
4:20 – 5:00	Eric Shepherd If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Write a Wrapper Around It? Our code is unlikely to ever have the popularity and widespread use of jQuery. Especially for those of us in larger companies, imitating jQuery’s API or using plugins directly may not actually be good for us. I’ll talk about our JavaScript API design principles at Gilt and give examples of how we have built wrappers around some jQuery-like APIs. This has allowed us to take advantage of great code in the ecosystem, while also keeping our own front end APIs consistent and better suited to our specific needs. I’ll help you determine when this might be a good idea and how to do it.	Adam J. Sontag jQuery is a Swiss Army Knife (and that's OK!) Building a website is like building a house: First, you build the foundations, then you install the wiring and plumbing, then you put up the walls, before finally decorating. Each of these steps requires the right tools and, more importantly, the know-how to get the job done right. However, even the most experienced contractor keeps a multi-tool handy, ready for the myriad situations when it will be useful. As jQuery has grown to become one of the most widely used software libraries on the planet, so too has consternation and resentment about how it should be used and by whom. Two of the familiar refrains are "it's too big!" and "anyone who uses jQuery doesn't know JavaScript!" In this talk, I'll explain why much of this criticism is off-base, show where jQuery really fits into the modern web application development workflow, and how its versatility can help make better 'contractors' out of us all.
5:10 – 5:50	Bob Holt Home-growing Top-Notch Developers Training developers is hard, but finding highly-skilled JavaScript developers on the open market can be even harder. Drawing from real-world experience building development teams from near-scratch, and incorporating academic research into how people learn, we will look at strategies for turning today's eager junior developers into tomorrow's experts. And, for the up-and-coming developers in the crowd, we'll talk about ways you can help yourself and those around you grow.	Cory Gackenheimer Dealing with the Natives: jQuery Mobile + Phonegap jQuery Mobile has amazing cross-device and cross-browser compatibility, lending a native feel to many mobile browsing experiences. Sometimes you want your awesome jQuery Mobile application to be downloadable from a native app store, for these times you turn to Phonegap. In this talk I will discuss everything from how to setup a jQuery Mobile application with Phonegap to not only make the application feel native, but also will show how implementing the native functionality that comes with Phonegap can fit easily and seamlessly into your jQuery Mobile application. Along the way we'll discuss Remote debugging techniques as well as some gotchas, such as iOS URL whitelisting, and how to programatically allow for opening URLs outside of your WebView.
5:50 – 6:00	Wrap up and Goodbye

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Speakers

Howard Abrams

@howardabrams

Howard Abrams is a 6th level, dual-bladed elf ranger trapped in the pudgy body of a principle software engineer at Workday. He is currently building new web interfaces for clouds. Many years ago, after realizing that Google was experimenting on him personally, he became interested in the subject of A/B testing, and started the "lab-rats" project, a jQuery plugin to help create client-side A/B tests. Since then, he's produced and tracked many A/B tests both when managing and engineering web application projects. In his spare time, he likes to impart the values and tradition of our culture of Geekery to his two children, who often take the reins as Dungeon Master and young scientists.

Patrick Camacho

@icofyre

Patrick Camacho is a web application engineer. He enjoys building single-page web applications and constantly pushing his limits with front end development. He currently works at Twitter on the Crashlytics service.

Angelina Fabbro

@angelinamagnum

Angelina Fabbro is a programmer based in Vancouver, Canada and works at Steamclock Software. Angelina has a background in cognitive science, building clever robots and researching what people pay attention to. Her record as a web developer is balanced with modern iOS experience and a keen sense of design. Angelina also both teaches and mentors for the Vancouver chapter of Ladies Learning Code.

David Furfero

@furf

furf: an Internet product developer; a former UI Engineer at Meebo, MLB.com, Time Inc., Live Nation and various dead startups; a JavaScript enthusiast; the author of jQuery UI Touch Punch, Sexy.js, Transmogrifier and other silly software; an improv comedian; a native NYer; a cynical optimist; an optimal synergist; and all-round lovable a-hole.

Scott González

@scott_gonzalez

Scott González is a web application developer living in York, Pennsylvania. He has been contributing to jQuery since 2007 and is currently the project lead for jQuery UI, jQuery’s official user interface library. Scott also writes tutorials about jQuery and jQuery UI on nemikor.com and is a co-author of the ‘jQuery Cookbook’ from O’Reilly.

Lon Ingram

@lawnsea

Lon Ingram is lead frontend engineer at Waterfall Mobile. He's been writing JavaScript for a living for seven years, and working exclusively on single-page apps for the last three. His personal and academic projects focus on the problem of building complex apps on the web stack, with a particular interest in applying results from systems research.

Alex McPherson

@alexmcpherson

Alex is a developer with Quick Left in Boulder, Colorado. His past experience includes financial information design and development for Fortune 500 companies. He teaches JavaScript and Ruby on Rails at Colorado University's BDW program and heads up Quick Left's internal apprenticeship program. When he's not coding you can easily find him mountain biking, shaking cocktails, or eating arugula.

John K. Paul

@johnkpaul

John K. Paul is the lead technical architect of Conde Nast's platform engineering team and former lead front end software engineer at TheLadders.com. He is a contributor to numerous open source projects including learn.jquery.com. He has spoken to various startups around NYC about front end development, and scalable engineering practices, in particular, unit testing javascript. Additionally, he has taught Javascript and jQuery fundamentals to teams throughout the NYC area.

Alex Sexton

@SlexAxton

Alex Sexton is a Senior UI Engineer at Bazaarvoice in Austin, TX. He is on the Modernizr team and is passionate about large applications and the challenges that they represent. He loves whiskey and working in the middle of the night

TJ VanToll

@tjvantoll

TJ VanToll is a web developer and jQuery UI team member living in Lansing, MI. He writes about his experiences with jQuery, HTML 5, CSS, and other things that strike his fancy on his blog. He is the proud father of twin sons and when not on the internet he is generally found chasing them in circles.

Nathan Wall

As a Software Engineer for the User Interface team, Nathan works on AppNexus' UI framework. Nathan has extensive open source experience, having developed the joi JavaScript Framework, an object-oriented framework for developing, implementing, and maintaining robust web applications. He is also a primary contributor to Quicksand, a fast, standalone CSS3 selector engine for JavaScript. Nathan continues to develop various open source tools for JavaScript developers (available at github.com/Nathan-Wall). Before joining AppNexus, Nathan taught math to high school students at the Memphis Health Careers Academy where he developed ClassHub, an interactive classroom response system. Nathan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Memphis.

Clark Allan

@clarkbox

Clark Allan resides in San Francisco with his lovely wife and children. He has been slinging HTML and Javascript since '96, working with the jQuery team since 2009, and started at Splunk in 2010. Clark has a rich background in programming, storage systems, hardware and network infrastructure. A geek at heart, with a passion for technology and open source.

Katie Cunningham

@kcunning

By day, Katie is a Python developer (and jQuery noob) for Cox Media Group. By night, she's an author for Pearson, O'Reilly, and APress. She's the author of Accessibility Handbook, a guide written for developers who want to understand how to make accessible websites.

Corey Frang

@gnarf37

Corey is an active contributor to most of the jQuery teams and is active in the jQuery community on IRC, and Stack Overflow and works at Bocoup. He restructured the effects modules in both UI and Core, maintains the jQuery Color Animations plugin, and puppeteers the new jQuery servers. He hopes that his work will “effect” your websites positively.

Cory Gackenheimer

@cgack

Cory Gackenheimer is a software engineer from Indianapolis, Indiana. He has a passion for the open web, open-source projects, and improving existing processes. He has worked on the fatastically crowsourced jQuery Mobile Cookbook, and contributed to open-source projects and initiatives. In his day job he works on a jQuery Mobile based and Phonegap packaged application for Healthx, Inc.

Tessa Harmon

@TessaHarmon

Tessa Harmon is a software developer at Skookum Digital Works and co-organizes Charlotte Front-End Developers. Her lifelong social awkwardness has served her well: she ﬁrst discovered HTML at the age of 9 and has been a hacker ever since. (The social awkwardness has improved marginally, too.) Outside of things tech-y, Tessa enjoys playing guitar, singing karaoke, cooking amazing vegan food, and dressing eccentrically—sometimes by putting a bird on it.

Eric Mann

@EricMann

Eric Mann is a seasoned web developer with experience in languages from JavaScript to Ruby to C#. He has been building websites of all shapes and sizes for the better part of a decade and continues to experiment with new technologies and techniques. Eric is a Senior Web Engineer at 10up (http://10up.com) where he focuses on developing high-end web solutions powered by WordPress.

Dave Methvin

@davemethvin

Dave Methvin is President of the jQuery Foundation and the team leader for jQuery Core. He also provides independent consulting focused on client-side web technologies and web site performance. Past positions include Chief Technology Officer at PC Pitstop, Executive Editor at Windows Magazine, and more than two decades of experience as a freelance technology writer. Unlike the former CEO of Yahoo, Dave can prove that he has Computer Science degrees--a Master's and Bachelor's from the University of Virginia.

Robin Raymond

@robinraymond

An expert software architect, technical leader and developer, whose specialty is for highly scalable network asynchronous software architectures, typically in the field of peer-to-peer telecommunications. Robin has been producing software since the dawn the computer age and have worked in everything from coding and software architecture to managing entire software departments and performing the duties of CTO.

Eric Shepherd

@arkitrave

Eric leads the UI Architecture team at Gilt, which drives the continual improvement of front end technologies, optimizes asset deployment and front end performance, and builds components, modules, and code libraries for use across all of Gilt’s web applications. Eric began his journey typing endless PEEK and POKE statements from the back of Family Computing magazines into an Apple //c, spent the next decade meandering through music and architecture school, and finally rediscovered programming as an adult. He likes margherita pizza, classic cocktails, and vocal trance.

Raquel Vélez

@rockbot

Raquel Vélez received her BS in mechanical engineering from Caltech. Then she (played with | built | programmed | psychoanalyzed) robots for 8 years, at places like NASA JPL, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and various universities in Europe. She took a break to do that startup thing as a co-founder and CTO... but came to her senses and found a new life online as a web developer. Raquel is now an engineer at Storify in San Francisco, working with an amazing team of people to navigate and define the intersection between journalism and social media. In her off time, you can find her baking, hacking on node.js, and speaking. Also, hanging out with her hilarious husband and two cats dressed in dog suits

Timmy Willison

@timmywil

Timmy started as a Front-End Engineer at Medium building websites for clients such as Kraft Foods, Premiere Global, Yanmar, EPB, and more. He currently works for a start-up in Chattanooga building iOS and web applications. He is a Core Team member for the jQuery project and is responsible for the rewrite of the Sizzle selector engine in jQuery 1.8, as well as the Attributes module in 1.7.

Sam Breed

@wookiehangover

Sam is a JavaScript developer and evangelist at Quick Left in Boulder, Colorado, as well as a contributor to Backbone.js. When he's not helping teams improve their front-end code and working on open source, he can usually be found skateboarding.

Jessica Dillon

@jessicard

Jessica Dillon is a software developer at Quick Left building web apps for major brands and startups alike. As one of Quick Left's primary front-end developers, she has a strong background in front-end, Ruby and Javascript frameworks, building applications that look and function well on both desktop and mobile devices. Jessica is actively involved in teaching Ruby and software development through RailsBridge, Rocky Mountain Ruby, Women Who Code and Quick Left's apprenticeship program.

Greg Franko

@GregFranko

Greg is a JavaScript Engineer at AddThis and the maintainer of and contributor to several popular JavaScript Open Source projects (Backbone-Require-Boilerplate, SelectBoxIt, Tocify, etc). He is also an aspiring technical author who is currently writing a Require.js How-To book for Packt Publishing, and contributing chapters to two yet-to-be-released O'Reilly books (Backbone.js Fundamentals and the jQuery Mobile Cookbook).

Katie Gengler

@katiegengler

Katie Gengler is a freelance web application developer from the NYC area. She started out working with Ruby on Rails and more recently has focused on client-side development with Ember.js.

Bob Holt

@bobholt

Bob Holt is a JavaScript engineer at Bocoup. Bob has a background in economics, finance, non-profit development, and education, all of which he tries to shoehorn into his approach to developing for the open web. In his free time, Bob enjoys music, photography, and watching football in all its forms.

Rushaine McBean

@copasetickid

Rushaine McBean is a JavaScript and Ruby(Rails) developer. She is currently a Junior Developer at the Levo League where she writes and maintains code by contributing to front-end & back-end development (including tests). Before becoming a member of the Levo dev. team, Rushaine earned her undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Hunter College. When she isn’t writing code, she’s either listening to music or getting developer swag.

Rachel Nabors

@rachelnabors

Rachel Nabors is a front end developer, UI engineer, and award-winning cartoonist in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has given talks on topics ranging from how comics apply to UX to building animated music videos with CSS and HTML5. A serial tea abuser, she can be found, late at night, inking comics about GitHub or drawing her own loading spinners.

Jenn Schiffer

@jennschiffer

Jenn Schiffer is a senior front-end web developer at the NBA and teaches web tools and tech fluency at Montclair State University, in northern New Jersey. She has done research in education assessment and semantic web technologies, worked for an extended period of time in the hyperlocal news industry, and enjoys building open source and art-related applications.

Adam J. Sontag

@ajpiano

Adam is the Director of Marketing and Developer Relations at the jQuery Foundation and a developer for Bocoup in Boston. For the last five years, he's immersed himself in the jQuery community where he tries to simultaneously keep an ear to the ground (especially in the #jquery family of channels on Freenode) and take a bird's-eye-view of the issues and challenges facing the project, its libraries, and its users.

Paul Verbeek

@Hierow

Paul Verbeek is a front-end web developer living and working in The Netherlands, where he established the country's first Open Device Lab. He volunteers at Fronteers and is currently trying to organize a Web Platform Doc Sprint in Amsterdam. He is passionate about creating beautiful and functional websites that work on all platforms.

Ralph Whitbeck

@RedWolves

Ralph Whitbeck is a front-end web developer with over 15 years experience in web development including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript with a focus in jQuery. Ralph also has experience in developing web strategies, usability testing, working with ASP.NET and SQL Server. Ralph is a co-author of O’Reilly’s jQuery Cookbook and is currently working on another book for O’Reilly called the jQuery Mobile Cookbook. Ralph is a board member on the jQuery Foundation, a member of the jQuery Mobile team doing developer relations, and a co-host on the Official jQuery Podcast. Ralph currently works at appendTo as the Modern Web Advocate for appendTo’s tools and services.

Wednesday is Training Day!

We're holding got two training tracks so you can improve and learn in the area you think will help you the most. Training sessions will take place Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at the Oregon Convention Center, site of the jQuery Conference.

Advanced jQuery

Bocoup’s advanced jQuery training will make you a stronger developer and get you prepared for all the great talks that you’ll see over the next two days. If you've taken a beginner level training at one of our last events, Advanced jQuery is the perfect follow up. Also a great option if you know jQuery, but feel like there's room to level up and learn new techniques.

Topics that will be covered include:

Promises and Deferreds
Enhancing with Effects
Extending jQuery with Plugins

Led by Ben Alman

Ben Alman is a Senior Developer at Bocoup and author of numerous open source projects such as Grunt, the popular task-based command line build tool for JavaScript projects. He also frequently writes and presents on modern JavaScript and jQuery topics at conferences around the world.

Front-end Fundamentals

Learn the fundamentals of front-end development and best practices in this beginner to intermediate focused training. Topics to be covered include:

JS and jQuery Fundamentals:
- Interacting with the DOM
- Event Delegation
- Debugging
- DOM interaction gotchas, best practices
Introduction to the web ecosystem - tools and libraries to make your job easier

Led by Dan Heberden

Dan Heberden is a Senior Developer at Bocoup and the Director of Technology at the jQuery Foundation. He's an expert on deployment and the author of Gith, an open-source tool for deployment.

Training tickets are no longer available

Training sessions took place on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at the Oregon Convention Center, site of the jQuery Conference. Registering for training does not include a conference ticket.

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The jQuery Conference in Portland 2013 will be our largest event to date. It's a great opportunity to meet and get to know over 1,000 of the world's top jQuery talent. Whether you're looking to hire developers, promote your product, or just give back to the community, this is the place to be. Download our prospectus here or send us an email to get involved.

Meet us at the OCC. You can't miss it.

2013 will be our biggest conference year yet! jQuery will be taking over a huge section of the Oregon Convention Center. If you haven't been to the OCC before, you're in for a treat! As the largest convention center in the Pacific Northwest, we'll have 3x the space we've had in the past. That means more breathing room in sessions and lots more hang out hallway track space.

Looking for a place to stay? The DoubleTree Portland is the official hotel for jQuery Conference Portland 2013. The team, board and speakers will all be staying there, and we'd love for you to join us.

DoubleTree Portland, within walking distance of OCC

We've negotiated a discounted rate with the hotel, which will be available while supplies last, or until May 31, 2013. Please note that our hotel blocks almost always sell out, so book your rooms early!

In order to receive the group room rate, attendees must use the group code JQ6. Reservations received after the cutoff date or after the room block is sold out (whichever comes first) will be honored on a space-available basis at the prevailing rate of the hotel. All rates are single/double occupancy and do not include the local and occupancy tax.

Getting around Portland

Travel Portland has graciously provided jQuery Conference attendees with free passes for the MAX light rail train, Portland Street Car, and buses. These passes are good for the duration of the conference, June 12 - 14, 2013. Passes will be available at Registration, upon request. You will need to carry the pass to board the train, car or bus.

On the day of your arrival, take the MAX Red Line to the DoubleTree, take the Lloyd Center stop. The cost for this one way trip (a two-hour pass) will be $2.50. You can also purchase a day pass for $5.00 if you plan to use MAX later the same day. Tickets can be purchased inside of Portland International Airport as well as any MAX stop.

Oregon Convention Center

June 13 & 14, 2013

Come one, come all!

Program

Day 1 • Thu June 13

Breakfast & Registration

Portland Ballroom Lobby

jQuery Keynote

Dave Methvin

TJ VanToll

+ jQuery UI Widgets vs. HTML5

Rachel Nabors

+ JavaScript for Designers

Jessica Dillon

+ When to .stop() using .animate() and #start using .css3-animations

Alex McPherson

+ Widening your JavaScript Application: Organizational Tips from the (Front End) Front Line

David Furfero

+ The Story of jQuery UI Touch Punch

Alex Sexton

+ Depending on jQuery

Lunch

Oregon Ballroom

Paul Verbeek

+ Device Advice

Eric Mann

+ Unit Testing: Minutes Now Will Save Hours Later

Robin Raymond

+ Using jQuery to build a federated, real-time video chat app

Tessa Harmon

+ Everything I Wish I Had Known About Building Single-Page Apps

Snack Break!

Timmy Willison

+ The Future of Selectors

Katie Cunningham

+ Making Websites for Everyone

Nathan Wall

+ Writing High-Integrity JavaScript

Sam Breed

+ Fixing Broken Windows: 10 Small Things That Will Instantly Improve Your Project

jQuery's Open Source Infrastructure – And You!

Clark Allan, Corey Frang, Scott González, Adam J. Sontag

Party! sponsored by Jive Software

Oregon Ballroom

Day 2 • Fri June 14

Breakfast & Registration

(Foundation Members: Breakfast Reception Downstairs)

jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile Keynote

Scott González, Ralph Whitbeck

Patrick Camacho

+ Beyond DOM Manipulation: Building Stateful Modules with Promises and Events

Rushaine McBean

+ Straight from the Source

Howard Abrams

+ A/B Testing: How To with jQuery

Katie Gengler

+ jQuery Isn't Enough: An Introduction to Ember.js

Lunch

Greg Franko

+ Making Modular jQuery Plugins with the jQuery UI Widget Factory, Grunt, and DownloadBuilder.js

Jenn Schiffer

+ Learn Code, Make Art: Using the Right-brain as a Code Education Tool

Lon Ingram

+ BUGWILD, or, RESOLVED INCOMPLETE WORKSFORME WONTFIX

John K. Paul

+ I Like My jQuery Plugins Warm and Toasty: Wrapping jQuery Plugins with Backbone.js

Angelina Fabbro

+ Building Modular Web Applications: How To Build a Good Component

Raquel Vélez

+ Front-End Development in Node.js

Snack Break!

Eric Shepherd

+ If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Write a Wrapper Around It?

Adam J. Sontag

+ jQuery is a Swiss Army Knife (and that's OK!)

Bob Holt

+ Home-growing Top-Notch Developers

Cory Gackenheimer

+ Dealing with the Natives: jQuery Mobile + Phonegap

Wrap up and Goodbye

jQuery UI Widgets vs. HTML5

JavaScript for Designers

When to .stop() using .animate() and #start using .css3-animations

Widening your JavaScript Application: Organizational Tips from the (Front End) Front Line

The Story of jQuery UI Touch Punch

Depending on jQuery

Device Advice

Unit Testing: Minutes Now Will Save Hours Later

Using jQuery to build a federated, real-time video chat app

Everything I Wish I Had Known About Building Single-Page Apps

The Future of Selectors

Making Websites for Everyone

Writing High-Integrity JavaScript

Fixing Broken Windows: 10 Small Things That Will Instantly Improve Your Project

Beyond DOM Manipulation: Building Stateful Modules with Promises and Events

Straight from the Source

A/B Testing: How To with jQuery

jQuery Isn't Enough: An Introduction to Ember.js

Making Modular jQuery Plugins with the jQuery UI Widget Factory, Grunt, and DownloadBuilder.js

Learn Code, Make Art: Using the Right-brain as a Code Education Tool

BUGWILD, or, RESOLVED INCOMPLETE WORKSFORME WONTFIX

I Like My jQuery Plugins Warm and Toasty: Wrapping jQuery Plugins with Backbone.js

Building Modular Web Applications: How To Build a Good Component

Front-End Development in Node.js

If You Love It So Much, Why Don't You Write a Wrapper Around It?

jQuery is a Swiss Army Knife (and that's OK!)

Home-growing Top-Notch Developers

Dealing with the Natives: jQuery Mobile + Phonegap