I just came home from Weblica, the very first ever developers conference in my Međimurje county. All in all, a very good conference and I hope this is just the first one in the years to come! The entrance was free and every attendee got a T-Shirt. Since I was active with questions I got a nice tiblica with an USB instead of meat inside 🙂 as you can see on the featured image above. Below are my notes and some pictures, and a friend of mine uploaded few videos (including me using Oculus Rift) on youtube playlist.

ECMA Script 6 – the future is JavaScript

• Presenter Ratko Ćosić, MCSD, MCSE, MCITP, …
• JavaScript was the language of 2014
• ES6 (Harmony) features:
  • array functions (var sq = x => x*x)
  • block level scope (by using keyword let)
  • classes

    class Shape {
        id; x; y;
    
        constructor (id, x, y){
            this.id = id;
            this.name (x,y);
        }
    }

  • inheritance (extends keyword)
  • modules (kind of a merge between CommonJS and AMD, support for import, export)
  • promisses – similar to jQuery Deffered object
  • constants
  • new regular expression functions
  • new Math functions
  • symbols
  • typed arrays
  • default parameters
  • generators
  • map objects
  • collections (let s = new Set();)
  • better support for strings with for example backticks (`), includes(), startsWith(), endsWith() functions
• Transpilers => conversion of JS from one version to another (Traceur, 6to5, Babel, TypeScript?
• TypeScript – superset of JS, compiles to JS (ES5)
  • Angular2 uses TypeScript!
  • short types, interfaces, generics
• Open question: will SPA frameworks (Angular, Ember, Aurelia) be needed when we’ll have ES7???
• Browsers will be the new OS-es!
• picture time!:
  

node.js (sa sirom i vrhnjem)

• Presenter Davor Tarandek, Tria d.o.o.
• io.js uses the newer V8 engine than does node.js
• asynchronity is hard to grasp
• pm2 is awesome and it overpassed forever module
• I actually wrote three rather extensive posts on the topic of the MEAN stack, that’s why I have so little notes from this lecture
• picture time!:
  

Ember.js in practice

• Presenter Nikola Begedin, Coder.ly
• convention over configuration
• ember-cli is the thing
• allows ES6 syntax (Babel transpiler mentioned earlier)
• uses npm and bower
• ember is not ember-cli (is what the Ember team recommends)
• Some cool tools they use
  • Error reporting – Sentry
  • Task tracking – Asana
  • For chat – Slack
  • Heroku, Mandrill, Stripe, Amazon S3, Cloudfront, KissMetrics, Segment, NewRelic, CodeClimate, …
• Recommended books to start Ember – Ember CLI 101 (google for it, it’s suppose to be free ;), if not, don’t mind spending a buck or two)
• Talking Code podcast on iTunes
• picture time!:
  

Modern web using Microsoft tools

• Presenter Miroslav Popović
• Microsoft Studio vOld = .NET, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010
• Change started with ASP.NET MVC
• 2012/2013 – Interface design, new web editor, GIT
• HTML support – full HTML5 IntelliSense, code snippets, data-* attributes
• JS – ECMA Script 5 support, strict mode support
• CSS – IntelliSense CSS3 validation, color selection, vendor prefixes, CSS drag/rop
• Browser Link
• Other stuff: CoffeeScript coloring, Mustache, Handlebars, Knockout bindings, Angular Directives, LESS and SASS preprocessors, TypeScript
• Community Edition FREE for up to 5 devs?!
• WebEssentials
  • open source extension for VS
• 2012/13 VS added Node.js based tools
  • static bundling & minification, image optimization & sprite generating, JS Hint, Source maps, LESS/SASS and CSS preview, CoffeScript preview
• Visual Studio 2015
  • new web structure
  • package managers – NuGet, npm, bower, jspm
  • client side build tools – MSBuild, Grunt, Gulp, TaskRunner Explorer
• Visual Studio Code – doesn’t (yet) support plugins like Sublime Text for example, but that’s a TODO
• Other cool tools: Resharper, SideWaffle, Github for VS, Chutzpah (Jasmine, Qunit, Mocha)
• picture time!:
  

Effective software team collaboration

• Presenter Zvonimir Juranko, Colombio
• Colombio app
• dare to disagree
• 85% of people fear the conflict with their boss
• The Marshmallow Challenge
• LEAN canvas
• be prepared to fail!
• genchi genbutsu – try it out yourself!
• make a MVP (minimum viable product) and build upon that
• picture time:
  

Oculus Rift – virtual reality for everyone

• Presenter Tibor Kozjak, Infenso d.o.o.
• there are some issues to be solved still
• price around 500$ with shipping to Croatia
• I tested the device after the talk and I guess in my case the verdict is “it’s really not for everyone, since I’m probably feeling sick and dizzy still :O”
• picture time!:
  

Hope to see you next year!

edit: A cool video made by the organisers after the conference:

Weblica 2015 from TICM on Vimeo.