dev xmas meetup - all of the different dev groups in vienna
- thursday december 19
- everyone needs to bring something to eat

First Talk

2006

internet explorer dominating marketshare
"internet offensive österreich"
dark times
quit coding for money
- started doing fun projects
many instances of code shame
- from HN "if you're not ashamed of it, you waited too long"

Result

wrote own svg library
didn't use any other libraries
all alone
code shame

2013

Result

used many libraries
wrote on meteor as part of a community
still code shame

formula.js

by hannes stiebitzhofer

Excel totally entrenched in business world
bugs deep in functions in Excel
why duplicate Excel's functions, including bugs?
- more efficient
- compatible
Open Office: first implementation of Excel
STOIC.com a JavaScript implementation
- npm and bower packages coming soon

Using neo4j with node

by thomas fritz

what is a graph
- graphs are not diagrams such as line charts
- leonhard euler created first graph
- graphs are relationships between nodes with data
Cypher
- CRUD and graphing language created by neo4j team
- similar to SQL

Time Series Charts with Rickshaw, D3 & Backbone.js

by richard powell

spot patterns, diagnose problems
D3: data visualization library

Ifvisible.js

by stefan hupe

test if your user is active on the site, if tab is in the background
events - ifvisible.on('blur', function() {});
same technology in inactiveTab project

Dart

founder of blossom, lean project management
blossom switched to dart from javascript
javascript doesn't blow up at the same location as the error
Dart: lingua franca of the web
- shares traits with many web languages such as JavaScript, python
devs writing different languages all over the web - coffeescript, clojure, ecmascript, etc
for dart to win, javascript doesn't need to lose
- things are being added to new ecmascript from dart