On the other hand - mloc.js summed up subjectively

Last week the mloc.js was held in Budapest and I was lucky to be there.

The conference for me was about dualities. Well maybe not just for me, as the audience was clearly split into two camps. The Static Camp and the Dynamic Camp. The former's central reasoning could be summed up as 'We know that JS is here for the long haul, but we really like unambiguous syntax'. The latter's reasoning was more emotional: 'If you can't code in JS, go home' :)

It turns out we're running out of stupid words - Crockford

But let's start at he beginning. Mr. Crockford talked about how we need the syntax to be emotional. And I knew I wasn't gonna create a new programming language next week, but on the other hand by the end of his talk I really wanted to. The keynote speech really was a keynote for me, as my mind was split for the rest of the conference.
Orion for example looks quite flexible, on the other hand to have my source files "in the cloud" has this  tingling feeling to it...

 It was interesting to see the all the meta-programming talks, but it was really good to see the purists in action. Juha Paananen, the smart and casual author of bacon.js and Enrique Amodeo, who also spoke about FP and FRP, eventstreams and promises. You could tell that both of these guys have a lot experience and they not only did their home work, but have a real passion for JS.

 Day 2 started with the lightning talks, where you could have a glimpse at how competent(in web develoment) and honest(in relation to their unsuccessful attempts) Prezi - the organizer -  is.

It's not that bad to write JavaScript, guys. We also write CSS - Fisher

Next stop on my duality-journey was Nick Fisher@soundcloud, their struggle with soundwaves made me feel guilty for the thought of just guessing the outline, but then he confirmed that indeed it was what they came up with.

    function(a) { return a; } - McKenna

Finally Brian McKenna tested(no pun intended) my faith in TDD, but the world was back in order the next morning. How this went down I explain in another post. But I should mention that the TDD workshop by  Enrique Amodeo also helped.

As I said this is an arbitrary selection of talks, but to be fair it was a great conference from beginning to end. See you next year.
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