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Weblica 2015

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!
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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”
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