JSFoo 2012
It’s like kung fu with JavaScript and objects! All about building full size apps in JavaScript.
About JSFoo
JSFoo is India's only national JavaScript conference series, with editions in Bangalore, Pune and Chennai. This year's Bangalore edition is a flagship two day event.
Event theme
The theme for this second edition in Bangalore is JavaScript everywhere. Tell us how you're pushing the limits of what can be done with JavaScript on the server, in embedded devices, and in its original home in the browser. If you have built something that is popular (even if proprietary), tell us the story of how you did it. Got graying hair? Help us younger folk attain the zen of JS. Tell us about best practices in code and in working style, of how to organize our files and how to assemble crack JS teams.
Commitment to open source
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If your software is commercially licensed or available under a combination of commercial and restrictive open source licenses (such as the various forms of the GPL), please consider picking up a sponsorship. We recognize that there are valid reasons for commercial licensing, but ask that you support us in return for giving you an audience. Your session will be marked on the schedule as a sponsored session.
Speaking submissions
You can submit a proposal to speak at JSFoo via the submission funnel below. Please describe your proposal in as much detail as possible. Detail is important if you'd like to be voted up into the schedule. In particular, we want to hear why you are the best person to be delivering a talk on your proposed topic.
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This event also has a Program Committee of selected individuals from the community whose votes have additional weight, and whose charge is to help you refine your proposal and prepare it for the event. The Program Committee is responsible for ensuring that the final schedule meets the high quality standards that participants expect.
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Tickets: To attend JSFoo 2012, you can purchase tickets from http://jsfoo-2012.doattend.com
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Shreyank Gupta
@shreyankg
Score with Underscore.js
Submitted Aug 2, 2012
Section: Browser
Technical level: Intermediate
Session type: Tutorial
How Underscore.js brings functional programming into JavaScript and how it ties with Backbone.js
Outline
Underscore.js provides a set of utilities which allows a JavaScript programmer to go functional. Quoting the documentation, “It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux, and Backbone.js’s suspenders”
In the tutorial I aim to cover why functional programming is the way to go for JavaScript programmers and how Underscore.js makes it a reality.
I’ll walk through each, map, reduce, filter, select etc. and most of the useful functional bits of Underscore. I’ll also cover the other bits including bind, throttle etc. and features like chaining.
Underscore.js makes you think differently while writing JavaScript. That’s what I want the audience to take back from the session.
Requirements
Functional programming basics.
JavaScript Basics.
Speaker bio
Shreyank Gupta works as a Software Engineer at Red Hat. He writes code in Python, Ruby and JavaScript.
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