Meta Refresh 2013

The design and engineering of user interface on the web

Meta Refresh is a conference on the construction of the user experience on the web. The 2013 edition is about letting go. It’s about learning the skills necessary to build experiences which cannot possibly exist on any medium apart from the internet. It will showcase people who have a deep understanding of what the internet is, and what it can be; people who have built experiences and who can recount their experiences doing so.

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The details

Meta Refresh 2013 is a single-track event over two days. All proposals will be evaluated by the program committee consisting of:

The program committee will not consider public voting when making selections, as the current form of voting has a weak correlation to relevance, but will instead look at the discussion each proposal generates. If there is a proposal you find notable, please leave a comment.

For this year’s event, we are seeking original presentations from practising designers and frontend engineers on why something should be done the way you say, rather than how. The conference stage is a place to convince the audience to your point of view. Howto guides go on the website.

As a single track event, you will have the full audience in the room with you, and we expect you to keep it engaged. Please submit examples of prior speaking experience, or a video introducing yourself and your topic, plus proof that you practice what you preach.

Attendance is free for selected speakers. HasGeek will cover your travel to and accommodation in Bangalore from anywhere in the world. As our budget is limited, we will prefer speakers from locations closer home, but will do our best to cover for anyone exceptional. If you are able to raise support for your trip, we will count that towards an event sponsorship.

There are no sponsored sessions at Meta Refresh. Your speaking opportunity is at the discretion of the program committee alone.

If your proposal is not accepted, you can buy a ticket at the same rate as was available on the day of your proposal.

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Dates

We will make the first round of confirmations by late December, a second round by mid-January, and will finalize the schedule in early February. More specific dates as they get closer. The event is on Feb 22-23.

Commitment to open source

HasGeek believes in open source as the foundation of the internet. Our aim is to strengthen these foundations for future generations. If your talk describes a codebase for developers to work with, we require that it is available under a permissive open source license, a license that does not impose itself on subsequent work.

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Satyajeet Shaligram

@satyajeet9

Ext JS - A Comprehensive Design framework for the web

Submitted Dec 22, 2012

Web and Mobile application interfaces have been going through a massive overhaul over the past couple of years. Web developers around the world have been relentlessly launching one great platform after another – Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI/jQtouch, Lungo, Ext JS to name a few.

Sencha happens to be one of the most aggressive players in this space having recently launched their flagship Ext JS and Touch offerings. But what exactly is different about these frameworks? What has the nature of this overhaul been? While Sencha and its customers claim massive improvements, where are these coming from and most importantly, what can this powerful framework do for you?

These are just some of the questions that will be answered in the powerpacked “Sencha Ext JS 4.x unleashed” session. A combination of demos, historical perspective and humorous anecdotes will clarify the significance of this comprehensive web dev offering.

Outline

Here are some of the topics that will be covered in the session -

  • Overview of Ext JS framework
  • Capabilities and improvements over previous versions.
  • User interface design best practices as supported by Ext JS.
  • To MVC or not, what do web devs say about Sencha’s approach.
  • Data driven applications.
  • HTML5 and Ext JS – can they co-exist?
  • My Client is a IE 6 fan, what can Ext JS do for me?
  • The Desktop vs Mobile debate, are we headed for gentle synergy or a head-on train wreck?

Requirements

Since the session involves live demos and an accompanying lecture, the participants need not bring anything extra to the session. A laptop to live-tweet some of the salient points would be good though! :)

Speaker bio

Satyajeet is a software developer working in the field of web technology for the past 5 years. His areas of expertise involve JavaScript & HTML5 based web frameworks, Learning Management Systems and User Interface Design. He has a Masters in Computer Science from Columbia University and a B.E. from Pune University in Computer Engineering.

Over the past year he has been training TechM colleagues in a variety of different frameworks and languages such as PHP, HTML5, jQuery, Ext JS and Git. while also contributing to the development efforts of inhouse learning management systems.

Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/alearnologist/ext-js-unleashed

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