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##Meta Refresh 2015 edition: The web in your pocket
##Theme
We’re already in a world where smartphones outnumber all the desktops and laptops put together. A sizeable portion of your existing user base could be accessing your website only through a handheld device. It is quite likely that future web users will never experience a site on a large screen.
Undeniably mobiles, be it phones or tablets, have become a critical channel for user acquisition and customer engagement. In fact, one can argue that mobiles are already the primary touch-point for reaching and experiencing the web in many cases.
For many web designers and developers, however, the constraints of a mobile device continue to be a beast — small screen, low resources, fickle networks and the (often false) assumption that the user is always on the move with limited time at hand.
Responsive design hasn’t been enough. Mobile-first was just a start. It takes a lot more to tame the beast and to create a great browsing experience for a mobile user.
Meta Refresh 2015 will focus on enhancing web experience on mobile devices.
And oh, if you disagree with the theme, we’d like to hear about that as well.
HasGeek believes in open source as the binding force of our community. If you are describing a codebase for developers to work with, we’d like it to be available under a permissive open source license. 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.
The 2015 edition is a two-day single-track conference – 16 and 17 April. We invite proposals for:
You must be a practising web developer or designer, and must be able to show how your own work has advanced the state of the web in the past year. You are expected to present original work that your peers — this event’s audience — recognise as being notable enough to deserve a stage.
If you are excited about someone’s work and believe it deserves wider recognition, we recommend you contact them and ask them to submit a proposal.
##Workshop proposals
If you are interested in teaching, sharing knowledge with the community and/or conducting professional trainings on CSS, front-end engineering and design, submit a proposal under workshop section. Specify past experience in teaching and conducting workshops. Even better if you share links to videos of workshops where you were an instructor.
We’ll host workshops starting October 2014 until April 2015.
###Buy tickets here: https://in.explara.com/e/meta-refresh
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Bassam Ismail
CSS comes off as a simple language but as your codebase grows so does the technical debt. If not used correctly, you will end up with a bunch of code that is not only difficult to manage and extend but also doesn’t follow any of the principals (DRY/SRP) our forefathers with the UNIX beard had passed on to us.
SMACSS and BEM are the two methodologies that have emerged in the last few years that have helped companies like Facebook and Twitter with massive codebases to scale while continuously iterating and extending. We will learn how to adopt these techniques to write scalable and maintainable code which portrays a single author but in reality has multiple committers.
I’m a 23 year old Front-end Developer from Srinagar, Kashmir. I work at Axelerant where most of my time is spent working on medium to large scale websites built on top of Drupal. I’ve been working with various startups for the past three years with an agile approch, building front-end for website and webapp.
I specialize in Front-end architecture, responsive design, web typography and UI/UX development. I’m passionate about JavaScript and spend most of time crafting software using Node.js and one of many client-side MVC frameworks. I’m a huge proponent of following best practices: TDD & BDD, proper design patterns, always optimizing, and using the right tools for the right job.
A believer of all Unixy things, I spend most of the time in the terminal. Vim is the text editor of choice. I live and breathe Open Source, I even started a local Open Source Community.
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