Most of this tutorial is taken from my upcoming book 'Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja' which can be found here: http://jsninja.com/
I don't think this was explicitly stated on the slides but you can double click the code slides and you'll be able to edit and re-run them. I tossed this tutorial up after the talk and haven't really had a chance to improve upon it.
Sort of related: Remy Sharp built http://jsbin.com/ which is based off of the construction of this tutorial (using the run-and-show style together with double-click-to-edit).
Nope. In all honesty, it was one of the worst-targeted talks that I've ever given. I had given a similar talk at OSCON (highly technical crowd, audience) and was asked to give it again at Web 2.0 Expo. If you're not familiar with that conference it's highly not technical - lots of social media experts and managers. I was given a room that could've housed 300+ and there was maybe 20-30 attending - and that number rapidly decreased as I worked to explain the complicated aspects of JavaScript. In the audience were people who had, obviously, never coded JavaScript before (based upon the questions they were asking - this talk is not designed for that). By the end there was maybe a dozen people left and they came up and told me how much they enjoyed my talk and how informative it was - so at least it wasn't for naught. I know that the content is good and that I'm able to deliver it effectively but I won't be giving it again until I know that I'll have an audience that appreciates the content.
I was at this talk, and loved it, but you are definitely right about the audience of the conference. I was disappointed as I was hoping it would be a highly technical conference, but instead of it was filled with social media "experts" as you said and lots of buzzwords and hype.
You can find more information about it here: http://ejohn.org/blog/adv-javascript-and-processingjs/
Most of this tutorial is taken from my upcoming book 'Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja' which can be found here: http://jsninja.com/
I don't think this was explicitly stated on the slides but you can double click the code slides and you'll be able to edit and re-run them. I tossed this tutorial up after the talk and haven't really had a chance to improve upon it.
Sort of related: Remy Sharp built http://jsbin.com/ which is based off of the construction of this tutorial (using the run-and-show style together with double-click-to-edit).