Raju Gandhi

Angular Workshop

9:00 AM MDT

Angular is a new JavaScript framework from Google. If you are looking into developing rich web applications, Angular is your friend. Angular embraces HTML and CSS, allowing you to extend HTML towards your application, and uses plain JavaScript which makes your code easy to reuse, and test. In this workshop we will start from the ground up, and build our way through a simple application that will let us explore the various constructs, and the familiarize ourselves with some of the new terminology in Angular.

In this workshop we will get down and dirty with Angular. In this workshop we will start with the very basics of how to boostrap our AngularJS application, and work slowly towards making REST-ful AJAX requests to a backend. List of topics include

• Bootstrapping an AngularJS application using ng-app
• ng-init and the evaluation {{ }} directive
• A brief look at $rootScope
• ng-model
• Controllers, Dependency Injection, and the View-Model (controller as syntax)
• Looping using ng-repeat
• Forms using ng-form, form validation and submission in AngularJS
• Angular provided filters and how to write our own
• Factories
• Making AJAX requests using $http
• Routing and route params using $routeProvider and $routeParams

If time permits we will discuss a few good practices when working with AngularJS applications.

This is a hands on tutorial so bring your laptops!

What's new in JavaScript (ES 2020) Part I

8:30 AM MDT

JavaScript will celebrate it's 24th birthday in 2020. For a language that has been around for such a while it has seen very few, if any changes to the language itself. Well all that is about to change with ECMAScript.next (or ECMAScript 6). ECMAScript 6 modernizes JavaScript syntax, while bringing in features such as modules for better namespacing, class as a first class construct, and a variety of additional operators thus ensuring that JavaScript is ready for the next era of large scale modern web applications. ES 7, 8, 9 and now 10 all use the features introduced by ES6 to further the language.

In this session we will take a look at some of the features that ECMAScript 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 and 10 bring to the table. We will take an exploratory approach, and by the end of 3 hours, you will be well versed with ALL of the new features in JavaScript.

What's new in JavaScript (ES 2020) - Part II

10:30 AM MDT

JavaScript will celebrate it's 24th birthday in 2020. For a language that has been around for such a while it has seen very few, if any changes to the language itself. Well all that is about to change with ECMAScript.next (or ECMAScript 6). ECMAScript 6 modernizes JavaScript syntax, while bringing in features such as modules for better namespacing, class as a first class construct, and a variety of additional operators thus ensuring that JavaScript is ready for the next era of large scale modern web applications. ES 7, 8, 9 and now 10 all use the features introduced by ES6 to further the language.

In this session we will take a look at some of the features that ECMAScript 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 and 10 bring to the table. We will take an exploratory approach, and by the end of 3 hours, you will be well versed with ALL of the new features in JavaScript.

JavaScript Patterns Revisited

1:30 PM MDT

In this session we will look at some JavaScript patterns, and how you can use them within your code.

No longer can you think of JavaScript as a kiddie-scripting language. JavaScript has now been promoted to a first-class citizen within your application - and with this, comes the need to think of better abstractions, code re-use - even thinking of establishing a common vocabulary to discuss approaches to writing better, cleaner and ultimately more maintainable JavaScript code.

Regex for mortals

3:15 PM MDT

Jamie Zawinski once said “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.“. Many consider regular expressions to be indecipherable, but the truth is that every programmer should consider regular expressions an integral part of their toolkit. From the command line to your favorite text editor, from parsing user input to scraping HTML pages - once you know regular expressions you will find a use for them in almost every programming context.

In this session we will attempt to unriddle the mystery that regular expressions pose. We will start at the basics and work our way towards more complex expressions.

Advanced Regular Expressions

5:00 PM MDT

You have used Regular Expressions before, and they don't faze you one bit. But you know lurking beneath is something even more powerful, and you want to know how to leverage that power. Well fear not! This is just the session you want. We will take a deep dive into Regular Expressions and walk away having understood how to truly take advantage of some of Regular Expressions more esoteric features.

You have used Regular Expressions before, and they don't faze you one bit. But you know lurking beneath is something even more powerful, and you want to know how to leverage that power. Well fear not! This is just the session you want. We will take a deep dive into Regular Expressions and walk away having understood how to truly take advantage of some of Regular Expressions more esoteric features.

Learning to Learn

8:30 PM MDT

In this session we will look to see how we can refactor our learning - what tools, and methodologies can we use to help us learn quicker and better - how we can create a store that gives us quick access to information when we really need it.

We all work in an industry in which not only do the tools that we use change ever few years, but one in which we have to shift the very paradigms these tools are built on! Even the most trivial of projects entails tens of different toolkits, frameworks, and languages coming together, and somehow we need to know how to leverage each one. How does one keep up? Despite all our years in schools, and our in-born nature to learn, we often are never taught how to learn. How can we learn faster, and retain even more?

In this session we will take a look at various tools and techniques available to us and see how we can make our learning effective.

Gradle from the Ground up

9:00 AM MDT

Gradle has fast become one of the de-facto build tool in the Java ecosystem. Gradle offers a powerful DSL to configure your builds. Whether you have a simple build, or a complex build with many moving parts, Gradle's DSL and extensible API can help you make your builds easier, and possible.

In this sessio we will start from the ground up. We will write our first Gradle script and examine Gradle's configuration vs. execution phases. We will see how Gradle uses plugins to add on functionality for free to your build and end with a look at the Gradle Plugin API to see how easy it is to write your own plugins for better reuse.

Gradle - Tips and Tricks

10:45 AM MDT

Gradle has fast become one of the de-facto build tool in the Java ecosystem. You might have used Gradle to build your project without realizing how much more Gradle has to offer. Up-to-date checking, automatic clean, file operations such as copy, move and zip and so much more are just some of the features that Gradle offers right out of the box.

In this session we will explore some of these features and how we can use them within our own builds.

Web Apps with AngularJS - Part I

1:30 PM MDT

In this session, we will take a look at Angular - the powerful MVVM SPA framework from Google. We will discuss some of the terminology that Angular offers, and see how we can use that to develop highly interactive, dynamic web applications. See “Detail” for a list of topics I cover and the Github repo URL

In this session we will take a look at Angular and using it to develop rich web applications. Angular embraces HTML and CSS, allowing you to extend HTML towards your application, and uses plain JavaScript which makes your code easy to reuse, and test.

Note: This is an intro level talk. It is targeted towards developers who are curious about Angular and want to learn about the fundamental features and concepts in Angular.

Topics Covered -

• Bootstrapping an AngularJS application using ng-app
• ng-init and the evaluation {{ }} directive
• A brief look at $rootScope and scoping rules
• ng-model
• Controllers, Dependency Injection, and the View-Model
• Looping using ng-repeat
• Forms using ng-form, form validation and submission in AngularJS
• ng-messages to display form validation messages to the user
• Angular provided filters and custom filters

GitHub URL - https://github.com/looselytyped/angudone-workshop/tree/solutions

Web Apps with AngularJS - Part II

3:15 PM MDT

In this session, we will take a look at Angular - the powerful MVVM SPA framework from Google. We will discuss some of the terminology that Angular offers, and see how we can use that to develop highly interactive, dynamic web applications. See “Detail” for a list of topics I cover and the Github repo URL

In this session we continue our discussion from Part I. As we continue to evolve our application we will seek to use, and understand a few more of AngularJS' core constructs.

• Factories and services
• Routing using ng-view and $routeProvider
• AJAX calls to a backend using $http

If time permits we will look at a few good practices when developing AngularJS applications, ways to modularize your code, and some tools that aid in the development of AngularJS applications.