JSFoo

Saturday was quiet an eventful day.The first conference, first time I took a 4:40 AM train and the first time I went to Pune by train. All this because there is always more to learn out there.

And learn I did. As the name suggests, JSFoo is a Javascript conference which covered a wide range of topics from Node.js , WebSockets, Test Driven Development , Behavior Driven Development and how to handle errors better for Javascript. I also learn't how it is important to write unit tests even for Javascript. I never thought I needed unit tests for Javascript.

My favorite talks of the 6 that I attended has to be from Rakesh Pai and Sunil Pai. I enjoyed how they made their talk fun to listen to and had funny meme's in their presentation. We all like meme's don't we :)

Errorception was the product Rakesh Pai demonstrated and quite an interesting product it is. Helps you catch JS errors at the client end, in cases where the error's did not show up during your tests.

Sunil Pai, urged all front end developer's to "own the browser", write JS templates, use javascript MVC frameworks and write "unit tests" for all new features and bugs. His presentation slide is here http://www.slideshare.net/threepointone/amplify-your-stack-jsfoo-chennai-2012

My take away from the conference has to be to start writing unit tests and start using MVC frameworks even for Javascript. The web just got more exciting for me.