Modern JavaScript
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Modern JavaScript
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Re: Modern JavaScript
#2Argh, I hate reading slides without the accompanying audio/video, because I feel like I miss out on 90% of the context.
Re: Modern JavaScript
#3Argh, I hate reading slides without the accompanying audio/video, because I feel like I miss out on 90% of the context.
What are you referring to? This is a blog post and the talk that she refers to in the first paragraph has full audio/video available here: http://jsconf.eu/2010/speaker/the_jquery_divide_by_rebecca_m...
Hope that helps your hate.
Re: Modern JavaScript
#4Argh, I hate reading slides without the accompanying audio/video, because I feel like I miss out on 90% of the context.
I think you've got it backwards, at least when it comes to good talks. It's always seemed to me that at least 80% of the important content is usually discernible from the slides (especially since you can probably infer the other things that the speaker was talking about, minus stuff like stories and jokes which are usually fluff anyways).
Re: Modern JavaScript
#5Argh, I hate reading slides without the accompanying audio/video, because I feel like I miss out on 90% of the context.
What are you referring to? This is a blog post and the talk that she refers to in the first paragraph has full audio/video available here: http://jsconf.eu/2010/speaker/the_jquery_divide_by_rebecca_m... Hope that helps your hate.
To be fair, she doesn't link it from the blog post.
Re: Modern JavaScript
#6Argh, I hate reading slides without the accompanying audio/video, because I feel like I miss out on 90% of the context.
I think you've got it backwards, at least when it comes to good talks. It's always seemed to me that at least 80% of the important content is usually discernible from the slides (especially since you can probably infer the other things that the speaker was talking about, minus stuff like stories and jokes which are usually fluff anyways).
I don't really have it backwards - I'm just describing my experience. :/
I also always heard that slides are supposed to be guideposts to a presentation, not the main point of one.
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#7Argh, I hate reading slides without the accompanying audio/video, because I feel like I miss out on 90% of the context.
What are you referring to? This is a blog post and the talk that she refers to in the first paragraph has full audio/video available here: http://jsconf.eu/2010/speaker/the_jquery_divide_by_rebecca_m... Hope that helps your hate.
Awesome - thank you, I'll watch that.
Re: Modern JavaScript
#8Argh, I hate reading slides without the accompanying audio/video, because I feel like I miss out on 90% of the context.
As a speaker, let me just say that I have yet to figure out how to handle this. When I'm presenting, I want people listening to me, not reading the slides. When people are consuming the slides online afterwards, they can quickly get misconstrued without the context of my spoken words. All of that said, I'll add a link to the video from the blog post :)
Re: Modern JavaScript
#9Argh, I hate reading slides without the accompanying audio/video, because I feel like I miss out on 90% of the context.
As a speaker, let me just say that I have yet to figure out how to handle this. When I'm presenting, I want people listening to me, not reading the slides. When people are consuming the slides online afterwards, they can quickly get misconstrued without the context of my spoken words. All of that said, I'll add a link to the video from the blog post :)
The only good way I have seen it handled without a lot of duplication or extra work is to have the speaker's own notes as a handout, and the presentation just for the audience. Of course that takes a little planning up front.
Good talk, watched it a few weeks ago, still trying to work out how to solve dependancies on my application in an extensible easy to hand over to other devs way.
Re: Modern JavaScript
#10Suddenly CoffeeScript makes a lot more sense to me:
"the language itself is held hostage by browser vendors, some of whom have shown a strong inclination to not give a fuck about owning up to and fixing their egregious mistakes"
So true. The JavaScript we've got now is the assembly language of the client-side. We can't easily change it, but we have to start building better tools on top of it.