This week on Herding Code, the guys speak with Chris Williams, Rey Bango and Matt Podwysocki about this year’s JSConf.

• Chris begins the show with a conference overview which will leave you chomping at the bit for JSConf 2011 registration to open. Hackers’ Lounge. Multiple tracks. One killer speaker list. Hyper-caffeinated, hyper-intoxicated privates! Salmagundi. And lots of JavaScript!
• The guests discuss their favorite parts of the conference. Beyond the quality of the talks, Rey and Chris both comment about the invaluable conversations which were had out-of-session in the Hacker’s Lounge and at the ScurvyConf. Quote of the Show: “I am a firm believer of drinking beer, and shooting the poop, and when you do that, magic happens.” – Chris Williams
• Chris talks about the excitement around Tobias Schneirder’s presentation on Gordon, an open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript.
• The guys talk about Alex Russell and Google Chrome Frame and how IE6 must Die.
• Chris praises Billy Hoffman’s JavaScript’s Evil Side presentation.
• K Scott and Chris talk about JavaScript outside of the browser and functional programming,
• Chris and Scott K talk about a seemingly new found interest in Server-side JS
• Jon asks about JS library duplication in competing platforms. Rey talks about what Resig has done with Sizzle and how each library has their own niche.
• Chris talks about the need to learn JavaScript and how we should be JavaScript developers, not just developers who use JavaScript libraries.
• Matt teases us by mentioning that he’ll be talking about Reactive Extensions on next week’s Herding Code episode.
• Jon asks which percentage of cool JavaScript stuff is just waiting on browser adoption.  Chris doesn’t think too much and prompts Matt talks about progressive enhancements.
• Chris talks about the importance of security and how we shouldn’t only be taught how to write good code but also how to break bad code.
• Kevin asks what is happening with JavaScript, the language itself.
• The show wraps with talk of diversity in computing, JSConf EU, JQuery Conference, JQuery UI 1.8 release, JavaScript conferences and craft beers in the D.C. area.

Show Links:

• JSConf 2010, JSConf EU 2010
• Chris Williams’s Blog, @voodootikigod
• Rey Bango’s Blog, jQuery, Ajaxian
• Matt Podwysocki’s Blog
• Ken Henderson
• Dojo, Prototype, MooTools, YUI, ExtJs
• Brendan Eich
• Peter Higgins, Dojo, plugd
• Salmagundi
• Aaron Quint, Sammy.js, Making Bacon / Making Code
• Tobias Schneider, Gordon
• Greenhouse, Sproutcore, Ajaxian Post
• Alex Russell, Google Chrome Frame
• Douglas Crockford
• Scott Guthrie, IE9
• Narwhal, Tom Robinson, 280 North, Kevin Dangoor
• Ryan Dahl, Node
• V8
• nginx
• CouchDB
• Jaxer, Helma, Persevere
• Rhino
• SquirrelFish Extreme, Nitro
• Jeffrey van Gogh, Reactive Extensions
• CoffeeScript
• Jison
• Francisco Tolmasky, Socratic Documentation Tool
• Cappuccino, Objective-J
• Ross Boucher,
• John Resig, Sizzle
• NWMatcher, Acme (aka query.js)
• John-David Dalton 
• Sam Stephenson
• JavaScript and Web Standards Sitting in a Tree, Jenn Lukas
• Billy Hoffman
• ha.ckers.org, xssed.com
• JSConf 2010 – Video Interviews with Top Javascript Developers
• Makinde Adeagbo
• JSON Hijacking, Phil Haack
• HTML5
• ECMAScript5/Harmony
• @SaraJChipps
• JSConf Diversity in Computing Drive 
• JQuery Conference
• JQueryUI
• ChurchKey, Dogfish Head, Carpool, Rustico
• NoVALang
• nosqleast
• Tom Hughes-Croucher
• Scandinavian Web Developer Conference (SWDC)
• TXJS (Texas JavaScript Conference)

Show notes compiled by Ben Griswold. Thanks!

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Herding Code 79: JSConf Recap with Chris Williams, Rey Bango and Matt Podwysocki

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