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16th Birthday Show n Tell

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Async is now sixteen years old - old enough to work a full-time job, legally change its name, or have a pint with a meal in a restaurant (if accompanied by an adult). We won't be doing any of those, but we will be hosting another one of our show n tells!

The Best Worst Pair Programmer You'll Ever Have

Dave Mateer — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Getting productive with Claude Code — an agent that's brilliant, opinionated, and occasionally makes things up.

Ask the Brains, Feb 2026

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:00:00 GMT

🍕🍻 Update: food and drinks are now sponsored!

2025 International Show 'n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:00:00 GMT

IMPORTANT: The date and venue for the 2025 International Show 'n' Tell has changed to the second Thursday in November (13th) at Projects. Please check the address and location details (or have a look on Google Maps).

Sandboxed Javascript

Chetan Padia — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 19:00:00 GMT

On Thursday 2nd October we're very happy to be hearing from Chetan Padia - Head of Software at Clockwork Dog.

From Side-project to Serverless Business with One Programming Language - TypeScript

James Turner — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 19:00:00 GMT

On Thursday 4th September we're very happy to be joined by James Turner.

The Shape of Things to Come - Outside the Box with Modern CSS

Noam Rosenthal — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:00:00 GMT

On Thursday 7th August we're very happy to be joined by Noam Rosenthal. Noam works for Google in the Chrome team, currently focusing on paint/compositing/rendering. He is the editor of the CSS shapes and borders specs.

PRE-VOLVE 25

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:00:00 GMT

Join us the evening before EVOLVE for the meetup social of all meetup socials. This is a Silicon Brighton community wide event - a chance for us all to get together the night before SB's flagship event EVOLVE - an extraordinary day of tech innovation & community.

Prompt n Tell

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 19:00:00 GMT

Now is the decade software engineers go extinct… or is it? OpenAI's $3B acquisition of Windfall and Cursor's $9B valuation, two companies built upon forks of VS Code, indicates copiloting as a likely future. Whereas the recent bankruptcy filing by Builder.ai may spell the beginning of the end for vibe coding at scale.

Svelte Runes, using the signals pattern for reactivity

James Turner — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:00:00 GMT

Svelte sports a reactive system that allied with a pre-compiler makes binding program variables to HTML elements pleasingly easy and concise. However there were some annoying edge cases that caused problems. Svelte 5 (aka Runes) fixes these using the Signals pattern. We’ll demonstrate these issues and how runes rides to the rescue. Finally we’ll cover the uptake of signals in the wider JavaScript ecosystem, including the latest TC39 standardisation.

Ask the Brains, Spring 2025

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:00:00 GMT

We're back with our popular "Ask the Brains" event. The aim is to create a friendly environment for everyone to ask their "that thing you've never understood but always been too afraid to ask" type questions, plus any other topics you feel like talking about on the night.

15th Birthday Show n Tell

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:00:00 GMT

Async is now fifteen years old - a decade and a half! Come ye all for an evening of lightning talks. Tell us about a project, a library, a technique, a story, or anything else to do with JavaScript and its extended family (HTML, CSS, SVG, animated GIFs) or the wider world of web.

When is a button not a button? Semantic HTML and Accessibility APIs

Helen Brockelbank — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:00:00 GMT

On the Thursday Feb 6th we'll be joined by Helen Brockelbank - accessibility specialist, front end developer, and bird enthusiast.

How We Built the World Wide Web in Five Days

Jeremy Keith, Remy Sharp — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:00:00 GMT

This event is happening on Thursday 9th of January - the second Thursday of the month.

Async Holiday Social

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:00:00 GMT

It's nearing the end of the year - everyone's busy buying presents, and organizing to see friends and family for the holidays. So we thought we'd take it easy and have a social event where we can all relax and enjoy each other's company.

2024 International Show 'n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:00:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - ffconf 2024 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show n' tell! This year's installment will be on Thursday 7th November.

A Dive from a Rusty Bridge

James Hugman — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 19:00:00 GMT

You: a web developer, building an app for mobile. You're using React Native, I'm guessing. In search of speed, you've looked for React Native plugins on npmjs and found specialized packages written in a variety of Java, Objective-C and C++.

Sync Different: Building Local-First Apps

Dave Pereira-Gurnell — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Update: unfortunately James Chetwood is now unable to give his talk - Design GUI: Exploring CSS Variables. Instead we will be continuing with only Dave Pereira-Gurnell's talk - Sync Different: Building Local-First Apps.

Improve your Multi-Factor Auth with Firebase and Vonage APIs

Amanda Cavallaro — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Amanda is a Google Developers Expert for Firebase, and a Developer Advocate at Vonage, which provides cloud communications APIs for Messaging (SMS, MMS, social chats apps such as Messenger and WhatsApp), Verify, Voice, and Video, Network APIs, as well as associated tooling and language-specific SDKs.

JavaScript Golf 4

Tom Parslow — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Come and join us on Thursday July 4th where Tom Parslow - long time Async attendee and chief code typer at Buzzshot.com, will task us to solve a series of challenges using JavaScript. The catch - you have to write as little JavaScript as possible. Solve each challenge in the least number of characters to win the game. Imagine the kind of stuff you’d never want to see make it into a real codebase… that’s what we’re looking for!

Real-time collaboration for COGS with Redux

Chetan Padia — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Chetan Padia will show the journey of taking COGS - an immersive theatre and escape room control system - from an single-user desktop app to a web-based multi-user collaborative app.

Particle Flow

Peter Cook — Thu, 02 May 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Peter Cook will show how to create particle flow animations. These use similar techniques to visualisations such as the hint.fm wind map and Cameron Beccario's wind map.

Ask the Brains, Spring 2024

Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:00:00 GMT

International Women's Day

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Today is International Women's Day. We celebrated Async's 14th Birthday yesterday and our community - and the tech industry as a whole - has become more diverse in those years. An inclusive, welcoming community benefits everyone and we still have much to do, both globally and locally.

14th Birthday Show n' Tell

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Async is fourteen years old! A decade has flown by since we last celebrated. Come ye all for an evening of lightning talks. Tell us about a project, a library, a technique, a story, or anything else to do with JavaScript and its extended family (HTML, CSS, SVG, animated GIFs) or the wider world of web.

Throw Away Your JavaScript

Olly Chadwick — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:00:00 GMT

Are you tired of building simple web apps using complex JavaScript frameworks? Would you like to get back to the good old days of server-rendered applications, but worried that you'll lose responsiveness and interactivity?

Inspirational demos from codebar

codebar — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:00:00 GMT

🕖 New start time! From 2024 our events will start slightly earlier at 7.00pm

Async Christmas Quiz 2023

Quizmasters Alise & Michal — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Back by popular demand, Quizmasters Alise & Michal bring a fresh instalment of the Async Christmas Quiz. Join us as we wind down on the year's final first-Thursday-of-the-month in festive December, and we reflect on another fabulous and varied year of Async meetups. Note this event will be in-person only.

2023 International Show 'n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - ffconf 2023 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show n' tell! This year's installment will be on Thursday 9th November (the second Thursday of the month).

Puck: the visual editor for React

Chris Villa — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Puck is an open source website builder for React that is being built at Measured. Puck aims to solve one of Measured's clients' primary pain points and put the WYSIWYG back into their content workflows, without breaking their brand.

Load Up on SvelteKit

Scott Spence — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:15:00 GMT

On the 14th of September (the second Thursday of the month) Scott Spence will be giving a Svelte and SvelteKit primer talk with a dive into data loading with practical examples.

TypeScript Tales and Tailwind Types

Jake 'Sid' Smith, Yann Eves — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 19:15:00 GMT

NEW VENUE: We're trialling a move to Runway East, a brand new space we think makes an even better long-term home for Async meetups. Located a short walk from Brighton railway station on the ground floor of the new York & Elder development.

Good intentions gone bad

Eva Ferreira — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:15:00 GMT

We hope for our web applications to be as beautiful, performant, and accessible as possible; but sometimes... Things get in the way and the outcome is not as good as we hoped. In this talk, I will walk you through a few of my failed attempts at developing accessible web applications. We'll go through different accessibility assumptions and myths that I wrongly believed to be true and how to avoid them by properly testing for accessibility.

AI Showcase

Everyone — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The Async community has been busy prompting so it's time we give that creativity a stage. An AI Show n' Tell.. a Prompt n' Tell!

Nodeventure: May the Fourth (Ep. 2 of 2)

Tom Parslow — Thu, 11 May 2023 19:15:00 GMT

... be with you.

Nodeventure: May the Fourth (Ep. 1 of 2)

Tom Parslow — Thu, 04 May 2023 19:15:00 GMT

... be with you.

Ask the Brains, Spring 2023

Everyone — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 19:15:00 GMT

Managing complex UK Energy Interactions with EDA

Kev Baldwyn — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The UK energy industry is made up of lots of parties that need to communicate information with each other. Historically the methods used have been largely file based, with EDF needing to share the data internally between many different systems for many different needs.

Alexa to the rescue of inaccessible websites

Alex Nicol — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 19:15:00 GMT

The Web is over 30 years old, yet some websites are still not accessible.

Silicon Brighton Big Festive Meetup

Silicon Brighton — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:00:00 GMT

As the year draws to a close, Silicon Brighton is excited to host the Big Festive Meetup! This will be a super informal event to bring everyone together across all the meetups we support and celebrate the festive season. Catch up with friends you’ve met through the year, meet new connections from different parts of the tech community, and make new contacts for the year ahead.

Async Christmas Quiz 2022

Quizmaster Alise — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Hold onto your (Santa) hats for a fresh instalment of the Async Christmas Quiz. Join us as we wind down for 2022’s final first-Thursday-of-the-month in festive December, and we reflect on another fabulous and varied year of Async meetups. This year join us in-person or follow along online.

2022 International Show 'n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 19:15:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - ffconf 2022 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show 'n' tell! This year's installment will be on Thursday 10th November.

JavaScript Golf 3

Tom Parslow — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Come and join us on Thursday October 6th where Tom Parslow - long time Async attendee and chief code typer at Buzzshot.com, will task us to solve a series of challenges using JavaScript. The catch - you have to write as little JavaScript as possible. Solve each challenge in the least number of characters to win the game. Imagine the kind of stuff you’d never want to see make it into a real codebase… that’s what we’re looking for!

10 ways the 💩 emoji can break your app

Remi Shergold — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Ever wanted to break someone’s app with a single well placed 💩?

The Speed of Write

Jake 'Sid' Smith — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:15:00 GMT

We're back at Spaces this coming Thursday for an event that we don't believe we've had anything quite like before.

How to Level-up as a Developer

Simon Downes — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 19:15:00 GMT

Our next event will be the first held at what we hope to be our standard venue for the foreseeable future: Spaces - just round the corner from our previous long standing venue.

Ask the Hybrid Brains, Spring 2022

Everyone — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 19:15:00 GMT

We're back! After 2 years without human contact you will finally have the opportunity to come face-to-face with like-minded developers and enthusiasts! Can't make it in-person? Don't worry, you'll also be able to join us online.

Bringing data into your repos using Flat Data

Amelia Wattenberger, Irene Alvarado, Matt Rothenberg — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:30:00 GMT

Flat explores how to make it easy to work with data in git and GitHub. It builds on the “git scraping” approach pioneered by Simon Willison to offer a simple pattern for bringing working datasets into your repositories and versioning them, because developing against local datasets is faster and easier than working with data over the wire.

Svelte Extravaganza

pngwn — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:30:00 GMT

Since its debut, Svelte has captured an unprecedented level of interest across the web community. Supercharged with SvelteKit, we'll learn about a framework fit for a new generation of production-ready apps.

Play them off, Keyboard App: building a virtual keyboard in JavaScript

Sophie Koonin — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 19:30:00 GMT

Did you know your browser has a whole API dedicated to synthesizing and playing audio?

Async Christmas Quiz 2021

Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 19:30:00 GMT

Welcome back for another Async Christmas Quiz! Despite all the challenges, it’s been a great year in Async-land, with great talks on everything from Accessibility to React Native, as well as some cracking community events such as Ask the Brains and the Show’n’Tell.

Two-Dimensional Show'n'Tell

Everyone — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:30:00 GMT

The nights are coming earlier and the wind is blowing cooler, but Async is here to take your mind off the end of "summer" with another of our world famous Show'n'Tells!

How to prevent the collapse of society by building an accessible web

Salma Alam-Naylor — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 19:30:00 GMT

It’s 2031. Society, as we knew it in 2021, has officially collapsed. Broken hardware and a very slow internet connection are all we have left.

Creating offline and 'instant' websites - aka Progressive Web Apps

Craig West — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 19:30:00 GMT

The term Progressive Web Apps can be misleading, implying some framework/library or special architecture. In reality, PWAs are regular websites that use HTML5 APIs to create offline sites that have near instant speed. Anything less than 100ms is deemed 'instant' by the brain.

Startup Patterns and Practices

Andrew Cheeseman — Thu, 05 Aug 2021 19:45:00 GMT

As web developers, chances are that at some point in our careers we might work for a startup, or even found one ourselves. These opportunities are exhilarating and intense, but are there ways we can increase the chances of being part of the small percentage of startups that make it big? That's the focus of August's Async.

Design systems in React Native

David Leuliette — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 19:45:00 GMT

David Leuliette will be taking us from zero to hero with React Native thanks to the power of design systems. No prior knowledge of React or React Native will be required.

A Night with Vue

Phil Lennon, Daniel Roe — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 19:45:00 GMT

We'll have two talks for June's Async, giving us a comprehensive overview of Vue.js. First up, we'll have Phil Lennon with "A Brief Introduction to Vue.js".

Ask the Online Brains, Autumn 2020

Everyone — Thu, 06 May 2021 19:45:00 GMT

We've had two Ask the Online Brains sessions since the start of this pandemic, and it's time for what will hopefully be our last one where we're all joining from our kitchen tables/bedrooms/shepherd's huts.

Testing made simple

Stefan Buck — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 19:45:00 GMT

Testing your changes before they make it to production is crucial to ensure high-quality and robust software. When Stefan started web development in 2006, testing was not widely adopted and rather an exception.

Fullstack Jamstack Development with RedwoodJS

Anthony Campolo — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 19:45:00 GMT

RedwoodJS is a fullstack serverless framework for the Jamstack that combines a variety of modern technologies including React, GraphQL, and Prisma. In this talk, Anthony Campolo (RedwoodJS Core Advocate), will explain the origins and motivations behind RedwoodJS. He will also demonstrate how to create a RedwoodJS app from scratch and deploy it to the internet.

ARIA Ready to Learn About Accessibility?

Abby Mitchell — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:45:00 GMT

Abby Mitchell will be giving us the low down on a crucial aspect of every web developer's life - accessibility.

Async Christmas Quiz

Pete Goodman, Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 19:45:00 GMT

Welcome to the first ever Async Christmas Quiz! As we welcome web tech loving folk of all levels of experience, this will not be a quiz about how much JavaScript you know - it's a community quiz more in line with a traditional pub quiz. So please come along, either as a team or by yourself, and let's send off this rotten year in style!

Unifying frameworks with Web Components

Craig West — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:45:00 GMT

Web Components, or Custom HTML tags, allow us to create our own custom HTML tags that are native to the browser. They can be used as a modular library for organisations, or be used to create complete applications using 'the platform'.

Ask the Online Brains, Autumn 2020

Everyone — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:45:00 GMT

2020 rumbles on and no sign of us being able to all meet up in person anytime in the near future sadly. To cheer ourselves up, we're having a re-run of the popular and successful Ask the Brains session we had back in May. For those new to the format, here's a recap:

Teaching code as a foreign language

Sophie Koonin — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 19:00:00 GMT

How can you set developers up for success? Think like an English teacher.

Two Dimensional Show n' Tell

Everyone — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:30:00 GMT

Following the success of Ask the Online Brains, and with regular programming still suspended, we have decided to run an online version of another classic Async event. On Thurs 2nd July 2020 at 19:30 we are organising a "Two dimensional Show and Tell".

Ask the Online Brains, Spring 2020

Everyone — Thu, 21 May 2020 20:10:00 GMT

What with one thing and another, and with regular programming suspended, we've decided to have a go at a virtual Async event.

How we built the web in five days

Jeremy Keith, Remy Sharp — Thu, 07 May 2020 19:15:00 GMT

The World Wide Web turned 30 years old this year. To mark the occasion, a motley group of web nerds gathered at CERN, the birthplace of the web, to build a time machine. The first ever web browser was, confusingly, called WorldWideWeb. What if we could recreate the experience of using it ...but within a modern browser! Join (Je)Remy on a journey through time and space and code as they excavate the foundations of Tim Berners-Lee's gloriously ambitious and hacky hypertext system that went on to conquer the world.

Future of AR/VR on the Web

Ada Rose Cannon — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:15:00 GMT

Ada Rose Cannon will present the future of augmented and virtual reality on the web. More details to be confirmed.

Learning serverless in 60 min

Ben Smith, Senior Developer Advocate @ AWS — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 19:15:00 GMT

With serverless backends, front-end developers can build confidently in the cloud from prototype to production without managing infrastructure.

Why do we need Kubernetes?

Ollie Edwards — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 19:15:00 GMT

In 1768 Voltaire proclaimed “if Kubernetes didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent it” which was impressive as Kubernetes was still some 240 years from being invented. This talks aims to unpick this uncanny prescience by imagining a world where Kubernetes does not exist and investigating how we would solve problems with standardisation and operation of modern applications without it.

Why Frontend Needs a Standard Server Runtime

Glenn Maddern — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 19:15:00 GMT

For frontend developers, it feels like the tools and platforms on offer have never been better. But dig a little deeper, and you'll see that while things are pretty rosy for statically-hosted apps, there's a rapid increase in complexity when adding server-side logic or rendering. In this talk, we'll look at how that manifests, what it means for each of your apps & the open-source landscape at large, and how a new project, Frontend Application Bundles or FABs, can help solve it.

Designing Network Sympathetic Applications

Chris Tomkins — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Network specialist Chris Tomkins' talk will take you through some interesting and non-obvious characteristics of how TCP/IP networks like the Internet work, and how you can design your client-server applications to be "good citizens" and perform well in a variety of suboptimal networking scenarios.

2019 International Show n' Tell

All and sundry — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 19:15:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - FFConf 2019 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show'n'tell! This year's instalment will be on Thursday 7th November. The ever popular International show'n'tell is the perfect opportunity to give a peek at your passion project, try out a lightning talk, or just share what's on your mind.

Virtual Jungle

Thu, 17 Oct 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Come along to the Async BDF Special to help create an immersive augmented-reality jungle scene which you can view directly on your phone's web browser!

Editing the world

Julian Krispel-Samsel — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Ever wondered how to implement editors in the browser? What about repeatable and reversible changes, rich text, syntax highlighting, mixing text with arbitrary content or god forbid - editing recursive data structures as text?

The nitty-gitty

Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Git is not complicated, but it is complex (and confusing). In this talk, Daniel explains the basic building blocks of git: commits, blobs, trees and refs. He then builds on this foundation, past branches and merges to remotes and rebases in an attempt to demystify the tool we all rely on.

An introduction to AR.js and A-Frame

Ed Silverton — Thu, 01 Aug 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Ed Silverton will be presenting some of the WebAR work he has been doing at Mnemoscene, followed by a coding workshop to introduce some of the basic concepts, including how to use GLTF objects, custom markers, and animation. This workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced web developers with an interest in learning AR.js and A-Frame.

An Introduction to Gatsby and Gatsby Themes

Mike Allanson — Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:15:00 GMT

What is Gatsby? Learn how you can use it to build performant web apps and sites. We’ll cover getting started, sourcing data, and some of Gatsby’s built-in performance optimisations. To finish up we’ll learn about the future of Gatsby with Gatsby Themes.

Semprola, a semiotic programming language

Oli Sharpe — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Most programming languages are built on ideas that were developed in the 1950s and 1960s and yet a lot about how we use computers has changed since then. Brighton local Oli Sharpe has been researching ideas about how one would build a contemporary programming language given how we use computers today.

Ask the Brains Spring 2019

Everyone — Thu, 02 May 2019 19:15:00 GMT

After last year's successful Ask the Brains event, we'll be rebooting it for 2019.

React Hooks

Matthew McCorry — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 19:15:00 GMT

The highly anticipated feature of React Hooks has finally been released. We can now add state and use side effects in our functional React components.

Imposter Syndrome

Pete — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Imposter syndrome. You may have heard of it. You may have suffered from it. You might not even have realised it at the time.

govuk-react - our UI component library and CI pipeline

Alasdair McLeay, Steve Sims — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 19:15:00 GMT

govuk-react is a React component library for building govuk-styled web applications. We will be giving a demo of its usage, an overview of the technologies used to develop it and show our continuous integration setup including visual regression tests and preview environments.

WebGL with Dan Neame

Dan Neame — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:15:00 GMT

Dan Neame will be kicking off the new Async year with a talk on WebGL. Please note that it'll be on the second Thursday of the month, to allow us all time recover from our festive hangover!

Useable, Grammatical and Readable code

Daniel van Berzon — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 19:15:00 GMT

As software developers, we all know that we need to make our code more readable - but how exactly? There is not a lot of literature out there on the subject, and what there is can be very dogmatic and contradictory.

2018 International Show n' Tell

All and sundry — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:15:00 GMT

The November migration of the world's top web developers to the sunny city of Brighton & Hove can only mean one thing - FFConf 2018 is coming. So, it's time for another International Async Show'n'tell! This year's instalment will be on Wednesday 7th November - not Thursday. The ever popular International show'n'tell is the perfect opportunity to give a peek at your passion project, try out a lightning talk, or just share what's on your mind.

Supercharged Spreadsheets

Tibor Besze — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 19:15:00 GMT

We all know the struggle, when a feature request sounds like the perfect job for a spreadsheet. But... there's always a tiny detail that makes us believe it's not quite enough to do the job. Or is it? In this talk, Tibor Besze will demonstrate how to utilise Google Apps Scripts (and a wide variety of Google services and APIs) to get the most out of your Google Sheets. The talk is aimed at Javascript developers of all skill levels, and includes a live demonstration.

Double bill - Electron and Unit Testing

Dan Neame, Mark Everitt — Thu, 04 Oct 2018 19:15:00 GMT

October will see the return of the famed Async "Double Bills".

Compression

Niall Coleman — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:15:00 GMT

I've always been amazed about how compression formats and algorithms work. Over the past couple of years, I have created a game that features a hand-rolled compression algorithm for the game maps. These consist of two 2D arrays of numbers, corresponding to the game tiles. However, this format can be applied to an integer array of any number of dimensions.

React Native

David Sharp — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Over the recent years, various attempts have been made to bring app development to the web development community, with varying degrees of success and popularity. Facebook's offering asks devs to leverage their knowledge of React and its ecosystem, but ditch the DOM, to allow for frictionless development of performant iOS and Android apps. However, with their "learn once, write anywhere" approach, is React Native really as straightforward as the marketing blurb would have you believe? In this talk, we'll cover how easy it is to get your React Native code running on a real device, offer a primer to the React and JSX way of life, and discuss some of the hurdles you might come across.

Alexa workshop

Jez Nicholson — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Amazon tutorials will help you make your first Hello World/Alexa app, but what then? Building a Voice User Interface raises questions that will apply to any app build. Jez will take you on a lightning tour of what he has learned so far. There will be slides+talk, there will be activities, there will be live(ish) coding. You should leave the session with an idea of how Alexa works and what a real-life project might involve..

Intro to Rust

Oliver Winks — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:15:00 GMT

Rust is a new language developed by Mozilla which takes an interesting approach to memory management and memory safety. We'll be taking a look at Rust's "big idea" and the thing that makes it unique; ownership and borrowing. This language level feature forms the cornerstone of Rust and is a common source of trouble for people picking up the language.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery

Andy Hume — Thu, 03 May 2018 19:15:00 GMT

I'm fascinated by how websites are built and released in to the world. I've been doing it in all sorts of ways for over fifteen years at companies like Microsoft, the Guardian, Twitter, and currently Brandwatch in Brighton. Over that time I've got somewhat opinionated about effective ways of releasing things on the web, whether that's web frontends, APIs, or cloud infrastructure.

Show n' Tell Spring 2018

Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:15:00 GMT

It's 2018 and after a few great talks, and our new Ask The Brains evening of tech discussion, we're back with another Show n' Tell! Last year we had a great range of projects and topics ranging from creative CSS animations and generating "marble flow" textures in real time, to taking a look at some emerging languages and proposals for unit testing tools. And, not to forget, we had our youngest ever speaker, at only 8 years old, showing off a javascript game they had made.

Limitation breeds creativity

Cassie Evans — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:15:00 GMT

In web dev, sometimes the sheer volume of things to learn can be overwhelming. Pair this with anxiety and a tendency to procrastinate and you’ve got the perfect recipe for doing absolutely nothing.

Ask the Brains

Everyone — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 19:15:00 GMT

And now for something a little different. This session, the content will be in your hands. Rather than having one speaker speaking on one topic, we'll be covering a range of topics chosen on the night, and leveraging the power of the mighty brains of Async to demystify, enlighten, and wax lyrical.

Firebase

Harry Hogg — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 19:15:00 GMT

We've all had that night where we get a great idea for a side project, and to make it really great it needs to have authentication, persistent state, some sort of backend to handle the stuff we can't expose to the frontend. If you think it's a really great idea you might even throw in some analytics.

Ruby rocks

Dorothy Wingrove — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Async has primarily been a JavaScript meetup since it was founded (back in 2010!). We can all learn a lot from looking at other languages though, and one of the more elegant web languages around is Ruby. Luckily, our own Dot Wingrove is a Rubyist and will be our guide.

2017 International Show n' Tell

All and sundry — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 19:15:00 GMT

What's that? November already? Crikey, time for another International Async Show'n'tell! Following on from last year's success, ffconf 2017 will again be over two days, so to prevent clashing with the afterparties we'll be meeting on Wednesday 8th November - not Thursday. The International show'n'tell has become an institution in its own right, and is a perfect opportunity to give a peek at your passion project, try out a lightning talk, or just share what's on your mind.

Code, Explore, Create. Inspirational Demos from codebar

The Codebar Brighton team — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 19:15:00 GMT

For those who haven't heard of us, codebar is a non-profit initiative that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running regular programming workshops. The atmosphere at each weekly codebar meeting is pretty special – a great mix of catching-up, idea sharing and learning. In addition to meeting weekly, we work hard to offer interesting and exciting events and workshops.

Pathfinding with Snake: A Javascript Hacknight

Harry Hogg — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Pathfinding is a concept that we all encounter in our day to day lives. In software, like SatNavs planning the quickest route to a destination or utility companies installing infrastructure in the most efficient way possible. In our own brains, from a premeditated route to the train station or a split second decision of your next step to avoid a fellow pedestrian.

Getting into the Flow: Static Types for Javascript

Dave Gurnell — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Static type systems are all the rage these days. Languages like Typescript, Elm, and Purescript, use static types to reason about code without running it, eliminating certain classes of bugs and making code easier to understand.

Mapping with D3

Peter Cook — Thu, 03 Aug 2017 19:15:00 GMT

For thousands of years humans have sought to understand the physical world through the making of maps, and that is as true today as it was all those millennia ago. Countless tools now exist to help with making maps and the JavaScript world is no exception, with several libraries that make it easier than ever to create and experiment with maps. One of those libraries is D3, which contains some powerful features for making beautiful interactive maps.

GraphQL with Tom Ashworth

Tom Ashworth — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:15:00 GMT

This talk will see the long-awaited return of Tom Ashworth.

Building an Internet-of-Things thing

Remi Shergold — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Internet of Things, Smart devices, Wearables, [insert smug buzzword here]. It's what all the cool kids are talking about so lets have a go at building one ourselves. We're going to go over the very basics of designing a circuit, prototyping and producing a top quality PCB. The gadget we build will wirelessly connect to the outside world and become a part of the Internet of Things.

From iFrame to ByeFrame

Andy Taylor, James Brannon — Thu, 04 May 2017 19:15:00 GMT

iFrames are a quick and easy way to put content on other people’s websites, but not without their many drawbacks. James and Andy, the front end team from StoryStream, explain how they replaced iFrames with plain old JavaScript to seamlessly inject content into any website in the world, and detail the challenges they overcame along the way.

Writing Secure JavaScript

Josh Emerson — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Some of the very things that make JavaScript awesome can also expose it to security risks. This talk will go through some sample security flaws unique to Node’s async nature and surrounding ecosystem (or especially relevant to it) and will show how these could occur in your own code or in npm dependencies.

ESGolf (JavaScript Golf 2)

Tom Parslow — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Come for a night of writing code that should get you fired from any normal programming job. Have fun and maybe even learn some new things about JavaScript and programming. Hideous trousers not required (but highly encouraged).

The rise of the bots

Alexandre Nicol — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 19:15:00 GMT

You've surely heard of them, the bots are coming! Some predict they will cause the end of mobile applications, others that they will even take over jobs!

What is Angular 2? From a simple component to zones

Gordon Cumming — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:15:00 GMT

Angular 2 is a complete rewrite of AngularJS (like a new language) and got to its full release of 2.0.0 in mid Sept 2016 after 2 years of going through alpha, beta and RC releases and has new bits added every week (now at 2.3.1 – 20/12/16). Gordon Cumming is a Senior Angular/Angular 2 developer and has been studying Angular 2 for over 2 years although only started coding in Oct 2015. He lives and breathes Angular 2 on a daily basis (often 12 hours per day 7 days a week) and has written a 2000 page training application in Angular 2, all about Angular 2, with about 50 working applications within it to demonstrate different features. This application has lots of show/hide sections so that the viewers don’t have too much information on the screen at once.

Web based interactive visualizations in D3.js

Tom Parslow — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 19:15:00 GMT

D3.js is a powerful JavaScript library for producing rich interactive data-driven visualizations for the web. The last few decades have seen an explosion of data; the challenge now is how to process and present that data in a human-readable way. As the plentiful examples at d3js.org and blocks.org show, D3 is capable of some pretty impressive stuff! This talk assumes no previous knowledge of D3.JS but does assume basic familiarity with JavaScript or a similar programming language.

2016 International Show n' Tell

Everyone — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Come one, come all, to the renowned annual International Async Show'n'tell! This year's ffconf will for the first time be over two days, so to prevent clashing with the afterparties, this year's Show'n'Tell will be on Wednesday 9th November - not Thursday. This special Async is for Brightonians and pilgrims alike to show us what's getting their juices flowing right now.

Neural Networks for Squirrels

Antonio De Luca — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 19:15:00 GMT

What do Neural Networks and JavaScript have in common?

Make Your Own JS Game Part 2

Alvin Ourrad — Thu, 06 Oct 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Alvin Ourrad will return for another instalment of his workshops on how to Make Your Own JS Game. Don't worry if you missed the first, we'll provide you with the boilerplate to get you up to date. More details to follow...

Fishcotheque (part 2 of 2)

Everybody — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Calling all designers, developers and anyone else with a nautical interest. Have you ever wondered what lives down below the pier?

Fishcotheque (part 1 of 2)

Everybody — Thu, 08 Sep 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Calling all designers, developers and anyone else with a nautical interest. Have you ever wondered what lives down below the pier?

Twofer - The State of the Game & Beyond 2D; Into the shadows

Graham Smith, Carl Bateman — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Time for another double bill (hence the picture, geddit?) you lucky things! We will see Graham Smith return to the stage to give us an update on his epic adventure to build a game in JavaScript. Carl Bateman will then tell us how WebGL re-introduced him to JavaScript. Two tenuously intertwined talks -- being a lightning tour of some of the possibilities of WebGL and a peek into some of the darker corners of JavaScript.

Misadventures in JavaScript - a decade of pointless experiments

Pete Goodman — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Pete will give you a whistlestop tour of the many weird (and pointless) experiments he has created over the years, built with a mixture of web technologies, a misguided imagination and a bit too much alcohol. Hopefully there will be a laugh or two along the way.

JavaScript Electronics on the Pi Zero

Seb Lee-Delisle — Thu, 28 Jul 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Seb will show you how to get started with connecting electronic components on the Raspberry Pi. Work with super bright LEDs, buttons, displays, sensors and motors entirely in JavaScript. You can make IoT prototypes, or just fun side projects with this accessible platform.

Angular at Scale

James Gray — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:15:00 GMT

So you’re a tech lead, developer or architect, you’ve got a massive application (or lots of smaller ones), a gambit of different user and business needs, long transactional journeys and different infrastructure locations.

Extending the offline web experience

Glenn Jones — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Service Workers are an exciting technology for the web, increasing the speed of pages loads and enabling sites to be accessed offline. Building web content as pages on a remote server or in browsers using code and caches holds great potential. Well that’s the promise; the reality is that these two environments are not equal.

Make Your Own JS Game

Alvin Ourrad — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 19:15:00 GMT

We all love a good game, don't we? I've got some good news for you, making games is almost as fun as playing them, and you can do this entirely in JavaScript.

Introduction to NLP with Python

Jess Bowden — Thu, 26 May 2016 19:15:00 GMT

This talk will introduce the area of NLP (Natural Language Processing) and a basic introduction of its principles. It will use Python and some of its fundamental NLP packages, such as NLTK, to illustrate examples and topics, demonstrating how to get started with processing and analysing Natural Languages. We’ll look at what NLP can be used for, a broad overview of the sub-topics, and how to get yourself started with a demo project.

Adventures of a startup within a startup

Dan Neame — Thu, 12 May 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Brandwatch Vizia is a multi-screen data visualisation system, the second product that Brandwatch released. It uses the Brandwatch platform to present data in an attractive and simple manner.

Spring Show n' Tell

Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:15:00 GMT

We've had some mind-blowing speeches from world-famous developers in recent months, and now it's your turn! The Async Birthday Show'n'Tell tradition continues on 28th April 2016. Come and show us what's floating your boat, what magic you've conjured up, or what you think will be The Next Big Thing™.

Internet of Browsers

Ben Foxall — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Please see below the updated talk details as of 06/05/16:

Power to the Patterns - creating component libraries that work from prototype to production

Mark Perkins — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Component libraries, pattern portfolios, styleguides.... whatever you want to call them, using a modular design and build approach to developing sites and web apps is fast becoming an accepted best practice. But working in this way often comes with its own share of difficulties and pain points, particularly when it comes to integrating component libraries with production code.

Web Audio - Let there be sound

Ben Hall — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:15:00 GMT

This talk is going to be a crash course on the Web Audio API. We will cover topics ranging from the nature of sound, through to music theory and electronic audio synthesis. Each step along the way we'll take a smattering of theory with a dose of hard code and be indulged / disturbed by strange new sounds. In addition to these abstract and experimental musings we will consider practical uses from earcons to games and digital audio workstations.

Motion on the Web

Graham Smith — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Flash is back, baby! Sort of. And without all that alleged battery drain. Today's browsers are more sophisticated than they've ever been. It's never been easier to implement graphics and motion on your websites in responsive and accessible ways. In this talk we'll delve into the world of motion and animation. We will examine the strengths and weaknesses of CSS; when and where to use it and when not to. We'll follow that by looking at how we could extend its capabilities with a sprinkling of JavaScript. Then, in the latter half of the talk, we go deep, deep into the world of timings, easing and JavaScript. We'll cover, not only why you might use JavaScript for your animations, but also how to begin writing an animation library. Finally, finishing off, we'll briefly look at the performance implications and practical ways to bring life to your website right now.

Twofer - From Local to Live - Generate yo' Generators

Graham Smith, Yann Eves — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:15:00 GMT

In this special two for one evening, we'll be welcoming Graham Smith to the Async stage for the first time, with a talk entitled "From Local To Live":

Writing Universal JavaScript

Jack Franklin — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 19:15:00 GMT

The main criticism of single-page applications has always been their reliance on JavaScript, but recently there has been a focus on running these client-side applications on the server. Jack Franklin explains the reasons Universal JavaScript should be taken seriously as an approach to building sites and shows how to run client-side JavaScript application on the server.

Astronauts, Conway's Law and Text Adventure - Experiments in Remixable Servers

James Hugman — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 19:15:00 GMT

Today's Javascript apps are multi-team, multi-version, server-side, client-side behemoths.

Practical Learnings of WebGL for Make Benefit Glorious Internet of Web

Carl Bateman — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 19:15:00 GMT

A broad introduction to WebGL, from low level code (in JavaScript and shaders in GLSL), through various libraries, frameworks and APIs, to WebGL as mark-up (no coding needed – full fat 3D for designers).

Async @ Async

Mark Everitt — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:15:00 GMT

In this talk I'll show what async-await is, how it helps, and ways you can start using it now. If I have time, I'll demo a small express/koa inspired experiment which can consume async functions as middleware.

Practical GraphQL

Alexander Savin — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 19:15:00 GMT

GraphQL was introduced by Facebook this year and since then it has been a hot topic. We are going to talk about reasonings behind GraphQL, why you might consider using it, and who it is for. We will also talk about concepts of the modern web application concerning data sending and fetching from the backend. There will be mention of Facebook Relay, and how it integrates with GraphQL endpoints.

ES6/ES2015 - Fancy Pants New JavaScript

Thomas Parslow — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 19:15:00 GMT

It's Tom Parslow again, this time talking about the new features of JavaScript known as ES2015 (previously ES6) and ES7.

2015 International Show n' Tell

Thu, 05 Nov 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Roll up folks, time for the annual International Async Show'n'tell! It's ffconf (formerly known as Full Frontal conference) on 6th November, and as usual we'll be hosting a pre-conference special Async for Brightonians and pilgrims alike to show us what's getting their juices flowing right now.

Resilience

Jeremy Keith — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:15:00 GMT

Web browsers have become so powerful that developers are now treating them as if they were a runtime environment as predictable as any other. But the truth is that we still need to deal with many unknown factors that torpedo our assumptions.

Designing for Humans

Barry Prendergast — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Designing for humans - demystifying the user experience domain and developing a useful design rationale.

Playcanvas Lunar Lander Hacknight (Part 2)

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Come and learn how to create your very own 3D Lunar Lander game using web technologies

Playcanvas Lunar Lander Hacknight (Part 1)

Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Come and learn how to create your very own 3D Lunar Lander game using web technologies

Beyond slide decks

Soledad Penadés — Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Talks about rich media APIs often see the speaker having to leave the slide deck to open content in another tab and show a demo. Is there a way we can do better than this? Sole will talk about how she's taking a fairly conventional slide deck and making it seamlessly multidimensional but still keeping it printable. Expect ear and eye candy!

The toxic side of open source

Remy Sharp — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Remy Sharp adorns Async for the first time evar to talk about the dark side of running JS Bin as an open for all playground.

WTF: What The Flux?

Thomas Parslow — Thu, 06 Aug 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Tom Parslow returns to Async to talk about Flux, the perfect compliment to React.JS for building reliable maintainable JavaScript applications.

Functors and Monads

Fabien O'Carroll — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Fabien O'Carroll returns to Async to give us a masterclass in functional programming concepts.

Phil Nash Doublebill - WebRTC and Push notifications

Phil Nash — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Phil Nash will be joining us for a two-part evening exploring the increasingly important area of realtime technologies.

AngularJS 1.x the right way

Tim Ruffles — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 19:15:00 GMT

AngularJS has exploded in popularity, but the lack of guidance on the right way to use Angular from the authors has resulted in teams with collapsing productivity. Gigantic controllers that everyone's too afraid to touch, scopes knotting the whole app together, persistence concerns leaking throughout, a sadly empty test folder... Applying some evergreen UI patterns, and a smattering of Angular specific tools, can make it all so much simpler.

Killer page load performance

Jonas Ohlsson — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Users don’t wait for slow sites to load, and they’re only getting more and more impatient. How do we keep up? The good news is that we can get very far by focusing on our perceived load time (as opposed to full page load time).

7 Similarities between Go and Node

Dave Mackintosh — Thu, 21 May 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Go and Node have their fundamental differences and appeals but there are some key similarities that make it an appealing and natural choice for a lot of NodeJS/JavaScript developers. This is a side by side comparison of 7 common features and paradigms between NodeJS and Golang.

Native mobile apps in JavaScript with React Native

Thomas Parslow — Thu, 07 May 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Tom's slides for this talk are now available here and the video of the talk is available here.

Friction Free Gaming

Will Eastcott — Thu, 30 Apr 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Could there be a better alternative to the App Store? This talk explores how we currently build and play games and looks to the web for a better solution. HTML5 and WebGL offer exciting opportunities for game developers (or anyone working with realtime 3D). These technologies power PlayCanvas, an online platform for building 3D games and apps. We'll take a look at some PlayCanvas content to see what's possible.

Web Maps

Shane Hudson — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this evening's speech will actually be on the subject of maps on the web by the heroic Shane Hudson.

Getting Started with ES6 Modules Today

Jack Franklin — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Traditionally modules in JS have been difficult - we've fantastic, but complex, solutions like Browserify or RequireJS - but ES6 brings its own module system that is fantastic to work with. In this talk I'll show you how it works and how you can use libraries to start using ES6 modules in your production apps today.

Creative Functional Programming

Dave Gurnell — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 19:15:00 GMT

In this talk, Dave Gurnell (@davegurnell) will discuss the design and implementation of two declarative libraries for drawing and composing music on the web. The talk will focus on the high-level design patterns, which are drawn from classical functional programming and help keep user code simple, clean, maintainable, and portable.

JavaScript Golf

Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Get on your best pair of hideous golfing trousers and join us for the first ever Async JS Golf Competition.

Spring Show n' Tell

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:15:00 GMT

Christmas is now a distant memory, summer is still a little way off, so let's cheer ourselves up with a Show'n'Tell! The winter months are the perfect time for beavering away on hack projects whilst it's cold and dark outside, so come one and come all and share your beautiful creations.

Little Language Design Workshop

James Hugman — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:15:00 GMT

A programming language and its tools shape the way we solve a given problem. Things trivially easy in one language can be a thicket of awful in another. Some languages need lots of boiler plate, some do not.

Everything you ever wanted to know about Three.js and WebGL but were afraid to ask

Dan Neame — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:15:00 GMT

WebGL is one of the most exciting features to hit the web in recent years. You can use it for a wide range of applications and visualisations, in both 2D and 3D, but is often seen to have a steep learning curve.

Tree and Network Visualisation using D3.js Layouts

Peter Cook — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 19:15:00 GMT

D3 has established itself as the JavaScript library of choice for producing data visualisations and its flexible architecture enables the visualisation of a wide array of data types including lists, trees and networks.

Node Proxy "All your net are belong to us"

Yann Eves — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Adapting change in technical architecture is the single most demanding but necessary consideration in modern applications. Modularity on the front-end is a familiar topic, but achieving this separation of concerns across a full stack poses a much greater challenge.

Async Special - Hapi.js Workshop

Glenn Jones — Sat, 06 Dec 2014 13:00:00 GMT

Writing an API can seem a complex task, but by using HAPI.js you can easily build well-structured APIs quickly. If you have ever wanted to build a backend for your latest mobile app idea or just a web interface to share data this workshop will show you how.

Google Glass and Node.js

Alena Ruprecht — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Google Glass has exploded onto the scene and become the flag bearer of wearable technology, bringing augmented reality to the masses.

2014 International Show n' Tell

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 19:15:00 GMT

What's this? Have we really barrelled through another year and got to that time again? It's the Full Frontal conference on 7th November, so keeping with tradition we'll be having a Show'n'Tell for developers native to Brighton and those from further afield to take the stage.

Sass for Newbies

Hugo Darby-Brown — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Slides for Hugo's talk are now available here: http://slides.com/darby-brown/sass-for-newbies

Functions, frameworks and flow

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Presented by Tom Ashworth

Robocode Hackathon (part 2 of 2)

Thu, 25 Sep 2014 19:15:00 GMT

###Join us for part two of a two-part hackathon and pit your robo-tank in a battle royale!

Robocode Hackathon (part 1 of 2)

Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:15:00 GMT

###Join us for part one of a two-part hackathon and pit your robo-tank in a battle royale!

On the Composition of Curried Lamb(das)

Fabien O'Carroll — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:15:00 GMT

This will be an introduction to some of the concepts and techniques used in functional programming - and how, when utilised, they can create more readable and testable code.

My Year of Crawling

Seraphina Anderson — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Seraphina will be talking about the processes entailed in building robots for scraping data off the web, and the sorts of problems that may be encountered on the way. Among some of the topics to be covered, are regular expressions and how they are used for pattern matching, the sorts of 'steps' you will need to add to your crawler, to determine what you want it to do, and to conclude - ideas for how and where these skills could be applied and developed, and where one could go next. Seraphina will be going through several example problems and solutions throughout, covering both the build and debugging stages.

Everything is Awesome

Matt Gaunt — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 19:15:00 GMT

The slides for Matt's talk can be found here: http://slides.com/gauntface/everything-is-awesome

Nodebar

Thu, 10 Jul 2014 19:15:00 GMT

It's five years since Node.js was first introduced by Ryan Dahl. In that time, it's growth has been meteoric, but what has your experience been? Are you a nodemaster with scores of npm modules under your belt? Or is this the first you're hearing of it?

4th Birthday Show n' Tell

Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Async is four years old! To celebrate, we are holding a (slightly belated) evening of 5-minute quickfire talks. Tell us about a project, a library, a technique, a story, or anything else to do with JavaScript and its extended family (HTML, CSS, SVG, animated GIFs) or the wider world of web.

Ionic, build awesome hybrid apps with HTML5 and AngularJS

Ryan Hanna — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Ionic is a framework for building native-quality hybrid apps with HTML5 and AngularJS. Using Ionic, anyone with some knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript can go from nothing to something amazing quicker than ever before.

A gentle introduction to FRP

Julian Krispel-Samsel — Thu, 22 May 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Event handling in JavaScript is a mess. Especially now since UIs are becoming more complex and are supposed to work on a range of devices. At the heart of Functional Reactive Programming lies a simple and powerful concept that can help us keep sane: The EventStream.

Parsing for Much Fun and Great Victory

James Hugman — Thu, 08 May 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Have you ever wanted to write your own language?

Data pipelines in client side JavaScript

Ismael Celis — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Patterns like data pipelines, queuing and multiplexing are familiar to backend developers working on distributed and high-traffic systems. Projects such as Node.js or ZeroMQ make the concepts of streams, queues and pipelines first-order primitives that allow you to compose software in an organic and declarative way.

Developing Apps for Ubuntu

Alan Pope — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Fast, secure and stylishly simple, the Ubuntu operating system is used by millions of people worldwide every day.

Async Does Nodeschool

Tom Ashworth, Adam Yeats — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:00:00 GMT

nodeschool.io is a free, community driven, open source educational project that teaches JavaScript and node.js skills in an interactive, self-guided way.

Pro Git

Steve Mason — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Git has pretty much taken over as the Version Control System of choice for modern web developers, helped not in small part by the rise of GitHub

Hybrid Web Applications with PJAX and HATEOAS

James Da Costa — Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Client-side JavaScript frameworks such as Ember and Angular are very popular at the moment. They’re great for developing fluid user interfaces in which views are dynamically regenerated on the client and user interface components are kept in sync by being bound to some data.

HTML and CSS as a programming environment

Dan Neame — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:15:00 GMT

Or, "How to write jQuery without jQuery".

Meet the pseudo elements

Mat Griffiths — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:15:00 GMT

If you've been keeping tabs on various blogs recently, you'll probably have noticed there's a lot of talk surrounding a new breed of UI designers. We've seen responsive design kill Photoshop and as a result designers have become code literate and turned to browsers as their primary design tool.

SidekickJS - Building a SaaS for developers

Tim Ruffles — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 19:15:00 GMT

If you're going to be creating a business, it better be doing something you love. When Tim Ruffles saw a possible business building code-quality tools he jumped at the chance.

ServiceWorker & the Offline Web

Tom Ashworth — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Offline is the new frontier for those building on the web. The things we build have become more complex, beyond what anyone could have envisioned when the web was invented or in its early years, and delivering "app-like" experiences with always available data is vital.

Scalable web apps with Flight

Tom Hamshere — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:15:00 GMT

The FlightJS application framework offers a new way of building web applications at scale. Its straightfoward architecture allows the creation of highly portable, well-defined components that are easy to understand, easy to write and can be shared between applications.

2013 International Show n' Tell

Thu, 07 Nov 2013 19:15:00 GMT

It’s that time of year again in Brighton. It's the Full Frontal conference on 8th November and, as ever, Async is here to get the ball rolling and the blood flowing.

Hacking the Raspberry Pi with JavaScript

Alex Roche — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:15:00 GMT

The Raspberry Pi is an amazing foundation for hacking with, and deserves more credit than most people give it. As the lovechild of an Arduino and a computer, it gives you more responsibilities and possibilities than you would otherwise expect. It leaves all of the choices to the end user, from Operating System to how much processing power is dedicated to graphics rendering.

Be More HAPI

Glenn Jones — Thu, 10 Oct 2013 19:15:00 GMT

HAPI is a node.js framework designed to provide the perfect foundation for APIs. It has a simple to use configuration-centric design with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential features. HAPI provides a painless route to scalable architecture allowing you to spend more time writing reusable application code instead of building API scaffolding.

Nodeventure: hack night 2

Everybody — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Part of the Brighton Digital Festival.

Nodeventure: hack night 1

Everybody — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Part of the Brighton Digital Festival.

Real-time web with Server-Sent Events

Kornel Lesiński — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Server-Sent Events (aka EventSource) is a lightweight alternative to WebSockets, for pushing real-time messages to connected browsers.

Up the Worker()s!

Derek King — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Before web workers, everything on the client side took place in a single thread, making it hard to do serious number crunching without blocking UI updates. Now web workers bring multi-threading to the browser.

Leap Motion

Dan Neame — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:15:00 GMT

"Imagine if you could do things on your computer just like you do them in real life. If natural movements replaced all those clicks and taps and drags and drops. Imagine if technology finally figured out people, instead of the other way around. That's the Leap Motion Controller."

Grunt Your Way to Glory

Shaun Dunne — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Grunt is a much needed wrench you need to add to your toolbelt. Improve your web development workflow through automation and get those trivial repetative tasks under control in a language you already know (and love).

Getting Intimate with D3.js

Peter Passaro — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 19:15:00 GMT

D3.js is fast becoming the standard tool for producing HTML5 data visualisations. It is an incredibly powerful framework that allows nearly limitless flexibility in manipulating the visual appearance and structure of a web page. However, the learning curve for using it effectively is steep.

Double Bill: Responsive Web Fonts, The Edge of the Web

Richard Rutter, Paul Lloyd — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Richard Rutter will discuss web fonts in a responsive context. He’ll demonstrate the different techniques available for optimum loading (or not) of web fonts and talk through the options around fallback fonts and other such implications.

3rd Birthday Show n' Tell

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:15:00 GMT

NOTE THE NEW VENUE: Lab for the Recently Possible, at 45 Gloucester Street, opposite The Skiff.

Life in an Eventually Consistent World

Cristiano Solarino — Thu, 09 May 2013 19:15:00 GMT

NOTE THE NEW VENUE: Lab for the Recently Possible, at 45 Gloucester Street, opposite The Skiff.

New venue: Lab for the Recently Possible

Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

After nearly three years of being held at the beautiful Skiff co-working space, Async is shifting its venue.

Managing Modularity

Tom Ashworth — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:15:00 GMT

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) model has been widely adopted for building client-side Javascript apps, but how does this architecture scale as complexity increases? Is MVC the right choice after all?

Caffeine Hit: Coffeescript Revisited

Dave Gurnell — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Javascript is a great programming language marred by idiosyncratic flaws. Odd semantic quirks and inconsistencies in browser implementations combine with verbose syntax to make coding difficult and error-prone. While forthcoming versions will address these flaws, many of us will be maintaining support for existing web browsers well into the future.

Meteor Shower

Adhip Gupta — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:15:00 GMT

With JavaScript becoming ubiquitous, the holy grail of writing code once and running it everywhere is becoming more and more of a reality. Meteor attempts to take it one step further.

Persona

Shane Tomlinson, François Marier — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Authentication is a perennial bugbear of the modern web developer. Should you use your own custom username/password solution? The vendor independent, but not yet prevalent, OpenID? Or take the easy option with Twitter, Facebook Connect or Google? Mozilla Persona is a brand new, decentralised authentication solution that takes the sorrow out of security.

Building HTML5 Games

Dan Neame — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:15:00 GMT

With the advent of HTML5 it is now possible to build games that run in the browser, plugin free, on multiple devices. Ever wanted to make your own game but weren't sure where to start? Or maybe you've built a few games before for desktop and are interested in the challenges involved in building one in the browser?

Objects are the API, stupid!

Kevin Jones — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Object proxies and observables are frequently seen in MVC frameworks - some background reading: here, here and here - but you can also make use of them to simplify and automate common programming problems. In ES6 and ES7 there will be improved language support to help make this form of meta-programming more accessible.

Firefox OS: native mobile with JavaScript

James Hugman — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Early last year, Mozilla decided to get into the phone business. This year, FirefoxOS is being put onto real devices that will be put in the hands of real people.

D3.js: Data Visualisation in the Browser

Peter Cook — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:15:00 GMT

D3.js is a JavaScript library for data visualisation and interaction in the browser. Be it bar charts, pie charts, chord diagrams, tree diagrams or even force-directed graphs, D3 is your friend. D3 is an ideal platform for data interaction, due to its use of standard DOM elements, and can be used for both HTML and SVG.

Parslow and Elliott's Test Emporium

Premasagar Rose — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Come all, come one and marvel at the most splendid tests of messieurs Parslow and Elliott. GAZE as a multitude of testing approaches are considered for JavaScript. WONDER as in-browser testing is automated before your very eyes. GASP at numerous fantastical examples. DELIGHT at the options for testing your code. REVEL in the magic of Mocha, PhantomJS, Sinon, Chai and more.

Pablo and the art of SVG

Premasagar Rose — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Pablo is a simple, lightweight JavaScript library for generating interactive drawings in SVG (scalable vector graphics). It's a bit like Raphaël + jQuery + Underscore. In just 3KB.

2012 International Show n' Tell

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:15:00 GMT

It's that time of year again in Brighton, when the heady seaside summer makes way for the dark introspection of winter, alack.

Tools for the Job

Alastair Lockie, Adam Yeats — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 19:15:00 GMT

A session with two speakers, in three parts:

Responsibly Responsive JavaScript

Mark Perkins — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Reponsive design is hot. JavaScript is cool. But mix them together in the wrong quantities and you can end up with a bit of a tepid mess. Don't settle for luke-warm! Instead come along and find out how a spot of carefully considered JavaScript can help rather than hinder the users of your beautiful device-independent website.

One Canvas: part two

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:15:00 GMT

One Canvas: part one

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:15:00 GMT

Three Dimensions Good

Kyran Dale — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 18:15:00 GMT

A Little Introduction to WebGL Programming with Three.js

Application Cache: Douchebag

Jake Archibald — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 18:15:00 GMT

The Application Cache is one of the cool bits of HTML5, allowing sites to work without a network connection, which brings us much closer to native app-like behaviour. However, from HTML5 roundup articles and talks, you may be left with the impression that it's a magic-bullet fix. Unfortunately it isn't; the Application Cache is a douchebag.

The State of HTML5 Games

Rob Hawkes — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:15:00 GMT

With Angry Birds, Command & Conquer and other big-name games being created using Web technologies, it's obvious that HTML5 and JavaScript games here to stay.

Modular JavaScript

Chris, Dan, Mark, Simon — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:15:00 GMT

This weeks session will be a look into the world of JavaScript modules. There are hundreds of solutions out there for structuring your JavaScript files and getting them into the page.

Functional JavaScript

Kingsley Davies, Richard Dallaway, Tom Parslow — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 18:15:00 GMT

In which Async and Functional Brighton join forces for a night of functionality.

CSS for Grown Ups

Andy Hume — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 18:15:00 GMT

In the early days of CSS the web industry cut its teeth on blogs and small personal sites. Much of the methodology still considered best-practise today originated from the experiences of developers working alone, often on a single small style sheet, with few of the constraints that come from working with large distributed teams on large continually changing web projects.

Hypermedia APIs & JavaScript Applications

Tom Parslow — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:15:00 GMT

In this session, we take a look through the process of building a rich full-stack Javascript application, API-first.

AngularJS - Testability in mind

Vojta Jína — Thu, 10 May 2012 18:15:00 GMT

Angular teaches your old browser new tricks. It is what HTML would have been had it been designed for building web-applications.

2nd Birthday Show n' Tell

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:15:00 GMT

It's been two years since Async kicked off. To celebrate our birthday, we'd like to bring together some quickfire demos of your latest projects, experiments or newfound techniques. 5 minutes for a demo, 3 minutes for questions.

Architecture of a JavaScript Application

Steve Mason — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Join us for a tour of a real-world JavaScript application. For the best part of a year, the team at Brandwatch have been rewriting their legacy JavaScript front-end, relying heavily on Backbone, RequireJS and Jasmine to get the job done, as well as some NodeJS magic.

Brandwatch is sponsoring Async for April & May

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

The very lovely Brandwatch, a social analytics company from Brighton, is sponsoring the Async developer community for the months of April and May!

Sponsor Us

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT

Async is now completing its second year of twice monthly JavaScript events, and we want to build on our successes. We are looking for companies or individuals who would like to sponsor Async each month, allowing us to invest in our community.

EyebrowJS - A discussion on realtime, multi-device, rich-client applications

Mark Wubben — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Single-page apps are the new black But how do you build a website that can do server-side rendering while also being a single-page app on the client-side?

AliceJS - CSS animations for apps & games

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 19:15:00 GMT

AliceJS is an open source JavaScript library to create advanced animations with CSS. It’s self-contained and works directly against the DOM to support a variety of use cases for web applications.

Introduction to jQuery Plugin Development

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Perhaps you've been using jQuery for a while now but have yet to write or even appreciate the need to write a plugin. This session sets out to introduce you to jQuery plugin development, why you might want to consider it, how to get started and what the benefits are.

Introducing Kirin, a new mobile platform

James Hugman — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:15:00 GMT

In this Async session, James Hugman will introduce Kirin, a new set of tools that helps making native mobile apps that are easier to port to multiple platforms.

Promises, Promises

Premasagar Rose, Aaron Acerboni — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:15:00 GMT

This session, with Premasagar Rose and Aaron Acerboni, is an introduction to asynchronous flow control in JavaScript. We'll be looking at how to cleanly handle multiple callbacks from Ajax requests, setTimeouts, loading images and other asynchronous routines. In particular, we'll focus on jQuery.Deferred, which implements the Promises design pattern.

Scaling Your JavaScript Application Architecture

Addy Osmani — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:15:00 GMT

Developers creating JavaScript applications these days usually use a combination of MVC, modules, widgets and plugins for their architecture. They also use a DOM manipulation library like jQuery.

jQuery Best Practices

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:15:00 GMT

For the first session of 2012, we are getting back to fundamentals to present what we hope will be the first in a series of jQuery best practice sessions. Whether you are new to jQuery or simply want to address some bad habits, then this is for you.

The Realtime Web

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Over the last decade, we’ve seen a fundamental shift in the way the Web works. Our users are becoming accustomed to seeing new content delivered immediately to the browser without refreshing the page. This has been possible for quite some time but recently new APIs (WebSockets and Server-Sent Events) have been introduced that make this simpler and more efficient.

Using Underscore.js with jQuery

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 19:15:00 GMT

For this Async session, we are glad to present a talk from Dan Neame, a JavaScript engineer at Brighton-based startup Brandwatch, on working with Underscore.js and jQuery.

International JavaScript Show n' Tell 2011

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:15:00 GMT

It's that time of year again. As a troupe of JavaScripters from the back of beyond descend upon the humble shores of Brighton for another heady dose of the Full Frontal JavaScript conference, we wee Async folk will prop open our doors and welcome our international kinsfolk, for the breaking of bread and the sharing of our lofty wares.

Beyond Arial

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Using the CSS3 @font-face declaration we can embed fonts within web pages using a web standards approach. We've been able to embed images, video and other media on websites, now fonts too can be embedded without relying on hacks such as Cufon and sIFR to achieve this.

My Favourite jQuery Plugin

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:15:00 GMT

jQuery is so ubiquitous, it almost blends in these days. It seems to be part of every designer and coder's toolset.

The Mighty Jungle

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMT

JavaScript Jungle 2

all attendees! — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:15:00 GMT

As part of the Brighton Digital Festival, the two Async meetups in September will transform into a collaborative art project: to create a collectively coded canvas of animated creations, the JavaScript Jungle.

JavaScript Jungle 1

all attendees! — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 19:15:00 GMT

An Introduction to JavaScript Events

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Events, also known as the publish/subscribe pattern, are a common idiom used throughout JavaScript. They are used to notify other objects about changes that may be acted upon (such as the browser events "click", "load" and "submit") and work very well with the asynchronous nature of JavaScript. They are a useful coding pattern to help keep JavaScript objects modular, reusable and easily extensible.

HTML5 Security

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:15:00 GMT

HTML5 is ushering in a new and exciting era of application-enabled development for the web. But does it bring with it a new suite of security issues for the web developer to be aware of?

Postcards from a Javascript App Stack

Thu, 28 Jul 2011 19:15:00 GMT

It takes all sorts of components to make a modern app: a web server, a data store, search capability, caching, etc. Historically, these parts have communicated using different languages, protocols and data structures. This has forced people in the same team to learn very different skills to one another. It has also required the use of heavy abstraction layers to convert the data of one layer (e.g. objects in the server-side code) into the language of another (e.g. SQL records for the database).

Titanium: Native mobile apps with JavaScript

Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Appcelerator Titanium is a framework for creating cross-platform, native mobile apps for iOS (iPhone/ iPad/ iPod) and Android devices, using JavaScript as its programming language.

CoffeeScriptease

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Thanks to a resurgence in popularity with server-side and rich HTML apps, developers are writing more JavaScript than ever. While there are numerous libraries to improve some of its quirks, there remain language-level idiosyncrasies that those libraries cannot remedy.

Making History

Thu, 09 Jun 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Bots are people too… Alright, they're not, but they still want access to your content.

An introduction to Node.js

Thu, 26 May 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Node.js is an extremely high performance server-side JavaScript framework. It solves the same problems as server-side tools such as PHP, Django or Ruby on Rails, using JavaScript as the programming language and with a focus on non-blocking, highly concurrent event-based programming.

First Birthday Show n' Tell

Thu, 12 May 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Happy Birthday to us! Happy Birthday to us!

Micro Frameworks

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Micro frameworks have always existed as small scripts (say, less than 5kb of code) for handling very specific tasks, from templating to inheritance to animation. With the common JavaScript frameworks increasing in size with every release, people have begun to question whether all that code is necessary for your average site. Perhaps it’s possible to get away with a few small scripts that handle the majority of use cases.

Building browser-based web apps, with Backbone.js

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:15:00 GMT

This week's Async, with Aron Carroll and Premasagar Rose, is about creating browser-based web applications, using the "MVC" library Backbone.js.

Everything Express

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:15:00 GMT

Alex Young (writer and editor of DailyJS.com) presents this session on building web apps with the server-side JavaScript framework, Node.js, and the web framework, Express.

Show Us Your Privates (er, JavaScript Design Patterns)

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 19:15:00 GMT

JavaScript is a richly diverse language with a million and one approaches to solving a problem. Its flexibility can be both a blessing and a curse, but through the myriad of choices, interesting coding patterns start to emerge.

3D JS

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:15:00 GMT

You can now render 3D in JavaScript in the browser. Seb Lee-Delisle will show you how to get started with the powerful and complex engine Three.js, made by Mr.Doob and his team.

Patterns for Performance

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:15:00 GMT

There are many challenges to developing a streamlined JavaScript application and, depending on the type of app being created, there may be bottlenecks to its performance. It is important to understand which kinds of bottleneck can apply in any given situation and focus time on addressing them, instead of less critical issues.

Chrome Extensions & the Chrome Web Store

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:15:00 GMT

The Google Chrome browser now has over 120 million active users. Developers can reach those users via Chrome's facilities for browser extensions and installable web apps, which are the subject of this Async session by Google's own Michael Mahemoff.

Guardian

Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

We are extremely chuffed and humbled to have been given a sponsorship by The Guardian, one of the most widely news sites on the Web. The newspaper is unique in being not-for-profit, at the forefront of global data journalism and by supporting developer partnerships via its innovative Open Platform service for embedded applications.

I Can't Believe It's Not Flash

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:15:00 GMT

For the last ten years, Flash developers have been creating rich media apps and games with immersive visuals. Now that the open standards Canvas and SVG are available natively in all major browsers, we JavaScript developers have much to learn from the techniques that Flash devs have put to use this past decade.

Debugging JavaScript

Aron Carroll — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:15:00 GMT

A crash course in debugging JavaScript in the browser, with Aron Carroll.

Modular JavaScript with RequireJS

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:15:00 GMT

In this session, Kyran Dale gives a practical introduction to RequireJS, an open-source library for creating modular JavaScript applications. With RequireJS, code can be organised into separate modules that can be loaded asynchronously in the browser, without polluting the global namespace.

/International/ JavaScript Show n' Tell

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:00:00 GMT

Async has hosted JavaScript Show n' Tells before (one here and one there), but this one's a little special, because this time there'll be a boatload of international visitors in Brighton for the legendary Full Frontal conference. So, on the evening before the conference, we'll be taking over the downstairs space at The Skiff, to hear your very special presentations.

Responsive Enhancement

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:15:00 GMT

In this session, Jeremy Keith will talk about designing for the web, examining what makes the web its own medium and how it differs from print, for example.

PhoneGap ~ Write native smartphone apps with HTML5 and JavaScript

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:15:00 GMT

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Canvas Hack Night

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT

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JavaScript Show n' Tell

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:15:00 GMT

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Change of Meetings

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Async sessions are now on every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month... (and not every 2 weeks, as they were previously)

Drawing In The Browser, with Canvas

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:15:00 GMT

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Unit Testing in JavaScript

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:15:00 GMT

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A Rough Guide to JavaScript Performance

Mark Perkins — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:15:00 GMT

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JavaScript Surgery

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:15:00 GMT

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Using CSS3 Transitions & Animations

Aron Carroll — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 19:15:00 GMT

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The Geo API in iPhone & Android

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:15:00 GMT

While contemplating the rise in obesity amongst young people, Richard Vahrman wondered if people could be encouraged to exercise by creating computer games that could be played outdoors. With the availability of cheap GPS units inside and associated with mobile phones, Richard formed a company, LocoMatrix, and working with other local companies created games that could be played on a variety of mobile phones.

JavaScript Show n' Tell

Wed, 19 May 2010 19:15:00 GMT

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Getting started with Node.js

Simon Willison — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:15:00 GMT

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New Group

Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:00 GMT