093 JSJ The New York Times and JavaScript with Eitan Konigsburg, Alastair Coote and Reed Emmons

Panel

• Eitan Konigsburg (twittergithub)
• Alastair Coote (twitter github blog)
• Reed Emmons (twitter)
• AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog)
• Jamison Dance (twitter github blog)
• Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up)

Discussion

02:06 – Introductions

• New York Times

03:17 – The Mobile Site

05:18 – The Desktop Site vs The Mobile Site

07:28 – Technology at the NYT

08:17 – Tooling

10:40 – Responsive Breakpoints

• Modernizr

12:41 – Incorporating JavaScript

• MVC Frameworks

15:40 – User Experience and Decisions Made for the Redesign

20:08 – Frontend/Backend

21:20 – Tracking Behavior/Performance

23:05 – Learning from the NYT Redesign

• Varnish

27:59 – Development Process

30:37 – Interactiveness

• Touch vs Keyboard & Mouse
• Big Screen vs Small Screen
• hammer.js

34:57 – Accessibility

39:10 – Performance

• Varnish

41:13 – Node.js

42:49 – Open Source

44:29 – Resources

• Times Developer Network
• Code – Open Blog – NYTimes

Picks

• James Mickens: The Night Watch (Jamison)
• Ball Park Music (Jamison)
• Bacon Ipsum (Chuck)
• Audible (Chuck)
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries (Chuck)
• Jake Archibald: JavaScript Promises (Eitan)
• High-Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik  (Eitan)
• Polymer (Eitan)
• Firefox Nightly Builds (Alastair)
• Pocket (Alastair)
• Scouting NY (Alastair)
• CodePen (AJ)
• Mockingbird (AJ)

Next Week

BonsaiJS with Tobias Reiss