PPK (Peter-Paul Koch) of Quirksmode has been sharing his research into browser quirks for years, and in 2009 he turned his attention to mobile browsers while doing a consultancy for Vodafone. That work has got him thinking about JavaScript events once again, and he shares his thoughts in this talk at Yahoo!.

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In this much-loved YUIConf 2009 talk, YUI engineer Luke Smith provides a deep introduction to the YUI 3 event system including its support for DOM events, event delegation, synthetic events, and custom events.

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Software development is hampered by a specific set of design mistakes that were made in the first programming languages and repeated in everything that has been done since. And, somewhat miraculously, JavaScript is going to make it right, radically transforming the way we write applications. Again. In the Loop of History, it has all happened before, but it has never happened like this. This is why you should care about the emergence of server-side JavaScript and the excitement around projects like Node.js -- not because they're at the sharp end of a trend, but because they're paving the road toward the next big revolution in software.

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Luke Smith, a YUI team engineer, delivers one of the most highly rated talks at YUIConf 2010, looking inside some of the core patterns and infrastructure pieces that lie at the heart of YUI 3.

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Summary
This presentation, from QCon SF 08, analyzes real world projects where using explicit state transition models was made and the many interesting modeling/architectural possibilities that arose from the decision. Along the way, the IMIS system and its performance is linked to explicit state transition modeling.

Bio
Greg Young is co-founder and CTO of IMIS, a stock market analytics firm. He has 10+ years of varied experience in computer science from embedded operating systems to business systems. You can often find Greg on experts-exchange.com where he runs the .NET section of the site. He is a frequent contributor to InfoQ.

About the conference
QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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Summary
In this interview made by InfoQ's Greg Young, Steven "Doc" List talks about Open Space conferences, a way of running meetings of groups of various sizes by facilitating self organizing the sessions.

Bio
Steven "Doc" List is a career technologist, manager, leader, executive, speaker, and coach. Today he is leading, and learning from, an agile team at Dovetail Software. Steven has delivered speeches and training to international, national and local industry, technical audiences, and non-profit groups. He has authored articles and columns in leading technical publications.

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Lecture slides:

• Welcome to the On-line Trading of Exploration and Exploitation Workshop
• Organizers
• Schedule

Author: Zakria Hussain, Ucl

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Summary
Martin Fowler, Frank Buschmann, Steve Cook, Jimmy Nilsson, and Dave Thomas discuss the future of software development. Topics covered include outsourcing, is Google the next MS?, multi-core & parallism, grid computing, software stacks of the future, and more. A thoroughly thought-provoking panel! JAOO is producing the QCon event.

Bio
The panel was moderated by Martin Fowler, and included POSA author Frank Buschmann (from Siemens), Steve Cook (working on DSL tools at Microsoft), Jimmy Nilsson (author of Applying DDD), and Dave Thomas (founder of OTI who created Visual Age).

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