Webdev/Beer And Tell/September2013

Come on down and show us what you've been working on lately!

Details

• When: 2PM Pacific, Friday September 20th
• Where: Webdev Vidyo channel (798).
  • If you need to call in:
    • +1 650 903 0800, x92 or +1 800 707 2533 (password on intranet)
    • Then enter 9798#
• Public join link: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=HK3hFFg9X5pw
• Recording: TBD
• Blog post: TBD

Speakers

The limit is 5 minutes per speaker. It's like a lightning talk, but don't feel that you have to have slides in order to make a presentation.

Presenter	Topic	Media (links)	More Details	Beer
Simon Wex & Robert Richter	Introducing Appmaker - Make an app just for you.	http://appmaker.mozillalabs.com/	We're in an early prototype phase of building an app authoring environment for the masses. What could it mean if app creation was fun and game-like?
Michael Kelly	diecast - Grunt-init template for single-page frontend projects.	https://github.com/Osmose/diecast		Pepsi One
Brian J Brennan	nodeschool.io – soon-to-be community of learning around node.js	http://nodeschool.io, http://github.com/nodeschool	Node tutorials based on `workshopper`, a framework for making terminal tutorials! We are still building out the site, but we are planning on having accounts (with persona) and badges (with openbadges)	Dunno yet
Scott Michaud	Software Rendering Engine (GPU-accelerated)	(Nothing Yet)	DirectX and OpenGL are the APIs which 3D (and many 2D) games are programmed in. Fast, due to hardware acceleration, but with many little-spoken downsides. Software rendering engines were actually more pleasant... time for an OpenCL revisit?	Half of a Coca-Cola
Scott Michaud (pt. 2)	Top-Secret Web App	(Nothing Yet)	Epic top secret web app. See you at Summit 2013 Toronto!	Other Half