Asynchronous programming with JavaScript
Part of creating rich applications is making them highly responsive. No one
wants to wait for a full page to load and display or watch the spinning
beach-ball. A few seconds delay is equivalent to eternity in user experience.
So the obvious answer is to turn to multithreading and asynchronous
programming. But we're talking about JavaScript here, which is largely known
for being single-threaded. If you've confronted creating responsive
applications in JavaScript this session is for you.
We will learn the concepts and the fundamentals of creating asynchronous apps in JavaScript and make use of libraries that will make our lives easier to create highly responsive applications.
About Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
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