full-fron•tal (JavaScript):
with nothing concealed or held back. more
Speakers
Jake Archibald
Jake worked on the BBC's Glow JavaScript library, talking about Performance.
Jake Archibald is a client-side web developer at the BBC working on Glow, a JavaScript library developed to meet the corporation’s design and accessibility standards. He also works with the BBC’s working groups which research and develop the corporation's technical Standards & Guidelines.
Outside of the BBC, Jake is a keen photographer, photoshopper, and keeps in touch with his previous life as a Flash & PHP developer.
Christian Heilmann
Web Architect and standards evangelist at Yahoo UK, subject to be confirmed.
Christian Heilmann is a geek and hacker by heart. He's been a professional web developer for about eleven years and worked his way through several agencies up to Yahoo where he delivered Yahoo Maps Europe and Yahoo Answers.
He's written two and contributed to three books on JavaScript, web development and accessibility, lead distributed teams as a manager and made them work with one another and released dozens of online articles and hundreds of blog posts in the last few years.
He's been nominated standards champion of the year 2008 by .net magazine in the UK and currently sports the fashionable job title "International Developer Evangelist" spending his time going from conference to conference and university to university to speak and train people on systems provided by Yahoo and other web companies that want to make this web thing work well for everybody.
Todd Kloots
Frontend engineer working on the YUI library, talking about Developing Accessible Widgets Using ARIA.
Todd Kloots is a frontend engineer based in San Francisco. With ten years of industry experience, Todd has spent the past seven years at Yahoo! working on products such as Yahoo! Mail, and most-recently, the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library.
Through his role at Yahoo! Todd evangelises the use of web standards, is an advocate for accessibility, and a frequent contributor to the YUI Blog. When he's not writing code, Todd can be found working on his other passion: hunting down the perfect cup of espresso in cafes in San Francisco.
Peter-Paul Koch
The author of the infinitely useful QuirksMode, subject to be confirmed.
Peter-Paul Koch is a freelance front-end consultant, agent, and trainer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has won international renown with his browser compatibility research, frequently speaks at conferences, has founded Fronteers, the Dutch association of front-end professionals, and advises browser vendors on their implementation of the web standards.
On the Web he is universally known as ppk.
His grandfather was a coffee planter on Java, so he is genetically predetermined to be an expert on most languages that have "Java" in their name.
Stuart Langridge
Stuart is a web hacker, author, and speaker living in the UK, talking about Advanced JavaScript Stuff.
He writes books about JavaScript and convinces people to use Ubuntu, and also works for Canonical creating online services and travels around the world talking about it.
Code and writings (and the occasional rant) are to be found at kryogenix.org; Stuart is to be found outside in the rain looking for the smoking area.
Robert Nyman
Working in the frontend since 1998, talking about JavaScript: from birth to closure.
Robert has been working with web developing, mostly interface coding, since 1998. His biggest interests lies in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, where especially JavaScript has been a love for quite some time. He regularly blogs at robertnyman.com about web developing, and is running/partaking in a number of open source projects.
Simon Willison
International speaker and renowned developer, talking about JavaScript Mashups - JSONP, the new cross-domain thingies.
Simon Willison is a speaker, writer, developer and all-round web technology enthusiast. Simon works for Guardian News and Media as a technical architect for both guardian.co.uk and the forthcoming Guardian Developer Network. Before joining the Guardian Simon worked as a consultant for clients that included the BBC, Automattic and GCap Media.
Simon is a past member of Yahoo!'s Technology Development team, where his projects included the initial prototype of FireEagle, Yahoo!'s location broker API. Prior to Yahoo! he worked at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas.
Simon is a co-creator of the Django web framework, and a passionate advocate for Open Source and standards-based development. He maintains a popular Web development weblog at simonwillison.net