ConfPad

Opening Keynote by Yehuda Katz & Tom Dale

“Mobile internet usage surpasses desktop usage for the first time in history.”Headlines like this are the result of a quick Google search for mobile vs desktop internet usage statistics in 2016. So, what are we doing to engage those mobile users with our Ember app? How can we improve their experience?Let's walk together through the process of building a PWA,…

A useful-psychology double-whammy: (A) Developers are great systems thinkers. Surprise: your brain is a system too! Reframe frustration into accomplishment, and become a more effective and bubbly person using a frontal cortex feedback loop. (B) Want your team to be the happiest, most productive team around? Recent psychology research reveals one key attribut…

Everyone wants their apps to be fast. However, it is not always clear how to get there. In this talk, we will dig into the internals of JavaScript engines to understand why performance is often so counterintuitive. What is a JIT, and how does it make my code fast? Where does it fall short? We will also discuss why you shouldn't trust micro-benchmarks and som…

Ember plays an important role in ensuring that your application is secure from an attack, however engineers share part of the responsibility. Awareness of how you can harness all the power of Ember's security capabilities and and the additional steps you need to take to prevent security exploits is very important and will make life easier in assessing the cu…

Following a hack day project, work began on building prototypes of Tumblr using Ember and React. Come and find out what we learned along the way and why we chose Ember to ship all our memes.

Were you a fan of animated cartoons as a kid, and wondered if one day you could create your own? Here's the great news: you can! Using open web standards and Ember.js you're able to create frame-by-frame animations—and even to make them interactive!This talk will explain why open web standards are more important than ever for creating animated content. We'll…

Data communication with the API server is a principal design question in rich-client apps. The talk ponders the design angles and gives several examples of data communication between Ember (Data) and a JSON:API compliant backend.

Since the component keyword and the hash helper were introduced to the framework, a whole new realm of APIs has become possible and yet the broader community has yet to fully embrace these powerful abstractions. With this talk I will help to spread awareness of the dormant power that developers have to hand, and how and when to use them.

Ember isn't just about making developers more efficient. It's about empowering a wider audience to become creators and developers. How do we bridge the gap between our vibrant community and the next million people who have things they want to make but have no idea how to even collaborate with us?We already have the foundations of great content-creation tools…

Creative. Lively. Interactive. What if even a beginner-level Ember app could be all these things? SVG is a flexible, vector-based image format that lets you manipulate image elements in the same way that you already work with divs. It’s almost as simple to write a class binding for a star in a constellation as it is to write it for a checklist item. Learn ho…

Often times the last person to learn a topic is the best person to teach it. Working within a framework that rapidly changes, we consistently find ourselves in the position of the learner. With fresh eyes, I will reveal common bumps along the path to mastering Ember. Geared towards experts and beginners alike, we will map concepts from a simple CRUD applicat…

Modeling changes to state over time is a challenge that most modern app developers have to face. The ember-concurrency addon went a long way toward simplifying many of the challenges inherent in safely modeling asynchronous operations, but there is more work to be done.This talk is about time, state management, ember-concurrency, immutability, and how a lot …

Addons are one of the best things about the Ember eco-system. With one command, you can opt into using a well tested addon that does some of the heavy-lifting for you when building complex applications. The next best thing is that sharing your solution for solving problems is very simple; it's not a big leap going from Ember developer to addon author!A healt…

Having a good mental model of how Ember works is invaluable, it allows you to be more productive and fully leverage the framework.With the aid of some slick animations, we'll take a look at some of the internal moving parts that make up an Ember application. We'll explore routing, data flow and actions, the run loop, event dispatching and DOM rendering and u…

Closing Keynote by Sarah Mei