Category: Events

A load of Shapers will be at O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference again this year and we’ll have a lot more in store than we did last year. Ariya and I (Jarrod) will be speaking, we’re sponsoring an event, and we’ll have a booth with (awesome!) prizes, JavaScript trivia, and demos of some really crazy technology. If you’re heading out to SF next week, make sure to look out for all of us and say hi:

• Ariya Hidayat
• Jarrod Overson
• Michael Ficarra
• Tim Disney
• Lewis Ellis
• Shilpi Jain
• Eli Mattson
• Kevin Gibbons
• and Jamie Moore

At our booth we’ll be giving away a bunch of prizes that will allow you to make or control your own (benevolent) bots – Lego Mindstorms sets, remote control BB-8s, and arduino starter kits.

If you’re at all interested in working with JavaScript in ways you’ve never thought of before, we’re hiring a lot of new positions doing really fun stuff. If you’re curious, please reach out in advance so we can make sure to reserve some time. We really like talking about these things so just give us an excuse and we’ll make time for it.

Definitely make sure to check Ariya’s and my talks at the conference. I’m really excited to give the security talk and go over some of the insanity we get to work with at Shape.

From zero to hero: Toward frontend craftsmanship by Ariya Hidayat

After you have built a nice JavaScript application using Backbone, AngularJS, or React, written some unit tests, integrated a linter, and hooked up a continuous-build system, what should you do next? To reach the next level and create the highest-quality applications, you must first master a few more skills. Ariya Hidayat gives a step-by-step overview of adding code-coverage tracking and a dashboard, utilizing Git hooks to prevent regressions, leveraging Docker for a consistent development platform, and implementing cross-browser testing (including with evergreen browsers).

The Dark Side of Security by Jarrod Overson

Ashley Madison data stolen… Twitch.tv breached, passwords need to be reset… 10 million passwords leaked! 13 million! 80 million!

What does this mean to you and your websites? You use secure passwords, your sites haven’t been compromised, and you have safeguards in place to protect your customers, so you don’t need to worry, right?

Right?

Jarrod Overson reveals the world where these passwords are traded, sold, verified, and used to exploit your sites. Even if you are diligent, doing everything you can to protect yourself and your users, you can’t protect against legitimate logins. So what can you do? Jarrod explains how you can start exploring how vulnerable you really are, how you might start recognizing malicious traffic, and what you can do to start taking a stand against your attackers.

See you at Fluent!

Shape will be at O’Reilly’s Fluent Conference in a big way next week and we’re hoping to meet a huge round of new faces in the web community. Several of us will be speaking, doing a book signing, and hanging around our booth in the sponsor’s hall. Make sure you stop by and say hello to:

• Ariya Hidayat (@ariyahidayat)
• Wesley Hales (@wesleyhales)
• Michael Ficarra (@jspedant)
• Bei Zhang (@ikarienator)
• Ben Vinegar (@bentlegen)
• Seth McLaughlin (@sethmc)
• Jarrod Overson (@jsoverson)

We’ll probably be chatting about ES2015 (and beyond), JavaScript parsing, the Shift tools, esprima, phantomjs, speedgun, plato, as well as security and performance, of course.

Definitely stop by to see us if you’re still curious as to what Shape is all about. We’re a quiet company doing some amazing things and we’ll take any opportunity to go into detail in person.

Don’t miss the talks below!

PhantomJS for Web Automation by Ariya Hidayat

PhantomJS, the scriptable headless WebKit-based automation tool, has gained a lot of traction in its first 4 years of existence. With >11,000 GitHub stars and ~10M downloads, it becomes the de-facto tool for web application continuous integration, whether to run basic tests or to catch rendering regressions. Many JavaScript test frameworks work well with PhantomJS. In addition, because PhantomJS permits the inspection of network traffic, it is suitable to run various analysis on the network behavior and performance. This talk will highlight the basic usages of PhantomJS and explore various PhantomJS-tools for web applications testing, screen capture, performance analysis, and other page automation tasks.

High Performance Web Sockets by Wesley Hales

Adding a WebSocket service to an application is often misunderstood to be high performance by default, however there are many more considerations that must be made, both on the client and server, before the best performance can be achieved. Real-time technologies like SPDY, WebSocket, and soon HTTP 2.0 have their own sets of hurdles and anti-patterns to overcome and this talk will provide the checklist you need to fine tune your application’s real-time performance.

Debunking Front-end Performance Myths by Ben Vinegar

High Performance Websites, by Steve Souders, was first released in 2007. The follow-up – Even Faster Web Sites – was published in 2009. These books have served as web optimization canon for a generation of web developers. The problem is: it’s now 2015. Browsers, browser features, internet connectivity – they’ve all changed dramatically. A lot of the best practices from 2007 and 2009 no longer apply. And yet, many developers are still holding on to those practices – advocating for performance tweaks that are no longer relevant.

See you there!