Enjoy an evening of Backbone / Marionette talks and demos! Each demo will show the working app in addition to showing how the code is architected along with one interesting problem that was solved that could be applied to your own apps.

TALK:
Browserify + Marionette = Better Apps
by Kurtis Kemple, UI developer at Integral Ad Science

Kurtis will show you how Browserify can help you develop Backbone / Marionette applications more efficiently.

(~30 min)

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DEMO #1:
CityBeat
by Adam Krebs, freelance developer and interactive designer who contributes frequently to Backbone and Underscore

Adam will demo CityBeat, a real-time aggregator of newsworthy events in New York detected from social media that he worked on for Cornell. He'll give an overview of the design patterns and tech stack he chose to build the dashboard visualizations.

(~15 min)

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DEMO #2:
Tabbed User Interfaces and Routing with "Scopes"
by Pascal Balthrop, senior front-end developer at about.me

Pascal will go over how about.me solved the problem of creating tabbed views with variable sets of tabs, using a scoped router than can be created/destroyed dynamically.

(~30 min)

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Agenda:
6:00: Door opens + food
6:50: Welcome from Hook & Loop
7 - 7:30: Browserify + Marionette = Better Apps (Kurtis)
7:30 - 7:35: 5 min break
7:35 - 7:55: Demo #1 (Adam)
7:55 - 8:00: 5 min break
8:00 - 8:30: Demo #2 (Pascal)

If you would like to present on a Backbone or Marionette-related topic or demo your app, please contact jdaudier@outlook.com.