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Chris Thoburn


Chris Thoburn

Biography


Chris Thoburn (@runspired, http://runspired.com) is a Javascript Engineer at [IsleofCode], author of over a dozen Open Source Ember.js addons for helping deliver maintainable and performant cross-platform applications, and maintainer of Hammer.js.


Talks


The Real Value of Frameworks

Do frameworks limit creativity, or enable it? Do they really have steep learning curves, and if they do, is the learning worthwhile?

This talk will focus on the real value of the Javascript framework Ember.js, standards, and how it's rigorous approach to finding better primitives is enabling a new era of performant cross-platform applications making use of occlusion, recycling, concurrency, and multi-threading.

Location: Illinois B

Time: Saturday 10:00AM — Saturday 10:50AM


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