JSConf, held in Washington, DC in April 2009, proved to be the homecoming of a JavaScript community that didn't know it existed. The conference got top marks all around for content, community and fun. The only way to make it even better is to take it to Europe! With JSConf.eu, we let that spirit live on and give JavaScript a home in Europe. (why let the americans have all the fun? :)

Being held on November 7th and 8th, we'll be presenting top speakers in the field and a relaxing atmosphere in Berlin, Germany's pulsing capital. Join us for a two-day, community-focused indie conference with top technical content around your favorite language and great opportunities to meet like-minded people.

Speakers confirmed so far include:

• Douglas Crockford
• Amy Hoy
• Thomas Fuchs
• John Resig
• Dion Almaer
• Ben Galbraith

We'll be announcing more great speakers in the coming weeks.

We are still looking for the greatest minds, the most interesting projects as well as insight into frameworks and tools all around the JavaScript language - client side, server side, dark side of the moon.

We're concerned about diversity in our industry and would like to encourage more women to do talks.

If you are interested in presenting at JSConf.eu or if you want to recommend somebody please let us know!

REGISTER TODAY BEFORE TICKETS SELL OUT

Nick presents the adventures of Timmy through the (stick) world of web programming in order to illustrate the need, beauty, and reality of Server Side JavaScript programming using Axiom Stack. Nick presents the variety of issues that happen when writing templates, multi-language development, and database schema handling. The Axiom Stack provides you with the ability to leverage one language, the web language of JavaScript, to create powerful and wide reaching web applications.

Apple made a huge splash with their rich MobileMe release which provides a fluid and feature-rich interface through the web browser. Ignite Baltimore Superstar, Mike Subelsky, shows you the inner workings of SproutCore, the JavaScript library that is used to create MobileMe. Mike has used SproutCore as part of the company he co-founded, OtherInbox.com. Mike presents this rich interaction environment with passion, depth, and deep nerd tech you have come to expect from JSConf presenters and he does it all with class and style.

Got a slow web application? Dr. Stefanov is writing a prescription for you on how to put your application on a web diet using a wide array of techniques, tricks, and magic. Stoyan takes a deep dive into web technology and how to optimize it at levels that rarely get touched upon, even at tech conferences. His experience in pipelining, cacheing, image inlining, and smushing at Yahoo! Developer Network is shared with you to take advantage of every possible performance improvement ever known. He demonstrates how to use smush.it, minifiers, and other ninja techniques to make the web faster than ever before. This is a must see for any and every web developer.

Stoyan is not an actual doctor, he just plays one on blip.tv.

Using CouchDB to create "edgy" web applications that are stored in the database. CouchApps allows you to store not only data in a database like CouchDB, but also full applications, which lends to some rather interesting use cases. Not only do applications then scale up and out, but their ability to revision control themselves comes for free. The CouchApps are pure JavaScript applications that sit on top of the power of CouchDB, and then allow the applications and data to become instantly portable and shareable through replication. This tag team presentation will give you some powerful insight into the concepts of CouchDB and CouchApps.

James Duncan provides a concise historical perspective of JavaScript and a powerful view of the future of the Web and how JavaScript will critical to that future. He unveils the amazing Joyent Smart Platform which provides a full stack JavaScript platform that leverages the power of Git for easing the deployment problem. The platform is utility billed, so you only pay for the time it is in use, and not idle. Also the platform is entirely open source. James provides an amazing overview of where the world is heading and you need to watch this now so you can be ready for tomorrow.

Grown tired of the AJAX buzzword blues? Jack Moffitt takes us on a whirlwind tour of Strophe for building beautiful XMPP based applications in pure JavaScript using Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) which will most likely be the next evolution of web technologies. The focus concept is the "Real Time Web" and how to actually accomplish low latency rich data applications that put AJAX to shame. With Strophe you can leverage all the goodness of XMPP at the client side. It is a very exciting technology and great deep tech talk from the one of the geniuses behind the brand new Collecta.

John Resig presents his mystery topic, which is actually three topics that strike his interest. First up is measuring performance and a quick introduction to benchmarking (and its positives and negatives). This is followed by JavaScript Games which he unveils some super cool hidden functionality (cheat codes++) on the jQuery web site. This is followed up by the introduction of John's distributed continuous test framework platform, Test Swarm. It is jam packed with Nirvana and goodness so be sure to watch both parts.

If you saw #jsconf on the Trending Topics, this presentation had a major hand in it. As Brian mentions, he re-did his slides after a late night empanada, so you can only imagine how crazy it gets -- and it exceeds your wildest expectations. Brian's topic is focused around using JavaScript on the mobile platforms, specifically the breakout PhoneGap framework to kick some major handheld ass using JavaScript. Without out further gabbing, you really need to click the play button and enjoy (and pass on to a friend).

Peter Higgins, presents "Patterns for Lovers of JavaScript" -- Dojo teaches fundamentally sounds techniques for high performance JavaScript applications across the board. In this session, you will learn how these techniques are used internally provide a stable, professional-grade foundation for creating highly maintainable, scalable projects of any size. Learn about the powerful dojo.data and RPC APIs, and other internal favorites of Dojo Ninjas. From the smallest use cases covered by Base Dojo to fully featured Rich Applications, the Dojo Toolkit provides quality tools for every step of the way.

If you have never played with Dojo before, this is an excellent tutorial by one of the masters of JavaScript in general. This presentation was our final one for JSConf 2009 ad we felt that with all the great things going on in the JavaScript world right now it would be fitting to publish it next. Hope you enjoy the video and if you could share this along, it would help the entire development community at large. GO JAVASCRIPT!

Francisco Tolmasky, co-founder of 280 North, presented on a wide range of topics relating to their awe-inspiring Objective-J and Cappuccino frameworks. During this presentation you will get a (no longer) sneak peek at the cib2nib functionality released as part of Cappuccino 0.7 (which is now available), a view into Objective-J Debugging, and an incredibly deep look into why they decided to create Objective-J, for any JavaScript developer, regardless of your thoughts on Objective-J, it is an absolutely great perspective on the "Good Grief" of JavaScript development, and how it can be driven forward based on great ideas.

Whether you were able to join us at JSConf 2009 or helped spread the excitement of the event, Laura and I would like to extend our deepest appreciation. The JavaScript community is absolutely amazing and we need to keep the excitement going. We will be unveiling the videos for free on this site as soon as we can get them out of post-production (OK maybe a couple days after, depending on schedules). We need your help to spread the JavaScript love to the entire world. We have seen the various drama in the rest of the development community and we know we can pull together something even better. Help us, help yourself, and help your friends to understand and eventually enjoy the language so many love to despise. We know there is a lot of things in the works for JSConf so please keep posted. We have posted the teaser trailer above to whet your appetite or remind you of some of the great events at JSConf 2009. If you want to see the full HD trailer, we have posted it to Vimeo. Help us out by tweeting, facebooking, "bliggity blogging" and doing whatever it is that you kids do these days the videos of JSConf 2009!

Several very quick major announcements about JSConf 2009 which is under 30 days away. Its quite exciting time and we are putting the final polish on the event. Couple major announcements to let you know of:

1. Mozilla has become our third sponsor of JSConf 2009, which we are quite excited about. They are sponsoring the food and beverages for the conference, allowing us to make this one of the best tasting events ever. You are all in for a real treat, which leads us to our next item announcement.
2. Be sure to review the updated JSConf 2009 agenda as times have shifted a bit in order to accommodate a nice afternoon snack break. We will be having absolutely stellar presentations during lunch thanks to our other two sponsors R/GA and Joyent.
3. KEEP FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY NIGHT OPEN. There will be social events, the all inclusive kind, on each night of JSConf 2009. So you will definitely want to check the aforementioned agenda page and keep your calendars clear. The social events are sponsored by R/GA and Joyent & Sun Startup Essentials. This is going to be one amazing conference.
4. Bring your significant others, we will be planning a track just for them to take them around Washington DC and enjoy the sights while you are in conference. No more "oh what to do with out my other".
5. Track B is really heating up. Track B is our free-form "unconf" style track which allows you, the attendees, sponsors, or speakers of JSConf 2009 to present to the community anything you want to. You can present your ideas, thoughts, topics, or just schedule a hackfest - its entirely up to you! To sign up for a time slot be sure to email trackb@jsconf2009.com as slots are assigned based on a first-serve, first come basis.

We are announcing our final speaker today and its the project leader of the Dojo toolkit, Mr. Peter Higgins, and he is going to bring the fury of Dojo to JSConf 2009. Peter is presenting the concepts of Dojo for building fundamentally high performance JavaScript applications in order to create highly maintainable and scalable projects. The secrets of Dojo ninjas shall be unveiled along the way. We are very excited to have all of the speakers and equally to have you as an attendee, be sure to sign up today as we are almost out of space and you do not want to miss this conference!

We are happy to announce that Kris Zyp from SitePen will be diving deeply on the topic of service oriented approaches to JSON-RPC and HTTP/REST with JSON. He is presenting about the rapid adoption of JSON as the standard data format of the web, developing web applications with a natural end-to-end intuitive JavaScript model is becoming a reality. He is on the OpenAjax Alliance steering committee and represents the Dojo Foundation on the EcmaScript (TC-39) committee. Kris is the lead developer of the Persevere project, a server-side JavaScript and JSON storage framework, and the JSON Schema specification.

We would like to announce our next speaker, someone you might be familiar with - Mr. John Resig. John pretty much lives and breathes JavaScript so we are quite excited to have him as an integral part of JSConf. His topic is currently a secret, but trust us, it will a good time. He is currently scheduled to lead us into the aforementioned JSConf Craft Beer and Wine Tasting event on Friday night. If you haven't yet picked up your tickets, you might want to do it quickly. We still have five seven more speakers that will be announced bring our grand total of speakers to 16 leaders and visionaries within the JavaScript community. Be here or be static!

Our next speaker rounds out our jQuery set of speakers, Richard D. Worth is one of the contributors to jQuery UI. jQuery UI is a component framework built on top of jQuery, designed to make Rich Internet Applications as refreshingly simple as jQuery has made Ajax. Richard works at Fulcrum IT on Web services contracts, primarily for the government, and blogs at rdworth.org.

One of the critical elements that differentiates JSConf 2009 is the focus on incredible content, speakers, and social events. We want to announce the first social event of JSConf 2009, a craft beer and wine tasting event that will happen on Friday April 24, 2009 at the conference hotel, Hotel Palomar from 6:30pm - 8:30pm. This event is fully covered in the ticket price and will include light hors d'oeuvres, beer, wine, and soft drinks. This event is designed specifically for the intimate conference in order to allow everyone to meet one another and build the JavaScript community. For more information about this event, be sure to check out the full agenda.

Speakers + Beer + Wine + You = AWESOME.

As you may have noticed, we have a new site, new branding, and a lot more of information. We have been working very hard to make this conference a stellar first JSConf. As of today, conference registration is now open and available, you can pay with a credit card or PayPal account. Also we have badges that you can ue to help show the world that you believe in JSConf. Put them on your website, blog, or twitter background.

We are quite excited and happy to announce the official date and place for JSConf 2009. After weeks of hard work, we have been able to secure the luxurious and convenient Hotel Palomar Arlington in Rosslyn, Virginia for Friday April 24 and Saturday April 25 of 2009. We have posted all the details about special room rates, locations, and local airports on the accommodations page. The hotel is a prime location that will allow both local and long distance guests to easily navigate Washington DC without a car. We are still finalizing speakers and pricing, but the dates and place for the conference are now locked. The rest of the information should be available in the coming weeks. We are quite excited about the conference and hope that you will join us in putting JavaScript in the limelight it rightfully deserves.