Alastair Lockie larister

I'm exhausted. Tired to my bones, I'm clumsy in my sleepiness and put salt in my tea earlier. My brain is like a telephone box in a Guinness World Records attempt, crammed with a thousand writhing ideas fighting for position. Where am I? What happened to me? And was it worth it? The answers, respectively: I'm in Berlin, it was JSConf EU this weekend, and hells yeah - with bells on.

A bit of history

JavaScript has grown from a joke in coding circles ten years ago to the most ubiquitous and active language on the planet. 5 years ago, the inaugaral JSConf EU celebrated this growing trend. At that first conference, back in 2009, a young Ryan Dahl introduced a new way to run JavaScript on the server; he called this new technology "Node.js". Fast forward to the present day, and Node has seen a meteoric rise, handling with graceful ease the phenomenal amount of traffic to the Walmart

[Async's][async] [2014 International Show n' Tell][event]

Thursday 6th November, 2014

[Full info on the Async website][event]
Sign up to attend [on the event's Lanyrd page][event-lanyrd].

Speakers gist

Would you like to speak on the night? You'll have five minutes to tell us about something: a project, a library, a technique, a story, or anything else about JavaScript, related tech (HTML, CSS, SVG, etc), or the wider world of web.

[Async's][async] [Spring 2015 Show n' Tell][event]

Thursday 19th February, 2015

[Full info on the Async website][event]
Sign up to attend [on the event's Lanyrd page][event-lanyrd].

Speakers gist

Would you like to speak on the night? You'll have five minutes to tell us about something: a project, a library, a technique, a story, or anything else about JavaScript, related tech (HTML, CSS, SVG, etc), or the wider world of web.

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