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Ben Alman will be speaking about the importance of JavaScript unit testing, and how your jQuery and JavaScript code can benefit from unit tests. In addition to outlining how both test- and behavior-driven development approaches work, Ben will also talk about functional JavaScript unit testing, and walk through the development of a QUnit testing suite.

Jonathan Stark, Mobile Javascript expert and maintainer of jQTouch, will talk about the mobile web development landscape and walk us through his mobile JavaScript Toolkit. Jonathan will crack open the jQTouch source to walk us through how it works and show us how he uses it to build super efficient mobile applications that look like native iPhone Apps.

10 Things I Learned from the jQuery SourcePaul Irish will open the jQuery source on the big screen, and run through how the jQuery object works.This talk will cover self executing anonymous functions as a global abatement technique, several interesting methods, internal jQuery paradigms, hiddenhancements, plugin architecture, and the evented model of application design.So both javascript topics you can apply to your own code, along with the basics of how jQuery itself works.Feel free to come…See More