Nordic.js is over and everything is back to normal. What would a conference be without a little retrospective? Here are some gathered thoughts and tweets from us at Aftonbladet.
Kenneth Ocklund, backend developer
Nordic.js was held at a beautiful venue facing the ocean outside Stockholm. It was well organized with a very entertaining presenter in Daniel Beauchamp. However, it was more of a social event with a single track, short talks and extensive breaks. For me as a JavaScript beginner I didn’t learn much. Perhaps it was aimed at people that already now everything about JavaScript and just wanted to hang out together. I prefer case studies with how to solve a problem with JavaScript. Best talk was about http://reactive-extensions.github.io/RxJS/
Henrik Tengelin, frontend commander
The main problem with peoples expectations vs what they got was the first sentence in the intro ”Nordic.js is a two-day conference all about Javascript.”. It really wasn’t… Not at all. Many of us were really surprised and disappointed by the absence of JavaScript talks.
- Firefox Dev Tools presented by Robert Nyman. Maybe a bit slow when trying them out for real though.
- Kim Joar Bekkelunds ”Writing Beautiful JavaScript Tests”
- Caroline Drucker ”I am a feminist and so can you”. Nordic.js is as good as any other male dominated place to talk about the little changes that makes a difference for a better world.
- Douglas Crockford ”The Better Parts” but the longer version at #geekmeetsthlm was even better.
- Hakim El Hattab ”Visual JavaScript Experiments”. Impressive and inspiring, try some out at http://hakim.se/
Christoffer Larsson, WordPress lead
My favourite part from Nordic.js was the talk on Functional Reactive Programming by Sergi Mansilla. I, who are not usually writing FRP, learned a lot and will surely look into RxJS when writing async JS the next time.
Talks wouldn’t hurt from being 10 minutes longer, and breaks 10 min shorter. Finally: lunch was just awesome both days!
Ian Vidales, PHP developer
Nordic.js an entertaining conference with amazing venue in the beautiful Artipelag, great food and plenty of time to mingling.
I particularly enjoyed the talk from Ellen Sundhs “Node.js physical interactions”. A showcase with creative projects powered by RasberryPI, Arduino, Node.Js, enabling physical interactions through the web. Also guiding us through the project of building the world’s largest claw machine.
All in all a great conference, even thought I would have liked the talks to be a bit longer.
Idag #nordicjs med en massa datanördar på #artipelag. Fint ställe o trevligt folk, men som vanligt skrämmande homogent.
— Henrik Tengelin (@htengelin) September 18, 2014
The view from work today #nordicjs pic.twitter.com/ioIINTsWyc
— Kenneth Ocklund (@ocklund) September 18, 2014
Developers! Developers! Developers!
MAAAAAH-ZUNGA!#NordicJS pic.twitter.com/mmRtU02TTr— Patrik Åkerstrand (@PAkerstrand) September 18, 2014
Great talk by @Bougie at #NordicJS on feminism. Thanks for some great insights and examples! pic.twitter.com/8GFCCb2srJ
— Patrik Åkerstrand (@PAkerstrand) September 18, 2014
Yesterday #nordicjs fell into the trap of focusing on getting cool speakers rather than great content. Quality of talks were hit and miss.
— Tobias Järlund (@jarlund) September 19, 2014
This blogpost is still relevant. http://t.co/hbcSKeWZCF #nordicjs
— Tobias Järlund (@jarlund) September 19, 2014
You shouldn't allow people to do something you're not allowed to do and then punish them for doing it. Communicate CAN do. UX @ #nordicjs
— Fiona Rolander (@fionaosaurusrex) September 19, 2014
Nice venue, good speakers, some really interesting talks at #nordicjs. Unfortunately too little JavaScript focus but thank you all.
— Henrik Tengelin (@htengelin) September 19, 2014
#nordicjs summary:
Outstanding venue [x]
Cool speakers [x]
JavaScript [ ]— Kenneth Ocklund (@ocklund) September 19, 2014
