Mike Hostetler is an inventor, entrepreneur, programmer and proud father. Having worked with web technologies since the mid 1990s, Mike has had extensive experience developing web applications with PHP and Javascript. Currently, Mike works at the helm of A Mountain Top, LLC, a web technology consulting firm in Denver, Colorado. Heavily involved in Open Source, Mike is a member of the jQuery Core team, leads the QCubed PHP5 Framework project, and participates in the Drupal project. When not in front of a computer, Mike enjoys hiking, fly fishing, snowboarding and spending time with his family.
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Refactoring jQuery
One of the benefits of jQuery is with the flexibility that it provides developers with everything from how it selects elements to how events are bound. This flexibility can also be a curse with larger projects and development teams resulting in multiple approaches to the same problem. jQuery Refactored delivers a series of patterns and plugins to bring structure and organization to common development tasks and interactions. Projects large and small will benefit from this talk which is heavily code centric with a number of practical take aways.
Schedule subject to change.