FITC '14 Toronto - Technology, a means to an end
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Technology is fascinating, but should this be what drives us? What are the things you can do to differentiate yourself today? With all that noise, what are things you should be looking at? In this talk, Thibault Imbert will look at the different technologies available today to build amazing experiences and what’s coming tomorrow. He will focus on the importance of learning, crafting and getting out of your comfort zone and most importantly, to never be religious about a technology.
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- 1. Technology, a means to an end. Thibault Imbert
- 2. 1996 - Discovered BASIC on my dad’s T07. 1998 - Started playing with Flash in my bedroom ! 2004 - Teaching programming ! 2008 - Joined Adobe (France) ! 2010 - Moved to San Francisco (PM for Flash Player) ! 2014 - Working on next-gen web authoring tools/services projectparfait.adobe.com
- 3. CSS Shapes
- 4. Blend modes
- 5. Masking
- 8. Technology to serve a goal.
- 9. Focus on the goal, implementation is a detail.
- 10. detail.
- 12. C++, Objective-C, ActionScript, JavaScript, Java, C#…
- 13. Don’t place a technology. Use the best one to do the best job.
- 14. DHTML! Flash
- 15. Ajax! Flash
- 18. It is about the result, the end goal.
- 22. Technologies, come and go.
- 23. So I should not care?
- 24. Be passionate, stay curious, and always assume you don’t know.
- 26. "The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing.” - Bret Victor
- 27. JavaScript will win. C++ will win. Obj-C will win. Dart will win. Why should one win? There is no safe bet.
- 28. By being religious, you barricade yourself.
- 29. You stop learning and start having preconceived ideas.
- 30. JavaScript is for “scripting” only.
- 32. asmjs.org an extraordinarily optimizable, low-level subset of JavaScript
- 33. JavaScript is not object-oriented.
- 34. ES6
- 35. // entities.js module entities { export class Person { ! private message = "Hi my name is "; ! constructor (public name, public age, public town){ this.name = name; this.age -‐ age; this.town = town; } ! talk(){ return this.message + this.name; } ! get isAbove18(){ return this.age >= 18; } }
- 36. But what if I want static-typing?
- 38. // entities.js module entities { export class Person { ! private message :string = "Hi my name is "; ! constructor (public name: string, public age: number, public town: string){ this.name = name; this.age = age; this.town = town; } ! talk(){ return this.message + this.name; } ! get isAbove18(){ return this.age >= 18; } }
- 39. Which will generate plain ES5 compatible JS
- 40. var Person = (function () { function Person(name, age, town) { this.name = name; this.age = age; this.town = town; this.message = "Hi my name is "; this.name = name; this.age -‐ age; this.town = town; } Person.prototype.talk = function () { return this.message + this.name; }; ! Object.defineProperty(Person.prototype, "isAbove18", { get: function () { return this.age >= 18; }, enumerable: true, configurable: true }); return Person; })();
- 41. Challenge, run the original Space Invaders ROM in JS
- 42. Ported in an hour to JavaScript
- 44. Chose the best option (for me) to get the job done.
- 45. C# is for Windows developers only
- 50. Xamarin
- 52. C++ is way too low-level.
- 53. C++11
- 54. #include <iostream> #include <stdint.h> #include <iostream> #include <vector> #include <algorithm> ! int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) { std::vector<uint32_t> data = { 234, 76767, 43, 343, 4322, 33, 122 }; std::sort(data.begin(), data.end(), [] (uint32_t a, uint32_t b) { return a < b; }); for (auto i = data.begin(); i < data.end(); i++) { std::cout << *i << std::endl; } class MyClass { public: MyClass(size_t size) : m_size(size) { } MyClass(const char *str) : MyClass(strlen(str)) { } size_t Size() { return m_size; } private: size_t m_size; }; MyClass obj("Hello!"); std::cout << obj.Size() << std::endl; return 0; }
- 55. I am a web guy, doing scripting, cool native stuff is hard.
- 57. Starry Night by Petros Vrellis
- 58. openFrameworks
- 59. Functional programming languages are not for real world usage.
- 60. Imperative programming is: I want a latte. Heat some milk. Put it into a cup. Brew some coffee with a stovetop Moka pot. Pour the coffee into the heated milk. Thank you.
- 61. Functional programming is: I want a latte. Thank you.
- 62. Have a look at F#
- 63. let numbers = [ 0..2..20 ] ! val numbers : int list = [0; 2; 4; 6; 8; 10; 12; 14; 16; 18; 20]
- 64. var value = Math.abs ( Math.round ( Math.sqrt ( 3.56 ) ) ); let result = 3.56 |> System.Math.Sqrt |> System.Math.Round |> System.Math.Abs
- 65. let numbers = [ 0..3..30 ] let square x = x * x ! let sumSquare nums = let mutable buffer = 0 for i in nums do buffer <- buffer + square i buffer ! let result = sumSquare numbers
- 66. let sumSquare nums = nums |> Seq.map ( fun x -> x * x ) |> Seq.sum
- 67. Multicore and web apps? No way.
- 68. &
- 69. myPA = [1, 2, 3]; // incrementation is parallelized on the GPU myPlusPA = myPA.mapPar(val => val + 1);
- 70. myPA = [1, 2, 3]; // incrementation is parallelized on the GPU myPlusPA = myPA.mapPar(val => val + 1);
- 71. OpenCL (behind the scene)
- 72. Multicore and web apps? No way.
- 74. You may never use these, but they will make you a better developer, so keep learning new stuff.
- 75. Creativity, but stepping back from technology.
- 82. Not good! Not good Looks good! Looks good!
- 84. Success is not an event, it is a process. James Clear.