The document is a presentation by Geoffrey Plitt about his 10 secret weapons for frontend development. It introduces Plitt as a former Google engineer and current CTO who will discuss tools like Slim for better HTML, SASS for better CSS, CoffeeScript for better JavaScript, and CodeKit for putting it all together. The presentation promotes additional tools like Knockout for better MVC, HeadJS for better JavaScript loading, Proxino for JavaScript error handling, and PubNub for better fan-out capabilities. It concludes by thanking the audience and encouraging them to follow Plitt online.

1. My 10 Secret Weapons for
Frontend Development
Geoffrey Plitt
jQuery LA - 7.17.2012

2. Who am I?
Standup Comic
Former Google Engineer
BS/CS from Carnegie
Mellon University
CTO of Laffster

3. What is Laffster?
We’re hiring!

4. What do I love?
Sparse Syntax
+ State Bags
+ Functional Design
= Fewest Lines Of Code

5. Get to the Weapons!

6. 1. What is Slim?
It’s not
this guy.

7. Slim - Better HTML

8. 2. What is SASS?
She digs it.
Do you?

9. SASS - Better CSS

10. 3. What is CoffeeScript?
It’s better
than a date
with this girl.

11. CoffeeScript - Better JS

12. 4. CodeKit -Putting it all together

13. 5. What is Knockout?
More powerful than
a right hook from
this guy.

14. Knockout - Better MVC

15. 6. What is HeadJS?
Everyone wants
some head.

16. HeadJS - Better JS Loading

17. 7. Proxino - JS Error Sanity

18. 8. PubNub - Better Fanout

19. 9. MixPanel - Better Metrics

20. 10. LiveReload - Better Design Iteration

21. Wait, There’s More!

22. 11. CodePen - Better JSFiddle

23. 12. WordMark.it - Better Font Comparison

24. 13. Waypoints - Better Scroll Events

25. 14. BigText - Better Text Sizing

26. 15. FitVidJS - Better Video Sizing

27. Thank you to:
Natalie Maclees
jQuery LA / Meetup
The Q Team
The Laffster Team
Follow me: @geoffreyplitt