K. Scott Allen is the founder of OdeToCode LLC and a software consultant who lives near Baltimore, MD.
Scott has 18 years of commercial software development experience across a wide range of technologies. He has delivered software products for embedded devices, Windows desktop, web, and mobile platforms. He has developed web services for Fortune 50 companies and firmware for startups.
Scott is also a speaker at international conferences, the co-author of Professional ASP.NET MVC 3, and he delivers classroom training and mentoring to companies around the world.
Modern JavaScript
JavaScript is a dynamic, functional, ubiquitous language that has many hidden secrets. In this session we will take a deep look at the core JavaScript features that many contemporary libraries leverage, including constructor functions, modules, closures, hash parameters, method chaining, and more.
Having a solid grasp of these features will not only help you write more maintainable JavaScript code, but also allow you to take greater advantage of today’s JavaScript libraries.