Sean McBride
Engineer, Adobe Typekit

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Sean is an engineer at Typekit. He works on typekit.com, where people explore and choose fonts, as well as the JavaScript that manages font loading on sites that use the service. He also worked on Typekit’s latest Wordpress integration. Before Typekit, Sean worked at Google, where he designed experiences and built prototypes for Apps, Gmail, Reader, Buzz, and Google+.

Sessions

11:00am Wednesday, 05/30/2012
Bridging the client-side/server-side divide
JavaScript in the Browser, Golden Gate 4-5
Sean McBride (Adobe Typekit)
Average rating: ****.
(4.27, 30 ratings)
Client-side web app or server-side web app? How can we get the best of both worlds? In this talk, I’ll discuss how Typekit used Knockout.js, taking advantage of declarative bindings, the MVVM pattern, and client and server-side template rendering to seamlessly blend our new client-side font browsing UI with the rest of our mostly server-side Ruby app. Read more.

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