How to Become a JavaScript Badass (and Why You Should Want To)

Being a JavaScript Badass isn’t only about knowing JavaScript. If you want to get past the kinds of front end jobs that stop at making the company site look pretty and start developing hardcore applications with interesting challenges, you need to be able to do a lot of things really well, most of which aren’t really in the job description or, at least, don’t appear to be as important as just knowing JavaScript.

In this talk Aaron will talk about the things you need to be awesome at and what you can do to learn them as well as what you can expect to get for your trouble.

About Aaron Newton

Aaron Newton is a product manager, developer, interface designer, and writer. He is a contributor to the MooTools Javascript framework - where he writes code, the documentation, free online tutorials and the first Mootools book published by Apress. His experience includes founding music startup, Epitonic.com, launching CNET's Download.com Music, and several years product managing application development for various projects at CNET Networks. He is currently the lead User Experience at Cloudera in San Francisco, CA.

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