Jesse Cravens

frog

  • Austin TX

HTML5, JavaScript Evangelist

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Biography

Jesse Cravens is a principal web engineer at frog where he works with the world’s leading companies, helping them to design, engineer, and bring to market meaningful products and services. He possesses a deep background in web application development, and has recently been focusing on single page web application architecture, the mobile web, and HTML5.

Jesse is the author of O'Reilly's 'HTML5 Hacks', a Tech.pro blogger, and the founder of HTML5Hacks.com

He is a contributor to open source and regular speaker on Node.js, HTML5 and JavaScript:

TechX 2012
Devcon5 HTML5 Summit Austin 2012
Devcon5 HTML5 Summit San Francisco 2012
HTML5.tx 2013
SXSW Interactive 2013
Fluent Conf 2013
Devcon HTML5 Summit NYC 2013
Oredev 2013, Milao Sweden

He previously held senior development and technical management positions at USAA, leading a team of mobile application developers in the planning, designing, development, testing, implementation and maintenance of USAA’s industry leading iOS, Android, Blackberry, and mobile web applications for USAA’s 8 million members deployed worldwide.

Jesse holds a B.A. in Art from Rice University and a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Jesse is the author of O'Reilly's 'HTML5 Hacks' covering HTML5 specifications that include Canvas, SVG, CSS3, multimedia, data storage, web workers, web sockets, and geolocation, a Tech.pro blogger, and the founder of HTML5Hacks.com

Industry Expertise

Computer Software

Areas of Expertise

Javascript
Ember.Js
Html5

Education

Rice University

BA

Art

1998

Event Appearances

HTML5 Hacks

Oredev 2013  Malmo, Sweden

2013-11-06

Building Web Apps with Ember.js

Oredev 2013  Malmo, Sweden

2013-11-06

Battle of the HTML5 Hackers

Fluent Conf 2013  San Francisco, CA

2013-05-30

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Sample Talks

Building Web Apps with Ember.js

Seen as an alternative to other popular client MVC solutions like Backbone.js and Angular.js, Ember.js differs in that it provides 'Rails-like' defaults by convention to common coding patterns, intelligent memory management, built-in integration testing, and a next generation client side persistence solution called ember-data.

Join O'Reilly author and frog Principal Engineer, Jesse Cravens, as he takes the audience through the construction of a demo application: setting up client side models an

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