The W3C Audio Working Group has been working with Mozilla, Google, and the global web developer community to enhance the audio feature of web browsers. Mozilla and Google have developed experimental JavaScript APIs that provide many much-needed features for sound and music in 3D games and digital synthesis in co-creation music platforms.

Alistair McDonald – who happens to be the chair of the W3C Audio Working Group – covers: How the work on Web Audio began, jaw-dropping JavaScript demos using these experimental audio APIs, device connectivity and VOIP, the future of Web Audio, the standardization work at the W3C

Ever thought your code started to look like Christopher Nolan’s Inception? Do you have a hard time following the logic of your own code with callbacks within callbacks within callbacks? Does it become increasingly difficult to maintain and refactor your code because everything is so insanely coupled?

Deferred Objects are amongst those tools you cannot live without in modern JavaScript development, client-side or server-side alike. The trick is to actually start using them.

In this talk, Julien Aubourg of jQuery teaches you what Deferreds actually are and how to leverage the possibilities they bring client-side (jQuery) and server-side (Node.JS).

NoFlo is a JavaScript implementation of flow-based programming (FBP), a way of separating the control flow of software from the actual software logic. It helps you to organize large applications, especially when importing and modifying large data sets.

FBP itself is not a new idea: it comes from a term IBM used in the 70s to define the concepts of more manageable business workflows. NoFlo, however, refreshes these concepts and brings them to Node.js applications.

Henri Bergius introduces FBP to the audience, showing how NoFlo can be used for large-scale data processing. He also demonstrates the lighter side of NoFlo: How you can use it to simplify user interactions.

The MIT-licensed NoFlo library can either be used to run full flow-based applications or as a library for making complex workflows or asynchronous processes more manageable.

We all know that modules are in our future. ECMAScript. Next modules (aka “Harmony” modules) will start appearing in browsers in early 2012. Too bad Harmony modules won’t be universal 2021 when IE9 will finally be dead... But there's no need to wait! AMD and CommonJS Modules/1.1 are fully supported in a wide variety of environments already. But why are there two standards? Which one should I pick?

John Hann from lifeImage takes a quick look at each of the formats, compares and contrasts their features, discusses the benefits of using modules now, and draws some conclusions.

As we all know, HTML5 is blurring the distinction between native apps and web apps. Aiding this evolution is an explosion of frameworks and toolsets to help to build these cross-platform, next generation applications. In this presentation, Brightcove's Jesse Streb describes the current landscape of both UI frameworks: Sencha Touch, jQuery Mobile, jQTouch, jo, zepto, and native containers PhoneGap, Appcelerator, and Brightcove App Cloud.