Yay, I’ll be at OSCON again this year! My presentation is on July 23, 2014 at 5pm in Portland Room 252. For those of you who aren’t familiar with OSCON, it’s one of the largest [if not ‘the’ largest] Open Source conventions in the U.S. Just take a look at the program schedule and you’ll see topics covering just about every open source project or initiative in existence.
I’ve learned a ton every time I’ve attended OSCON and I’m always happy to give back to the community in the form of presenting on lessons learned over the previous year. In the past I’ve talked about HTML5 Geolocation and Android GPS. This time I’m presenting on best practices for IndexedDB.
If you’ve ever wanted to store large amounts of data in the browser then you’ve most likely read about IndexedDB. It’s a transactional database whereby you retrieve items via a key. It’s an especially useful tool for taking data offline. While I will spend some time discussing what it is, I’ll spend most of my time on how to best use it. I’ll also examine the fastest way to retrieve data from the database, and look at considerations for pre- and post-processing which is something that is rarely discussed but can dramatically affect application performance.
I hope to see you there!