Looking back on 2012

2012 has been a very productive JavaScript year for me:

• I talked at several great conferences:
  • April, Mix-IT, Lyon: “An overview of JavaScript” (video). I’m glad that people liked it.
  • May, Fluent, San Francisco: “Improving JavaScript” (video).
  • October, JSConf EU, Berlin: “JavaScript inheritance: beyond the basics” (video).
  More speaking engagements of mine are coming up in 2013, follow me on Twitter to be notified.
• O’Reilly has published “The Past, Present, and Future of JavaScript”, as a free mini-ebook (registration required).
• Articles of mine have been published in the free digital magazine Appliness (“A closer look at Underscore templates”, among others) and on the Adobe Developer Connection (“Categorizing values in JavaScript”).
• I’ve become the editor of the free email newsletter JavaScript Weekly.
• The JavaScript User Group Munich that I organize is doing well: We regularly have over 80 attendees and were sponsored by Intel, Microsoft and Mozilla this year (Google sponsored us in 2011). Should you ever come to Munich, consider holding a talk!
• 2ality began almost 8 years ago. I’m happy to report that it continues to thrive. Readership is steadily increasing. And people that I greatly respect have written kind testimonials. I’m still trying to figure out how to make 2ality at least partially pay for itself: I made about 10 EUR per month with Google ads and decided to switch them off, because they simply were not worth the ugliness.

Thanks for having been such loyal and smart readers! The insightful comments to my posts have become an important part of this blog. I’m looking forward to another fun year of 2ality.