With an advent of web, and especially the tablet and the phone clients, it became obvious that we won’t be able to pretend the Web world has infiltrated our sacred C/AL ground for much longer. All the Web technologies, HTML5, CSS, and above all – JavaScript – have entered into our world and now we need to learn how to make this new animal behave in our own backyard. But JavaScript is not an easy beast to tame. Easygoing to the point of sloppiness, and flexible as a chewing gum, cryptic even before you minify it, as beautifl and elegant as it is cruel and scary, with functions that are variables that are also properties, and expressions, and at the same time behave as if they are all booleans, where everyting is either truthy or falsy, and where == was not good enough as an operator so it also came up with ===, if JavaScript gets you royally confused, don’t worry – it’s all by design.

If there was ever a language that was as powerful as to allow you to do absolutely any kind of craziness you could come up with, but at the same time allowing you to mess things up beyond all reason, then it’s JavaScript. It can do whatever you want it to do, and it’ll let you do whatever you want to do to it. And it now talks directly to C/AL, so you better get to know it well before it starts making fun of you.

This one-day workshop led by Vjekoslav Babić, who had been a seasoned Web developer for years before jumping on the C/AL wagon 15 years ago, you will learn all the intrinsics of JavaScript that can confuse an AL developer. Not only you’ll learn all the important language features such as callbacks and closures, or harness the immense power of expressions – you’ll also learn how to write efficient code, how to not make common mistakes, and how to take advantage of amazing development features embedded into every modern browser. And above all, you’ll learn how to properly use all this together with the good old C/AL.