Backbone.js Intro

We'd love to invite everybody for our first meetup in our office space in Hayes Valley. We're two companies: Ditto ( http://www.ditto.me... (http://www.ditto.me)) and 2bkco ( http://2bkco.com... (http://2bkco.com)) and both working on mobile and webapps in backbone.js.

Tentative topics are:

Learn:

• Introduction to backbone.js (views, routers, models) [Ulf, Eric]

• Introduction to coffee script (incl. best practices) [Ulf, Eric]

• Building data backends with rails and rabl [Eric Allen]

• jQuery Mobile with backbone.js [Eric Allen]

• Perils When Converting a JS app to CoffeeScript [Brian Donovan]

Snippets:

• coffee script view rails generator

• date formats in coffee script