Hackfest at the Beach

In this meeting, we'll hook the Ember Blog app we completed at our last meeting to a web API application we'll build.

For those attending, you will need to have accomplished the following beforehand:

• Watch AND DO the steps in Tom Dale's video at the beginning of the Ember Guides (http://emberjs.com/guides/); you will learn much more by doing than by just watching. Do the exercise on the laptop you plan to bring to the hackfest in the next step.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1QHrlFlaXdI

• Bring a laptop capable of both doing programming in EmberJS AND Google Hangout. We use Hangout around the table to send links and other info among us; it is also great for sharing instructional videos when needed.

There will be donuts and coffee/tea/filtered water.

As promised, here are the derails for the meeting on April 26:

• We'll be reorganizing our sample bloggr into an Ember-CLI (https://github.com/stefanpenner/ember-cli) project. This will set up much of the infrastructure for cutting-edge Ember JS development, including integration w/ any number of backends.

• If there is time, we'll start work on a simple Rails API backend to support the bloggr project.

I recommend that if you've finished completing the bloggr program this week, that you read about Ember-CLI (http://iamstef.net/ember-cli/) and broccoli (http://www.solitr.com/blog/2014/02/broccoli-first-release/).

Finally, all the attendance slots are filled and there is now at least one person on the waiting list. So, if for whatever reason you are enrolled but know you can't make it, please change your attendance so that we can include people on the wait list.

Looking forward to seeing you all on Saturday! Again, for those who are interested, we'll be eating at an excellent AND reasonably-priced Mexican restaurant afterwards.