Javascript for Hackers
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James Wang will be giving us an update on how he's using Javascript to build web applications. He'll also talk a bit about the language in general and what makes it tick. Topics to include:
DOM Manipulation The Good Parts (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook) Popular Uses Example code Did you know that Javascript has good parts and bad parts? Find out how to use the good parts and ignore everything else. Javascript is in a renaissance. Find out how to take part.
Demos: JQuery, Underscore, Angular.js, Node.js
Goals for this talk:
Educate the tech community about Javascript framework choices (browser). Using the language effectively and avoiding the bad parts. Node.js performance and relevance.
A brief discussion will precede the main event...
On the folowing topics:
- WebGL / Three.js, the future of web development?
Check out this article on why WebGL is a big deal (http://acko.net/blog/on-webgl/) for web developers.
2) One tool per meetup presents: tmux
tmux: Read this book: tmux Productive Mouse-Free Development (http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux)