Chicago JavaScript Meetup Group

Meet other local JavaScripters to network, share knowledge, to review the state of the art, or to dream up new applications. Meetups are free (as speech and beer) while we have the corporate sponsor.

Past talks and other member information is posted on our blog:

http://javascriptchicago.com/

Meetups are structured as two consequential sessions with networking opportunities planned after each session. First session targets members who are new to JavaScript, the next session being for advanced presentations.

Anybody on the job market, please, read the http://www.meetup.com/js-chi/messages/5067572/ email and follow the directions.

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Meetup
Presentations: Sharing Code Between Client and Server
- Tue Feb 28
  6:30 PM
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- 37 attending
- 0 comments
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Feb 28, 2012 3:00 PM
Enova Financial

200 West Jackson, Chicago, IL (map)
Sharing Code Between Client and Server One of the most exciting promises of building Web servers in JavaScript has been the notion of sharing JavaScript code between... Learn more

Hosted by: Justin Love (Assistant Organizer)
Meetup
Presentations: Progressive Loading and Sharing Code
- Tue Mar 27
  6:30 PM
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- 3 attending
- 0 comments
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Mar 27, 2012 3:00 PM
Enova Financial

200 West Jackson, Chicago, IL (map)
Progressive Loading JS Apps JavascriptMVC just added packages to it's 'steal' loader. Justin Meyer (@justinbmeyer) wants to tell us why this is really cool. Your Talk... Learn more

Hosted by: Justin Love (Assistant Organizer)
Meetup
Web page performance issues, tools, and techniques
- Needs a date
  Coming soon!
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- 56 attending
- 3 comments
Needs a location

Coming soon!
I've been doing a lot of performance tuning lately, and would like to share some thoughts on web page performance, the issues that often come up, different ways to... Learn more

Recent Meetups

January 24 at 6:30 PM, 40 JavaScripters attended
Fishbowl: Javascript Performance
They rated it 4.506 (6 ratings)

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I thought it was very informative. First of its kind for the JS meetup, and I'm assuming it'll be tweaked in the future. ...

—Adam Reisberg

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Covered a lot of ground, although it seemed like people were pretty quick to leave the circle. ...

—Justin Love
October 27, 2011 at 6:30 PM, 40 JavaScripters attended
The Holla Pattern and Messaging Patterns
They rated it 4.008 (8 ratings)

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Messaging patterns was just as entertaining and informative.

—Antony Deepak

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Great presentation on messaging.

—James Borden
September 22, 2011 at 6:30 PM, 50 JavaScripters attended
OOP: Classes vs. Prototypes
They rated it 4.505 (5 ratings)

20-30 minute talk: Classes are Premature Optimization Classes are premature optimization, forcing the programmer to freeze method implementations and often memory... Learn more
September 21, 2011 at 6:00 PM, 20 JavaScripters attended
JavaScript Hack Night - JavaScript MVC
They rated it 4.502 (2 ratings)

Let's try the same small web app we did with Backbone.js in August but this time we'll use Chicago's own JavaScript MVC framework. We can compare the capabilities and... Learn more
September 3, 2011 at 8:30 AM, 100 JavaScripters attended
(note) Chicago Web Conf, Javascript Track
They rated it 5.001 (1 ratings)

An epic one day conference on web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and related webby goodness. http://chicagowebconf.org/