Node Addon Development Made Easy w/ Thorsten Lorenz + Lightening Talks!

Feature Event: Node Addons Made Easy! w/ Thorsten Lorenz

This month Thorsten Lorenz will be talking about Node addons - one of Node's lesser known, but super powerful features - the ability to drop down to low level C or C++ for performance and to leverage existing libraries. Many developers that use Node.js daily shy away from trying themselves at writing an addon. The bar to entry just seems a bit too high, but it doesn't have to be! Thorsten will show how easy it can be to get started and how much fun it can be to develop Node.js addons using proper tooling!

Lightening Talk: Moving NBCNews.com to NodeJS w/ Brad Oyler

We'll start off the night with Brad Oyler talking about the transition he helped guide to move NBCNews.com to Node.js. Along the journey, he'll cover code you'll want to know when creating content sites with Node.js!

Wait! There's MORE!

Lightening Talk: Ray Hightower on Node & OpenROV!

OpenROV is an underwater robot running Linux and Node.js. The OpenROV GitHub repo contains all source code and hardware schematics. That’s right, it’s open source! In less than five minutes, Ray will describe OpenROV construction (you build it from a kit), software architecture, and exploration.

Details: http://rayhightower.com/blog/2014/06/16/citizen-science-with-openrov/

Note on security: As always, please ensure your full name is listed on your Meetup profile, if you RSVP yes to join. Shutterstock & Empire State security will need it to grant you access to the event.

It's going to be a great event! See you there!