Introduction to Nodejs

Let's kick off our monthly user group meeting next year by an introduction to Nodejs.
The meet hopes to cover but is not limited to

1. Why Nodejs?
2. Setting up the dev environment.
3. How does Nodejs work.
4. Creating a REST ful service.
5. Consuming the service on an HTML page.
6. and question/answer session following it.

Speaker details:

Troy Miles

A designer and developer of software since 1979, Troy began his career writing games in assembly and C. Since then he has written code in C++, C#, Objective-C, Java, JavaScript and even a smidgen of Python. Along the way, some of his titles have won awards, he became a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, and in 2012, he won a developer challenge at a local Microsoft Windows Phone Unleashed event. His passion since 2007 has been mobile and mobile web development. In 2011, he joined the mobile development team at Kelley Blue Book. His small team is responsible for the KBB.com application for iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7 and the mobile versions of KBB.com. Troy also spends time talking to developer groups and maintaining his blog, The Rock n Coder.@therockncode (http://twitter.com/therockncoder)

Organizer - Chander Dhall, Ria Consulting, LLC
Chander Dhall is a Microsoft MVP, professional software architect/lead developer, trainer, INETA speaker, open source contributor, community leader and organizer with years of experience in enterprise as well as start-up Software Development. He works in a goal-oriented, technologically-driven, fast-paced AGILE (SCRUM) environment. He is the founder of Dallas day of dot net. He has a Master&rsquos Degree in computer science with specialization in algorithms, principles and patterns and is focused on building high performing modular software. Chander leads the LA .Net user group and .NET user group at UTDallas. Chander recently got recognized as "One of the top organizers" by Eventbrite. Chander has been a featured speaker in numerous conferences and Code Camps all over the world. He is the CTO/Principal Consultant at Ria Consulting, LLC. Coming from a C/C++ and then Java/open source background, Chander is known to bring the best of all worlds to his clients.
On the personal front he travels internationally for Yoga presentations/trainings and has successfully created a yet unbeaten record of 108 Sun Salutations in 5 hours. He is happily married to Ria Aaron Dhall and has a cute 14-month old son.
You can follow him at twitter @csdhall.