Learn about jQuery: The way JavaScript should be
- November 9, 2010 · 5:30 PM
For our November 9th event, we are joining forces with a number of local tech communities (Java, PHP, .Net, Ruby/Rails, JavaScript) to learn about jQuery: The way JavaScript should be. We are going to have four amazing speakers take us from a basic overview of jQuery, to how to get started, how to best use it, to what to expect from this most-popular JavaScript framework of today. Don't care about JavaScript? Don't think this is for you? Think again, because with HTML5 the importance of client-side programming is going to explode and this is your chance to keep your skills relevant with the demands of tomorrow! Here is the program for this evening: Bruno Terkaly This 15 minute session is designed to jump start and get you productive using the Javascript frameworks almost immediately. This fast past session will start with a plain vanilla web page and show you how to spice it up using the jQuery language along with some CSS. By the end of this presentation you will be able to leverage the power of events which are used to register behaviors to take effect when the user interacts with the browser, and to further manipulate those registered behaviors for your own applications. Damian Edwards Hate the thought of writing JavaScript? Get frustrated by cross-browser DOM quirks? Ever wondered how those spiffy sites do that animation without Flash or Silverlight? Think that JavaScript isn't a real programming language? Well come and see how jQuery makes writing JavaScript fun again. Microsoft is now shipping and supporting jQuery, an open-source JavaScript library, with ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Furthermore, the ASP.NET team is actively contributing to jQuery, in order to add new features such as globalization, templating and data-linking. jQuery is fast, lean, simple and hugely expandable, enabling you to build compelling web applications quickly and easily. Jonathan Sharp Where'd this jQuery come from? Why is jQuery so popular and how has it changed the development game? In this talk we'll walk through why jQuery has had the impact that it has and how it will continue to drive innovation with the emerging technologies such as HTML5, the mobile revolution and the changing web architecture. Yehuda Katz In this "State of jQuery" talk, Yehuda (who is one of the core members of the jQuery team) will cover the updates in jQuery 1.4.3, as well as the plans for jQuery 1.5, due next year. He will also give a quick overview of other initiatives of the jQuery project, including jQuery Mobile and ongoing work on formalizing the governance of the jQuery project. Food and drinks will be provided by our sponsors, and we'll have plenty of giveaways :-) This event.. you don't want to miss! About Yehuda Katz Yehuda Katz is a member of the Ruby on Rails core team, and lead developer of the Merb project. He is a member of the jQuery Core Team, and a core contributor to DataMapper. He contributes to many open source projects, like Rubinius and Johnson, and works on some he created himself, like Thor. About Jonathan Sharp Jonathan Sharp has been involved and developing for the internet in one form or another since the early days of 1996. Over the past 14 years, Jonathan has worked the full stack from hardware and networking (former CCNA) up through front-end architecture and development. Jonathan is passionate about the adoption and advancement of technology for businesses, consumers and developers. His diverse background and experience brings a comprehensive understanding of the impact that technology decisions can have. Jonathan is one of the jQuery Project Team members and lives with his family in Omaha, Nebraska. Jonathan is also a published co-author of The jQuery Cookbook (O’Reilly) and has spoken and presented at conferences such as The Ajax Experience, StackOverflow Dev Days - Austin, Heartland Developers Conference, The jQuery Conference and OSCON. Jonathan co-founded appendTo - The Company Dedicated to jQuery in 2009 with fellow jQuery Project Team member Mike Hostetler. About Damian Edwards Damian Edwards is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Visual Studio Web Tooling team and a former Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET. An "open web" advocate, he specializes in front end web development, has contributed to the CSS Friendly Adapters and is the creator of the Web Forms MVP, Visual Studio 2008 XHTML 1.1 Templates and AccessKeyHighlighter AJAX Control & jQuery plug-in projects. He is a regular speaker at Australian events such as Tech.Ed, Code Camp Oz, and ReMIX on all things web, including ASP.NET, web standards and jQuery. You can find him venting on twitter.com/damianedwards About Bruno Terkaly Bruno Terkaly is an evangelist for Microsoft based in Northern California and has spoken at many notable Microsoft launch events, such as Windows 7, Windows Azure, and Visual Studio 2008/2010 and currently Windows Phone 7. He has spent his first few years at Microsoft in the field as a Rapid Response Engineer, flying on short notice to far away customers who require immediate on-site expertise in the area of troubleshooting, performance analaysis, and deep-dive debugging. Bruno is also a seasoned presenter and consultant who has traveled to dozens of countries and helped students and customers with a wide variety of programming languages, SDKs, frameworks, APIs, methodologies – to name a few. Bruno is passionate about Cloud computing and hosts his own monthly meetup at http://www.meetup.com.... Disclaimer: this event is co-organized by Marakana, which happens to offer a jQuery training course.
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A former member
Excellent speakers sharing great information. Very interesting stuff.
November 10, 2010
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George Battelle
This jQuery meetup was very informative and highly worthwhile. However, I arrived 15 minutes early and was sent to the breakaway room because the main room was already filled. That would have been fine if the audio and video was minimally satisfactory. But it was a disaster for much of the presentation. I wonder if anyone is looking into this not happening again. The presenters seemed to not even know that the brakeaway room was not hearing them. Also, even if the audio and video were top notch, the breakaway room does not show both presenters and slides at the same time.
November 10, 2010
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Melanie Archer
Wow--you found the hot subject, didn't you?
I don't envy the presenters their task of trying to orient their material in ways that were both general and informative; this was a diverse crowd in terms of background. I really benefited from Sharp's and Edwards's accessible discussions. I have fewer notes from Katz's, maybe because I have a naive faith that open source projects just run themselves--but I appreciated finding out how much work people are doing governance-wise on the project, and how much there is left to do.
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A former member
It was a great event. Lots of pizza, soda, and most importantly great information! Thanks for hosting Microsoft, and thanks to the speakers for the great info and updates!
November 10, 2010
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A former member
Very good with some excellent info.
November 10, 2010
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Mike Arnaldo
Great speakers! Nice to see big name companies supporting meetups such as these w/ a focus on growth of the net. For the next meet up I hope for a more code focused event. Though it was informational to learn about the roots / future of the jQuery project. Hope to attend another meetup soon!
November 10, 2010
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Richard Fink
Great speakers providing great content !
Bad eye-wrecking video in overflow rooms.November 10, 2010
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Peter Bloom
Great Meetup, covered a lot of ground. I picked up a few nice technical tips from Damien Edwards. Thanks Bruno! Thanks Microsoft and sponsors!
November 10, 2010
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Martha Breen
Despite having secured a spot at this meetup weeks in advance and the fact that I arrived early I was still put in the overflow room. The feed from the main room was slow, pixelated and difficult to read. The sound quality was lousy and the camera didn't track the speakers so you had no idea who was talking.
In spite of the fact that you had secured great speakers, it was a very disappointing experience. I was unable to get much of anything from the presentation and left early. Next time figure out how many people can attend and just cap it in advance.
November 10, 2010
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Alexandra Sasha Zvereva
All the fun stuff started only at about 8pm, when they actually started talking about hands on jquery.
November 10, 2010
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Tim Torgenrud
I enjoyed the meetup! I got the feeling that Damian could have done a show and tell for the whole time allocation and everyone would have loved that so it might be good to have him solo on another night. I found everyone's presentation useful and had some informative nuggets - I would have like to have seen Yehuda discussing more code but then someone needed to give the overview!
November 10, 2010
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A former member
Great set of speakers. Great overview presos on jQuery!
November 10, 2010
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Sasha Vodnik
Great overview of jQuery. I was a little lost in the "State of the Union" section, since I'm new to jQuery, but the remaining two speakers hit it out of the park!
November 10, 2010
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Marko Gargenta
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Say Media
A great venue for our meetups!
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