AmsterdamJS

Program:

19:00
Walk in, coffee, tea etc.

19:30
start meet-up, opening talk by Sergi Mansilla from Cloud9 IDE

19:40
First Speaker: David Durman

Meet FigurePool.com, a coming-soon online HTML 5 diagramming editor and browser built from ground up in JavaScript.

Get to know the technologies behind FigurePool from the frontend and backend sides to a custom server configuration around NodeJS based application and services.

20:10
Second Speaker: Nikolai Onken from Uxebu

Nikolai is going to show us BonsaiJS ( http://bonsaijs.org/ ), the new graphical library that the Uxebu guys have created to help them, among other things, to convert Flash to HTML5 in their new online app, https://www.pixelplant.com . It looks amazing!

20:40
Break. Coffee, tea, etc.

21:00

Third Speaker: Ben Noordhuis from Cloud9 IDE

Ben, a Node.js core developer, does a retrospective on node.js:

• how and why did node.js get to be?

• what has happened along the way?

• where are we going?

• what problems does node.js solve or try to solve?

• what are node's main competitors and how does it hold up to them?