Effective Tool Usage for Front End Developers

This session will help get you up to speed on modern tools and techniques for building web apps - you don't want to miss this! See bottom of email for parking details.

Food and beverages will be served during the meetup, and we'll head to Aja for networking afterwards.

Topic: Effective Tool usage, what's in your Web toolbox?

This talk dives into effective tool usage as a method to improve our daily lives as web developers. Web development and design is a craft, and we are skilled workers. Effective tool usage is a critical aspect that many people take for granted. I'll cover modern tools for building HTML5 web apps using grunt, yeoman, bower, npm, sass, compass.

Presenter: Nigel Alford is a podcast host, writer, and javascript project lead. He's a self-taught developer, who began his computing career traversing ms-dos commands as an Atlanta youth. Node.js has become an indispensable tool in his daily development tasks, and he regularly works with the Enterprise Architecture team to improve the company technology stack.

Important Note on parking: Some members park at Phipps Plaza for free and walk over. Parking at the One Alliance Center is $10. If you wish to go to networking afterwards, Aja (where we'll network) will validate your parking.