16 Aug 12
Erlang Slides
For anyone interested, here’s Zach’s erlang-talk slides from this week’s meetup. If you want to learn more, you can reach Zach on twitter.
22 Aug 11
Douglas Crockford to Speak at NCSU
JavaScript guru Doug Crockford will be speaking at NCSU on Sept.8 as part of the University’s Fidelity Investments “Leadership in Technology” Executive Speakers Series. The talk, “Programming Style and Your Brain,” will use JavaScript to illustrate how people can make choices that enable them to create programs with less errors and more beauty:
“Computer programs are the most complicated things that people make. Computer programs must be perfect, and people are not good at that. Given the forces that shaped our evolution, it is a miracle that we can do it at all. But there are positive choices that can reduce your error rate and enhance your beauty. This is demonstrated with JavaScript, one of our least perfect programming languages, but the lessons are universal.”
The talk will be held at 6PM on Sept.8 in room 1231 of Engineering Building II on NCSUs Centennial Campus. The talk is free to the public and seats are available on a first-come first-served basis. There may some standing room for late arrivals, but attendees are encouraged to arrive early to get a seat (there are approximately 180 available). Free parking is available in the deck on Partner’s Way.
15 Jul 11
NCDevCon Call for Speakers
NCDevCon, organized by Roger Austin and TACFUG is coming up September 17-18 and the call for presentations is open. The conference will feature a number of tracks this year including one on frontend/JavaScript/jQuery/mobile development. Roger wants everyone to know that while TACFUG is organizing the event, it is not an Adobe stack only conference. In addition to a range of topics from general web development sessions, web design, Javascript, Ajax, ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, mobile and more, NCDevCon will also have several hands-on sessions. I highly encourage everyone in the group consider submitting a presentation or hands-on session. We’ve had a lot of awesome presentations in Triangle JavaScript and this is a great opportunity for all of you to further connect with the regional developer community.
If you don’t feel comfortable presenting, conference registration is open. Tickets are $60 this year and include admission to both days of the conference, lunch, snacks, and beverages, dinner on Saturday, and a conference t-shirt.
30 Jun 11
Rally Round-Up
Tuesday night Triangle JavaScript filled the house at Rally Software in downtown Raleigh for lightning talks, pizza, and beer!!! Nate, Ryan, and Justin from Rally talked about several Node.js and Coffeescript projects they’d been working on and Transloc’s Jason Feinstein talked about the brand new Transloc API. Several Node.JS apps showcased the interactivity we can expect in the future of the web thanks to web socket, from collaborative fingerpainting to realtime system monitoring. We also got the group’s first look at Coffeescript, a language that allows you to write JavaScript like you write psuedocode. Be sure to check out Rally’s blog for more details about Rally (they’re hiring) and the meetup. Tune in for hack night on July 12 where we might dig into the Transloc API further.
Nate’s Google Maps App – All Seeing Eye
https://github.com/nkohari/ase
Nate’s Collaborative Fingerpainting
https://github.com/nkohari/fingerpaint
Ryan’s Awesome Coffeescript Editor
https://github.com/rbrcurtis/Brewer
Justin’s Multiplayer Missile Command
https://github.com/base698/Missiles-JS
Justin’s Realtime System Monitor
https://github.com/jtrally/JS-Monitor
14 Jun 11
…And we’re back, now with more Hack Night!
So just pretend that we had some blog posts since, uh, last year and that they were hit with .hide() and .remove(). Anyway, we’re ramping up! Hack Night is now a monthly meetup in addition to our regular 4th Tuesday meetups. If you haven’t been to Hack Night, it’s a great chance to jump on a project, get help with one you’re working on, or just hang out and chat with other developers. The next hack night is – right now at iContact! Stay tuned for the next Hack Night in early July.
We’ve got two more meetups this month – a lunch meetup at the new Whole Foods on Six Forks Rd on 6/16 and our monthly meetup on 6/28 at Rally in downtown Raleigh. We’ll talk about TXJS and have lightning talks to fill in the night. Also, Lily’s Pizza!
12 Oct 10
Monthly Meetup 10/2010
Join us this month on 10/26 when we’ll dive into ExtJS for an introduction to ExtJS grids through an application providing an interface to cron jobs by Triangle JavaScript member George Jempty. George, who is contracting in Raleigh through the end of the year, is based out of Atlanta and an active member of the Atlanta JavaScript and PHP meetup groups. We will be meeting in iContact’s NEW location near RDU airport on Paramount Parkway.
5221 Paramount Parkway
Suite 200 and 300
Morrisville, NC 27560
05 May 10
JavaScript in a Crowded Bar
It was loud. It was crowded. It was the Triangle JavaScript April meetup featuring Rebecca Murphey with a brand new talk on building large jQuery applications. Despite the logistical challenges of doing a presentation in the Cottage Room at Tra’li Irish Pub with The Pogues blasting from the ceiling, Rebecca did a great job on presenting this complex topic. Maybe the beer helped! Building Large jQuery Applications covered a lot of ground on building large-scale client-side applications by organizing your code and using the proper tools; jQuery is a great DOM and Ajax tool, but you should organize your application into small pieces of functionality. We took a look at using classes to organize code, using the pub/sub messaging paradigm, templating with mustache.js, tools for dependency management, and more. If you missed this talk be sure to catch an encore at NCDevCon on May 22.
Files from Building Large jQuery Applications can be found at:
29 Apr 10
Narwhal
Last month, Clinton Nixon gave a presentation of Narwal, a server-side JavaScript platform and a general comparison of server-side JavaScript platforms. You can git narwhal-caffeine and narwhal-dice from Clinton’s presentation at http://github.com/crnixon.
20 Apr 10
jQuery Application Development Patterns
When you move beyond adding simple enhancements to your website with jQuery and start building full-blown client-side applications, how do you organize your code? At this month’s Triangle JS Meetup, we’ll take a look at patterns for application development using jQuery that promote the principles of tight encapsulation and loose coupling, including classes, the publish/subscribe paradigm, and dependency management and build systems.
Join your fellow JavaScript ninjas for a pint or two at Trali Irish Pub for Triangle JavaScript’s monthly meetup and presentation by Rebecca Murphey on 4/27 at 7 PM.
18 Mar 10
Feb Meetup Recap
Scott González presented an excellent overview of node.js, an event based JavaScript web server. The night kicked off with with installing node and the requisite “Hello World” and progressed on to using and extending node.js modules, running node.js as a http server, and a twitter notify app that growls out tweets for user entered search terms.
The twitter-notify app, which started out as a collaboration between Scott and Brendan Blackwood at Triangle JavaScript Hack Night,
is available at http://github.com/scottgonzalez/twitter-notify. Scott has also contributed to the node-mysql network driver for node.js.
Thanks again to Nathan Walls and WebAssign for hosting.
