MelbJS + Web Directions Code

May 22 Meetup - 6pm to 9pm

An exciting meetup is in the works for May! We will be diverging from our "second Wednesday of the month" regular date to coincide with the Web Directions Code event. The meetup will be on 22nd May from 6pm onwards.

Head over to http://melbjs.eventbrite.com for all the details and to register that you're coming ;)

Checkout details about Web Directions Code event below:

Web Directions Code

May 23 + 24, Melbourne

http://code12melb.webdirections.org

Just $799 for MelbJS members with the code MELBJS

Day one: HTML5 as a developer tool, with sessions on Browser Device APIs, HTML5 Audio and Video, touch events for mobile and tablet devices, offline web apps, HTML5 messaging, the History API, HTML5 technologies for game and interactive application development and more.

Day two: an in-depth, JavaScript focussed day, with sessions on Node.js, debugging, performance, client-side templating languages like Mustache, Dust.js, Handlebars.js, Underscore.js, event libraries and more.

If it's well supported in browsers and devices, and empowers you to do awesome stuff, then we'll be covering it.

What's New and/or Cool

2011/9/14 - MelbJS @melbjs

Fast Tests with PhantomJS

2011/9/14 - Daniel Heath @danielrheath

Daniel Heath talks about how he speedily ran his tests with PhantomJS.

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A Quick Roast with CoffeeScript

2011/9/14 - Ben Taylor @taybenlor

Ben Taylor introduces more CoffeeScript syntax and concepts.

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Testing NodeJS

2011/9/14 - Dominic Tarr @dominictarr

Dominic Tarr talks about how to effectively test mission critical NodeJS servers.

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Writing Games in CoffeeScript

2011/8/10 - Ben Taylor @taybenlor

Ben Taylor talks about writing games in CoffeeScript, check out Too Many Pixies.

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JavaScript Everywhere - From Nose To Tail

2011/8/10 - Cliffano Subagio @cliffano

Carl Husselbee and Cliffano Subagio talks about how Citysearch uses Node.js and CouchDB.

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Pushing Drag'n'Drop to it limits with font dragr

2011/8/10 - Ryan Seddon @ryanseddon

Ryan Seddon talks about Drag'n'Drop with font dragr.

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Ligament.js

2011/7/13 - David Brady @dbrady

Presentation coming soon

JsHamcrest

2011/7/13 - Mike Taranto

Michael introduces JsHamcrest & JsTestDriver and how they are used to unit test code in his workplace.

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noHtml

2011/6/8 - Ben Birch @mobz

noHtml is a powerful browser templating system that completly bypasses the HTML layer and generates DOM structures from directly from javascript.

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Github Source

jQuery Mobile & Fathom.js

2011/6/8 - Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish

Mark shows how to get started with jQuery Mobile and introduces his custom rolled presentation framework - Fathom.js

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Project Homepage

Next Meetup


When: 22nd May 2012 (starts at 6pm)

Where:

Aconex
696 Bourke Street (corner Spencer & Bourke)



Register:
Please register on http://melbjs.eventbrite.com so pizzas can be properly catered for!