Meet other local JavaScripters to network, share knowledge, to review the state of the art, or to dream up new applications. Meetups are free (as speech and beer) while we have the corporate sponsor.
Past talks and other member information is posted on our blog:
http://javascriptchicago.com/blog/
Meetups are structured as two consequential sessions with networking opportunities planned after each session. First session targets members who are new to JavaScript, the next session being for advanced presentations.
Anybody on the job market, please, read the http://www.meetup.com/js-chi/messages/5067572/ email and follow the directions. Violators will be banned immediately.
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1-2 Jun 2012 in Chicago, United States
We'll get together to work on any JavaScript project. Bring your projects and/or questions.If you'd like any food or drink, please BYOB.
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25-26 May 2012 in Chicago, United States
We'll get together to work on any JavaScript project. Bring your projects and/or questions.If you'd like any food or drink, please BYOB.
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3-4 May 2012 in Chicago, United States
We'll start with a short presentation from Tara Roys about how to draw using Canvas with touch screen or mouse, including a short overview of how the Canvas drawing model works. Then we'll pair up to hack on our own examples.All levels of JavaScript expertise are welcome, including beginners. Bring your laptop.
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20-21 Apr 2012 in Chicago, United States
We'll get together to work on any JavaScript project. Bring your projects and/or questions.If you'd like any food or drink, please BYOB.
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Wed, 29 Feb 2012, 00:30 - 02:30 in Chicago, United States
Progressive Loading JS AppsJavascriptMVC just added packages to it's 'steal' loader. Justin Meyer (@justinbmeyer) wants to tell us why this is really cool.Sharing Code Between Client and ServerOne of the most exciting promises of building Web servers in JavaScript has been the notion of sharing JavaScript code between server and client -- no more duplication of application logic!
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Sat, 3 Sep 2011, 13:30 - 15:30 in Chicago, United States
An epic one day conference on web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, and related webby goodness.
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26-27 May 2011 in Chicago, United States
Chris J. Powers (/) will be speaking, topic TBALightning Talks:Your talk here - Lots of lightning talks add some spice to the evening. Contact the organizers if you've got something to share.Schedule6:30 20-30 minute talk7:00 Free pizza and beer courtesy of Enova Financial7:15 Lightning Talks8:30 Head over to Elephant & Castle Pub for drinks and networkingSee old talks at
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28-29 Apr 2011 in Chicago, United States
Javascript metaprogramming - present and future: Despite being one of the most relentlessly dynamic languages on the planet, JavaScript's metaprogramming facilities have always lagged behind those of its cousins like Smalltalk, Python, and Ruby. No longer! First we'll examine ECMAScript 5 property descriptors, which are already available in most browsers.
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20-21 Apr 2011 in Chicago, United States
Note: This meetup will not have food provided. Please pick up a sandwich on your way in.Let's work on writing a bookmarklet. These can be quite small and simple or as elaborate as the DOM Monster! that checks for a long list of DOM and JavaScript errors. You could write a useful one like ... or a silly one like
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8-9 Apr 2011 in Chicago, United States
Sign up at dojobeerchicago.eventbrite.comJoin Vodori and the team from Dojo Toolkit for a lively discussion on the new features in Dojo 1.6, and plans for Dojo for 2011…all over a rounds of beer. Not familiar with Dojo? Not to worry a quick intro will get you up to speed.Special Guests:Dylan Schiemann and Peter Higgins from Dojo ToolkitAlong with :David Walsh of MooTools as well as Tom Trenka, both ofSitePen, and Chris Barber of Appcelerator
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Fri, 25 Mar 2011, 00:00 - 02:00 in Chicago, United States
Backbone.js in the front, node.js in the back - Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch. Wolf created an industry-specific video site packed full of JavaScripty goodness: Cappuccino, Backbone.js and node.js. He'll talk about pain+pleasure of doing everything in JavaScript, and where he had to cheat.Lightning Talks:RequireJS - Justin Love has been gradulally making a project more modular. RequireJS handles module loading, minifying, and encapsulation.
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16-17 Mar 2011 in Chicago, United States
Let's get together to practice accessing APIs with JavaScript.We can add automatic updates to our home pages by displaying our most popular GitHub repositories or our most recent Twitter updates. Google Translate to can show them in different languages.All levels of JavaScript expertise are welcome. Just bring yourself and your laptop with any modern browser. We'll pair up to work on this project and learn from each other.
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Fri, 25 Feb 2011, 00:30 - 02:30 in Chicago, United States
How to Upgrade your app from Prototype to jQuery without your boss knowing - Keith Norman.As SproutCore puts it: "In short, we believe jQuery has become a nearly standard library of the web. In many ways, it is no longer just about one project but really belongs to the web as a whole." So, jQuery has won, however many of us work on Rails projects that are on Prototype still and your PM won't give you any time to upgrade because they don't see the business value.
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Thu, 17 Feb 2011, 00:30 - 02:30 in Chicago, United States
At the first JavaScript hack night we'll use raphael.js to produce an interactive map.All levels of JavaScript expertise are welcome. We'll pair up on this project so you'll have a chance to work with another JS developer.All you need to bring is a laptop with any fairly up-to-date browser.Our hosts at the Tribune Companies are providing pizza.See you there.
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13-14 May 2010 in Chicago, United States
We'll have a bunch of lightning talks like last time. Have something interesting you want to share in 5 minutes or less? Email [email protected] TBD.
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25-26 Mar 2010 in Chicago, United States
TalksTwo 10-30 minute talksLightning TalksThree to five 5 minute lightning talksSchedule6:30 Talk #17:00 Talk #27:30 Free pizza and beer courtesy of Enova Financial7:45 Lightning Talks8:15 OReilly JavaScript Book giveaway8:20 Head over to Elephant & Castle Pub for drinks and networkingSpeakers and details TBD.
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Fri, 29 Jan 2010, 00:30 - 02:30 in Chicago, United States
Speakers and details TBD...Want to give a talk? Or a 5 minute lightning talk? Email [email protected] and [email protected] if you're interested.
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Fri, 20 Nov 2009, 00:30 - 02:30 in Chicago, United States
Talks Introduction to Dojo - Wolfram Kriesing (Developer at Uxebu) Programming to Pattens - Aaron Newton (Creator MooTools) Schedule 6:30 Introduction to Dojo 7:00 Programming to Pattens 7:30 Free pizza and beer courtesy of CashNetUSA 7:45 Lightning Talks 8:15 OReilly JavaScript Book giveaway 8:20 Head over to Elephant & Castle Pub for drinks and networking Check out past talks at
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1-2 Oct 2009 in Chicago, United States
Details to be posted in the coming days...
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20-21 Aug 2009 in Chicago, United States
We skipped a month because an organizer (Justin) had surgery. Now everyone is healthy and ready to talk about some JavaScript! If you missed our last meetup, you can catch up at our other website: / This month you can expect:[list]*Pizza, Beer, Soda*Book giveaway*Speakers TBD [/list]Details will be posted as they emerge in the next several days.
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25-26 Jun 2009 in Chicago, United States
Speakers and specific plans TBA. You can expect:[list]A beginner and advanced track for JavaScript talksFree pizza and beer provided by CashNetUSAFree JavaScript books provided by OreillyPass the mic session where members can discuss their own projects or ask questionsNetworking and drinking opportunities afterwards at a local bar[/list]Check out past talks at . Please make sure to RSVP!
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