July 12 Meetup

[Garren Smith]

Hi All,

The next meetup is almost upon us. Anyone interested in doing a talk? 

From what I remember or our discussions at the last meetup Joshua was keen to talk and I think Simon as well?

Could you also let us know if you are coming and please let all your friends know.

Cheers

Garren

[jfreislich]

I'd really dig someone with a fair bit of jquery knowledge to show off
some stunts, tips and tricks with that. Shaun, Craig you know anyone
that fills the shirt?

[Jaco Pretorius]

I would keen to do one on jQuery, but it's so overdone...  Pretty much everyone knows jQuery to some extent, so it's difficult to do a presentation that doesn't invoke a lot of yawns.

[Simon Stewart]

I would be keen, but think I'll rather stay on honeymoon.

Put me down to talk at the next event though.

On Jun 28, 1:31 pm, Garren Smith <garren.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Sean O'Regan]

Hahaha. Enjoy.

[Paul Sainsbury]

Don't underestimate the value of repeating the basics. :-)  I haven't yet made it to one of the meet ups so I don't know what level everyone's at, but I'd certainly appreciate a jQuery talk even if it just covers an intro to jQuery. "jQuery for Dummies" is about the level I'm at - I've only ever used it for small personal projects and even then it's just enough to make the project work.  Even if it was just tips on picking good plugins it would be of use to me.

One of the problems I've seen in other developer groups is that nobody thinks that their contribution would be worthwhile because it seems obvious that everyone should know the topic they're talking about when in actual fact their contribution would be really valuable.  Not sure if anyone else feels the same way, but I'd vote for a jQuery talk no matter what level it was aimed at.

From

  Paul

[Sergey Ilinsky]

Guys, what about "jQuery: The Bad Parts" talk? 

Yes, I am serious. I could give it at the August meetup [as I have to skip July one].

Sergey/

[jfreislich]

jQuery: The Bad Parts sounds wicked cool. Would be interesting to hear
what Sergey has to share on that.

It's one of those languages where I find myself thinking it has got to
be soooo simple to do this or that, but when the rubber hits the road,
I have to constantly check the documentation and the code ends up
feeling a bit cludgey. Surely there are some patterns and practices
that make writing the code far easier, quicker and more maintainable.
Maybe this thinking is leaning a bit on Joel's nugget "Making Wrong
Code Look Wrong" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

I'm definitely in for Jaco solving a few jquery riddles for us.

On Jun 30, 6:21 pm, Sergey Ilinsky <ser...@ilinsky.com> wrote:
> Guys, what about "jQuery: The Bad Parts" talk?
>
> Yes, I am serious. I could give it at the August meetup [as I have to skip
> July one].
>
> Sergey/
>

> On 30 June 2011 18:12, Paul Sainsbury <p...@digitaltinder.com> wrote:
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> > Don't underestimate the value of repeating the basics. :-)  I haven't yet
> > made it to one of the meet ups so I don't know what level everyone's at, but
> > I'd certainly appreciate a jQuery talk even if it just covers an intro to
> > jQuery. "jQuery for Dummies" is about the level I'm at - I've only ever used
> > it for small personal projects and even then it's just enough to make the
> > project work.  Even if it was just tips on picking good plugins it would be
> > of use to me.
>
> > One of the problems I've seen in other developer groups is that nobody
> > thinks that their contribution would be worthwhile because it seems obvious
> > that everyone should know the topic they're talking about when in actual
> > fact their contribution would be really valuable.  Not sure if anyone else
> > feels the same way, but I'd vote for a jQuery talk no matter what level it
> > was aimed at.
>
> > From
> >   Paul
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[jfreislich]

I created three quick polls. It would be great if you'all maybe take a
minute to fill them in?

To what extent do you use javascript? http://poll.fm/33cly
What Javascript Library Do You Use (choose up to 3)? http://poll.fm/33cm9
Which *javascript* bloggers / blogs do you follow or read most
regularly? http://poll.fm/33cp2

[Garren Smith]

If Jaco could do an intro to JQuery that would be awesome. Then Sergey can do a follow up in August. Joshua what are you planning to talk on?

[Tania van Wyk de Vries]

Sounds great! I would also enjoy both talks as we are using jquery, but I find it unfriendly. :-(

[Garren Smith]

What have we decided about the talks?

[jfreislich]

Hi Garren,

I'd like to present my take on "Strategies to consider when
implementing javascript in various sized and purposed projects"

I'm fairly proficient with extjs and jquery, with a some exposure in
other libraries, so that will probably be my approach, but those two
are significantly different enough for it to lead some interesting
questions that I'll try to answer.

About 30 - 40 minutes with slides ok?

Josh

[Garren Smith]

Sounds awesome. I will do a 5 minute talk on some new great JS libaries

[Garren Smith]

Hey All,

Javascript Meetup on Tuesday 12 July.

Start Time: 6.30pm

Venue: Microsoft Campus Bryanston.

Let your friends now!!!!

Sorry found out I cant make this week. Will do my talk next meetup. But let me know how it goes.

Cheers

Garren

[adriaanp]

Thanks Jaco and Josh, was very insightful.