Welcome, introduce yourself

[Nicholas Faiz]

Hi,

A quick introduction. I'm Nicholas, based in Melbourne. I'm working in a startup (slightly stealth mode) using node.js (express, now.js, redis, etc.). I'm coding the client and server side using coffeescript.

Before that I was programming in the Ruby world for some time and, before that, in the Java world.

I'm quite addicted to Node.js, although there is certainly a learning curve. At the moment I'm researching best practices for handling asynch coding - promises, etc. - and testing it. Right now I'm reading http://stella.laurenzo.org/2011/03/bulletproof-node-js-coding/ .

Anyway, I'm working with node each day and finding myself wanting to talk to others about it. I couldn't find a preexisting node.js group for Australians so I created this one. 

Cheers,

Nicholas

[Mark Mandel]

Hey all,

My name is Mark, I'm also in Melbourne.

Been primarily a ColdFusion & Java guy for a very long time now building pretty normal web applications (e-commerce and the like). Been looking for a nail to hit with NodeJS for quite a while, yet not found a good fit. I'll be quite interested to hear what people are doing with it, and how it can be used.

Mark

[Rod Whitby]

Rod Whitby, Adelaide. @webosinternals on Twitter.

I lead www.webos-internals.org and use Node.JS both on-device and
server-side.

-- Rod

[Andrey Sidorov]

Hi all,

I'm Andrey, based in Melbourne (moved to Melbourne from Russia a year
ago)

Month ago I joined company called Noble Samurai, we use node.js
together with RabbitMQ and Erlang-based serverside components.

Before moving to Australia I used to work at Yandex - russian search
engine/portal in the Yandex.Mail webmail team.

In spare time I work on node.js mysql library https://github.com/sidorares/nodejs-mysql-native
and pure javascript X Window client library ( https://github.com/sidorares/node-x11
).

My pre-web experience is mainly C++ with CAD/CAM domain area of
interest, during 2001-2008 I worked for UK-based company Pathtrace
developing EdgeCAM system.

I'm @sidorares on twitter.

[Nicholas Faiz]

I'm @nicholasf on twitter, btw.

[Gareth Jones]

Hi,

I'm Gareth, I work for Sensis in Melbourne. We've been using node.js
for about 18 months now. http://citysearch.com.au has been running on
node.js and couchdb in production for a year or so.

I look after the node-log4js library (https://github.com/csausdev/
log4js-node). I'm csausdev on github, @nomiddlename on twitter.

Cheers,
Gareth.

[jTNT]

G'day
I'm jus...@da.r-w.in

in my evenings I'm using express and mongoose to make websites.
Hardly pushing node to its limits, but certainly enjoying it.

www.justat.in

[Dominic Tarr]

Hi,

I'm Dominic, I've been working in node.js since 0.2.1, on a incomplete
mad science unit testing project, and then I worked for nodejitsu for
6 months, now for my new startup.

I've written lots of code for testing, but also stuff like
github.com/dominictarr/event-stream
github.com/dominictarr/couch-sync and https://github.com/dominictarr/couch-stream

my basic approach for writing nodejs is to prefer streams and pipe
over callbacks, couple parts of the app via a global event emitter, be
idiomatic, and use closures before object orientation.

I've also been getting into bash recently (can often avoid async
frameworks by doing that stuff in bash). and I think the hot new thing
every one should be watching is zero.mq

I currently based in New Zealand, although was living in Australia
this winter.

[Chris]

Hey all. I'm a dev working for Fairfax in Sydney. Give me a yell if
you need any node.js help.

github.com/chriso
@chris6F

On Dec 30, 2:43 pm, Dominic Tarr <dominic.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm Dominic, I've been working in node.js since 0.2.1, on a incomplete
> mad science unit testing project, and then I worked for nodejitsu for
> 6 months, now for my new startup.
>
> I've written lots of code for testing, but also stuff like
> github.com/dominictarr/event-stream

> github.com/dominictarr/couch-sync andhttps://github.com/dominictarr/couch-stream

[Sebastian]

Hi
I am based on Melbourne, I work mainly in client side JS and ruby on rails, some
Php too. I haven't used node commercially yet, but I am very interested in getting more into it.

Cheers,
Sebastian

[Daniel N]

Hi,

I'm based in melbourne, I've worked on an off with node since I first heard about it (I don't event remember when that was). Yet to do anything serious for my full time job with it but always have fun with it :)

Cheers

Daniel

[Damien Whaley]

Hi all,

I'm also in Melbourne, and I'm working on my first node app. My
background is mainly in in ASP/ASP.NET and SQL Server. I've also
written an Android App.

If things go to plan, I'm hopefully looking to hire another Node/PHP/
MySQL developer to help me with the project! No promises though.

I'm @damienwhaley on Twitter if you want to follow me.

Cheers,

/Damien

On Jan 3, 2:43 pm, Daniel N <has....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm based in melbourne, I've worked on an off with node since I first heard
> about it (I don't event remember when that was). Yet to do anything serious
> for my full time job with it but always have fun with it :)
>
> Cheers
> Daniel
>

> On 30 December 2011 21:28, Sebastian <sebaspo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi
> > I am based on Melbourne, I work mainly in client side JS and ruby on
> > rails, some
> > Php too. I haven't used node commercially yet, but I am very interested in
> > getting more into it.
>
> > Cheers,
> > Sebastian
>
> > On 30/12/2011, at 12:56 PM, Rod Whitby <r...@whitby.id.au> wrote:
>
> > > Rod Whitby, Adelaide. @webosinternals on Twitter.
>

> > > I leadwww.webos-internals.organd use Node.JS both on-device and
> > > server-side.
>
> > > -- Rod- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Daniel Friedman]

G'day,
I'm based out in Ultimo, Sydney working exclusively with Node.JS on a
startup called Coinr. We've designed the app from the ground up with
node. Hopefully we can grow this group up a bit!
github.com/thatguydan@danfriedman
Dan

> > > > I leadwww.webos-internals.organduse Node.JS both on-device and

[Rob Zolkos]

I'm Rob, based in Melbourne. Today I installed node.js and
express.js. Its a start :)

Really interested in learning this technology. My day job is as a
Ruby on Rails developer.

Look forward to participating in this group.

Cheers,
Rob

On Dec 30 2011, 11:32 am, Nicholas Faiz <nicholas.f...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[David Goodlad]

Hi all

I'm Dave; I live in Melbourne, and have been hacking on-and-off with node since 0.2-ish. My main use for node lately has been for building a multiplayer browser-based game, and I just released multiplayer.js to help with that (http://github.com/dgoodlad/Multiplayer.js).

Cheers

Dave

[Adam Breen]

Hi all,

I'm Adam, CTO for Realestatestock.com.au, building B2B sotftware for the wholesale property industry.

Our primary app is built on a conventional Rails 3.1/Postgres stack, running on Heroku - but lately we've started preferring JS client-side apps (eg. Backbone) and we're building all new services in Node - in no small part due to my frustrations with Rails "getting in the way" ;)

We're pretty green still in JS land (about 3 months' serious dev now), but diving deeply.  Looking to open-source a lightweight CMS framework built on node/backbone with a CouchDB backend in the not-too-distant future. 

(evolving) Guiding Principles:

* Stay close to the metal (keep our frameworks lean)

* Feature-slice development  (our Web Engineer also builds backend services)

* Faster is always better

* Get visual fast (ok, that's really me wearing my Product Owner hat, but it's still pretty relevant)

PS. Also very happy to talk for hours on end about functional programming ;)

[Devgeeks]

Hi everyone,

I'm Tommy from Melbourne.

My background is in PHP, but don't hold it against me – I am reformed. I am a freelance dev mostly with mobile now (using PhoneGap, therefore JavaScript) and I am currently working on a side project of my own that uses Node.js (Express talking to a REST API) for the SaaS web application that goes with an iPhone app. 

I am *loving* it and wondering where Node.js has been all my life (and I have barely scratched the surface). 

I am really keen to get more knowledge about Node.js and see what other people are using it for.

[Drew Whitehouse]

Hi all,

I'm building a web application for doing  "volume rendering", a common scientific visualization task. The node server provides the API for a mostly single page application, and is backed by a cluster of GPU render nodes that receive tasks and return results via Redis queues.

All the javascripting on the client and server ends is coffeescript and I'm using backbone.js on the client. The client uses a 2D canvas, but takes advantage of webgl if the browser supports it.

You can see a realtime video capture the application at -

    https://vimeo.com/33006750 or  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUgMLc_7FiE 

-Drew

[Justin Freitag]

Hi all, I'm Justin and based in Melbourne.  I've been using node for just on 12 months, working on a side project that I hope to soon release.  I work with a mix of pure javascript, coco (similar to 'coffeescript' but with additional awesomeness), and native modules.  I'm building on express, with everything sitting inside AWS (ec2, s3, dynamodb, etc.).  I've written custom frameworks for model/persistence (building on ES5 object properties and persisting to dynamodb), testing (minimalist test runner), encryption (fully async wrapper of Botan library) and also mixins that DRY-up express.  Like others in this thread, I'm addicted to node...it's a mix of runtime, api, language, environment and community that 'feels' right.

Disappointing to have missed the meetup in Melbourne this month, but I'll be sure to catch the next one.

Cheers,

Justin.

[Marcel Bennett]

Greetings,
Marcel Bennett from Melbourne here.

Been a ColdFusion developer and more recently solidly JavaScript UX dev, quite enamoured with NodeJS and I've built a few small proof of concepts so want to get into the meatier side of it now.

Also want to learn more about Redis/RabbitMQ and MongoDB integration.

-Marcel

[Mark Mandel]

Hey Marcel :)

Small world.

Mark

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[Josh Burns]

Hey all,

I'm Josh 18 years old from Melbourne (born and bred)i work in mostly ruby and javascript, but i come from a strong PHP background, i recently started node.js and node.js based development and i bloody love it

On Friday, December 30, 2011 11:32:17 AM UTC+11, Nicholas Faiz wrote:

[Conrad Pankoff]

Woot! Welcome to node! Take a look at http://nodejs.org.au/ if you want to join in the fun with a bunch of other Australian node people :D

Regards,

Conrad

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[Rachael Stedman]

Hi,

I've worked on a couple node projects, but I'm always looking to learn more about new node modules and design patterns. I am moving to Melbourne from Boston in September and would love to meet some node devs in the area--since I currently don't know anyone! Most of my experience has been building apps for enterprise; I'm excited to see the node is slowly being adapted by enterprise and that there are companies like StrongLoop sprouting up to help make that happen.

Best wishes,

Rachael

[Rod Vagg]

Welcome Rachael, Melbourne is probably the best place to be for Node a the moment, a bit more activity down there than in other places although Sydney is slowly coming along. I'm sure you'll enjoy the various meet-ups that happen there. Stay tuned to http://nodejs.org.au for details of upcoming events and feel free to join us in #polyhack on Freenode where many of us hang out and chat about Node and lots of other nerdy things during the day.

 -- Rod

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[Nicholas Faiz]

Hey Rachael,

Welcome! Along with what Rod said you might also find MelbJS interesting: http://melbjs.com/ . 

See you at a Node night sometime, or on #polyhack.

Cheers,

Nick

[Conrad Pankoff]

Hi Rachael!

I'll second Rod and agree that Melbourne is definitely a fun place to be for node right now. There are a whole bunch of us down here, so you should have no problem finding people to hack with or whatever!

Conrad

[Rachael Stedman]

Thanks for the welcome everyone! 

[Luke Bakker]

Hi everyone, I'm Luke and live in Geelong (not far from Melbourne).

I am trying to make a career change, specifically into full-stack Javascript. I bloody love it!

I currently work as a scaffolder in Melbourne. As a matter of fact I am on a big job just down the road from Locomote on StKilda Rd towards the city.

You might notice the great big yellow scaffold; well thats where I'm working.

I am going to The Melbourne Node.JS Meetup Group this Thursday which I am very excited for. Booked in for CampJS in May and will head to the MelbJS meetup next month.

I am at a stage now where I can't handle going to my current job anymore and now its time to take serious action to make the change.

Hence why I am starting to network, to make my way into the industry.

Would be great to meet people and make some new friends and hopefully find someone that can perhaps point me in the right direction.

Luke

[Nicholas Faiz]

Hi Luke,

Welcome mate. Why not jump onto #polyhack on Freenode (I use the IRC client Limechat on my Mac)? A lot of us discuss code there. It's a good place to experiment with writing code and gain feedback.

Cheers,

Nick

[Luke Bakker]

Hey Nick,

Thanks for the response! I'll jump on #polyhack right now. Hopefully I run into some of you guys.

Cheers,

Luke

[Bondi French]

Hi,

I'm Dominik, French guy living in North Bondi, Sydney.

Have co-founded a startup called FinViews (www.finviews.com)

I'm interested in NodeJs, ExpressJs, AngularJs and Postgres and thinking of developping the front end for our varous databases using these.

For those in Sydney, there are these regular Meetups: http://www.meetup.com/sydney-node-ninjas/

Cheers,

Dom

[farmbaby]

Hi all,

I am new to NodeJS, just 2 months of part-time hacking with it.
I have over 15 years of software development experience in other areas.
Hope to get more involved with this community in Melbourne.

[Andrey Sidorov]

Hi and welcome!

Feel free to join node.js meetup group - http://www.meetup.com/MelbNodeJS/ - neext meetup is comung Tuesday

There is also always experienced Melbourne node.js developers on #polyhack IRC channel

If you can make campjs you should definitely do it - http://campjs.com/

Also take a look at https://github.com/nodeschool/discussions/issues/294

Cheers,

Andrey

[vincent song]

Hi Guys,

  I am Vincent who is an iOS/Android mobile app developer lives in Sydney. Now I am learning Node.js and AngularJS also includes MongoDB, Express the hot MEAN stack. Really love web dev nowadays. Is there any event in Sydney. Nice to know you guys and could have a drink together, hope to learn from each one here.

  BTW, is there any company recruiting geek like me? Looking for opportunity to start my node.js career.

Thanks

Vincent Song

[Ernesto La Fontaine]

Hi, i live in Brisbane, I am from venezuela. I been working on web developer for more that 10 year, I use to work with PHP, JavaScript, jquery, ASP, and other but now and really more into angular, nodejs and nosql database.

[flebber]

Well Melbourne definitely seems to have the most representation here. However I am from Newcastle fairly new to node and backbone having done asp.net previously.

[Ben Nolan]

Hi all,

I'm Ben Nolan (github.com/bnolan/). I do node.js projects for fun. Currently working on a multiuser 3d chat app (with a three.js frontend). I'm in Wellington, New Zealand, but would love to work with an east-coast based Australian project. I've got experience with node, coffeescript, mocha, expect.js, websockets, redis, postgres / postgis, ruby on rails and three.js.

Cheers.

Ben

[Dan Peade]

Hi all,

I'm Dan Peade, I work for Common Code, a dev services outfit here in Melbourne. I've done a fair bit of python and django, a bit of devops stuff and I'm currently doing a some node and client side javascript stuff using react amongst other things.

I am also doing a masters in Urban Planning & Environmental Management, with the goal of ultimately becoming a (self-described) "civic technologist". On this front, I'm an organiser TransportCamp, which attempts to bring the transport planning and technology fields together to solve mobility problems: http://www.transportcamp.org.au/what-is-transportcamp/

You can find me as @eedeep on Twitter.

Cheers,
Dan

[Alexey Petrushin]

Hi I'm Alex, just moved to Sydney. Worked about 2 years with node.js (with "evil" technics like CoffeeScript and Fibers), more about it http://alex-craft.com/projects

When I'm not working on creating web things I usually digg into some opensource github project, go to gym, swim, watch sci-fi movies or play games.

[Sandip Karki]

NAMASTE from Kathmandu, Nepal

We're bunch of developers harnessing trend settig technologies mainly node.js and AngularJS.
We are among very few companies that has built capabilities in Node.js

We  have already escorted many startups to translate their idea into meaningful digital solution.  We provide tech consulting and world class design and development resources for equity and compensation.

Please feel free to contact me If anyone is looking for a Tech partner to assist them in their application development endeavor.
Also find our company profile/portfolio for your kind appraisal.

Best Regards,
Business Development Executive
Zyoba Labs Pvt.Ltd
www.zyobalabs.com
Email: san...@zyoba.com
Mobile: +9779803262466
Skype: sandip_karki23

[Andrew Oxenburgh]

Hi ,

I'm Andrew. I'm based in Christchurch NZ, but there is no nodejs forum here.

I'm a Sydney-sider, so does that count?

I've been a Java developer for many years, and have thrown myself into Nodejs, and love it. It can be challenging with the essentially asynchronous nature of js.

I'm developing an app which requires a lot of communication with a lot of external sites, so this is a real challenge.

Also, new to JS, certainly server side JS. I used to despise JS as essentially untestable, but, after much experimentation and reading, have learned to love it. It's so malleable it seemed amorphous at first, and is still a bit daunting.

Resisting the urge to shoehorn a classic programming model onto it... Must resist...

That's me, anyway.

[Andrey Sidorov]

Hi!

Based on http://christchurch.nodeconf.com/ I'd expect a lot of node presence in Christchurch

Also check out http://www.meetup.com/CHCH-JS/

Cheers!

Andrey

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[Nicholas Faiz]

What Andrey said - but otherwise welcome. This group is a little too quiet and could do with more activity. So please post any questions or discussion points you want to here.

Cheers,

Nicholas

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[da...@employsoft.com.au]

Hi Guys,

My name is Dain and I too will be completely transparent.  I am a tech recruiter based in Brisbane and I am always on the lookout for the best talent for my clients.  If anyone is interested in chatting about current or future opportunities, by all means drop me a line.

[Nicholas Faiz]

Hi Dain,

Thanks for being transparent. Recruiters respectful of technical conversations are welcome, of course. I think the key is to use [JOB] ads to bring attention to the opportunities you want to share and otherwise be respectful about the employer neutrality of technical discussions.

Cheers,

Nick

[Jishnu Viswanath]

Hi,
 I am Jishnu. Moved to Melbourne 3 weeks back, I work for a startup called Sceinaptic, mostly front end side. Backend I like express and koajs. I am no master of any of these but just getting my hands dirty with Koa now.

Regards,
Jishnu

[Roman Mandryk]

Hi,

I'm Roman from Sydney and I work with Node.js and server side javascript for about 3 years. Before I was working with Java for a long time but after moving to full stack JS world and functional programming I enjoy it too much to go back:)

I've worked with startups and large clients building MEAN stack applications, APIs with Node, Cordova/Ionic apps and gained some expertise how to run and scale Node apps in the cloud.

If interested, check my blog at https://nodevision.com.au/blog where I occasionally post some interesting stuff I worked on.

Cheers,

Roman

[Val Barles]

Hi Guys :)

To be frank, I am a tech recruiter based in Melbourne - I look forward to maintain the integrity of the group and respect your tech conversations. 

I'm keen to speak with senior dev's - give me a shout if you're open to consider something new - I also have clients that provide sponsorship for the right person. :) 

Thanks!

[Kevin Vanderbeken]

Hi All,

Kevin here... brisbane based, and organiser of BrisJS. Corrently with console.io working on node based applications, as a senior frontend web developer. Working on an extensive angular app, but we also have projects migrating to react and internal tooling at work. Been to almost all of the CampJS events too, and love the community.

Cheers,

Kevin.

[Will Hackett]

Hi all—

I'm from Brisbane — but frequent Melbourne.

I'm a Mac guy. I code in Atom.

I like to think of myself as "Full Stack", even though that stack mostly consists of JavaScript these days.

I've been working with NodeJS for three years. My favourite libraries are React, Redux, GraphQL, Apollo and Mongoose. My least favourite library is Webpack, but I'm warming up to the beast.

My favourite combinations would be: Node + React + Apollo, Node + Express + GraphQL + Mongoose and Mongo / CosmosDB — respectively Client, Server & DB.

I'm working full-time on my own project: openclub.co.

I'm eager to see what's happening in the community, and am all ears if anybody has questions or would like to learn a bit about the tools I work with.

I'm in Fishburners Brisbane if anybody wants to pop in any say hi!

Nice to meet you all.

—Will

[vdeg...@ippon.fr]

Hi everyone! 

I'm Val - originally from Costa Rica, but I've been living abroad for 5 years and in Melbourne for over a 1,5 years. 

I'm learning to code - so nothing fancy yet- but I am Co-Organizing the NodeGirls in Melbourne workshops and wanted to introduce myself. 

I am also supposed to be hiring people for my company Ippon Australia - but we're too small at the moment and being a full time talent acquisition person is boring - So I'm taking up some coding, meeting new people and I get paid for it, yay! 

Feel free to reach out if you guys need any career mentoring, cv craftsmanship or need extra set of hands to help organise an event. 

Stay warm Melbournians!

Cheers, 

Val 

[Shakil Hossain]

Hi,

I am Shakil Hossain from Bangladesh  JUst starting with Node JS  I am working last 5 years as a web developer.  Now i am excited to know what people are doing with it and how 

Cheers

Shakil Hossain 

[sakthivel swamy]

Dear Vaishali,

Good to know about you and your work. Kindly provide more details about your project using NodeJS and IONIC framework.

Thanks

Samy

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Hello Everyone

My name is Vaishali, Just moved from India to Melbourne. Working with NodeJS for a while now.

Currently working with IONIC Framework for Application Development, Mostly Using Node Js as the Backend.

Cheers

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