Get our Newsletter!One of the hardest thing about living in the suburbs is that the overwhelming majority of computer developers live in the city. Although I live in the Chicago area, this is undoubtedly true of any city and it makes it harder to connect with industry peers.
Over the past two months, I’ve been trying to organize a local JavaScript meetup group. At first I thought the group would be ExtJS specific (as I’m very involved with the ExtJS community), but I’ve had second thoughts over the past couple of weeks. I’m thinking that it would probably be a good idea to organize a more general JavaScript (or even front-end development) group that would attract a larger audience and discuss a wider range of topics.
While I haven’t fully figured out what direction the group will take, I have secured classroom space this Friday, June 12th at the College of Lake County. The meeting will be held in room T232 at 7:00pm. This will be the group’s first meeting, where I plan on presenting:
- An introduction to ExtJS
- Unit Testing in ExtJS (a personal project of mine)
I am sending an open invitation for everyone to join us at CLC this Friday. I’m hoping to see some familiar faces, but I’m looking forward to meeting new people as well.
If you can’t make it, I have setup a website where I’ll have updates about future meetings: Chicago Ajax Developers
