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Meeting Roundup: Chicago Ajax Developers

Monday, June 15th, 2009

This past Friday was the first meeting for the Chicago Ajax Developers group. I’d like to thank those of you who came, although I was disappointed by the low turnout. As I prepare to organize our next meeting I’m going to continue to advertise our group in hopes to attract a greater following.

Speaking of. . . if you’re in the Chicago area and want to give a presentation, please contact me directly. I’ll always be looking for people!

During our meeting on Friday we discussed ExtJS and dived into a unit testing class that I’ve built on top of the framework. I have posted the meeting materials and updated source code examples on my website.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!

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JavaScript Meetup – Friday 6/12/09

Monday, June 8th, 2009

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

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Chicago Ajax Developers launches!

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

After finally finding some free time over the past few weeks, I managed to finish a preliminary version of Chicago Ajax Developers.

The site will be the homepage for an ExtJS user group that I’m in the process of starting. If all goes as planned, the group will start having meetings in mid-June or July. Stay tuned for more details.

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