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.

• ExtJS Unit Testing example

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

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

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.