Join us at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Austin fora day of JavaScript, hacking, and Southern Charm. Whether you're a front-end wrangler or a just use the lasso tool a lot... ok, nevermind, enough Texas jokes. We're having a JavaScript conference and we think you should come. Everyone is welcome, as there will be two tracks during the day, and we think at least one of them will... [read more]

Join us at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Austin fora day of JavaScript, hacking, and Southern Charm. Whether you're a front-end wrangler or a just use the lasso tool a lot... ok, nevermind, enough Texas jokes. We're having a JavaScript conference and we think you should come. Everyone is welcome, as there will be two tracks during the day, and we think at least one of them will keep you quite interested (likely both!). Most talks will be close to the intermediate skill-level. If you need some convincing, the speakers speak for themselves. Literally and figuratively! Brendan Eich - CTO Mozilla / Creator of JavaScript Douglas Crockford - Yahoo / Author of JavaScript The Good Parts Alex Russell - Google / Dojo Co-Creator Paul Irish - Google / Modernizr / jQuery Team Divya Manian - Opera / HTML5 Boilerplate Mikeal Rogers - Yammer / NodeConf Ben Vinegar - Disqus Brian Leroux - PhoneGap / Nitobi Joe McCann - Subprint Interactive Andrew Dupont - Prototype / Gowalla  Tom Hughes-Croucher - Joyent / Node.js Book Author Pete Higgins - Dojo Lead Garann Means - VAST Rebecca Murphey - yayQuery Adam J Sontag - jQuery Team / Bocoup   That's not even all of them! More announced soon!   Follow us on twitter @txjs for the most frequent updates.     Friday Pre-Conference Beer.js - Time TBA Our amazing sponsor HP Palm (WebOS) is throwing us an awesome party on Friday evening to help get everyone acquainted before the conference! More details to come soon.         Saturday   Conference - 9am - 6pm Two tracks of JavaScript-y and front-end goodness in both theaters of the infamous Alamo Drafthouse movie theater. The theater is located in the heart of downtown austin. Lunch will be provided by Mozilla. Bring your laptops, cell phones, and tablets, as we'll be geared up for power and wireless internet. The main theater seats 175, and the second theater seats 75, so seats are limited! Detailed talk descriptions, speaker bios, and talk schedule to follow on: http://2011.texasjavascript.com/   Party - 6pm Join us at the after-party directly following the conference at Buffalo Billiards (across the street) for drinks, pool, and nerdtalk, where Bazaarvoice will throwing the best post-javascript-conference after-party this side of the continental divide!         More Sponsor Love   Yammer will be providing breakfast tacos from TacoDeli the morning of the conference! Come a little earlier, leave a little happier.   Mozilla won't let you go home unhappy. Aside from covering the bill for your lunch, and sending the Brendan Eich, they're also helping us put together some pretty awesome conference extras that are sure to help you get to know the town a bit better.         Need A Place To Stay? Hotel blocks sizes are really hard to guess :/ So if you're interested in getting a hotel, email me at AlexSexton[at]gmail.com soon! I would currently suggest trying the Driskill Hotel, located a block away from the venue. If enough people contact me, I can set up some block pricing with them. Thanks!         Contact If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me at AlexSexton[at]gmail.com