Headliner: Eric Zhang / nowjs.com
6:30 - 7:00: Open mic: get help; strut your stuff
7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation
8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizes
Presentation Abstract
Building realtime elements in web applications has always been a challenge. With evented servers like Node.js, coding highly scalable realtime applications is finally easy. Learn why Node is...
[read more] Headliner: Eric Zhang / nowjs.com
6:30 - 7:00: Open mic: get help; strut your stuff
7:00 - 8:15: Featured presentation
8:15 - 8:30: Jobs Offered / wanted / door prizes
Presentation Abstract
Building realtime elements in web applications has always been a challenge. With evented servers like Node.js, coding highly scalable realtime applications is finally easy. Learn why Node is great for highly concurrent applications and how it can plays nicely with your Rails applications. Bring your laptops and we'll make a realtime chatroom in 12 lines of code.
Bio
Eric Zhang is a developer of <a href="
http://nowjs.org">NowJS</a> , a framework for Node.js that enables super simple realtime communication between server and client. He's been building websites since the age of 8 and isn't stopping anytime soon.
Pre-meetup nosh
We usually meet at the Biryani House (Shattuck @ University) around 5:00pm for snacks and tech talk. Either Rich or Jon will be there... or someone else from the group. Join us if you can and enjoy the food and the discussion.
