Agenda

This month will feature a talk on nodejs, an important upcoming technology. Delivering this talk will be Leon Gersing, one of our favorite technical speakers. If you have node questions, bring your laptop. Very few enjoy hanging out and hacking more then Leon.

Topic

5 Real World examples of putting Node.js to work This talk is getting back to my roots. Recently, my 6 year old had to do a presentation in her Kindergarden class. She brought in one of her favorite toys and presented a bunch of real-use information and experience that she had with her technology of choice: a my little pony. This is my Kindergarden class and you are all my classmates. Rather than an intro session, I’m going to show you some samples of where I’ve been able to use Node  (and some other wonderful javascript libraries) to really drive business value and solve real world problems creatively using this new and powerful framework.  This talk should be considered an intermediate talk with some expert level points and will cover the following technologies: Node.js, V8, Unix, mongodb, HTML5 topics (including web sockets), npm, underscore.js, coffeescript, express.js, connect.js, vows.js and expresso.js.

Bio:

Leon Gersing is a software artisan with EdgeCase. (edgecase.com) He works primary with web technologies providing custom solutions to our worldwide clients.  He has recently started a new endeavour No Spoon Software, with co-founder Jerry Nummi, that seeks to bring new and exciting solutions to the emerging mobile markets.  No Spoon’s first app is a Campfire business chat client called Sparks which is available now for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch in the Apple App Store.  You can read more about No Spoon Software at http://nospoonsoftware.com.