This Month

Tuesday: June 18, 2013

11:30 am

@The Exchange 700 1/2 W. Sheridan Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102

“About “Ember.js”

Light Your Fires for Ember

Ember Js bills itself as a framework for creating ambitious web applications. Its a strong system integrating data binding, templates, and common idioms so you can focus on what makes a web app special, without reinventing the wheel. Perhaps you’ve worked in other frameworks, and have wondered what makes Ember exceptional.

Now is your chance to learn, and Jeremy Green is going to be your guide on a titillating code safari deep into the trenches of Ember.

About our Speakers

Jeremy Green

I’m a hard-working, entrepreneurial, full-stack web engineer. I believe in test-driven development, minimum viable products, short iterations, fat models, skinny controllers, version control, feature branches, automated deployment, performance as a feature, 24x7 monitoring, proactive detection of problems, and using the right tool for each job. I engineer scalable solutions to allow infrastructure costs to rise and fall with demand.

Jeremy’s Octolabs Page

Our Sponsors

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = The Exchange;

The Exchange

The Exchange is located on the second floor of the historic Film Exchange building in downtown Oklahoma City. This unique loft space is a breath of fresh air for those wanting to step away from traditional event locals and reception areas while still remaining close to all the action of the city.

The Exchange 700 1/2 West Sheridan Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

(405) 601-9200

Google maps link

This Month

Tuesday: April 16, 2013

11:30 am

@The Exchange 700 1/2 W. Sheridan Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102

“About “IMPACTjs”

They’re cropping up everywhere - Javascript frameworks for game creation.

You’ve probably played with some by now, and if not, you should take a gander at some of the more interesting ones. Javascript is a surprisingly robust and fun environment to for making games that can run in your browser.

Of the many game engines, a few will stick out. Impact.js is one of the ones worth your attention.

Why Impact? I’ll show you. Bring your laptop to the next meeting - you’re going to use it. We’re going to assemble a simple game together in no time with Impact.js, and you can see why it is an effective and expressive system for creating content. We’ll examine Impact’s built in AMD, clear design patterns, animation system, awesome level master and useful debugging tools. We’ll also look at how the system is extensible, and can even host external tools within.

Don’t miss this meeting, you’re in for a javascript treat! Dominique, the developer of Impact has been so kind to give us a usergroup licence for noncommertial use of Impact. If you’ve been curious about Impact.js but haven’t had a chance to see what the fuss is about, now you can know!

About our Speakers

Jesse Harlin

I’m Jesse. I love making music and software. I think Javascript is really neat and I hope you do too.

Jesse’s Geocities Page

Our Sponsors

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = The Exchange;

The Exchange

The Exchange is located on the second floor of the historic Film Exchange building in downtown Oklahoma City. This unique loft space is a breath of fresh air for those wanting to step away from traditional event locals and reception areas while still remaining close to all the action of the city.

The Exchange 700 1/2 West Sheridan Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

(405) 601-9200

Google maps link

This Month

Tuesday: April 16, 2013

11:30 am

@The Exchange 700 1/2 W. Sheridan Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102

OverDrive Your Javascript.

“About “Lightning Talks”

We liked our last lightning talks so much, we want to do it again! If you’ve never been involved in one of those before, its pretty simple: Its an open forum where our members can get up and talk about what they want. The talks need to be short - generally 5-10 minutes. You can cover anything that is javascript, or related to javascript. You can talkabout a problem you’ve solved, a plugin you like, a cool blog post you read, something you’re working on now, or pretty much any other way you’re using javascript to achieve your goals.

About our Speakers

A Winner is You !

This month it is all about you, our Okcjs Members. This meeting will be entirely user driven. Have you been working on something cool you want to share? Have you come across a useful plugin lately? Have you recently solved a hard problem with javascript or related technologies? Now is your chance to present it!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = The Exchange;

The Exchange

The Exchange 700 1/2 West Sheridan Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

(405) 601-9200

Google maps link

This Month

Tuesday: March 26, 2013

11:30 am

@The Exchange 700 1/2 W. Sheridan Ave., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102

OverDrive Your Javascript.

“About “Overdrive Your Javascript”

This month, we are going to rev up your Javascript RPM’s to the Full Throttle Ultimate Extreme Maximum™. There’s many ways to drive your Javascript. Some methods are more successful than others. I tried hot gluing a steering wheel to my computer case, and found that technique to be largely ineffective. Don’t make the same mistake I did! Come to this month’s meeting and let some experts show you how to insert driving pun here!

One technique available is to run a test driver. This means you use a navigation and scripting testing utility to ensure your code is running smoothly. How can you ensure your enduser’s web experience has set the cruise control to cool? You need to test your javascript! You can auto fill and submit forms, define and order browsing navigation steps, capture screenshots, log events, scrape web content and a host of other things to make sure your site is really working. CasperJS is a tool for the job, and Michael Sarchet is going to help you get started.

Another way to drive your Javascript is to implement a library to help make autonomous characters move in a realistic manner. The general term for this is ‘steering behavior’. This can include wandering, seeking and randomness, avoidance, and any other way things ‘move’. You might need to do this if you’re implementing some advanced interactivity, building a game, or doing some creative project. Ben VanTreese is working on a library to do this in javascript, and he is going to present it at this month’s meeting.

About our Speakers

Michael Sarchet [@msarchet]

Michael has been programming ever since he started learning QBasic at the age of 11 on his 486dx. He currently works in C# for his job, and enjoys working in Ruby/Rails/etc. Michael has a blog! and a github!

Ben VanTreese [@vantreeseba]

Ben Van Treese is a lead developer at Nine Collective focusing on server side and client side programming. Ben is a graduate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University with a B.S. in Computer Science. He has been programming for over 10 years in various programming languages. Ben’s other interests include everything from cooking and gardening to machine learning and robotics. Ben has a blog! and a github!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = The Exchange;

The Exchange

The Exchange 700 1/2 West Sheridan Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

(405) 601-9200

Google maps link

This Month

Tuesday: February 19, 2013

11:30 am

@The Exchange

The Making Of A Javascript Game.

“Wait…. You Can Make Games With Javascript ?”

Dude. Yes you can.

Some developers from right here in Oklahoma are doing it right now. James Simpson and Luke Simpkins of Goldfire Studios have managed to create a vast, persistent virtual world that you can enjoy with javascript. The game is accessible anywhere using the latest Html 5 technologies, right in your browser, phone, tablet or any other modern device.

You can’t miss this next meeting. You’ll have an opportunity to listen to some talented developers talk about their experiences in this technology stack, their experiences in the game industry, and how they have dealt with many common, and possibly not-so-common issues with client-stack game development.

About our Speakers

James Simpson [@GoldfireStudios]

James is the founder of GoldFire Studios and developed his first web game at the age of 13. For the last decade-plus, James has been developing games and game related products for the web that have reached millions of players all around the world.

Luke Simkins [@LSimkins]

Luke started creating games when he was in high school, over a decade ago. He has also been involved with web startups ever since, leading development on projects for clients such as Warner..

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = The Exchange;

The Exchange

The Exchange 700 1/2 West Sheridan Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

(405) 601-9200

Google maps link

This Month

Meeting January 22, 2013 @The Exchange

Ecmafox.

” All ships check in!! ….For ECMAScript”

We say javascript, but what we really mean is ECMAScript. If js development is important to you, then so are the latest standards rolling out. Javascript has always been constantly evolving, and now is your chance to evolve with it. Come see Yury Delendik show you the future of js, and do a barrel roll for javascript!

About our Speakers

Yury Delendik

Yury Delendik’s first open source project was the processing.js. Since then, he is involved with the Mozilla community. He likes to implement various binary formats decoders in JavaScript and other languages. Currently, he works at Mozilla Research on the pdf.js and shumway projects

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = The Exchange;

The Exchange

The Exchange 700 1/2 West Sheridan Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

(405) 601-9200

Google maps link

This Month

Meeting December 18, 2012 @The Exchange

Javascript Lightning.

“Javascript Lightning”

Can you believe it? This month concludes our first full year as a usergroup!

We though it would be a great idea to have a user driven meeting for this month. For the first part, the majority of the meeting, we will be doing lightning talks from community members. If you’ve never been involved in one of those before, its pretty simple: Its an open forum where our members can get up and talk about what they want. The talks need to be short - generally 5-10 minutes. You can cover anything that is javascript, or related to javascript. You can talk about a problem you’ve solved, a plugin you like, a cool blog post you read, something you’re working on now, or pretty much any other way you’re using javascript to achieve your goals

For the second part, we will have a sort of townhall related to okcjs. This is a chance for us to discuss stuff related to the future of our group, such as topics you think will be important for upcoming months or anything else.

This is your chance to share and be heard!

About our Speakers

Multiple Javascript Ninjas

This month it is all about you, our Okcjs Members. This meeting will be entirely user driven. Have you been working on something cool you want to share? Have you come across a useful plugin lately? Have you recently solved a hard problem with javascript or related technologies? Now is your chance to present it!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = The Exchange;

The Exchange

The Exchange 700 1/2 West Sheridan Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

(405) 601-9200

Google maps link

Parking Locations

This Month

Meeting November 27, 2012 @The Exchange

Prototype warriors.

“Prototype Warriors”

Prototypal inheritance in JavaScript isn’t that complicated; it’s just a little…confusing. We’ll look at how JavaScript disguises its prototypes, what’s going on under the disguise, and even a few ideas on how to embrace prototypes and make them more transparent.

About our Speakers

Dennis Ferron

I’m a graduate of the computer science program from Southwestern Oklahoma State University. I have worked in the software industry writing business software, and also participated in an undergraduate research program in machine learning and artificial intelligence. I did an engineering intership with NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. I currently work as a .NET developer for Love’s Country Stores and Travel Stops.

Jonathan Camenisch

I help build the web. Or, more specifically, I do full-stack web programming* projects for large and small businesses (and some for fun). I also have experience applying various technologies to business strategy, and I enjoy helping in brainstorming of every kind.

Tasty Lunch!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = The Exchange;

The Exchange

The Exchange 700 1/2 West Sheridan Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

(405) 601-9200

Google maps link

Parking Locations

This Month

Meeting October 16, 2012 @The Exchange

Mootools. Prototype.

“I love Javascript. Its so bad !”

You know why? There is a lot of choices and a lot of variety. There are a lot of tested, mature and useful frameworks and patterns available to a developer. Each one offers insight and techniques to help him/her solve real problems and achieve real goals. Javascript is totally bad. That means “good bad”, not, you know…. bad, bad.

One such framework is Mootools. Mootols (My Object-Oriented Tools) is a compact, modular Object-oriented js framework designed for intermediate to advanced javascript developers. Mootools is battle worn, tried and true. Its been powering sites for as long a jQuery, and has a strong userbase. The framework is extensible and modular, follows dry principles and allows for rich DOM interaction. If you’ve never taken Mootols for a test drive before, now is a chance to see what it can offer.

The next framework we will cover is Prototype. Prototype is one of the most popular Javascript libraries, and has ben around even longer than jQuery. Prototype is a framework that “aims to ease development of dynamic web applications”. If you’ve never used prototype, now is a good time to see what its does. It is currently used on 3.9% of all websites.

About our Speakers

Michael Sarchet

Michael has been programming ever since he started learning QBasic at the age of 11 on his 486dx. He currently works in C# for his job, and enjoys working in Ruby/Rails/etc.
@msarchet

Tasty Lunch!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = The Exchange;

The Exchange

The Exchange 700 1/2 West Sheridan Avenue Oklahoma City, OK 73102

(405) 601-9200

Google maps link

Parking Locations

This Month

Meeting Tuesday, August 21 at 11:30am at Oklahoma City Metropolitan Library [Ronald J. Norick Downtown

Spin Kick your Javascript with Frisby.js and Data-Driven Documents[d3]

The first presentation will be on Frisby.js. Frisby is a REST API testing framework built on node.js and Jasmine that makes testing API endpoints easy, fast, and fun. Frisby.js is invented by Vance Lucas

The second presentation will cover D3. D3 is a avaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG and CSS. D3’s emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM manipulation.

About our Speakers

Vance Lucas

Vance Lucas created his first website at the age of 12 and has been focused on web development ever since. Driven to learn more about the web to make better and more interactive websites, Vance taught himself programming with PHP and MySQL back when PHP3 was new at the age of 13. Since PHP5’s release, Vance has been focused on and obsessed with object-oriented programming and the advantages it has over the traditional PHP procedural coding style. Vance created the phpDataMapper ORM library as a project to demonstrate the benefits of object-oriented code and the Standard PHP Library (SPL). Vance launched InvoiceMore, an invoicing web application as the flagship product of Actridge, LLC, a company that he founded in February 2009. Vance has recently co-founded a new business called Brightbit doing client work and consulting.

@vlucas

Jesse Harlin

Howdy! I am developer at NineCollective who specializes in client side technologies. I am an ‘alpha nerd’, I love my work, and I am super enthsiastic about things like Javascript, Html/Css and Unity 3D. I’ve been working in the web for nearly a decade, and am especially excited about the incredible attention javascript has recieved lately as a programming language. When I am not programming at work I am probably programming at home. I love using code to write algorithmic music, program robots, automate Blender, create new electronic musical instruments, and make interactive media. When I am not doing that, I am working to help enrich the programming usergroup communities, both by participating and leading.

@5imian

Tasty Lunch!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = OKC Metropolitan Library;

Oklahoma City Metropolitan Library [Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library]

Meeting Room 46th Star Auditorium, on the 4th Floor.

300 Park Avenue, Oklahoma City, Ok 73102

405.606.3728

Google maps link

Parking Locations

Parking will be the most difficult part of meeting at the library, so you should know there are 7 nearby locations you can use. The locations are marked in the link above in a map. there is Sheridan Walker Garage, Central parking on Hudson, across from that is Metro Parking. Around the corner is Century Garage, and Cox Parking Garage at the intersection of Robinson and Sheridan After you’ve parked, make your way to the fourth floor of the library and find room 46, the Star Auditorium.

This Month: Heads Up! Location Change!

The Div was an awesome place to hold our meetings for a long time. The Div is evolving now, and shifting its focus to better serve the Oklahoma Tech Community. Since they are focusing on inspiring a new generation of developers, their facility this month will be used to host a Scratch Camp, and in the future they will focus more on Div Jr.

We are thankful for the awesome time we spent there! However, now we need to meet at a differnt location, so for this month we are going to meet at MetroTech Economic Development Center in Room 114 (view map). For this building on campus you should park in Lot I, and the entrance is either entry 13 or 14.

Here are some maps to help you find us:
* How to get to Metro Tech Springlake Campus
* A Map of the Springlake Campus (pdf)

Its time to take your visualization capabilities to the next level

Processing.js is the sister project of the popular Processing visual programming language, designed for the web. Processing.js makes your data visualizations, digital art, interactive animations, educational graphs, video games, etc. work using web standards and without any plug-ins. You write code using the Processing language, include it in your web page, and Processing.js does the rest. It’s not magic, but almost.

Yury is going to help us get started with Processing.js. There is a reason Processing is highly popular with lots of creative people. Processing.js brings the best of visual programming to the web, both for Processing and web developers. Processing can help you achieve practical goals, but it can also be a means for self expression. If you’ve been amazed at some of the cool things happening in the browser, and are interested in being a part of the exciting changes javascript is bringing to modern development; don’t miss this meeting!

About our Speakers

Yury Delendik

Yury Delendik’s first open source project was the processing.js. Since then, he is involved with the Mozilla community. He likes to implement various binary formats decoders in JavaScript and other languages. Currently, he works at Mozilla Research on the pdf.js and shumway projects.

Check out Yury on GitHub!

Tasty Lunch!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

This Month

Meeting June 19, 2012 from 11:30am - 12:30pm at the <div> in Edmond, OK. Lunch will be provided!

Final Fox: The Future of the Web

Its time to enter a whole new realm of Internet challenge and adventure.

It is no secret that Mozilla has been pushing the boundaries of what the internet is capable of, and has been a fundamental force in evolving the web. This month will be a whirlwind tour of a host of exciting topics that encompass the vast and magical things that Mozilla has in store for everone.

Luke is going to cover a variety of things; Web SMS, Web Telephony, Battery API, Web Vibrator, Touch, Camera, The future of gaming, Mouse Lock, Gamepad API, Gladius.js, Mozilla Open Web apps and Identity/Browser Id. Afterwards there will be a Q & A session, led by Luke covering these topics

Gather your gear; internet adventurers, and level up your interwebs.

About our Speakers

Luke Crouch

Luke has developed web sites and applications for 10 years, in both corporate and public site environments. He owes all of my best experience to the open-source community and tries to give back; he’s contributed to open-source web projects including Zend Framework, phing, PEAR, and now Mozilla!

Luke is also very active in the Tulsa Web Devs Community and Tulsa Hackathon Project

@groovecoder - Check Out Luke’s Website

Tasty Lunch!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = theDiv

With the okcCoCo undergoing change, we will be moving our meetup location to the <div> in Edmond this month. The <div> is an organization who is dedicated to supporting a grassroots usergroup movement that builds the state, and helps champion Oklahoma as a web tech hub. The div is located at 1712 S. Kelly Ave, in Edmond. We are really excited to be here, and offer our sincere thanks to the div for helping us.

This Month

Meeting May 15, 2012 from 11:30am - 12:30pm at the <div> in Edmond, OK. Lunch will be provided!

Knock-Out!! Your Browser

This month we have a story of true victory. Users expect a modern web application to be a responsive and rich interactive experience. Users will be accessing your site from a variety of mediums, and will be expecting immediate feedback when they are interacting with the page. Don’t let this send a haymaker to your appliation!

This month we have two presentations lined up to get your browser down to fighting weight. In one corner we have Micah Choquette, who will teach you how to adapt your application to any viewing environment. You can ‘Parry and Block’ and ‘Slip and Turn’, as a whole host of viewing resolutions and devices get thrown at your app. In the other corner, we have Michael Sarchet who will teach you how to create a highly interactive experince with knockout.js. Use the power of MVVM to Cross, Hook and Jab your clientside viewmodel. Your pages will float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

Its time to weigh in. The browser is waiting for your challenge!!

About our Speakers

Micah Choquette

A freelance web designer since 2003, Micah was hired on at the Tulsa World in 2010 to help launch their very successful Metered Model. His passion is working with small and micro-businesses and helping them rediscover and communicate their core values to their audience on the web. He believes in doing work that matters.

@meetmicah - Check Out Micah’s Website

Michael Sarchet

Michael has been programming ever since he started learning QBasic at the age of 11 on his 486dx. He currently works in C# for his job, and enjoys working in Ruby/Rails/etc

@msarchet

Tasty Lunch!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = theDiv

With the okcCoCo undergoing change, we will be moving our meetup location to the <div> in Edmond this month. The <div> is an organization who is dedicated to supporting a grassroots usergroup movement that builds the state, and helps champion Oklahoma as a web tech hub. The div is located at 1712 S. Kelly Ave, in Edmond. We are really excited to be here this month, and offer our sincere thanks to the div for helping us.

This Month

Meeting April 17, 2012 from 11:30am - 12:30pm at the <div> in Edmond, OK. Lunch will be provided!

Something for Everyone

Over the past few months, we’ve covered a variety of topics. We’ve seen javascript on the server, in the browser and even in your favorite image editor. This month, we are going to cover a topic that is important to anyone using javascript, no matter where you are working : functions !

Conjunction Junction! What’s your function()?!

An Entire Session on functions in JavaScript. Yep, you heard right, an hour full of bad jokes, horrible puns, internet memes, and completely unrelated references to school house rock. Oh and of course JavaScript. Join us on a magical journey from beginner to advanced to WTF (Whats that Function?!?). Along the way we will make super ultimate friends with hoisting, overloading, recursion, declaration, “type”, length, arguments, invocation and more. You’ve got a fever, and the only prescription is more functions! Now… take(your.medicine);

About our Speakers

Ryan Rauh

Ryan Rauh knows some things and stuff. Come hear him talk about them!

@rauhryan - Ryan’s Website

Tasty Lunch!

Tasty lunch will be served thanks to Robert Half Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community and we thank them for their generous support. They’ve made it clear they want to see our usergroup succeed, which is an epic win for everyone!

usergroup.location = theDiv

With the okcCoCo undergoing change, we will be moving our meetup location to the <div> in Edmond this month. The <div> is an organization who is dedicated to supporting a grassroots usergroup movement that builds the state, and helps champion Oklahoma as a web tech hub. The div is located at 1712 S. Kelly Ave, in Edmond. We are really excited to be here this month, and offer our sincere thanks to the div for helping us.

About “Ninjas of the Javascript”

Meeting March 20, 2012 from 11:30am - 12:30pm at the <div> in Edmond, OK. Batteries not included, but lunch is!

A Frontal Assault

Last month, we highlighted some of the awesome things happening with serverside javascript. Now, this month we want to highlight some awesome uses of javascript for the client, and for frontend designers. We have two awesome presentations lined up that will demonstrate the diversity and usefulness of javascript in your workflow.

Photoshop Automation With Javascript

Javascript is everwhere, and if you frequently work in programs such as image editors, video editors and sound editors you might be surprised to find Javascript in the most unlikely of places. That means as a developer or designer, harnessing the power of scripting gives you an incredible edge. Photoshop gives you the ability to implement javascript for a variety of tasks, which can save you time. It is time to learn the ancient secrets of Photoshop, and Dragon Punch™ your photoshop workflow with the power of Javascript.

Effective Clientside Patterns with the jQuery UI Widget factory

Many of you use jQuery, and similarly, many of you use jQuery UI. Its time to go beyond simply using the presets and default widgets in your jQuery UI library. In this talk, we will cover how $.widget really works, and how beyond its surface, using the widget factory can help you write elegant and well organized javascript code in your next application. Do not attend expecting a blow by blow demonstration of the default widgets. Instead, this is for those who are looking for ways to organize their codebase with good patterns and solve their own unique problems with jQuery UI. Shadow Kick™ your web application’s clientside codebase with the awesome javascript conventions, CSS conventions and state management afforded by jQuery UI!

About our Speakers

Eric Granata

Hello, I’m Eric Granata and I am a visual communicator working in graphic design, web design, video production and motion graphics. For the past 8 years I have specialized in creative work for churches and non-profits. I’m a blogger, entrepeneuer, designer and developer. I get juiced about small business and start-ups and would love to see that you are up to and help if I can.

@granta - Eric’s Website

Jesse Harlin

Howdy! I am developer at NineCollective who specializes in client side technologies. I am an ‘alpha nerd’, I love my work, and I am super enthsiastic about things like Javascript, Html/Css and Unity 3D. I’ve been working in the web for nearly a decade, and am especially excited about the incredible attention javascript has recieved lately as a programming language. When I am not programming at work I am probably programming at home. I love using code to write algorithmic music, program robots, automate Blender, create new electronic musical instruments, and make interactive media. When I am not doing that, I am working to help enrich the programming usergroup communities, both by participating and leading.

@5imian

Tasty Lunch!

This month we are extremely lucky to be sponsored by GDH Consulting. GDH is a specializeed consulting and resource firm focused on providing qualified professionals within the Information Technology, telecommunication and Consulting industries to commercial and government sectors. GDH is a strong supporter of local usergroups and developers, and is very active in the programming community. We are sincerely grateful they are providing lunch for us.

usergroup.location = theDiv

With the okcCoCo undergoing change, we will be moving our meetup location to the <div> in Edmond this month. The <div> is an organization who is dedicated to supporting a grassroots usergroup movement that builds the state, and helps champion Oklahoma as a web tech hub. The div is located at 1712 S. Kelly Ave, in Edmond. We are really excited to be here this month, and offer our sincere thanks to the div for helping us.

Rock Your World with Node.js and Socket.io!

We already have a robust usergroup in terms of size, and we are attempting something ambitious - a live coding session with audience participation. We will have two speakers at our coding session, Ben Van Treese, and Rob Sullivan. Bring your laptops to the meeting if you want to participate and be blown away by live websocket awesomeness.

First, Ben is going to help you go full throttle from neophyte to awesome in the exciting world of Node. We are going to first cover the basics of node and then construct a small node app for the first part of the meeting. This should be a perfect entry point for those new to node, but should also be practical for those at a novice skill level. Then we will cover some more advanced material. Rob is going to join in and simulate an Enterprise environment and load for our app. Everyone interested in Node.js, websockets, and real-time communications should get something out of this presentation.

About our Speakers

Rob Sullivan

Rob is a bona fide Alpha Nerd, SQL Server DBA by day and code slinger by night. He is also the token DBA on This Developers Life, SQL Dude for Tekpub, open source contributor to .NET Micro ORMS and speaker. He is an active member of the Oklahoma City Developers Group and founder/officer of his beloved Oklahoma City SQL Server Developers Group.

@datachomp - Check out Rob’s blog!

Ben Van Tresse

Ben Van Treese is a developer at Nine Collective focusing on server side and client side programming. Ben is a graduate of Southwestern Oklahoma State University with a B.S. in Computer Science. He has been programming for over 10 years in various programming languages. Ben’s other interests include everything from cooking and gardening to machine learning and robotics.

@vantreeseba - See what Ben is doing on GitHub!

Lunch!

We learned last month that the same demographic that writes javascript apparently is also the same demographic that can totally vaporize pizza. That or we underestimated just how awesome our turnout would be. In any case we are prepared this February. Tasty lunch will be served for those who attend, but don’t thank us - thank Principal Technologies. These awesome folks are passionate about serving the Oklahoma City technology community, and we thank them for providing lunch, and helping support us.

Vance Lucas will give a short presentation on JavaScript BDD testing with Jasmine, followed by a group discussion about what people want from the group, topics people want to hear or present on, and the direction of the group in the future.

This group will be open and benifical to anyone involved in any form of JavaScript at any level. We will cover front-end topics like jQuery, HTML5 APIs and the DOM, back-end development topics with tools like Node.js, Express, and NPM, as well as core JavaScript fundamentals like proper namespacing and the module pattern.

Lunch and drinks will be provided by the nice folks at Nine Collective, so come have a free lunch and get involved in the local JavaScript community.