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Dojo Berlin meet-up OR Web-Hackery Social

Thu, 11/19/2009 - 14:44 — alex

Hi y'all,

Inspired by the JSConf that happened a cople fo weeks back in Berlin I was thinking "Wouldn't it be great if there was a local web-hackers scene in Berlin for ploting and scheming?". SO I tweeted it and @janl showed some interest which made me think there might be others.

SO

if there is interest in getting together and sharing web-hacking ideas and perhaps starting little projects with others, in Berlin, then make yourself known! (or just come along).

I was thinking of having the first meeting in a bar in NeuKölln just to meet and talk to people and perhaps organise a space to do presentations in the future, if people are of that mind. I was thinking Dojo/javascript but can be any web-hackery really.

Time: 3pm, Sunday 22nd November, 2009
Place: Milch&Zucker, Oranienstraße 37, Kreuzberg

Developers welcome. Come along if you want to discuss problems and ideas.

alexander

Mon, 11/23/2009 - 14:17 — alex

meeting minutes

So the meeting went well!

We just talk abotu a lot of developments in the Javascript word, in general and arrange to have a meeting in which David will do a presentation on Raphaël, an exciting new SVG based, cross browser javascript lib. for doing vector graphics on webpages.

Topics/Sites covered:

  • Super Mario Bros in 14kb Javascript.
  • Davids labour of love: Aurora which uses some experimental Dojo widgets.
  • Googles AJaX Lb. API for loading opensrouce JS libs such as Dojo or JQuery.
  • ...and criticisms of Google Closure which tries to make Javascript look/feel like Java :(
  • Was impressed by the animated 3D charting on ajax.org writen by some super fly Russian guy.
  • By far th emost impressive thing was Raphaël which is SVG cross browser! Thinking the UI possibilites here could be great! Of course the documentation is thin but the API is so freash its still steaming. There is a Google group to ask questions on however. Looks like a mad Russian genuis is behind this one too.
  • Additional Raphaël resources: the ugly but useful.
  • Had a quick look at data sources and agreeded that Dojo has the nicest Data API which lets you seemlessly intergrate with external data sources like Google spreedsheet!
  • There is also Yahoo!'s YQL for doing SQL type querys on web data sources, which looks increadably powerful but nobody is using it much? Maybe someone should investigate and do a talk on this one week...?
  • I talked about experimental interface design and Doug Engelbart & Ted Nelson interviews I wrote up recently. Would like to kick the ball around a bit ore on this.
  • Some cutting edge Javascript stuff like Chrome Experiments, showing off the speed of the Chrome JS engine. And video type effects in this 20liner at the Asylum.
  • and some other stuff...

Meeting next Monday at 3pm, Tor Straße 96 Mitte, Berlin.