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The second meetup of the Vancouver Javascript Development group will be on December 9th.
The first meetup was great - I delivered a presentation on thick-client Javascript development frameworks, like Sproutcore, Cappucino, and the Google Web Toolkit, and Brian, Brock, and Rob from Nitobi delivered a presentation on XUI for mobile web development.
The two presentations couldn’t have been more different. Mine covered high-level technical evaluations of huge frameworks for delivering large ‘desktop-like’ applications, whereas Nitobi’s ‘XUI’ framework could be much more effectively described as a very scaled-down jQuery for mobile development.
Developer turnout was pretty good. Everybody agreed that the libraries and techniques discussed were a bit high-level, and that in future meetups our presentations could comfortably go more technical.
For the next meetup, Joyent and Nitobi will be delivering presentations on Server-Side Javascript, and Offline Storage. We are also encouraging our members to deliver presentations on any Javascript technology that they are actively working on, or, better, developing.
