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Toronto’s First Ruby Job Fair

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

The folks at Unspace have earned a reputation of putting on content-rich, rockstar heavy conferences. Their most recent event, FutureRuby, sold out their early bird tickets in only 5 hours. They are committed to growing the Ruby community in Toronto, so it was no surprise when Pete Forde emailed us to let us know they are throwing yet another event.

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jQuery Workshop – Input Needed

Monday, May 18th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

Given the popularity of the jQuery/Prototype gathering we curated back in January ‘09, we are currently putting together a jQuery workshop for later this summer.

However, to get a sense of what people are interested in, we have started a poll to gain your insight into your 9-5, your exposure level to JavaScript, and what this workshop will look like.

Please fill out the poll and let us know what’s on your mind!

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Creating a Twitter Feed using jQuery

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

As most of you already know, Twitter is growing in leaps and bounds. With an estimated 4.5 million users on Twitter, Twitter is easier & quicker than writing a blog, it lets you be part of the conversation, and it can be used for almost everything.

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10 jQuery Plugins Every Developer Can’t Live Without

Monday, March 16th, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks in use today; since it’s release over 3 years ago, it has grown from a small following of die-hards to one that is being used by the likes of Google, NASA and Bank of America.

The strength of jQuery lies not within its popularity (although one could say that it is as successful as it because of the sheer number of advocates it has), but because of its extensibility and the number of plugins that are available to designers and developers. (This site uses jQuery plugins to drive the Flickr and Twitter feeds, as well the lightbox.)

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StayFresh06: Peter Flaschner, Passion, and Ignite Presentations

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 | By: Justin Kozuch

It’s all about passion. We all have it, whether it’s for clean code, organized wireframes, or a kick-ass creative brief. Christian Hebbel once said “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”

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