Refresh Events encourages collaborative partnerships, fosters education at all skill levels and creates networking opportunities within the Toronto interactive community.
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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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.)
More after the jump!
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Welcome to our first edition of Stay Fresh. Every day we will be posting content about a design or development topic. Sometimes, it will be about social media, creative strategy, or a product review. Either way, count on us to deliver something new and interesting everyday.
With that said, our first edition of Stay Fresh will cover jQuery. The latest version of this popular JavaScript framework is 1.3, which was just released on January 14th 2009. (Incidentally, the new version was released 3 years to the day of the first version of jQuery). The new version of jQuery has many new improvements, which we will cover today.
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Refresh Events is proud to present Cameron Westland (http://www.bigbangtechnology.com) and Eugene Andruszczenko (http://32teeth.org) to our first event of 2009. The topic of the evening will be an analysis of Prototype and jQuery, two increasingly popular JavaScript frameworks. Cameron and Eugene will perform deep-dives into Prototype and jQuery (respectively) and examine the benefits and drawbacks of using each language. The goal is not to see which one emerges as the “better language”, but instead to promote the concept of the right tool for the job.
Our next event will be held at 7pm on February 18th 2009, venue TBA.
*UPDATE: Our next meetup will be held at the Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Avenue, Suite 400. Please visit the event page for more information and to register.*
*UPDATE: Help us promote this event! Download the PDF poster (750KB).*
*UPDATE: Presentation decks are now available online.*
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