September 15, 2015Dependency injection. Inversion of control. Containers. Let’s cut through the confusion and hyperbole and talk about what this really is. We’ll cover dependencies - why you should care, what they are, how you identify them, and when they provide value. We’ll also cover containers …Read more →about Dependencies Demystified
July 28, 2015If you use OS X or ever interact with Linux or BSD, learning a few things about the shell (Terminal) can give you a big boost in productivity. Jackson Murtha will be giving a brief practical introduction to bash-like shells and basic unix command line paradigms like GNU utilities and piping. The …Read more →about Cozy Up To Your (Bash) Shell
June 29, 2015MWOP and I are putting together a patchwork inspired git workshop(bring your own device). Whether you’re new to git or quite experienced hopefully you can come learn something. The workshop centers around content produced by github is designed to be hands-on and self paced, but we’ll …Read more →about Git Workshop
March 3, 2015Talk Repo
What are promises and how can they be managed? Bob Davidson from Blend Interactive will introduce this new fascination of the Javascript community. He’ll also discuss some functional programming techniques to help get you out of code “nesting hell”, and explain why the …Read more →about Taming Asynchronicity with Promises
January 20, 2015Starting off the new year with another NodeSchool workshop. This one is all about working with streams. Streams are introduced in the initial Learn You Node and continued in considerably more depth here.
If you’re interested in a more advanced workshop or one of introductory ones there will be …Read more →about NodeJS Workshop - Streams (don't cross them. It would be bad)
December 16, 2014Lots of web frameworks are being built around the idea of shared middleware these days(Rack, WSGI, OWIN, Connect, etc). Matthew Weier O’Phinney will be talking about the benefits of compose-able middleware in Connect. Seth Larson will have information about the similar approach being taken in …Read more →about Middleware with MWOP
October 14, 2014From prototyping to production, having a light stack can simplify and speed up application development. MongoDB, ExpressJS, Angular and NodeJS team up and form one of web-dev’s latest stacks and in this session we will cover how to build single page applications using these four tools.Read more →about Building SPAs with the MEAN Stack
August 19, 2014For August 19th, we’ll be covering section 4.1.
A nice pdf of the book: https://github.com/sarabander/sicp-pdf/blob/master/sicp.pdf
Public Github Repo for exercises in Clojure: https://github.com/hipplej/sicpRead more →about SICP Discussion
July 29, 2014You’ve heard of Node.js. You’ve even played around with it. But is it a fad? Should you use it at work? Why Node is serious, what makes it a reasonable choice for a long term project, and how to introduce it into your business.Read more →about Serious Node with Bryan Burgers