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Web Optimization Summit drawing winners!

We had our drawing late last week for two free passes to the Web Optimization Summit, then another drawing due to some communication issues with the first round.  Our winners notified and have accepted.  The first winner is Mik from productiveinsomnia.com.  Our second winner requested anonymity.
Thanks to Christopher Schmitt for the passes to the online [...]

Win a free pass to the Web Optimization Summit!

The Web Optimization Summit is happening May 12, and JSMag wants you to be there!  We’ve got 2 free passes we’ll be giving out on May 5.  Winners be randomly selected from everyone registered with JSMag.
Are you not registered yet?  Visit http://www.jsmag.com/sampler to register for your free PDF sampler and enter to win a pass [...]

JSMag sponsoring upcoming North Carolina jQuery Camp

We’re proud to be helping sponsor the upcoming jQuery Camp in Durham, NC.  You can visit http://ncjquerycamp2.eventbrite.com/ for more information or to sign up.  This one day event will be a great time to meet up with some of the region’s top “front-end engineering” minds, some of whom also happen to be top jQuery contributors [...]

JSConf audio podcasts

I did a couple podcast interviews at JSConf a few weeks back and put them on WebDevRadio.
The three podcasts are:

Kyle Simpson on SWFObject
Jan Lenhardt and Chris Anderson on CouchDB
YUI3 with Satyen Desai

Thanks to Jan, Chris, Satyen and Kyle for letting me interview or record them. 

JSMag @ JSConf

JSMag is here at the JSConf conference in Washington DC.  We’ll be looking to get some of the speakers to contribute article versions of their cutting-edge work for upcoming JSMag editions.  If you’ve got any questions for the best and brightest in the JavaScript world, post them here or email editor@jsmag.com.

Book drawing contest winner

We held a drawing for a copy of the new book “JavaScript for Programmers” (Deitel & Deitel, from Prentice Hall) from all users registered to JSMag (no purchase necessary).  By the power of rand(), the selected winner is Alvin Ashcraft!  Congrats Alvin!  Alvin can also be found working over at Dzone’s .NET zone in some [...]

Book giveaway

JSMag will be holding a drawing for a free copy of the new book “JavaScript for Programmers” from InformIT.com.   To enter, simply register an account as JSMag.com by April 20, 2009.  A winner will be selected at random and notified, and the book will be shipped to the winner.  No purchase necessary.

Upcoming JavaScript class with Douglas Crockford

I just got notified about an upcoming JavaScript class.  Here’s the details:

The all day “Master Class” will be lead JavaScript expert Douglas Crockford who will scrape away the language’s bad features to reveal all the good ideas that make JavaScript an outstanding object-oriented programming language — ideas such as functions, loose typing, dynamic objects, and [...]

JavaScript conference early bird registration ends tomorrow

The title says it all really.  If you’re planning on being there, get your discounted tickets today!  http://jsconf2009.com/