JavaScript Magazine Blog for JSMag » Events http://jsmag.com/blog Javascript Magazine for Javascript developers Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:49:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Web Optimization Summit drawing winners! http://jsmag.com/blog/2010/05/web-optimization-summit-drawing-winners/ http://jsmag.com/blog/2010/05/web-optimization-summit-drawing-winners/#comments Tue, 11 May 2010 18:47:01 +0000 mgkimsal http://jsmag.com/blog/?p=186 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 summit – looks to be a great day, with some of your favorite JSMag contributors presenting there as well!

]]> http://jsmag.com/blog/2010/05/web-optimization-summit-drawing-winners/feed/ 0 Win a free pass to the Web Optimization Summit! http://jsmag.com/blog/2010/04/win-a-free-pass-to-the-web-optimization-summit/ http://jsmag.com/blog/2010/04/win-a-free-pass-to-the-web-optimization-summit/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:42:10 +0000 mgkimsal http://jsmag.com/blog/?p=168 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 to the Web Optimization Summit!

The Web Optimization Summit is an online event bringing together some of the top names in web optimization techniques, including JSMag contributors like Kyle Simpson, Stoyan Stefanov and Tom Hughes-Croucher.

Fine print

You don’t need to make a purchase, but do need to have a valid email account on file with JSMag by 8am GMT -500 on May 5, 2010.  Winners will be notified by email, and will need to respond by May 6 in order to claim the pass.  If we don’t hear back from the selected winners, new winners be will drawn and contacted.

]]> http://jsmag.com/blog/2010/04/win-a-free-pass-to-the-web-optimization-summit/feed/ 0 JSMag sponsoring upcoming North Carolina jQuery Camp http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/12/jsmag-sponsoring-upcoming-north-carolina-jquery-camp/ http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/12/jsmag-sponsoring-upcoming-north-carolina-jquery-camp/#comments Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:52:46 +0000 mgkimsal http://jsmag.com/blog/?p=92 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 as well.  The first few names I know of include: Scott Gonzalez of the jQuery UI team, Rebecca Muphey of the recent O’Reilly jQuery Cookbook, and Clinton Nixon from Viget will be on hand.

If you’re in the region – anywhere from Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, Norfolk, Wilmington, DC – I’d suggest making the trip if you can.  If you’re anywhere in the area that week, extend your trip and stay for a great jQuery Camp.

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The three podcasts are:

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

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]]> http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/04/jsmag-jsconf/feed/ 0 Book drawing contest winner http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/04/book-drawing-contest-winner/ http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/04/book-drawing-contest-winner/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:26:38 +0000 mgkimsal http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/04/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 of his spare time  :)

We’ve got an excerpt of the “JavaScript for Programmers” book in the upcoming May issue of JSMag, so grab a copy of that if you’re interested in digging in to the book a bit more.

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]]> http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/04/javascriptbook-giveaway/feed/ 1 Upcoming JavaScript class with Douglas Crockford http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/03/upcoming-javascript-class-with-douglas-crockford/ http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/03/upcoming-javascript-class-with-douglas-crockford/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:07:48 +0000 mgkimsal http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/03/upcoming-javascript-class-with-douglas-crockford/ I just got notified about an upcoming JavaScript class.  Here’s the details:

TrainingThe 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 an expressive object literal notation. You’ll learn why this powerful feature subset is more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole, and discover firsthand how to create extensible and efficient code with it. Based on his popular O’Reilly book, JavaScript: The Good Parts, this class will demonstrate how JavaScript can be a beautiful, elegant, lightweight, and highly expressive language.

For more information on the event, please visit: http://training.oreilly.com/javascript/

If you register, use code SPH25 to get a 25% discount off the $600 price tag.  If you’ve not seen Crockford talk about JavaScript before, go watch one of his presentations at http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/theater

]]> http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/03/upcoming-javascript-class-with-douglas-crockford/feed/ 0 JavaScript conference early bird registration ends tomorrow http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/03/javascript-conference-early-bird-registration-ends-tomorrow/ http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/03/javascript-conference-early-bird-registration-ends-tomorrow/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:41:52 +0000 mgkimsal http://jsmag.com/blog/2009/03/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/

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