Friday, May 29, 2009

jQuery at Nashville Web Developers meeting

It was nice to see all the people at this meeting from http://www.nashdotnet.org/ out there to see Elijah Manor do an intro to JQuery talk.

Elijah started out showing a number of great examples online, and followed up with a number of clear code examples. Elijah posted a blog entry with google-docs spreadsheet with links to all the cool stuff he showed. The blog entries are below...

the slides:
http://webdevdotnet.blogspot.com/2009/05/jquery-introduction-talk.html
the linkages:
http://webdevdotnet.blogspot.com/2009/05/jquery-resource-collection.html

The linkages are in a spreadsheet with invisible tabs at the bottom representing the worksheets are below...
Main:
Tutorials
Pluggins
Tools
Cheat Sheets

Fantastically fanatically freeform jammin' open community == jQuery

I predict good things ... must try jQuery, outside of the MVC framework, using page (web) methods...
I will post when I have.

Roger Wilco, over & out,
Dan

PS - I gotta a ticket to DevLink for a doorprize: http://www.devlink.net/
Also, recruiter Joe gave me his doorprize for being nice and telling him VP Gaines is off the bench, in case you're interested in hiring Gaines... who runs this VUG as a SIG for the Nashville DNUG. Anyhow it was a book on SharePoint and since I'm into it at work now one of my not-to-distant future posts will be SharePoint "Development".

Saturday, May 9, 2009

More about VUGs and Cloudism

Well I did my presentation about Virtual Users Groups (VUGs) and Cloudism (what we use the Internet for). I talked about how the VUG capability represents where the Internet evolved. I mean that instant communication provides a nice platform for live-over-the-Internet technical presentations...

That the VUG represents the epitome of what the Internet provides, as does Cloud Computing, yet VUGs use the tools of the Cloud to provide communication with its members. Like for FaceBook, LinkedIn, MeetUp, SecondLife, ReactorGrid, VUGs they are using these sites to host themselves inside the context of a Cloud-based tool for social networking - PERFECTION!

Perfect medium for technical information transferal - a social networking tool based in the Cloud.

Also using email, usually provided by the site as part of social networking, these VUGs will notify the many hundreds if not thousands of members - actually stressing out the social networks abilities!

And finally, using LiveMeeting or any of a number of other live-over-the-Internet presentation tools.... The Ultimate usage of the tools of the Cloud for technical discussion and information sharing.

Dan