JQueryCamp07
From jQuery JavaScript Library
On October 27, 2007, we held the first-ever, all-day, jQuery mini-conference, immediately following the Ajax Experience Boston.
The location for this camp was at Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA, graciously procured by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Time and Location
October 27, 2007 - 9am until 5pm
Pound Hall, Room #107 (Thanks to the Berkman Center)
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Getting There
By Public Transportation: The easiest way to get to this venue is to get to Harvard Station (which is on the T Red Line) and to walk up Mass. Ave from there. Use the MBTA site in order to determine the correct directions to take.
By Car: Parking should be available on Everett or Oxford St around the campus. (If you wish, you can purchase a visitor pass in order to be able to park your car on campus.) Directions to the location can be found on Google Maps. Please use the Harvard Maps in order to locate a suitable place to park your car.
Hotels
- See: Talk:JQueryCamp07
Schedule
Presentations on slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/tag/jquerycamp07
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | Arrival, Check-in, and Breakfast (Doughnuts, Bagels, Coffee, Juice) |
| 9:30 | Welcome |
| 10:00 | The State of the Powerdome - How the jQuery project is doing, what everyone is up to, how progress has gone thus far. A retrospective. - John Resig |
| 10:30 | The Future of jQuery - Looking forwards to upcoming features and goals for the project. - John Resig |
| 11:00 | jQuery UI - A step to richness - Information about jQuery UI, it's current state and planned modules. - Paul Bakaus |
| 12:00 | Lunch (Pizza, Soda) |
| 1:00 | UI Datepicker / jQuery Calendar Success Story - What it took to build a solid jQuery plugin. - Marc Grabanski |
| 1:20 | jQuery and Ruby Web Frameworks - Techniques for simplifying jQuery use in Rails, Merb, and other similar frameworks. (slides) - Yehuda Katz |
| 2:00 | Hey, I Can Do That! - Learning jQuery by teaching jQuery by doing jQuery - Karl Swedberg |
| 2:20 | Taconite and Form - Tutorial on using Taconite and Form plugins to add Ajax to your application. - Marc Grabanski |
| 2:40 | Server-side JavaScript with jQuery and AOLserver - Developing web applications with JavaScript on the client- and server-side, using AOLserver. (slides) - Dossy Shiobara |
| 3:00 | The Onion: How to add features without adding features - A review at the structure of jQuery and its plugin ecosystem (slides) - Jörn Zaefferer |
| 3:20 | Visualizations with JavaScript and Canvas - An introduction to using Canvas for procedural drawing - John Resig and Bradley Sepos |
| 3:40 | ActiveDOM - Markup, Accessibility and Interface strategies for web applications with jQuery (slides) - Felix Geisendörfer |
| 4:00 | Growing jQuery - How to extend jQuery for your needs - Sean Catchpole |
| 4:30 | Dinner (Thai Curry, Sushi - from Spice and Rice) |
| 5:30+ | Drinks (John Harvard's Brewhouse, Location) |
Attendees
Go here for the full attendee list.
NOTE: The venue that we got was only supposed to hold 50 people, so things will probably be very tight.
Sponsorship
If you, or your company, is interested in sponsoring this event, please contact John Resig: jeresig@gmail.com. We're generally looking for a couple hundred dollars to help defray the cost of food.