Thanks to everyone that came out to this last meetup. We did something a bit different and had Derick Bailey in to talk about backbone.js. It worked great, and we’re going to continue trying to get more speakers in to other events in the future. Let us know if there’s anyone you’d like us to try to track down!

We also had a number of new faces out at the meetup. It’s great to see new people coming out and remeber that all skill levels and experience are welcome.

News

• We had another hackup on Nov 7th. Thanks to everyone that came out!
• jQuery 1.7 released - live() is deprecated, new promises and pub/sub support, faster
• jQuery is going on a diet - lots more deprecations coming soon, looking for feedback on ways to slim down

Upcoming Events

• Nov 19 - StartupEdmonton is running a Twitter Hack Day (register)
• Nov 22 - DemoCamp 16 at TELUS Centre on the UofA campus (register)
• Dec 5 - Founders & Funders (register)
• Dec 5 - YEGrb hackup at IdeaLoft (YEGrb Calendar)
• Dec 13 - YEGrb meetup. We’ve loved it ahead one week to accomodate Christmas.

Jobs

• Yardstick Software is looking for a web designer

Talk (60 minutes)

Derick Bailey joined us via our new Google+ page to talk about using backbone.js and to take questions. He’s got lots more resources up available at http://backbonetraining.net/resources, and he’s posted his presentation on GitHub if you want to take another look at it.

Derick also mentioned building simple Ruby RESTful API’s using the grape gem. You can also find a list of other API builder on the Ruby Toolbox.

House Keeping

We agreed to have a meetup on Tuesday Dec 13th, 2011. Sign up to talk now!