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April Boston JavaScript Meetup Meeting - JavaScript Library Comparisons

Apr 30

Thu 6:00 PM

Location: Microsoft Research Center

One Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142

How to find us
"Take elevator to the 11th floor for entry. Parking garage in the building."

Estimated attendance: 69 people attended.
4.5010
Who organized?
Marsh Sutherland

Our next JavaScript Meetup will be held on Thursday, April 30th at Microsoft Research Center located at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge. You should come to the 11th floor to be let in. There is also parking available at a cheap evening rate in the building.

Rob Larsen , Principal Presentation Engineer at Cramer, will demonstrate comparisons between raw JavaScript and utilizing the more popular JavaScript libraries currently available.

After the presentation | demonstration, we will go around the room introducing ourselves and asking the group for advice | opinions on any JavaScript-related issues members are facing.

Microsoft will provide pizza again. What a nice company!

Please RSVP and bring guests. We always have lots of pizza left over.

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Who attended?

69 attendees
- Nicole
  
  “ The presentation was informative and engaging. Good networking opportunity with others interested in JavaScript/web as well. ”
- Al
  
  “ Good presentation. Learned a couple of tricks I had not encountered before such as the IE conditionals for JavaScript which was a bonus. Nice to see that jQuery has "no ugly", which means I won't have to think about switching libraries. ”
- Gene Babon
  
  “ Marsh did an excellent job of facilitating the networking after the presentation -- much appreciated. Presenter was clearly knowledgeable. I, personally, would have benefited from a more introductory presentation. ”
- Marsh Sutherland
  
  “ Amazingly well-thought out & comprehensive. ”
- Richard J. Barbalace
  
  “ This was a very informative introduction to various libraries. It was really great meeting so many people working on interesting projects. ”
- David Shuford (+1 guest)
  
  “ It was good to learn that there is no compelling reason for me to switch from jQuery to one of those other 3 libraries. ”
- Don Nolin
- Mikhail Koryak
- James
- Jing Wang (+2 guests)
- Wyatt Greene
- Allison
- Elan
- Carl Gundel
- Antonio Lettieri
- Raymond Plante
- bryan phillips
- John Archambault
- Ravi
- Mable
- Taylor Barstow
- Andreas Randow
- Jack Duan
- PK Shiu
- boaz
- andrew paradies
- Joan Linskey
- Grymp
- Oscar
- Tom Dyer (+1 guest)
- Amir Mikhak
- Beardsley Ruml
- Rick
- Ray W
- evan
- Jim Reevior
- Shilpa Kulkarni
- Eric Ferraiuolo (+1 guest)
- Don Gross
- Dan Wolchonok
- Zafar
- Robert Katta
- sunil tiwari
- Harvey Yee (+1 guest)
- Peter Farrow
- sameer
- Tom Okeefe
- Joe Morgan
- Erin Bouthiette (+2 guests)
- Noah