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A Crash Course in HTML5 & an Introduction to Processing.js.

Jun '09 11 Thu 6:00 PM
Location
Microsoft Research Center

One Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142

How to find us
"Go to the 2nd Floor Conference Center"

Estimated attendance
 55  people attended.
4.00 4.0011

Who organized?
Marsh Sutherland

Our June JavaScript Meetup will be held on Thursday, June 11th at Microsoft Research Center located at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge. You should come to the 2nd floor conference room. There is also parking available at a cheap evening rate in the building.

Alistair McDonald will be providing a Crash Course in HTML5 & an Introduction to Processing.js.

Learn more at http://processingjs.o...

Mozilla are about to release the <audio> and <video> tags over the next couple of weeks in Firefox 3.5. Christopher Blizzard from Mozilla asked Al to create a couple of Javascript demos for the release project ("35 Days"). He thought it would be fun to show the group what he's been doing and give members a basic starter on how to access the new media capabilities of the browser with Javascript. (As well as demonstrate how easy it is to make interactive visualizations with Processing.js.)

Take a look at some of Al's Processing.js experiments here, remember this is all Javascript. No Flash: http://www.hyper-metr....

Bring your laptops as you will be able to interact with Al's presentation in real-time.

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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  • Marsh Sutherland
    Posted Jun 12, 2009 1:43 PM
    Marsh Sutherland
    Organizer
    James, the presentations don't start until 6:30 or 6:45 PM. There is parking in the garage below the building.
  • Marsh Sutherland
    Posted Jun 12, 2009 1:42 PM
    Marsh Sutherland
    Organizer
    Had some complaints about not enough pizza. We had a sudden increase in attendees yesterday afternoon and shot from 40 to 60 in a few hours RSVPing. I'll be sure next time to send and update to Microsoft for the near final RSVP count around 1 PM the day of
  • Al
    Posted Jun 12, 2009 12:32 AM
    Al
    Video was worse than any web cam I have ever seen, and the audio was so saturated it's not really worth listening. If people want to see/hear it anyway, just reply and I'll post it somewhere. If you're presenting and you want to record... you will do better bringing your own equipment to the meeting, unless you want it to look like you accidentally transmitted it to earth from the edge of the universe through a worm hole and a field of radioactive space dust :) No joke that's what it looks like.
  • Al
    Posted Jun 12, 2009 12:21 AM
    Al
    SOURCE & SLIDES HERE: http://hyper-metrix.com/htm...
  • Al
    Posted Jun 11, 2009 10:47 PM
    Al
    @paul irish, yeah I'm thinking we should OGG it to keep out the riff-raff.
  • James
    Posted Jun 11, 2009 6:50 PM
    James
    Again didn't make it, this would be easier to get too if it was later, 6pm is too early in my opinion, anyone out on the 128 ring would have a hard time getting in for 6pm
  • A Crash Course in HTML5 & an Introduction to Processing.js. happened on June 11, 2009 6:00 PM
  • paul irish
    Posted Jun 11, 2009 5:07 PM
    paul irish
    @Marsh, Please don't share the video in Real Media. Any other file format would be fine. :)
  • Marsh Sutherland
    Posted Jun 9, 2009 2:31 PM
    Marsh Sutherland
    Organizer
    40 people RSVPed so far. Archambault is coming!
  • Marsh Sutherland
    Posted Jun 9, 2009 9:57 AM
    Marsh Sutherland
    Organizer
    Good news! The good folks at Microsoft are going to be recording our presentations from now on. I will be uploading a real media file of our presentations to our website from now on under the Files tab. I'll be sharing this file upload with other JavaScript meetups around the country. But nothing is better than the real thing in person. This will be an interactive presentation so bring your laptops.
  • Marsh Sutherland
    Posted Jun 5, 2009 11:58 AM
    Marsh Sutherland
    Organizer
    Resig is coming!
  • Justin Houk
    Posted Jun 5, 2009 11:07 AM
    Justin Houk
    I won't be in town yet, alas, but I look forward to next month!
  • Rick
    Posted Jun 4, 2009 7:37 PM
    Rick
    Assistant Organizer
    I've seen a few of Al's demos so far and I think this one will really knock some socks off.
  • Marsh Sutherland
    Posted Jun 4, 2009 7:25 PM
    Marsh Sutherland
    Organizer
    This should be a really interesting presentation. I won't be able to attend as I am still recovering from knee surgery and can't drive yet.

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