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The Often Misunderstood Features of JavaScript Explained.

Sep '09 24 Thu 6:00 PM
Location
Microsoft Research Center

One Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142

Estimated attendance
 41  people attended.
4.50 4.5014

Who organized?
Marsh Sutherland

Our September JavaScript Meetup will be held on Thursday, September 24th at Microsoft Research Center located at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge. Which room we will be in and on what floor will be announced in a subsequent email. There is also parking available at a cheap evening rate in the building. Parking is also free on the street in front of the building at 6 PM.

At 6:30 PM Jim Wilson will be discussing the often misunderstood features of JavaScript language features such as: * Functions as first class citizens * call() and apply() * Anonymous closures * The "this" and "new" keywords. http://trephine.org/t...

He won't be doing a power point. Rather he will be pasting example code to run into an etherpad, so anyone in attendance with a laptop will be able to make changes or ask questions via code.

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.

I am back from the Cape and will be leading the meeting as well. I look forward to meeting all our new members.

Microsoft will provide pizza again. What a generous organization!

Please RSVP and bring guests.

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  • Marsh Sutherland
    Posted Sep 25, 2009 8:06 AM
    Marsh Sutherland
    Organizer
    Enjoyable presentation. Can we have that restart now | later window popup for future presentations? :) I think the etherpad facilitated some interesting interactive discussions around best practices.
  • Al
    Posted Sep 25, 2009 1:24 AM
    Al
    Was very cool to learn that two objects are never ===, was not aware of that.
  • The Often Misunderstood Features of JavaScript Explained. happened on September 24, 2009 6:00 PM
  • Posted Sep 23, 2009 12:30 PM
    Eric Ferraiuolo
    These are very important aspects of JavaScript that people really need to understand to develop their own JS code from scratch (as opposed to hacking on pre-existing code). Great topic for a Meetup!
  • Al
    Posted Sep 16, 2009 3:02 PM
    Al
    Going to be great to have some words on the useful parts of the JS language that we should all be using to build cleaner MVC code, rather than the usual DOM API stuff ( guilty as charged :P ). Very much looking forward to this talk!

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