Ajax Pub Nite: Join Us!

posted by pete on January 11th, 2008

Two years ago we announced a crazy idea: Rails Pub Nite. We didn’t think anyone would come, because it was early 2006 and we really hadn’t met anyone doing Ruby work in Toronto. Fast forward to today, and RPN is a healthy community of about 50 regulars that come out for a pint or four at The Rhino.

There are Rails Pub Nite events in other cities, most notably Philadelphia, and I have even given a workshop on how to start RPN-like events in your home town at the ETech conference. The mailing list for Pub Nite is over 300 people, and growing.

For our next trick, we’ve decided that Toronto should be on the forefront of embracing Javascript, and give it credit for being the engine that drives the web. Brent Ashley and I were at The Ajax Experience conference in Boston, and decided (at Cheers, of all places) that our pet language, the ugly-cousin which most server developers seem to avoid, needed a healthy dose of PR. After all, Javascript touches the users of our fancy applications in a way that’s ultimately more… intimate than Ruby, PHP, or C# ever could.

Ajax Pub Nite #1
Monday, January 14th, 2008
The Rhino (1249 Queen St. W in Parkdale)

We’ve set up a website: click here

APN will be the 2nd Monday of the month, each month except December. Yes, that means it’s always the Monday before Rails Pub Nite.

Javascript and Ajax are really cool, and it just doesn’t matter what server platform you’re using - if you’re even using one at all. However, if you’re using Rhino or Helma to develop cool things, we want to hear from you. Basically if you want to discuss Javascript or learn more about the cool things going on in the Ajax world, come on down to The Rhino.

Joey DeVilla might remember who said, “If I could go back in time five years and tell myself that Javascript was the most important language on the net, I’d laugh at myself.” Well, unknown male source, you were right.