Upcoming jQuery Events

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Addy Osmani
jQuery Summit 2011

It’s that time of the year again (no, not Christmas!, something almost better!) – the annual (online) jQuery Summit. This year Environment For Humans (E4H) have a terrific line-up including sessions on jQuery plugin authoring best practices, creating interactive experiences with HTML5 and Popcorn.js and best practices for testing your jQuery code amongst others.

With some of the web’s most experienced jQuery and JavaScript professionals on board to share tips, tricks and their own experiences, you’ll be sure to learn something new that could help with your own projects. If you haven’t attended the summit before, you’re in for a real treat.

The summit is a completely online two-track conference run across two days with a track dedicated to designers and another focused completely on developers. As the event is all online, you can access it live whether you’re at home or in the office. For those worried about missing anything, E4H have you covered; all tickets include high-quality recordings that can be played back at your leisure later on.

Discount:
If you’re interested in attending, E4H have provided us with a very special 20% off discount code which can be redeemed on their event site. Just enter in 20JQUERY when purchasing your ticket or use the following link: http://jquerysummit2011.eventbrite.com/?discount=20JQUERY.

Details:
Sessions:

jQuery & CSS Selectors – Estelle Weyl
jQuery & HTML5 Video – Rick Waldron
jQuery UI – Andrew Wirick
Plugin Authoring Best Practices – Ben Alman
jQuery & Browser Plugins – Sarah Chipps
Progressive Enhancement – Nicholas Zakas
jQuery & Responsive Web Design – Dave Rupert
The State of jQuery – Adam Sontag
Large-scale Application Architecture – Addy Osmani
jQuery & iframe Programming – Ben Vinegar
Structuring Your DOM-based Application – Garann Means
Deferreds into jQuery – Dan Heberden
jQuery Development Workflow – Anton Kovalyov
jQuery & Backbone.js – Matt Kelly
jQuery & QUnit – Ben Alman
Tickets: http://jquerysummit.com.

Dates:
Designer track: Tuesday, November 15th

Developer track: Wednesday, November 16th

jQuery Training At Bocoup

For those that prefer in-person training, group training is one of the best ways to improve your jQuery skills. Luckily, Boston-based Bocoup has a number of such comprehensive jQuery trainings scheduled for both January and March 2012.

Sessions will be held at The Bocoup Loft in Boston, and 10% of profits will go directly to the jQuery Foundation. If interested, be sure to sign up now since class sizes are limited!.

For more information, checkout http://training.bocoup.com/comprehensive-jquery/

Frontend Workshops in HTML5, JavaScript and jQuery

Finally, if you’re interested in learning more general frontend skills, Marc Grabanski is hosting a Frontend Masters Workshop Series for developers looking to earn a mastery in the arts of frontend development.

The training is composed of six workshops that will focus on frontend topics including jQuery, jQuery UI, HTML5 & CSS3, Titanium Mobile and building large JavaScript applications with speakers including jQuery team members Karl Swedberg and Scott Gonzalez.

For tickets and more information, see http://frontendmasters.com.