Now finished with school, Lon is focusing on being the lead Lead Frontend Engineer for Waterfall Mobile. He’s been working with JavaScript for over six years and specializes in complex single-page web applications.

Lon will be presenting TreeHouse, the subject of his honors thesis, which he completed under the supervision of Dr. Michael Walfish. TreeHouse is a system that uses Web Workers to sandbox (mostly) unmodified JavaScript. TreeHouse gives application authors fine-grained control over untrusted code in their application. Authors can control what parts of the DOM untrusted code can see and modify, as well as the API calls it can make.  Is your mind blown yet?

Of course we will followup all of this up with our wildly crowd-pleasing roundtable of JavaScript-related questions.  This is an open forum to present topics of discussion in a rapid-fire manner or simply heckle @joemccann.

• When: Tuesday, May 15th, 2012 from 7:30-9:00 PM.
• Where: frog design – 101 West 6th Street – 2nd Floor
• How: Parking is on the street, or you can take any number of buses to get downtown.
• Drinks and pizza will be provided.

Afterwards, the discussion carries on a few blocks away at The Gingerman, where they have over 70 beers on tap.

Any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact Joe (@joemccann).  Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @AustinJS.

Ben’s a developer platform architect at HP’s webOS group. He been doing developer activities as part of the Palm & webOS world since leading the Codewarrior for Palm OS team at Metrowerks in the early 2000′s. He’s also worked at Mozilla in their mobile browser and done open source hardware hacking with NYC Resistor in Brooklyn.

Straightforward and to the point, Ben will be chatting with us on how to build web apps with Enyo and Onyx.

Of course we will followup all of this up with our wildly crowd-pleasing roundtable of JavaScript-related questions.  This is an open forum to present topics of discussion in a rapid-fire manner or simply heckle @joemccann.

• When: Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 from 7:30-9:00 PM.
• Where: frog design – 101 West 6th Street – 2nd Floor
• How: Parking is on the street, or you can take any number of buses to get downtown.
• Drinks and pizza will be provided.

Afterwards, the discussion carries on a few blocks away at The Gingerman, where they have over 70 beers on tap.

Any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact Joe (@joemccann).  Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @AustinJS.

Now that SXSW is officially over, we had to share the great experience our community provided and shared in at the AustinJS SXSW Party for 2012.  The party, which was aboard the Lonestar Riverboat, was a historic event as we cruised along Lady Bird Lake basking in the incredible weather of which Mother Nature graced us.

You could feel the excitement as everyone patiently waited to board the riverboat, anchor tokens in hand.

The security measures were so strict that it made the TSA look like school crossing guards.

When it was time, the onboarding began.

Our guests made their way to the dock where they were greeted by our hosts and given a raffle ticket.

As music blasted from the top deck, we embarked on our 3 hour tour.

It wasn’t long before everyone was diving into Maudie’s tex-mex tacos and enjoying Fireman’s 4 and authentic margaritas from the bar.

And then the raffle began!

First up: an 11” Macbook Air, courtesy of Appcelerator.

Next up:  Samsung Galaxy Note, courtesy of Nodejitsu.

We ate, drank, cruised and socialized to our heart’s content.

And then gave away more cool stuff.  Samsung Galaxy Tab, courtesy of Mozilla.

13” MacBook Air, courtesy of Adobe.

Oh, and there were bats. 1.5 million of them.

And of course, Pork Militia Bacon Cookies from Frank.

They were a huge hit. EVEN WITH @andrewdupont #dupontCAPS.

Did we mention that we gave away an autographed, framed pic of Phil Collins courtesy of Microsoft?

The excitement behind Phil warranted an animated gif.

And before we knew it, we were back at the dock.

But we had one last surprise… loaded swag bags that included jars of Mom’s Family Kitchen salsa, large bags of tortilla chips, koozies and cans of Lone Star beer, mini bottles of Tito’s vodka, Microsoft t-shirts and posters, Adobe sharpies, Nodejitsu t-shirts, Appcelerator stickers, Mozilla flashlight pens, KendoUI gum from Telerik, TEKsystems pens and highlighters, Geekli.st invite code cards and stickers, and gift certificates from Cultivate PR to Uchi, Uchiko, Limbo Jewelry, Away Spa and Trace.

This entire event would not have been possible without our INCREDIBLE community sponsors:

• Microsoft
• Adobe
• Mozilla
• subPrint
• Appcelerator
• Nodejitsu
• TEKsystems
• Geekli.st
• Telerik + Kendo UI
• Mass Relevance

Also, we couldn’t have put our plan into action without our outstanding staff:

Captain Ric and Katy from Lonestar Riverboat
Photographer:  Annie Ray
Music:  DJ Johnny Bravvo
Visual Designer:  Joon Shin

Skippers: Bonnie Varner and Katherine McCaslin
Bartender: Stacy Matthews

Event Lead:  Mandy Lauderdale
Event Host:  Joe McCann

We’ve already begun to plan the party for next year.  There’s a rumor that Burt Reynolds’ moustache might make an appearance.

Want to view all 280 pics from the party? Click below…

We are celebrating over 3 years of community driven content, presentations and discussions at AustinJS from not only local members of the JavaScript community, but from members as far away as Canada, New York, and North Carolina. AustinJS is a group where anyone at any skill level can come and learn new things, talk shop with other members or provide a new perspective on seemingly anything from JavaScript, the front-end, the back-end, mobile or simply software engineering as a whole. This year, the event embraces the culture that is our community by providing an atmosphere where folks can close their laptops and crack open a few beers with their peers.

To honor our thriving community, we have have chartered a boat, but not just any boat, an electric, carbon-neutral, double-decker paddle-wheeled riverboat to be exact!

Since the beginning of 2012 AustinJS curator, Joe McCann, has been opening up invitations to the event online and most importantly at the actual meetups themselves. Emailing or @replying on twitter was all it took and now, 150 community leaders and enthusiasts (the maximum legal capacity for the boat!) will be attending what will surely be an unforgettable event.

Attendees can expect a fully catered experience including plenty of authentic Texas beer, hand made margaritas (with real lime juice, not that crappy sweet and sour mix), and the best Tex-Mex cuisine Austin has to offer, including for dessert, bacon chocolate chip cookies from Frank! Plus, we will have DJ Johnny Bravvo spinning quality music (no autotune tracks guaranteed) on the top deck the entire time while local photographer extraordinaire, Annie Ray, will be capturing the experience as well.

But wait, there’s more.

We will also have VIP, front row seats for the viewing of the infamous “Austin bats” underneath the Congress bridge. What? You didn’t know that Austin is home to the world’s largest urban bat colony? Nearly 1.5 million bats fly out every night and it is quite a spectacle to see. We will be front and center!

Yes, there is still more.

Charlie Sheen isn’t the only person who prefers to be winning, so we have curated a handful of awesome door prizes to be given away throughout the evening. No strings attached. Seriously. We don’t even want your email address! To gauge what these prizes could be like, take last year’s prizes as as benchmark…and then triple it. Just like Moms and Dads around the world we think everyone is a winner so if you don’t score a door prize, don’t fret, no one will go home empty handed.

Finally, it is of great privilege to call out those members of the community who are making this event a reality: our sponsors. This year we have many repeat sponsors from last year’s epic event and some new faces as well. Support this year comes from the likes of:

• Adobe
• Microsoft
• Mozilla
• subPrint
• Appcelerator
• Nodejitsu
• Geekli.st
• Telerik
• TEKSystems
• Mass Relevance

All sponsors have played pivotal roles in making this event possible, so please, thank them on the boat when you see them!

So here’s to our ever-growing community, may we all continue to build it up!

Rebecca is the lead JavaScript developer at Toura and the lead architect of Mulberry, Toura’s open-source mobile development framework. She’s also a co-founder of the epic TXJS and the author of jQuery Fundamentals. On top of all of that, Rebecca speaks and writes frequently about patterns for organizing large JavaScript applications.

Rebecca will be introducing us to Toura’s Mulberry, which is an open-source, cross-platform mobile application development framework built on top of PhoneGap that lets you use web technologies to produce engaging, content-rich applications. In this talk, Rebecca will give a quick demo of Mulberry basics, then dive in to how they architected the JavaScript, templates, CSS, and tests to create a flexible, pluggable, 100% client-side content publishing system. DON’T SLEEP ON THIS!

Of course we will followup all of this up with our wildly crowd-pleasing roundtable of JavaScript-related questions.  This is an open forum to present topics of discussion in a rapid-fire manner or simply heckle @joemccann.

Finally, we will be throwing the 3rd Annual Austin JS SXSW Party in March so if you and/or your employer/company would like to sponsor the event (or be a part of it), please reach out to @joemccann to find out more details.

• When: Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 from 7:30-9:00 PM.
• Where: frog design – 101 West 6th Street – 2nd Floor
• How: Parking is on the street, or you can take any number of buses to get downtown.
• Drinks and pizza will be provided.

Afterwards, the discussion carries on a few blocks away at The Gingerman, where they have over 70 beers on tap.

Any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact Joe (@joemccann).  Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @AustinJS.

This month we have a special guest flying in from New York City – the CTO and co-founder of Nodejitsu, Paolo Fragemeni.  Paolo, a solid computer programmer and veteran hacker has written loads of node.js code including the a significant portion dedicated to the node.js framework, Flatiron.

Node.js.  What is it?!!  How does it work?!!  Paolo will be giving an informative talk on just that – the anatomy of node.js.  So whether you are are node.js newbie or a seasoned veteran, this informative talk on node will benefit you.

Also, we will be throwing the 3rd Annual Austin JS SXSW Party in March so if you and/or your employer/company would like to sponsor the event (or be a part of it), please reach out to @joemccann to find out more details.

Of course we will followup all of this up with our wildly crowd-pleasing roundtable of JavaScript-related questions.  This is an open forum to present topics of discussion in a rapid-fire manner or simply heckle @joemccann.

• When: Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 from 7:30-9:00 PM.
• Where: frog design – 101 West 6th Street – 2nd Floor
• How: Parking is on the street, or you can take any number of buses to get downtown.
• Drinks and pizza will be provided.

Afterwards, the discussion carries on a few blocks away at The Gingerman, where they have over 70 beers on tap.

Any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact Joe (@joemccann).  Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @AustinJS.

That’s right on Tuesday, December 13th from 7pm to 9pm the greater Austin web community will have its annual holiday gala while also supporting a good cause:  The Capitol Area Food Bank.

There will be mingling and possibly mistletoe depending on the weather (naturally) and of course free food and beer provided by our gracious sponsors:

Austin JavaScript is proud to be a part of not only such a great event but a member of an incredibly strong web, dev and design community that is in Austin.  Just look at who else is involved.

TL;DR

Lyle Garza is an Austin based JavaScript developer with a passion for web technologies.  He has extensive experience in social media, e-commerce, and mobile development.  For the last year, his primary passion has been bridging the gap between native mobile apps and mobile websites .

Lyle will be discussing the creation of native mobile apps using web technologies.  He’ll cover items from development to debugging and distribution of the app. To help demonstrate these concepts, he’ll be demoing a recent app that he created called Dateventure.

Local healthcare software provider, Tango Health will be sponsoring as well so expect to fill your belly with pizza and drinks!

Joe is yet again still out of town so Alex will be guest hosting the meetup.

• When: Tuesday, November 15th, 2011 from 7:30-9:00 PM.
• Where: frog – 101 West 6th Street – 2nd Floor
• How: Parking is on the street, or you can take any number of buses to get downtown.
• Afterwards, the discussion carries on a few blocks away at The Gingerman, where they have over 70 beers on tap.

Any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact Joe (@joemccann) or Alex (@slexaxton). Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @AustinJS

Stay tuned for next month’s meetup details and be sure to follow us on Twitter:  @austinjs.

Offline features are more than just for when you application is offline or for viewing content offline! Bradley and Kassandra will be discussing how to use ApplicationCache to speed up page loads and Lawnchair.js for storing offline data. They will have an example using Backbone.js’ ORM to have an offline application send requests with updated data to a server after it has been offline w/o user interaction.

Bradley Meck works full time at Nodejitsu on tooling and infrastructure. He enjoys security concerns and flow control issues. Most of his free time is spend creating random projects in Node.js or trying to get people to play tabletop RPGs. Although programming Javascript constantly, he has been working solely on the server side for several months.

Kassandra Perch is a web developer with experience developing several large PHP applications in team and content management. She has a distinct interest in JavaScript and JQuery, and also enjoys playing with Node.js in her spare time. Her current projects involve a team management website for some Austin area softball organizations.

Of course we will followup all of this up with our wildly crowd-pleasing roundtable of JavaScript-related questions. This is an open forum to present topics of discussion in a rapid-fire manner.

Joe and Alex will be both be attending Funconf so local Git, Python and JavaScript master, Travis Swicegood will be guest hosting the meetup.

• When: Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 from 7:30-9:00 PM.
• Where: frog – 101 West 6th Street – 2nd Floor
• How: Parking is on the street, or you can take any number of buses to get downtown.
• Afterwards, the discussion carries on a few blocks away at The Gingerman, where they have over 70 beers on tap.

Any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact Joe (@joemccann) or Alex (@slexaxton). Also, be sure to follow us on Twitter: @AustinJS