February Meetup / Hackathon
Let’s get together for some informal beer drinking, shop talking and/or hacking. Bring your laptop and share something you’re working on, get help with an Ext or Touch project, or just start hacking on something new. Hope to see you there!
Sencha Touch 2 PR4 Overview
Looks like lots of data package and MVC improvements (routing is back!) in addition to a ton of new documentation and guides. Kudos to the Sencha Touch team!
SenchaCon 2011 Videos Posted
At the meetup last week I mentioned that the videos from the conference would be posted soon, and sure enough they were just opened up today for public consumption. Check out the album on Vimeo.
There are almost 70 videos in total so there is a lot to choose from, but I thought I’d point out a few of the most relevant to the topics of Ext 4.1, Sencha Touch 2 and Designer 2, since that’s what we discussed in the meetup:
- Ext 4.1 In-Depth Overview (highly recommended!)
- Introducing Designer 2
- Building Ext JS Apps with Designer
- Building Touch Apps with Designer
- Migrating from Sencha Touch 1 to 2
- Sencha Animator Overview
And I’ll throw in the Ext 3 to 4 Migration video as well, starring yours truly :)
January Meetup: Upcoming Sencha Releases
Help us welcome the new year by meeting with other Senchans on Tuesday, January 10. We’ll be reviewing the upcoming changes in Ext JS 4.1, Sencha Touch 2.0 and Designer 2.0, with demos to show off some of the interesting new bits. Note that this meeting is the second Tuesday due to the holidays — we’ll get back to our normal schedule next month.
Oct-Nov / SenchaCon Meetup
Our regular Oct and Nov meetups will be combined into a single meetup centered around SenchaCon, since it happens to be in Austin this year. The meetup will be held on Tuesday evening, Oct. 25 at 6:30pm at the Hilton downtown.
All are welcome!
Although I would encourage everyone in the meetup group to also attend the conference if possible (last year’s conference was a blast) it’s not required to attend the meetup. It will be a social event geared toward meeting the folks behind Sencha’s tools and services (and generally socializing and having a good time). I hope everyone can make it!
September Meetup: The Future of JS App Architecture
The air is thick with buzzwords these days in the JavaScript world. From Node to Mongo to SSJS there’s a new technology coming out every week and it’s difficult to keep up. Corey Butler is here to demystify the latest and greatest in JS app architecture with an overview of NoSQL databases, Server-side JavaScript frameworks and how these tools, combined with Ext and Sencha Touch, can form the basis of a truly bleeding edge application stack. Come check it out!
August Meetup: Sencha Touch in the Real World
While looking at simple demos and examples can be helpful, it’s often much more interesting and instructive to see how other people are actually implementing new technologies in the real world. Come out and see fellow meetup member Lee Church demo how his company is implementing enterprise mobile solutions using the NS Basic framework in combination with Sencha Touch.
Survey Results
The results are in. By an overwhelming majority the group would prefer to meet on the first Tuesday of the month, and by a smaller but still clear majority would like to meet north-central around the Arboretum area. Here are how the results broke down:
Preferred night to meet
- First Tuesday (57%)
- Other (21%)
- Last Thursday (14%)
- Second Thursday (7%)
- Fourth Thursday (0%)
Preferred part of town
- Arboretum (43%)
- North / Parmer (29%)
- Downtown (21%)
- No preference (7%)
First Tuesday was a very clear favorite. Downtown and North / Parmer were evenly split, but since Arboretum was still the favorite and splits the difference between the other two, that seems to be the best choice of location.
I had a few specific suggestions for venues that I’ll be looking into shortly, and will announce the details of the next meetup ASAP since it’s only a couple of weeks away based on our new schedule!
Thanks to everyone who participated in the survey. As always, any other feedback is always welcome. I hope to see everyone soon!
June 2011 meetup
CSS3 Styling in Every Browser
A very timely blog post from Sencha since we discussed customizing the default SASS and generating custom stylesheets in the meetup last week. If you haven’t yet checked out the new Sencha SDK tools you should do so!
