#nerdlearn 4: The Future of JavaScript

#nerdlearn is back in 2012!

If you didn't get as much nerd love as you would have liked over the holidays, #nerdlearn is back to help you fix that in 2012. 

On February 2nd at 6:00pm (that's right, Groundhog Day!), we'll be talking about "The Future of JavaScript" with four awesome developers from the Toronto community.

We're excited to announce our panelists!

1. Cameron Westland - @camwest

Cam is the co-founder of Big Bang Technology Inc., as well as an experienced web developer. He's a strong believer in the power of web technology to give people new perspectives, educate, and empower them. He does both front-end and back-end development, so you better believe he's had ample JavaScript experience. Cam is very active in the Toronto dev community, and organizes JavaScript Hack Nights hosted by Big Bang. Cam's curiosity often gets the better of him, and he's always exploring many subject areas outside of technology.  

2. Jack Neto - @jack_neto

Jack was employee #1 at TWG back in 2005, and is now a Partner and Tech Lead of a 10 person dev team. Jack’s a quick study, a perfectionist, and an old hand at information handling and graphic interfaces. He’s been a developer for longer than he can remember, built more web apps than he can count, and used JavaScript for almost every one of those. Jack’s been talking our ears off about this topic ever since he attended The Keeping it Realtime Conference in Portland earlier this year. Most recently, he’s been obsessed with finding ways to use all the great new JavaScript technology in his Rails apps.

3. Dan Williams - @deedubs

Dan is the lead developer at Igniter. Having learned at young age that drawing and painting weren’t in his genes, he turned to code as his creative outlet. After years of experience with PHP and Ruby on Rails, he’s found his home in node.js. For Dan, node is like a mind-meld with code. Living in an event-driven world, node maps naturally to the way the world works, making it easier than ever to create the world that comes next. Known as deedubs in the ether, he can often be found contributing to code communities though github and IRC where he is immersed in building better infrastructure for building better apps.

4. Stephen Hamer - @StephenHamer

Stephen is a co-founder at Upverter Inc. here in Toronto. He spends his time at Upverter trying to make electronics design easier, bringing some of the things he can't live without in software development, like version contol, to hardware development. His recent forays into JavaScript have been using the Google Closure library and tools to build a browser based CAD tool. Stephen also spends a good deal of time doing server side development in Python. Recently he's fallen in love with gevent and is trying to find ways to use it in each of his new projects.

Our #nerdlearn panels are always very casual. We'll start the night off with pizza, refreshments, and mingling. The panel will begin at 6:30pm, and will run for about an hour. Although we do have a general plan for the discussion, we encourage you to get involved throughout the hour, ask our panelists tough questions, and shout out your opinions. The more you #nerdlearn, the happier our panelists are! 

Bring yourselves,

and your developer friends,

and get ready to mingle, eat pizza, drink beer, and #nerdlearn!

tl;dr

• Thursday, February 2nd, 6:00pm @ TWG: 639 Queen St. West #501 (panel begins at 6:30pm)
• Discussion and insights provided by the panelists
• Tough questions provided by you
• Follow updates on twitter at: #nerdlearn

See you on the 2nd at 6pm:

Adam Meghji

Adam Spitz

Ahmad Nassri

Andrés Aquino

andrew ho

Andrew Louis

Ash Christopher

Ashley Alfred

Bartek Ciszkowski

Blair Mitchelmore

Brad Robertson

brandon flowers

Brett Bergmann

Brian Gilham

Chris De Sousa

Chris Eben

Christian Leskowsky

Christopher Mudiappahpillai

Cicero Oliveira

Craig Dallimore

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