JennyScript

This evening was my first visit to the Atlanta JavaScript meetup. It was great meeting other web-dev folks with a lot of shared interests. Ignition Alley is the first co-working space I’ve visited. Seems like a pretty cool concept which I’d definitely look into if I didn’t already have an office to visit every day.

I presented on JavaScript builds. My talk explained what a JavaScript build is, why you might want to make one, and how to implement a build process. I used Dojo’s build tools to describe how a build should work and also discussed the Closure compiler. Slides are at the bottom.

The other presentation was on Cappucino which looked great, though I’m not so sure I want to learn Objective-J if that’s all I can use it for. Sure it’s like Objective-C, but how well do the skills translate if I invest time in learning Objective-J and Cappucino disappears? Other than that concern, the demos look great. I was a little bummed that Atlas is still quite buggy and apparently no where near ready for prime time.