I am cranking through some code examples and plenty of research for this thing. It should kick incredible amounts of JavaScript ass. Come to think of it, it's a ninety minute presentation, so it better kick ass I'm going to look at load times, execution times, ySlow scores, codebase and add pure editorial commentary for several popular libraries (at minimum, jQuery, YUI, Prototype, and Dojo), as well as pure JavaScript and my own bare-bones library.

If you're a Boston JavaScript nerd, I hope to see you there.

Here's the description:

Our next JavaScript Meetup will be held on Thursday, April 30th at Microsoft Research Center located at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge. You should come to the 11th floor to be let in. There is also parking available at a cheap evening rate in the building.

Rob Larsen , Principal Presentation Engineer at Cramer, will demonstrate comparisons between raw JavaScript and utilizing the more popular JavaScript libraries currently available.

After the presentation | demonstration, we will go around the room introducing ourselves and asking the group for advice | opinions on any JavaScript-related issues members are facing.

Microsoft will provide pizza again. What a nice company!

Please RSVP and bring guests. We always have lots of pizza left over.

And the meetup.com link:

April Boston JavaScript Meetup Meeting – JavaScript Library Comparisons – The Boston JavaScript Meetup Group Cambridge, MA – Meetup.com

The topic will be a hands on comparison JavaScript libraries. I'm going to write the same functionality (probably a Twitter search) in plain JavaScript and several popular libraries. I'll discuss the anecdotal findings of using all the different libraries for the task and I'll also offer up numerical analysis of the different pages- execution time, page load time, etc.

More info as I get it. Should be fun if it happens. It'll be a little bit of work as I'll have to prep for it, the work itself looks like it will be a lot of fun.

Good times.

I haven't shared random bits of Internet with you for months. That changes right now.

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I've run into an issue of nomenclature over the past couple of years and it's finally turned into a "thing."

What does one do with "things?"

If you answered, "write about them," you got it in one.
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This will hopefully be the first of a continuing series of smaller code articles where I share techniques I (and my team) use on a daily basis. I take this stuff for granted so I think it might be beneficial to share since (a) I might be able to improve what I do by receiving feedback on techniques I use and (b) some of the things I do, while old hat to me, might be new and useful to other people in the field.

We'll see how it goes.
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