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December
In preparation for our upcoming holiday, our next Dojo challenge will be to build the perfect Secret Santa app. This will be a great opportunity to utilize all skill sets. Building an app from scratch within two hours will take design, time management, backend or front end development, and mastery level knowledge on holiday present Continue reading…
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November
We’re heading back downtown in November for our monthly evening meeting. Instead of a dojo, which has a competitive feel to it, we’ll be doing a hands-on-lab and learning some modern web development techniques, such as: Retina graphics Gestures CSS3 transitions If you’d like to join us and learn how to use these techniques to Continue reading…
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October
Have you heard about Adobe’s new open source CSS framework? Topcoat was designed with performance as their number one goal. Monday Oct 14th, you’re not just going to hear about it, you’re going to learn to use it. (here’s a good intro tutorial if you want to read up on it) Come join us at Continue reading…
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September
Hello group, I hope your schedule has settled back down now that summer is unofficially over. Here at Webgeeks we’re on a bit of a WordPress kick after hearing Jason Bradley‘s awesome talk on child themeing. We thought we’d put some of his techniques into action. He kindly shared the code with us and we Continue reading…
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September
When it comes time to customize your website or create a new WordPress theme, you can reach greater heights by standing on the backs of giants. Jason Bradley, formerly of 8bit.io, has created numerous custom websites based on child themes. Join us and other local Des Moines area web geeks as Jason demonstrates how you can Continue reading…
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August
Join us on Monday, August 12th at 6:30 for our next Web Dojo. A “web dojo” is a code-oriented event where we begin the night with a task, work hard to complete it in the time allotted, then, at the end of the time, share our results to see how we did. Sometimes we succeed, Continue reading…
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July
Working on large projects usually requires a bit of task automation to help with the repetitive parts of the process. You might use Rake, or a bunch of build scripts depending on the primary language. What should you use if your project is all JavaScript and you need to handle tasks like minification, compilation, unit Continue reading…
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July
Join us on Monday, July 8th at 6:30 for our next Web Dojo. A “web dojo” is a code-oriented event where we begin the night with a task, work hard to complete it in the time allotted, then, at the end of the time, share our results to see how we did. Sometimes we succeed, Continue reading…
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June
Are you Coffeescript curious? What is it, what can you do with it, and why might you choose it for your projects? Join us for our next lunch event and hear local web geek Brandon Williams share, “How do you become a superhero with JavaScript? CoffeeScript.” We’ll be meeting for lunch Thursday June 20th in West Continue reading…
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May
Join us on Monday, June 10th at 6:30 for our next Web Dojo. A “web dojo” is a code-oriented event where we begin the night with a task, work hard to complete it in the time allotted then, at the end of the time, share our results to see how we did. Sometimes we succeed, Continue reading…
