"Building Component Libraries with a Monorepo," Lee Robinson, September 2019 In 2019, the Des Moines Web Geeks organized and hosted 22 lunch and evening events. We learned new programming languages, new frameworks, and new ways of thinking. We learned about…
We had a great turnout for Full Stack Marketing: Analytics for Developers by Andy Brudtkuhl on October 18. https://twitter.com/jplhomer/status/920710515545948160 Here are the slides and demo website from the presenter: https://brudtkuhl.com/full-stack-marketing/ https://speakerdeck.com/abrudtkuhl/full-stack-marketing https://twitter.com/abrudtkuhl/status/925443414023397378
As we recover from the holiday season, it's time to reflect on the past year. For the Des Moines Web Geeks, it was incredible! In 2016, we: Hosted 16 events, including 12 evening events, three lunch events and our annual social event…
Come join the Des Moines Web Geeks as we hear from UX designers from the area about how they prototype design solutions. The topics covered are: CSS Microinteractions by Rachel McClung Mobile & Responsive Web Design With Photoshop Artboards by…
Laravel is a web application framework that attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, queueing, and caching. Come join us as we dive…
You might be familiar with what a hassle it is to set up a brand new machine for simple web development. Installing version control, installing build tools, and finding your favorite code editor can take up precious time that could…
WordPress powers almost 25% of the world's websites – largely because it's both easy to get started and extremely powerful to use as a content management system. Whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced user of the hugely-popular platform, we'll…
Meteor's popularity has been out of this world lately and claims to help developers create modern data backed applications using radically less code. Let's put that claim to the test. It incorporates the best ideas from many popular tools like…
Join the Des Moines Web Geeks for our December dojo. This month, we're digging into Node.JS. Matt Nuzum has written and spoken about Node.JS, and he'll lead us through the evening. We'll start with the basics of building a simple web server and…
We're "Going Angular" on Monday, July 14th, as we continue work on our offline mobile app. Join us at 6:30pm for another fun web dojo, this time building on the offline mobile web app we started in June with HTML5 and Node.js. We'll…