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Node.js Hackday and Party

Wednesday, February 29, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM (PT)

San Francisco, CA

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Type End     Quantity
hacker (all day) Ended Free  
evening socializer (just evening) Ended Free  
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Come hack on projects using node.js at Rackspace’s new San Francisco office.

Hack all day, or come watch the demos and hang out afterwards. Brought to you by developers at Rackspace and Nodejitsu.

29. February, 2012

  • 9.00 am Start Hacking
    11.00 am Tech Talk on "Using Node.js as an API server" by Paul Querna from Rackspace
    11.15 am Tech Talk on "Modules you should be using" by Mikeal Rogers from Pouch
    6.00 pm Tech Talk by James Halliday from StackVM
    6.30 pm Tech Talk on "Profiling Node.js in production" by David Pacheco from Joyent / JoyentCloud
    7.00 pm Demos (prizes sponsored by GitHub and Rackspace)
    8.00 pm Move to a local bar

Hack all day, or come watch the demos and hang out with us afterwards.

Food, beer and skeeball provided. Bring ideas or find a team.

See you there!

  • Rackspace San Francisco
  • 620 Folsom Street
  • Suite 100 (Ground Floor)

Ideas:

  • Developer stats site; turn this into a game a la Twisted Highscores
  • IRC Bots that integrate with build, deployment, tracking tools
  • REST interfaces for language-specific libraries a la libcloud.rest
  • REST interface for cron jobs a la cron.io
  • Web interface for remote terminal a la tty.js

Useful tools:

Look for hack code during and after events here.