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<\/a><\/p>\nDate: Monday 26th March 2012<\/p>\n
Time: 7:15pm start to 9:15pm<\/p>\n
Location:\u00a0http:\/\/themorrismanpub.co.uk<\/a> Theme: Practical Session<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Please note the new venue. It’s our second meeting at\u00a0The Morrisman<\/a>. Follow the links above for further information.<\/p>\n At last months meeting, we sampled a selection of the menu and found it to be delicious and excellent value. The beer was pretty good too.<\/p>\n In the modern web, great usabilty is vital. I believe Ed Yourdon (@yourdon<\/a>) recently suggested that User Experience is as important a differentiator between websites \/ services as Transactions Per Minute was in the 90s.<\/p>\n Users are getting more sophisticated and more demanding. Web developers are embracing and pushing the boundaries of client side scripting to:<\/p>\n This has provided difficulties in the past, Javascript has had it’s challenges – accessibility, performance, cross browser issues and lack of suggested architectures. There have been some great libraries (Prototype, jQuery) to address some of these concerns. I’ve still struggled with how to apply consistent structure to Javascript heavy applications.<\/p>\n Several months ago, I watched Single Page Apps and the Future of History<\/a> by Michael Mahemoff<\/a>. It’s a great intro to the subject of Javascript centred web applications and the idea of client side templates, hashbang uri’s and frameworks like Backbone.js.<\/p>\n
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