Strange Loop

Node.js Bootcamp

You might have heard a lot about node.js lately, and all for good reason. It makes building scalable event driven applications easy and fun. In this workshop we'll take a deep dive into develoment with node.js, from understanding ES5 features and syntax to building your own node.js modules to building and deploying your own real time web application. Other topics that will be explored include concurrency, behavior driven development, real time communication with websockets, working with NoSQL databases and much more. No experience with node.js is assumed but at least some familiarity with javascript is helpful.

James Carr

CARFAX, Inc.

James is a software Engineer with Carfax, Inc in Columbia, MO. In addition to his daytime job gig he also participates in a number of open source projects by night and has contributed code to various projects such as spring-amqp, ehcache, and maintains a few node.js modules. Although a passionate software craftsmanship he is also keenly interested in finding ways to improve collaboration and team work on the teams he works with to develop awesome applications.