An informal get-together for people who work in the web industry around Melbourne.
Melbourne Geek Night
Next event: 6.30pm, 21st May 2012
Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne 3000.
Melbourne Geek Night is an informal get-together for people who work in the web industry around Melbourne to catch-up, have a yarn, share ideas and talk about new techniques and technologies.
Aside from all the beer and social blather there are a small number of short talks (around 10 minutes) from guest speakers on all things 'webby'. Come along and get learned!
Interested in attending? Register on Lanyrd.
We are really excited about presenting this month's SPECIAL EVENT - an informal talk and then Q&A session with Rob Hawkes, Techical Evangelist at Mozilla. Rob is in Melbourne for the Web Directions Code conference, and has kindly offered to join us for this special Melbourne Geek Night. Don't miss this exciting opportunity - hope you see you there!
In this talk, Rob will outline Mozilla’s Boot to Gecko project that aims to revolutionise the way we develop for mobile devices. He’ll highlight the key technologies involved in its creation and explain why a mobile experience created with HTML and JavaScript is a good idea.
Rob thrives on solving problems through code. He has an addiction to visual programming and can’t get enough of HTML5 and JavaScript. He’s the author of Foundation HTML5 Canvas and is a Technical Evangelist at Mozilla. He leads the gaming side of Mozilla’s work within the developer community. Canvas and is a Technical Evangelist at Mozilla. He leads the gaming side of Mozilla’s work within the developer community.
Interested in attending? Register on Lanyrd.
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Melbourne Geek Night is brought to you by
Thirst Studios. A small user experience (UX) web design team based in Melbourne, Australia.