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CISE invites you to attend an information meeting and webinar to announce and answer questions concerning its recently released solicitation, Future Internet Architecture-Next Phase (FIA-NP: NSF 13-538) on Monday, February 11, 2013, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM EDT. You must register at …
ContinueAdded by Michael Levin on February 9, 2013 at 7:53am — No Comments
It may not adhere to the strict Java format of OJUG but was quite useful in learning more of the growing tools available to the web based developer.
Jackie Gleason answered this and unlocked other mysteries when he explained what NODE.JS was about. Including a demo where he started a .js server, Jackie showed us how to set up an Express Project Layout worked starting with NPM and yielding to his own "Hello World" page. He continued by showing us how document styled db could be…
Added by Mike Bivins on February 1, 2013 at 11:13am — No Comments
Hey everyone,
Thanks again for making it out last night sorry I had to run so quick. The slides from the presentation are located here...
And here is the code example we used...
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