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Info from my presentation on Node.JS
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Comment by Behr@ng on February 7, 2013 at 8:39am
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Thanks for sharing this Jackie! It was impressive how tons of cutting edge stuff were covered in a 1-hour presentation!
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Comment by Mike Bivins on February 1, 2013 at 3:09pm
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Good presentation, Jackie! I'm diving into the links now.
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Comment by Michael Levin on February 1, 2013 at 10:11am
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Here's a photo of Jackie from last night: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikelevin/8434475773/in/photostream
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Thanks, Jackie and thanks to SkyBridge for the pizza. We all love a purely technical presentation.
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Comment by Jackie Gleason on February 1, 2013 at 10:03am
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Also this is the Cloud Based IDE I was thinking of....
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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