Last evening I went to the DC PHP Developers meeting. I had originally gone to the DC Tech Events website which is run by Ross M Karchner to check what time Thursday night the The DC Technology Network book group was meeting to go over “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell.
I stayed at work late looking over general information about PHP, since I have not yet used the language. It is on my list of languages to learn along with Ruby on Rails.
The DC PHP Developers meeting was about jQuery and was presented by Joseph L. LeBlanc. It was held at the headquarters of Green Peace USA, in Chinatown. Joseph talked about using jQuery to do animations, by using the following effects:
- fadeIn()
- fadeOut()
- hide()
- show()
- slideDown()
- slideUp()
- toggle()
- slideToggle()
- fadeTo()
- animate()
He showed us a routine to check that the DOM was ready.
$(document).ready(function() {
// start code
});
or something like that. I might have missed something. Joseph has now put his jQuery presentation online and I while link to it when it’s available.
He recommended two different books about jQuery both by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer:
He also listed a few website as references:
Once his talk was over people started asking general questions to him and to the rest of the group. One set of guys was looking for information about hosting and someone said they had used BlueHosting (for like $7.00 per month) and Simple Storage Service (S3) by Amazon for some of his client stuff. After that we talked about a bunch of things.
I even asked if people had been to either Refresh DC or BarCamp DC, the only person that had heard of either was Joesph and he had been to the BarCamp DC and not yet made a Refresh meeting. Since that was the case I made sure to explain what the events were and where to find them. Finally I talked about the new DC Technology Network and Ross’s DC Tech Events website.
Now it’s time to look over “The Tipping Point” tomorrow evenings meeting.