AngleBracket

Meeting: October 18th – Just Code

This month we’re going to do what we like to do the most. Code. We also plan to hack on MidwestGeeks.net and anything else people have. Topic: Just Code Time: 7PM CST Place: College of Lake County, Grayslake IL Room: TEC T 326-327-328

Meeting: September 20th–Knockout.js

This month we’re going to dive into Knockout.js. We also plan to hack on MidwestGeeks.net and anything else people have. Topic: Kockout.js Time: 7PM CST Place: College of Lake County, Grayslake IL Room: TEC T 326-327-328 Registration Link

Metting: April 19th – HTML5 Forms and Midwest Geeks

This month we’re going to dive into HTML5 forms and everything around them. We also plan to hack on MidwestGeeks.net and maybe even write a few forms of it. Topic: HTML5 Forms and Hack on MidwestGeeks.net Time: 7PM CST Place: College of Lake County, Grayslake IL Room: TEC T332 Registration Link Building Map

angleBracket.Meeting == Recap(angleBracket.Meetings)

Last meeting was a little light on attendance so we took some liberties and strayed from </>’s and looked at Phone Gap, Windows 8, .NET MVC 4, Web Api, Visual Studio 11 (if you could get it installed <sadtrombone>Pat’s Installation</sadtrombone>) and had some laughs. A few of us also looked at Entity Framework, but that [...]

Math.pow(2, angleBracket_version)

Apparently Clark has beaten me to the post-meeting blog post. If I wasn’t writing this <beep/> on VIM I’m sure <beep/> I could have posted it before him.:w<beep/>ctrl-W (FYI – this is VIM humor so there’s only a .01% chance of anyone getting it.) <Recap/> Clark’s post did a nice job summing things up. I’ll [...]

var angleBracket = { meeting: ‘#2′, month: ‘feb’, topic: ‘localStorage’ };

Last night we held the second Angle Bracket meeting or as we like to call it </>. It was flipping awesome to see a number of people return as well to see a few new ones. This is a user group, it’s about YOU , it’s about US. Each and every meeting I am going [...]

Changing it up at Angle Bracket

Since day one when Pat and I started planning things, we’ve wanted to incorporate the real world. A number of ideas went back and forth but I guess we I just couldn’t see the forest through the trees I guess. Last week, I was complaining to Scott Seely about trying to get MidwestGeeks.net off the [...]

Meeting: Feb 16th 2012 7PM–Storage

You just know you have something important you have been waiting to save.. This month let’s explore storage. Topic: Storage Time: 7PM CST Place: College of Lake County, Grayslake IL Room: TEC T332 Registration Link Building Map As a wrap from last month, if someone is interested in touching on WebSockets again, please speak [...]

angleBracket[0] == ‘success’

The inaugural experiment of angleBracket seems to be a success. I’d like to thank Shawn, Mike, Craig, Louis, Peter, Dave, Scott, Min (aka Lower Bound), Lwin, Clark and anyone I missed (hopefully I didn’t miss any names). It might seem silly to list out attendees’s name, but it was the experience, knowledge, interests and friendliness [...]

Meeting: January 19th 2012 7PM — WebSockets

We’re not going to waste anytime. We’re diving right into WebSockets. Topic: WebSockets Time: 7PM CST Place: College of Lake County, Grayslake IL Room: B270 Registration Link Building Map