Meeting 44

• When: Monday, December 5th, 2011 - 7pm to 9pm
• Where: University of Technology Vienna, Freihaus HS4 (Google Maps)

Ebean Java Persistence

Dominik Dorn will present the Ebean ORM Persistence Layer - a lightweight way to access your database in Java with the comfort of JPA but without its performance penalties - a real alternative to Hibernate, Spring JDBC, iBatis and co.!

CoffeeScript & SASS

web technologies you have to know.

Clemens Helm, independent Web application developer and Ruby on Rails enthusiast (http://www.rails-troubles.com) will present CoffeeScript as well as SASS.

CoffeeScript

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath all those awkward braces and semicolons, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous object model at its heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way. http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/

Sass - Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets

Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin. http://sass-lang.com/