If you live in the Washington DC area you cannot help but be consumed with the constant news about the presidential inauguration and related events. Never have been so many streets been closed, and never has the anticipation of the attendance of million people been so high.

With that being said, and although I am not looking forward to the chaos that the inauguration promises to bring, I am very excited to have Joe Brinkman, DotNetNuke Corp. Co-Founder and Technical Fellow, come to our User Group to give a presentation on DotNetNuke and JQuery. Here is the abstract:

Over the last few years, with the adoption of AJAX and RIA frameworks, JavaScript has taken on added importance in the development of web applications. jQuery is one of the leading JavaScript frameworks and greatly simplifies JavaScript development. Microsoft’s recent announcement about adopting jQuery as a standard part of the ASP.Net platform prompted the DotNetNuke team to make the commitment to improve jQuery support within the platform.
In this presentation, we will provide a brief overview of jQuery and look at how we can leverage it in DotNetNuke to improve user interactions. We’ll look at the jQuery support offered in DotNetNuke 5.0 and how we can take advantage of these features in our module and DotNetNuke widget development.

If you are in the Washington DC area on January 21st for whatever reason, and  are interested in meeting and networking with other DotNetNuke enthusiasts as well as meet a DotNetNuke Corp Founder, then come to 1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna VA 22182 at 6:45pm (AT&T Building). Food and drinks will be server and sponsored by Inspector IT, Inc. Door prizes such as books, t-shirts and software packages such as Telerik, Infragistics, Nevron Charts  and more will be raffled right after the presentation (Raffle tickets are FREE!).

For more information please visit the Capital DotNetNuke User Group website. Make sure you register if you aren’t already – that will ensure you are kept updated with the user group’s news and events.

I hope to see you all there.