My journey from being a rookie PHP developer to start organizing the Hungarian Node.js Meetup Group
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From a PHP rookie toorganizing NodebpGergely Nemeth@nthgergo
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BEING A ROOKIE PHP DEVELOPER
BUT NOT JUST PHPDEVELOPED WITH C, JAVA, C#
ENOUGH.
LET’S BUILD SOMETHING NEWhttp://tagmint.com
CALL IT A STARTUP, START EXPERIMENTINGNODE, REDIS, MONGO, WEBSOCKETS
WHY NODE ?
HIGH PERFORMANCE
DEVELOPER HAPPINESS“WHY GO TO FACEBOOK AND DO PHP WHENYOU CAN GO TO PAYPAL AND DO NODE.JS”Bill Scott, PayPal
PRODUCTIVITY- vibrant user-land (~100K in NPM)- more done with less developers- code size shrink
JAVASCRIPT RUNS EVERYWHERE
CALLBACK WAS ALREADY CALLED
LEARN TO FLY
GET BETTER
REPEAT (YES, WE GOT STUCK AGAIN)
STRUGGLE - MEETING NODE PPL WAS HARD
START BUILDING A COMMUNITY
BUT NOT ALONE
NODEBP STARTED
NODEBP FORMAT1st talk: for newcomers2nd talk: for experts3rd talk: a fun projecthttps://github.com/knode/meetups/blob/master/budapest-hungary/nodebp.md
NODEBEERS
HOW DO YOU GET ALL THESE TALKS?GITHUB ISSUES!BE TRANSPARENT AND REACHABLEhttps://github.com/nodebp/nodebp
REHEARSALSGIVE VALUABLE FEEDBACK TO SPEAKERSPRIOR TO THE MEETUP
NODEBP STARTEDBUT NOT JUST THE CLASSICAL MEETUPShttp://nodebp.com
NODESCHOOLS
NODEBREAKFASTS
THESE STUFFS ARE NOT NEWLOOK OUT FOR ROLE MODELS
PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACE
PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACEMOST PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THE GLOBALNODE COMMUNITY MEMBERS
PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACEIT RAINS!
PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACETASK DELEGATION TO COMMUNITY LEADERS
PROBLEMS WE FACED/FACEGET SPONSORS / EVENT VENUE
THE NEXT STEP
THE NEXT STEPhttp://oneshot.risingstack.com organized by
THINGS TO TAKE HOME- learn on your own can be very challenging- start building a community- make friends- enjoy
THANKS!Gergely Nemeth@nthgergo