This meetup will feature snacks by Vitamin T, a book giveaway, and everyone who wants one will get a $50 MongoHQ credit.

The dream of web services lies in deploying rich web applications without having to render anything on a server first. You don't need Wordpress, Ruby on Rails, or any complex deployments to deliver powerful and sexy interactive experiences. You just need a bit of Javascript, and a lot of CSS.
This is walkthrough of a real production app composed entirely of static resources (html pages, css, javascript) with NO SERVER CODE, other than the APIs it talks to.

This is a true separation-of-concerns architecture, and we learned a lot by developing this.

• How to use Compass/SASS to quickly generate CSS* How we used Middleman to write our HTML using SLIM
• Using some HTML5 tricks to make layout simple
• How we render everything on the fly using HTML templates (Handlebars)
• What is backwards compatible, and what gracefully degrades
• Really, REALLY sexy page transitions (ala github file browsing) using CSS3 (and a bit of Javascript)
• How we made everything work on mobile devices with almost no work at all
• Why we designed everything this way in the first place, and why you should too