It's time that Cleveland pulled together all the tech gurus playing around with JavaScript, ECMAScript, jQuery, Dojo, YUI, Sencha, CoffeeScript and much more, no matter whether on the server-side or in the browser. JavaScript is an extremely versatile (nicely put) language with some fantastic innovations happening. Backbone, Ember, NodeJS and many other new technologies are paving the way for very exciting things to come. Let's get together and teach each other about what is hip and happening!

We are excited to launch a version of Coffee House Coders in Detroit called DetCoffeeCode. This group is geared towards new and expert coders as well as entrepreneurs who are running a start-up. The group meets the last Thursday of every month Downtown at Starbucks. Attendees have knowledge in various coding languages. So if you are a new coder, freelancing or a start-up come Downtown and join us! Please follow us on twitter for the latest updates @DetCoffeeCode .

Detroit Rails builds full stack web developers one stack trace at a time. There will be an intensive 10-week course taking people from competent hacker to employable developer. These meetups will be delivered in bite-sized offerings, easier on the wallet and the schedule. We are building a community of web developers in Detroit to teach, learn, work and code.