SocialCarolina.org Launched

Posted Nov 20, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by pcrump

Events about technology of some kind happening in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area of North Carolina. Check it out at socialcarolina.org.

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Refresh 002 — Fortified Web Projects: Fundamentals for Security

Posted Oct 26, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by pcrump

Durham, NC — Thurs, Dec 6, 2007, 6:30-8:00PM

Clinton Nixon will share a high level view of common security risks and suggest some very practical approaches for protection. Clinton is a enthusiast for test-driven development, esoteric computer languages, and kittens. He serves humbly as a senior web developer at Viget Labs ... more

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World Usability Day 2007

Posted Oct 18, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by pcrump

Durham, NC — Nov 8, 2007, 6:00-9:00pm
Join UX professionals from around the Triangle area for an Interactionary (a live design competition), keynote speech, food, drink, and fun! More at www.triupa.org.

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RubyConf 2007

Posted Oct 15, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by pcrump

Charlotte, NC—Nov 2-4, 2007
We hope you’re as excited as we are by the schedule for RubyConf 2007. This year’s event will be even bigger than last year’s, and for the first time in the history of RubyConf we’ve made some changes to the event format. More at http://www.rubyconf.org.

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Chapel Hill Startup Weekend

Posted Oct 12, 2007   |   2 Comments   |   by pcrump

Chapel Hill, NC—Nov 2-4, 2007
Startup Weekend is an idea, an experiment, a chance gather the tech community and create a company over one jam packed weekend. More at http://chapelhill.startupweekend.com/.

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Raleigh.rb October Meetup

Posted Oct 10, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by pcrump

Raleigh, NC—Oct 16, 2007, 7:00pm
Clinton Nixon will be sharing some Rails goodness with us this month: Building Applications as Plugins. More at http://ruby.meetup.com/3/calendar/6385025/.

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Raleigh-Durham Web Design & Mark-Up Group

Posted Sep 24, 2007   |   6 Comments   |   by Emily Bloom

Raleigh, NC—Oct 9, 2007, 7:30pm
Check out the topic and location for this month: http://webdesign.meetup.com/36/calendar/6340480/
This group appears to be pretty active and has a reliable monthly meeting. I’m hoping to make it this month for the first time. Is anyone else a member of this group or planning to attend this month’s meeting?

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Raleigh-Durham Web Design & Mark-Up Group

Posted Aug 20, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by Emily Bloom

This Meet-Up group includes Freelancers, Entrepreneurs, “Back-end” Developers, Web & Graphic Designers, IT professionals, your average person who wants to create a Web site. We like to network, give presentations about our specialized areas, and enjoy ourselves ... more

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Converge South

Posted Aug 15, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by pcrump

Greensboro, NC—October 19-20, 2007
ConvergeSouth is a dynamic, interactive and truly unique conference. Through a hands-on leader-led approach, this year’s ConvergeSouth focuses on dialogue and participation. The people formerly known as the audience become discussion leaders. Everyone joins in, as panelists and leaders encourage an exchange of ideas, tools and best practices. The conference promotes ongoing conversation online and in real-life ... more

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Rails Rumble

Posted Aug 14, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by pcrump

September 8-9, 2007
The concept is simple: you and your team get 48 hours to design, develop, and deploy a web application from scratch. After those 48 hours are up, you’ll be judged by the community through a peer-ranking system in a variety of categories ... more

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User Experience Week 2007

Posted Jul 30, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by pcrump

Washington, DC—August 13-16, 2007
Under the guidance of experienced practitioners from Adaptive Path and other top companies, this four-day conference introduces user experience practitioners to new rich internet application design approaches, practical prototyping techniques, effective cross-organization communications strategies and more ... more

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Refresh 001 — Building User-Centered Web Apps in a Crunch

Posted Jul 26, 2007   |   0 Comments   |   by pcrump

Durham, NC — Thurs, Oct 25, 2007, 6:30-8:00PM

Jackson Fox is a User Experience Engineer at Lulu.com, and a graduate student in Information & Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill. He is responsible for the community and marketplace functionality on Lulu.com, and is currently learning why MySpace is definitely not a “platform.” He and his wife live in Durham ... more

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