Refresh the Triangle

Friday, October 26, 2007

Refresh 002 — Fortified Web Projects: Fundamentals for Security

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.

Location:

Shoeboxed
Brightleaf Square, 23D
905 West Main Street
Durham, NC 27701

Thursday, October 25, 2007

001 Meeting Recap

Thanks to everyone who came to the first meeting. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.  About 28 people came out in the rain to hear Jackson’s talk and share in the conversation.  From our informal poll, it seemed that a little more than half of us are developers, a little less than half are designers, and a solid handful of us identify as “in between.” This is exactly the kind of mix we’re going for at Refresh, so we’re off to an exciting start.  We created a flickr account and posted some photos from the first meeting.

Please feel free to join the group and add photos of future meetings. I want to thank Jackson one more time for a great presentation and discussion.  He was kind enough to share his slides - enjoy!

Be sure to post your suggestions for future topics or speakers. See you all on Nov. 29!

Thursday, October 18, 2007

World Usability Day 2007

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.

Ready to be Refreshed

We’re really looking forward to seeing everyone on the 25th.  We (at Viget Labs) are sponsoring this month’s gathering, so we’re providing refreshments and hosting the event at our office (908 W. Main Street, across from Brightleaf Square).  I don’t think parking will be a problem.

There is a small parking lot right outside our door and Brightleaf Square’s big lot is just a block away.  If you’re coming to our office for the first time, keep an eye out for Rainbow Chinese Restuarant on Main Street. Turn into the lot when you see Rainbow and you’ll find us - we’re set back from the street a little bit.

You’ll be doing us a huge favor by RSVPing if you are going to attend so we can plan our refreshments ...  To RSVP go to: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/288867 Thanks!

We’re planning to walk over to Aliva’s for a coffee or beer after the event, but I could be persuaded to go to the Federal instead…

Post a reply if you have any questions about the location or what to expect. See you soon.

Monday, October 15, 2007

RubyConf 2007

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.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Chapel Hill Startup Weekend

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/.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Triangle PHP Users Group (TriPUG)

A local PHP group founded by David Rasch. Consistent and valuable monthly meetings. More at http://www.tripug.org/.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Raleigh.rb October Meetup

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/.

The Raleigh-area Ruby Brigade (raleigh.rb)

Like the Ruby programming language? We do too! Want to learn more about it? You’re in good company. Come join us in our pursuit of humane programming. Check out raleigh.rb.

Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Triangle User Experience (TriUX) and Triangle Usability Professionals Association (TriUPA)

TriUX.org is a blog that provides a central source for user experience-related events, organizations, and information in the Research Triangle Park (North Carolina, USA) area.

TriUPA.org is a group that focuses on supporting the local community of practitioners in usability testing, user research, interaction design, and information architecture.