Refresh the Triangle

Monday, December 10, 2007

Refresh 003 — Lightning Sessions

Durham, NC — Thurs, Jan 24, 2008, 6:30-8:00PM

Starting in 2008, we’ll be using the first monthly meeting of each quarter for “lightning sessions”. Think of this meeting type as a 1.5 hour BarCamp or similar event where members shape the outcome, and the approach toward sharing and discussing is rapid fire. The meeting will consist of 5 predetermined presenters each facilitating a 10 minute lightning session on a predetermined topic. Topics will be a mix of web design, dev, and technology. So for the January meeting, we’re looking for 5 topics and 5 presenters. Please share comments on topic ideas and/or express your willingness to lead a session.

As popular topics become apparent through the comments and presenters attach themselves to topics, finalized presenters and topics will be added here:
1) Twitter for Fun and Profit, Wayne Sutton
2) How’s Haml?, Patrick Reagan
3) Simple Gimp, Joshua Vickery
4) Google Map API Tutorial Primer, Peyton Crump
5) Evaluating Drupal, Julia Kulla-Mader

Location:

Bronto Software, Inc.
Washington Building
324 Blackwell Street
Suite 410
Durham, NC 27701

New Refresh Site Calendar

Refresh has now switched over to using the SocialCarolina.org calendar as our event calendar, so update your XML or iCal subscriptions. Feed URLs are found at the top of the calendar page.

Friday, December 07, 2007

002 Meeting Recap

Last night’s meeting may go down in RTT history as the most amusing talk ever.  Clinton R. Nixon has a knack for not just explaining web app security vulnerabilities and solutions, but for doing so with humor and flare.  We had about 30 people in attendance and another 5 or 6 following live on ustream.tv.  If you missed the talk, you can watch the video or check out the photos.

If you want a closer look at the code behind Clinton’s demos, he has generously shared, “The Bank of Aquilonia,” “Upload King!,” and “Festival of Bookmarks,” with us.  He made links available to his demo code, his presentation slides, and resources for addressing security issues.  Big thanks to all the guys at Shoeboxed for hosting and providing refreshments. 

Everyone should get on board for the lightning sessions meeting in January.  Submit your ideas! It should be a good time.  See you January 24th!