Refresh the Triangle

Friday, March 28, 2008

005 Meeting Recap

The laid back, free-form approach to the meeting was sincerely enjoyable and on spot. Thanks to Ogilvy and specifically to Callie, Noah, Chris, and Kendall for making it all happen. If you missed the meeting but have the chance later, make a reason to head over to Ogilvy for a visit — awesome people, immaculate space, and a ton of engaging work. There was no lack of sharing either — thanks to everyone for being plugged in and willing to speak up. If you’re looking to catch up on what went on, here’s the flow:

• 30 minutes of conversation, seen here
• Noah on Ogilvy Durham, what they’re about, their philosophy, the “Big Ideal”, and a cool project
• Peyton with some smaller points from a larger overview on Mobile Web Book, thoughts on the local Edward Tufte course, and the new Viget site and blogging strategy
• Rolf with a Shoeboxed update and a call for the motivated
• Mike on Carrot2, asides on Clusty and Solr, and some interesting points on clustering
• Clinton on GitHub, a distributed version control system, and his contribution
• David with a live coding demo on REST and Curl
• Nathan on Acid 2 and Acid 3, a cool related milestone, and some live photos
• Adam on the Email Standards Project and the Email Acid Test
• Wayne on looking ahead to BarCamp RDU and a reminder to keep up via Social Carolina
• Jackson with props to MuxTape
• Nick on the very handy Skitch
• Drinks and conversing outdoors at Alivia’s after the meeting

See you next month, and thanks for blogging, tweeting, etc about Refresh the Triangle. The word’s getting out and cool things are happening.

Thursday, March 06, 2008

Refresh 005 — Kick Back, Freshen Up

Durham, NC — Thurs, Mar 27, 2008, 6:30-8:00PM

For various reasons, we’ll take a break from the formal presentations this month. Come on out to Ogilvy where we’ll socialize a bit more than usual, eat, drink, and share. Share what? We’ll take 30-45 minutes to geek out on some of the latest web industry news and share some personal favorites, well kept secrets, tips, tools, or whatever you feel could benefit the group.

Come ready to share anything you’d like — a headline or news item, a site, a tool, a snippet of code, a device, a book excerpt — anything large or small that you feel is current and elevates our web knowledge. And don’t think it has to be entirely unique (as in no one else knows about it already), it’ll kill the vibe. Just come with something that you know has been valuable/noteworthy to you, and don’t over-think it. It can be as quick as sharing a URL and a sentence about why we should visit the site. Or it can be as long as 5 minutes in a text editor demonstrating a few lines of code.

So stop for a few minutes before you head out and think of something to share. Do that, come relaxed, and the results will be sweet. See you there.

Location:

Ogilvy
115 North Duke Street
Durham, NC 27701