Refresh the Triangle

Monday, August 30, 2010

indieconf - conference for web freelancers

indieconf - the conference for independent web professionals - is coming to Raleigh, November 13.  Whether you’re a freelance designer, developer, or someone in between, indieconf will help you take your business to the next level.

Topics include:
* marketing yourself
* legal/licensing issues
* pricing your services
* web technologies to keep abreast of
* and more

Beyond the sessions, this is a great opportunity to network with regional freelancers with complementary skills.

While the conference is based here in the Raleigh area, our speakers include both regional and out-of-state speakers.

http://indieconf.com has more info on sessions and speakers - final speaker selections will be announced in early September.

Get your ticket now at http://indieconf.com/register

Questions?  Call 919 827 4724

Wednesday, March 03, 2010

NCDevCon - North Carolina’s Premiere Web Conference

Following the success of the CFinNC conference last October, the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group (TACFUG) is proud to announce NCDevCon 2010.

Did we mention that the cost for this conference is the same as last year? That’s right. It’s free!

This conference is planned for May 22-23, 2010 and will be held at the College of Textiles on the campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC.

Planned Topics
* ColdFusion
* Flex/Air
* Hands on sessions (bring your laptop!)
* Web Design
* Javascript/CSS/Ajax

NCDevCon also offers a series of hands on training at no charge to attendees. Bump up your skills, earn more money, learn from the best at NCDevCon.

For more information please visit:  http://ncdevcon.com

2009 Attendee Testimonials

“The size of the conference made networking much easier then larger conferences...”

“Good job of mixing presentation and hands on. I think it covered an excellent range of material, and was rather motivational in the enthusiasm for ColdFusion… a reminder it isn’t dead yet!”

Monday, December 14, 2009

jQuery & JavaScript Camp

Join us for the second NC jQuery and JavaScript camp, an informal day centered around jQuery, the popular JavaScript library, and the JavaScript language itself. We’ll do things in the barcamp style, making a list of topics/presentations at the beginning of the day and seeing where things go from there. If you have something to share, whether it’s simple or fancy, we want to hear about it — talks can range anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour.

Featured speakers will include Scott Gonzalez, lead developer for the jQuery UI project, and Peter Higgins, lead developer for the Dojo JavaScript Toolkit. Proceeds will benefit open-source JavaScript projects, including jQuery and Dojo.

Friday, May 22, 2009

JSMag May 2009 now available

The May 2009 issue of JavaScript Magazine - JSMag - is now available at http://jsmag.com/latest.  Topics include JavaScript Mashups, jQuery Custom Events, Testing with Windmill, Flex/AJAX Bridge “Gotchas” and more.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

JSMag April 2009 available

The April 2009 issue of JSMag is now available at JSMag.com.  This issue features the ‘Object Literal’ pattern, Profiling JavaScript with either Firebug or YUI’s Profiler, the JazzRecord JavaScript ORM library, and more.  RefreshTheTriangle members can redeem coupon code jsrf10 for 10% any purchase.

Friday, March 20, 2009

Your Web Job Just Launched - Job board for web pros

Your Web Job is a hub for job-seeking web professionals — project managers, copywriters, SEO experts, usability folk, social media gurus, and yes, even designers and developers — and for those who want to hire them.

We are committed to bringing you the widest variety of web-related jobs from the greatest companies, both large and small. Our goal is to play virtual matchmaker, ultimately helping businesses find superstar players for their dream teams.

Check us out and if you post a job, save yourself $30 with the coupon code - save30
http://yourwebjob.com

Thursday, March 12, 2009

JSMag launched - new magazine for JavaScript developers

JSMag.com, the magazine for JavaScript developers, launched March 6, with articles on debugging, unit testing, functional programming and more.

JSMag features articles with an eye towards the useful, interesting or little-known aspects of JavaScript.  The PDF publication brings the best of both established and up-and-coming writers every month.  JSMag is DRM free, and is fully indexable by your desktop searching software.

The first issue includes pieces on debugging strategies, unit testing, functional programming, extjs and more.

More information can be found at http://jsmag.com/latest

Friday, January 09, 2009

The Triangle microISV Group

A microISV (Independent Software Vendor) is a small software shop, usually with between 1 to 10 people, which is focused on growing organically (not through venture capital) and handles all business tasks (development, sales, PR, etc.) itself.

Are you running or part of a microISV in the Triangle? Or maybe interested in starting one or hearing from those who have? If so, the group is for you. It’s getting started on January 21 in Durham, so check out details on the microISV Group Meetup page and come on out.

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.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

MySQL Presentation by Jay Pipes

Jay Pipes from MySQL will be speaking at the next PHP/MySQL group meeting on December 12 in Durham.

Jay is the Community Relations Manager for MySQL North America, but don’t let the title fool you.  He’s an engaging and knowledgeable speaker with considerable real world experience building, installing and tuning large scale MySQL installations as well as working with some cutting edge companies and individuals.  If you’ve ever had a question about MySQL, now’s your chance to get it answered in detail, up close and personal with an expert. 

Jay will cover a number of topics relating to performance tuning and scaling, but the meeting will not be limited to just those topics. 

If you’ve never been out to a PHP/MySQL group meeting, Dec 12 should be your first one - we’d love to have you there!

More information can be found at http://www.tripug.org.

Thanks!

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

SocialCarolina.org Launched

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