Refresh the Triangle

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!”

Thursday, August 13, 2009

jQuery Fundamentals Training

If you’re a designer or developer looking to add richness and interactivity to your websites, jQuery is a powerful skill to add to your toolbox. jQuery Fundamentals is a two-day class that will give you the knowledge you need to properly and effectively start integrating the popular JavaScript library into your projects. Over the course of 10 example-packed hours, you’ll learn the fundamental concepts of the language and the library to bring your sites to life.

Earlybird tickets are on sale for $389 until Aug. 21, and Refresh the Triangle participants can get an additional 10% off the ticket price.

This class is aimed at beginning jQuery users, but intermediate users may also benefit from the more formalized introduction to the library this class will offer. Attendees should have a solid grasp of hand-coding HTML and CSS.

The class will be held from 10-3:30 each day, with a break for lunch (provided).

About the instructor: Rebecca Murphey is a front-end architecture consultant based in Durham, NC. She is a regular contributor to JSMag, the magazine for JavaScript professionals, an active member of the jQuery community, and a contributor to the upcoming jQuery Cookbook from O’Reilly.

Monday, June 15, 2009

jQuery Fundamentals Class

Announcing jQuery Fundamentals, a two-day class at Carrboro Creative Coworking (July 29-30) that will give you the knowledge you need to properly and effectively start integrating jQuery, the popular JavaScript library, into your web development projects. Over the course of two days, you’ll learn the fundamental concepts of JavaScript and jQuery and tackle real-world exercises to solidify your understanding of the language and the library.

In my work with jQuery beginners, I often find that the library is so easy to learn that it’s possible to skip over the fundamentals of JavaScript. With that in mind, we’ll start the class with a high-level overview of key JavaScript principles, including concepts like logic, objects, variable scope, and closures. From there, we’ll move on to a thorough overview of the jQuery library—selecting, traversing, manipulating, effects, events, XHR (Ajax), and plugins. Throughout the class, we’ll focus on best practices for writing and organizing jQuery code for easy reuse and refactoring. Participants will leave the class as upstanding members of the jQuery community, armed with a solid understanding of the concepts of both JavaScript and jQuery, and ready to start leveraging the library in their projects.

This class is aimed at beginning jQuery users, although intermediate users may also benefit from the more formalized introduction to the library this class will offer.

If you have any questions about the class, drop me an email at rebecca@rebeccamurphey.com, and I hope to see you there!