Want to attend the Voices That Matter Web Design Conference in San Francisco June 28-29, 2010? Through our user group partnership with Peachpit, Refresh Detroit members can get a $200$150 discount off (oops! Their user group coordinator just sent me an update on the price) the price of the Core Conference or Core Conference and Seminar package when they register with Priority Code WDUSERG.
Combine the user group discount with Early Bird pricing (register by May 14May 21, 2010) and you can save more money!
The Voices That Matter Web Design Conference will be held at the Mission Bay Conference Center. The conference brings together respected industry authors and thought-leaders of the Web design revolution including:
- Robert Hoekman, Jr.
- Dan Cederholm
- Steve Krug
- Emily Lewis
- and many others
The conference highlights web design and development advancements in:
- HTML5 & CSS3
- Content Strategy
- Microformats & Progressive Enhancement
- Social Media
- Typography & Font
- Grids
- Smart Phones
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UX Web Summit
April 15, 2010
Join us April 21 2010 at UX Web Summit, an online conference, where nine of the Web’s most experienced UX professionals share their experiences working on sites big and small. Learn practical techniques to create the best user experience for your users.
Due to the generosity of Environments for Humans, Refresh Detroit has a meeting room pass which allows us to meet in one location to attend the conference. All Refresh Detroit members are welcome to attend, there is no cost!
Location
Washtenaw Community College (map)
Student Center Building, 3rd Floor, Room SC 318
4800 East Huron River Drive
Ann Arbor MI 48105-4800
Conference runs from 10am to 6pm EDT
Schedule (as of April 15)
- 10AM: Daniel Burka and Rob Goodlatte — Designing the First 15 Minutes
- 11AM: Jackson Wilkinson — Product Strategy for UX Designers
- Noon Juliette Melton — Remote User Testing
- 1PM: Nick Finck — Sustainable UX
- 2pm to 3pm: Lunch break (lunch is not provided, plenty of restaurant options in the building)
- 3pm: Donna Spencer — Card Sorting
- 4pm: Cindy Li and Jenifer Hanen — Mobile UX
- 5pm: Dan Rubin — Practical Prototyping
Registration is first come, first served! Only 15 seats are available.
Order your ticket today through GuestList, our ticket registration site.
Java and Flex with James Ward
August 3, 2009
The Detroit Java User Group is very pleased to announce a special event, Java and Flex with James Ward, on August 19, 2009 from 6:30PM to 8:30PM. The meeting will be held at ePrize, One ePrize Drive, in Pleasant Ridge, Michigan (map).
Building highly interactive software that users love to use is usually a challenging endeavor. However, the open source Flex SDK and Java are a perfect combination of technologies for building very rich and highly interactive software for the Web and the desktop.
The communication between the Java back-end and Flex front-end can utilize a number of different communication protocols, but the easiest and best performing is the open source BlazeDS library.
This session covers the fundamentals of using Flex, Java, Spring, and BlazeDS to build rich and highly interactive software for the web and the desktop.
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places.
Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including:
- Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90′s
- Perl, HTML, JavaScript in the mid 90′s;
- then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late 90′s.
Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing
and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.
Our meetings are free and open to the public. Space is limited; please RSVP: mckinnon.david [at] ymail.com
Food and beverages sponsored by The Epitec Group. Prizes provided by O’Reilly Media and Manning Publishing.
Gathering and Drink Specials
April 19, 2009
Want to continue the conversation after the April 21st Writing for the Web panel discussion?
Thanks to Angelina Italian Bistro, on Broadway across from the Opera House, for offering drink specials to Refresh Detroit members after the panel discussion. Check out the great drinks offered:
- $5 for a 20-oz. Motor City microbrew
- $4/glass for a selection of wines – two whites and two reds
They’re close to the People Mover, so it should be easy to get to them. They also offer $5 valet parking during the week.
Business Networking event
April 18, 2009
My BNI group is holding a Visitors Day meeting at Lake Forest Golf Club, located at 3110 West Ellsworth Road (on the corner of Ellsworth and Ann Arbor/Saline Road), in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, April 22 from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. We are looking for business professionals to pass referrals to and I know a lot of you are looking for ways to grow your business. We are especially interested in graphic designers, copywriters, and marketers.
BNI is a business and professional networking organization whose primary purpose is to exchange qualified business referrals. The organization presently has over 5,300 chapters throughout every populated continent in the world. Last year, members of BNI passed over 5.6 million referrals which generated almost $2.3 billion (U.S.) worth of business for each other.
What makes BNI unique is that it allows only one person per profession to join a chapter. Thus, once you’ve joined, none of your competitors can participate.
Seating is limited, so please let me know if you plan to attend; call me at (734) 330-4142, or email (vince@vcwebdesign.com) and I will reserve a place for you! The fee of $15 includes continental breakfast. Remember to bring plenty of business cards to pass around as you will meet lots of local business professionals.
Vince Chmielewski
VC Web Design
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