Refresh NYC

It’s about time for a new talk don’t you think? We’ll be closing out this month with a discussion on the Day to Day Realities of an Independent Worker.

You’ve taken the plunge and gone freelance fulltime. Now what? There’s many day-to-day management activities of a web solopreneur or microstudio that are critical to success. ‘Day to Day Realities’ highlights several strategies for pipeline-, project-, finance-, time- and life management specifically for independent professionals. Additionally, I’ll share some crisis management techniques, including dealing with deadbeats, firing clients, and managing poisonous people on both sides of the project’s fence.

RSVP at Meetup.

New Work City is offering a really excellent deal for folks like us: the Citizen Membership. For only $300/month you can use the space as much as you want.

This is a pretty epic deal, and they are just opening it up to the first 100 people to request the membership, you should jump on this opportunity ASAP.

After some number crunching and talking with members, we came up with a way to start that transition. We’re calling it the Citizen Membership, and for $300 per month, you can use the space during normal operating hours as much as you want.

via New Memberships!.

Mark your calendars for Saturday, November 13 — Indieconf, the conference for independent web professionals, is taking place in Raleigh, NC.

I’ll be making my way there both as an attendee and a speaker and wanted to extend the invite to the group as a whole.

The conference organizer is offering us a 25% off discount so enjoy!

Use the code “25off” during the checkout.

I can’t wait to see you all there!

From the Web Performance Meetup Group:

Joshua Bixby (@JoshuaBixby), President of Strangeloop Networks and author of Web Performance Today blog will talk about Web Performance Automation.

Abstract:

Depending on who you talk to, performance automation can range from the holy grail of performance tuning to a set of programming hacks that will bring down your website. In reality, it is neither of these things.

Joshua will talk about:

• Different approaches to automation
• Pros and cons of each
• What kinds of performance best practices can or should be automated
• What best practices are better left to hands-on developers
• How “automatic” is performance automation, actually?
• A survey of the automation market today

Agenda:

• 6:00 – Arrive to the event, meet other members
• 6:15 – Introduction to Web Performance
• 6:30 – Web Performance Automation, Joshua Bixby
• 8:00 – Q&A
• 8:30 – Open Discussion, Networking

Time Inc. offered their Watercooler meeting to host NY Web Performance meetup.

Strangeloop Networks is sponsoring pizza and sodas!

Host contact: Alla Gringaus, Web Technology Fellow

Questions: 646 391 9671

Location:

Rockefeller Center
Time & Life Bldg
1271 Ave of the Americas (entrance 50th St and 6th Ave)
2nd Floor, room #1
New York, NY 10020

Nearest Transit:

• 50th St – 8th Ave (C, E)
• 50th St – Ave of the Americas (F, V, B, D)
• 49th St – 7th Ave (N, R, W)

Get directions on Google Maps: http://bit.ly/c5rTgs…

Street View for the Entrance: http://bit.ly/bpxpOW…

You’ll need to bring a photo ID for security downstairs.

See you there on October 13th at 6:00PM!

via Web Performance Automation, Joshua Bixby – New York Web Performance Group (New York, NY) – Meetup.

Sebastian Bergmann will be visiting Etsy this Thursday, October 7th, to talk about the State of PHP Quality Assurance. Come on down, have a drink, meet some other smart folks and get schooled.

Etsy’s HQ is located in DUMBO at 55 Washington St., Suite 512.

This event, is Free!

via Sebastian Bergmann Speaks @ Etsy – PHP – PHPUnit- Eventbrite.

A good friend and fellow Refresher is running a meetup that I think all of us can benefit from in one way or another: Kodingen Developer Sessions.

Devrim is the Co-founder of Kodingen, an online development platform with lots of social hooks which makes it all the more valuable.

The meetup repeats on the 4th Tuesday of every month and the very first one is tomorrow night. Since we don’t have a meeting scheduled this month, I think we should all try to make an appearance.

via Kodingen Developer Sessions NYC Meetup.

Announcing a new Meetup for Refresh NYC!

What: Regroup and Refreshments

When: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 7:00 PM

Where: Houndstooth Pub
520 8th Avenue SE Corner of 37th/8th
New York, NY 10001
212-643-0034

Howdy folks, it’s time to regroup and start putting together some plans for the rest of the year’s events.

Lets all meet up for some snacks and drinks at the usual spot, Houndstooth in Midtown on Tuesday, October 5th at 7:00 PM. Please be sure to RSVP if you plan on attending as it helps us insure seating for everyone.

We’ve got some great ideas posted in the Meetup site so please keep those ideas coming. Lets plan on having our next formal meeting with presentation toward the end of the month.

Hope everyone’s conference season is going well!

RSVP on the Meetup page.

Designer and Developer Tyler Gaw is demoing and discussing some of the amazing new features under the CSS3 umbrella. From new time-saving, granular selectors to rounded corners to animations and everything in between. We’ll jump right into the deep end with the most far out things that are now possible with CSS and then reel it back in and talk about how helpful these new features will be in the day-to-day life of web designers and developers.

RSVP on the Meetup Page

Friends,

I’d like to invite you all to the March Meeting for Refresh NYC:

This month, AnyClip Designer Gabi Moore will be talking about some of the issues surrounding the relationship between designers and developers, and what can be done to improve it. This talk will include the results of an informal survey where both designers and developers explain in their own words some of the problems that come from working together, as well as ideas on to better bridge the gap between the design and development worlds.

Please take a few minutes and help out by filling out the really short survey (less than 5 minutes, seriously). Even if you aren’t attending, see if you can spare a few to help out the talk.

http://bit.ly/avBIEm

Update: The slides have been posted on Gabi’s slideshare.

What: Responsible JavaScript
When: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 7:00 PM
Where: reBar — 147 Front Street, DUMBO

Dynamic Development in Python

This month, Python developer Fire Crow will be covering features of the python language that make it especially powerful for certain projects. This talk will include code samples of key language features, companies using python, and a sample of the frameworks available for web applications.

Additionally, this talk will cover some of the amazing things python is used for and why that makes web applications built in python good for modeling most powerful features python brings to web development.

About Fire Crow

Fire Crow a Web Developer and Unix/Linux server side programmer, with a focus on reusable code bases, framework development, and implementing modular designs. He works mostly in Python and Javascript, with some projects in PHP/MySQL.

More information on his website http://firecrow.com.