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17 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Day to Day Realities

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. [...]

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08 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Who’s Coming to Indieconf?

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 [...]

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04 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Web Performance Automation with Joshua Bixby

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 [...]

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03 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Sebastian Bergmann Speaks @ Etsy

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 [...]

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27 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Kodingen Developer Sessions

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 [...]

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22 September 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Regroup and Refresh

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 [...]

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15 May 2010 ~ 2 Comments

What’s going on with CSS

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 [...]

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22 March 2010 ~ 0 Comments

March Meeting

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 [...]

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04 February 2010 ~ 0 Comments

February Meeting

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 [...]

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18 January 2010 ~ 1 Comment

January Meeting

What: Responsible JavaScript When: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 7:00 PM Where: (A location has not been chosen yet.) Forget what you know about JavaScript… We’ve been told of all its glories and all of its failings. The fact of the matter is that it’s a greatly under-appreciated language with a few well-documented mistakes. Most of [...]

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