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August Meeting: Comparing Microsoft vs LAMP Development2012-08-09 19:00 2012-08-09 21:00 When: Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 7:00PM After a little Summer Vacation in July, we are back. Join us for an exciting evening comparing and contrasting the advantages and disadvantages of developing on the Microsoft platform vs. developing on the open-source LAMP stack. The first half of our program will feature speakers from the Microsoft camp, and the second half will feature speakers from the LAMP stack camp. SPONSORED BY MARS IT
June Meeting: Joomla 3.0 Update: There is No Spoon & Backbone.js: Get Out of the Generic AisleWhen: Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 7:00PM Joomla 3.0: There Is No Spoon Victor Drover
The presentation will be heavy on ‘eye-candy’ for Joomla 3.0 — due in September 2012 — and will describe the challenges and opportunities for end users, site implementors, designers and add-on developers. About Victor Victor is the Founder and CEO of Anything Digital, a well-known Joomla development shop based in Sussex, Wisconsin. His portfolio boasts some of the most popular add-ons for Joomla including SEO and calendaring tools such as sh404SEF and JCal Pro, respectively. Victor is also a volunteer in the Joomla project and serves/has served on numerous committees including the Joomla Extensions team that manages the official directory for Joomla add-ons and and more recently the Joomla Events team. He has helped organize the J and Beyond international developer conference since January 2011 — including the May 2012 event in Germany — and co-organizes the local Joomla User Group Milwaukee held on the 3rd Thursday of each month.
Backbone.js: Get Out of the Generic Aisle Arlen Walker & Rob Martin
Backbone.js is a client-side JavaScript framework, but who really cares about that? What's important is what you can do with it. Arlen and Rob will live code (ooh, scary!) a Twitter widget demonstrating backbone's ability to easily acquire, process and present arbitrary data from diverse sources. About Arlen & Rob Rob and Arlen worked on their first project together over two decades ago - they just didn't know it at the time. It was the 1992 Solar and Electric Vehicle Association race. Arlen was on the battery team, and Rob was on the embedded controls team, and the car won first place. Today, Arlen programs under his own flag, Paladin Web Services, and Rob is top devops person at Top Floor Technologies.
WordCamp Milwaukee - June 2 & 3, 2012
The Web414 organizers are proud to be assisting in planning the first ever WordCamp Milwaukee, dedicated to the WordPress CMS platform. This great event will feature two days full of WordPress learning along with t-shirts, schwag, lunch, and a killer after-party for attendees. WordCamp Milwaukee will take place June 2 & 3 at a place you are all familiar with, Bucketworks, the same place we host our Web414 meetings. There will be local and national speakers talking about a wide range of topics on WordPress, plus an unconference portion where anyone can discuss any topic. Tickets for the conference are only $20 in advance, but we have a special offer for Web414 members. We will give you 25% off of your tickets. That will bring your ticket down to only $15! It's a simple three-step process:
Make the Transition: Traditional Design to the Web - Web414 May MeetingWhen: Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 7:00PM Are you a traditional designer or design student and are looking to jump start your path to working with the web? We will have a presentation from designers who are experienced in doing just that. Join us to learn how to design for the web, when your background had been in the traditional print format. Mark Fairbanks (@MarkFairbanks) of Translator Mark is the cofounder of Translator, an ideation lab and experience design firm. Along with Cindi Thomas, he helps lead design thinking, brand strategy development and creative execution for both established companies and start-ups alike. He is also a cofounder of two other startups through the Translator Lab program: Shindig, the first crowd-powered event booking platform, and Meet•Meme, the first social media trading card. His presentation "Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable" traces his transition from a veteran of traditional advertising/design agencies to embracing digital technology platforms and the connection economy. Irina Becker (@IrinaBecker) - Creatage, Inc. Irina is Senior Art Director at a marketing agency, Creatage. She focuses on the conception and design of high end websites, rich internet applications, banners and direct mail. Irina Becker will talk about what you need to know when transitioning from print to web, and will also share a few tips and resources she finds helpful. Sponsored by C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions
May's meetup is proudly sponsored by C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions. They will be providing Pizza and Drinks for the event. Check out C2 for training and freelance opportunities at c2gps.com.
Web Developer in the PHP MoldWe are looking for PHP programmer to join our team. Not just any team, though. We work hard and have fun doing it. We love making money, just as everyone else does, but we're truly passionate about what we do and we're looking to add to that with another web developer to help us execute awesomeness. Other points to make:
If you're interested, please contact me at tmerath@epiccreative.com / 262-338-3700 ext. 11 (office) / 262-271-0317 (cell)
SEO Discussion... How to Keep Your Web Clients Happy - Web414 AprilWhen: Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 7:00PM This month we will focus the discussion on how to provide SEO services to your clients. * What are the important metrics to report? All of these questions and more will be answered at this meetup event. Note: this will not be a how-to on SEO, it will be about the business and reporting of SEO to clients. Rachel Howe (Top Floor Technologies) and Scott Offord (Orion Group) are very excited to be discussing how you can implement new processes that could improve the quality of SEO services and level of communication you have with you own clients. Space is limited. RSVP online to secure your spot now.
April's Web414 meetup is proudly sponsored by ProStaff Technical Resources and Mark Boeder. Mark will be providing food and beverages and will be on hand to discuss opportunities in the development field that his staffing firm has available.
http://www.prostaffresources.com Mark Boeder - @markboeder - Director Capture Management and Recruiting at ProStaff Technical Resources
Joomla Jedi NeededHello people of earth. This is Jeff. I run a small design studio called (wait for it) Ganger Design. It's basically a 1099 sort of business, which has worked well in this post-2008 economy. We contract with developers, copywriters, designers, entrepreneurs and other folks in the idea industry. Enough about that. I have a Joomla project that needs a developer. It's a new site for a client. Nothing huge, mostly a brochure site. Launch date is in mid-May. I need someone who's got skillz, is trustworthy, and gets shit done on time, along with reasonable talent, manageable ego, and good character. Interested? Give me a shout or drop me a line. We'll meet and talk about your portfolio of work, the nature of this project, budgets, tasks, expectations, etc. This could be the start of an exciting opportunity if this goes well. I'd love to collaborate with someone on a longer-term basis, because work keeps flowing in. Who knows? We might become the Milwaukee interactive equivalent of Modern Dog or House Industries. Wait, did I promise too much there? No matter. Let's talk about this thing. Ganger Design 161 W. Wisconsin Ave., Grand Avenue Mall http://gangerdesign.com :: gangerdesign@gmail.com
Internet Security: Protect Your Devices, Your Websites & Yourself - Web414 MarchWhen: Thursday, March 8, 2012 Security issues online hit the news every day. How do you keep yourself and your web projects from becoming a victim of poor security measures? In this month's Web414 meeting you will learn security issues and best practices that Developers, Sysadmins, or anyone working with the web should be aware of. The format will start with short talks by four professionals working directly with security issues. Following their short presentations they will be available in a Panel-style Q&A discussion. Dan Walters and dc414 will be showing off and describing the Wall of Sheep, a demonstration of poor internet security. Described as "This comes straight from the DEFCON event where users can pluginto a switch and passively sniff any traffic on the local network. From there, users submit insecure credentials going against the wire to the Wall of Sheep. This is essentially a list of usernames and passwords (passwords would be masked) and shown to the public. It's a demonstration meant to educate and provoke security online." Topics to Expect:
The Panel:
Intro to Responsive Design - Web414 February MeetingDay: Thursday, February 9,2010 Smartphones and laptops and tablets... oh my! These days people are viewing the web on all types of devices. How do you keep up and make your site look best on all of these platforms, screen sizes, and resolutions? Responsive Design to the rescue! Responsive Design is an approach that says your design and development should respond to the screen size, platform, and orientation of your device. James Conway of C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions will join us to introduce responsive design and help us understand if it can solve our problems. Examples of Responsive Design and the kinds of problems it solves You can whet your appetite for Responsive Design by viewing the great set of examples at MediaQueri.es
Milwaukee WordPress Meetup on SecurityTuesday, February 21, 2012, 7:00 PM C2 Graphics Productivity Solutions, LLC We will be discussing WordPress security... ways to make your website safe from hackers. There are many useful plugins and a few best practices you should follow to help secure your Wordpress site. We even found some interesting paid services made just for Wordpress that help to scan and secure your website on a continual basis. We are looking for more presenters/speakers for this topic. Contact me if you are interested in helping out. Skype: offordscott RSVP today to secure your spot at this meetup (space IS limited).
Freelance Mockup to Wordpress Code Converters NeededThis is Jon Knebel from Milwaukee SEO Company (milwaukeeseocompany.com). I have been establishing an SEO company that will also offer full-service web design. The team currently consists of me and 1 subcontracting graphic designer. We will be in need of someone who can convert the mockups that the graphic designer creates into code, and then into a Wordpress template, and help to create the website. Currently, I am the one doing this conversion, but my time will be better spend doing website marketing and sales. My point in saying this, however, is that I will be helpful with the conversion process, and be able to pick up where you leave off if you don't want to maintain long-term involvement with the company. Please leave a comment or visit the contact form on our website to let me know if you'd like to discuss the opportunities ahead. This is for a sub-contracting position--not employment--therefore, you are free to designate your own rates and hours and location of work. We are based out of Bucketworks. -Jon Knebel
Adobe Flash Developer WantedC2 seeks an Adobe Flash Builder developer that could convert a Flex 3.5 application to one that would run on the iPad. (There is no live data involved.) http://www.c2gps.com/talent/opportunities.html Please respond ASAP if you're capable, available and interested, rate is competitive.
January Meet-Up - HTML5 and CSS3 Primer: Developing Awesomeness for the New Web2012-01-12 19:00 2012-01-12 21:00
What a better way to kick off the new year than discussing the newest of developments in web design and development. The January Web414 meeting will bring you a primer on HTML5 and CSS3, some of the great things you can do with these awesome technologies, and how you can get started using them today. The meeting will start with a primer on HTML5 and CSS3, introducing you to what is new, what is old, resources to help you get up to speed, and what awesomeness will ensue when you start using this new web tandem. We will then show off some great HTML5 and CSS3 examples. Finally, we will finish by demonstrating how to use the HTML5 Boilerplate to get yourself started using HTML5.
We hope to see you at the January Edition of Web414 and if you have a project using HTML5 and CSS3, please let us know, and you can show it off during this month's meetup. Stay tuned for more information. Please RSVP on our new Web414 Meet-Up page
Web414 December - Web414 for Freelancers Forum2011-12-08 19:00 2011-12-08 21:00 RSVP Thursday, December 8 at Bucketworks With the December 2011 edition of Web414 our focus will turn to the world of Freelancing. A panel of experienced freelancers will join us to share their experiences, answer questions, and speak on the world of freelance work. Bring your questions, as we plan on allowing for a lot of audience participation and question time. Please RSVP at on our Meetup.com page. Random Acts of Kindness Global HackathonThis weekend the Random Hacks of Kindness global hackathon will be taking place at Bucketworks (as well as in 34 other cities around the globe!). This event aims to bring together experts on real world social problems with hackers, designers, programmers, scientists and world-saving enthusiasts to build technology which solves these problems. The main focus will be on water and disaster management issues, but anything that helps make the world a better place is fair game! The festivities kickoff with a pre-party at Open MiKE (in the Grand Ave Mall) on Friday at 5:30pm, which will feature beer from Big Bay Brewing Company and a tasting from the Great Lakes Distillery. Lunch, team building and the problem presentations will begin on Saturday at 12:30pm. Hacking will commence at 2pm on Saturday and finish at 2pm on Sunday, 24 hours later. You are free to come and go as you please, there is no requirement to hack for 24 hours straight, but the space will be available to you if you choose to use it. Meals will be provided through out! Prizes will be awarded to teams for best water solution, best disaster solution, best design and a sponsored challenge from WaterTech USA. For more information and to register, please visit this URL: http://www.rhok.org/event/milwaukee-wi-usa And before the hackathon begins on Saturday, there will be a mobile application building workshop held at Open MiKE from 9:30am to 12:00pm: http://www.spreenklertalentlabs.org/made-at-mike/ Hope to see you there!
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Focus on the challenges facing Joomla from a perspective of the administrative user interface. Following a brief comparison of the recent user interface changes in Mambo/Joomla and WordPress, Victor will summarize where Joomla is headed for the next iteration of the publishing platform, Joomla 3.0.
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