The Dayton Web Standards Meetup Group

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Past events

• Creating Wordpress Plugins the right way

  6-7 Jun 2012 in Kettering, United States

  Jason Grim, Worpress developer extraordinaire will be sharing his expertise in developing Worpress plugins. Wordpress is the popular blogging engine that powers about 20% of websites on the web. Jason has created dozens of Wordpress plugins for clients and manages several plugins publicly available on wordpress.org. Grim has been a web developer for about 10 years and currently works as a consultant for Crown Partners.

• Rafael Javascript Library

  2-3 May 2012 in Kettering, United States

  This month Trevor Bonsell of Crown Partners will be discussing the Rafael Javascript library for creating vector-based graphics on the web. As part of his presentation he will be demonstrating a resource scheduling application he built that allows users to create room layouts and furniture with a slick UI and user experience. has been a web developer for about 10 years starting with Perl and eventually moving to PHP.

• Web Developers Meetup - Topic:The Amahi Linux Server

  4-5 Apr 2012 in Kettering, United States

  Pat Grismore will do an introductory presentation on the Amahi LinuxServer.  Discuss its general uses, as well as, how it can benefit small businesses and developers.  He will also do a live demo of the VPN feature of Amahi and answer any questions.There are a myriad of apps that are packaged for one-click install on Amahi platform including the big three CMS's: Wordpress,Joomla, and Drupal.

• Web Developers Meetup - Innovation Workshop

  7-8 Mar 2012 in Kettering, United States

  According to Lisa Bodell the CEO of Future Think, over the last decade, organizations have not realized their full potential. They have been hyper focused on output and efficiencies while ignoring strategies for the future. There has been little or no time allocated to innovate. Current work environments suffer from an over emphasis on doing rather than thinking.

• Web Developers Meetup - Topic: Flowcharting - The User Experience Socket Wrench

  1-2 Feb 2012 in Kettering, United States

  There are many techniques used by User Experience, User-centered Design, and Human Factors professionals. Supporting these techniques is an under-utilized tool: flowcharting.In this talk Darren Kall expands the useful application of flowcharting by describing 38 different uses, showing several different styles, giving a short history offlowcharting, listing some limitations, sharing case studies and describing our award-winning flowchartingtechnique.

• Web Developers Meetup - Canceled! The presentation is moved to the Feb. Meeting

  4-5 Jan 2012 in Kettering, United States

  Do to scheduling conflicts, The January meetup is Canceled! The presentation is moved to the Feb. 1

• Web Developers Meetup - Topic: CSS Media Queries

  7-8 Dec 2011 in Kettering, United States

  "CSS Media Queries" with John Weiss Everyone knows that traffic from mobile devices is on therise. You and your colleagues are probably thinking thatyou need to invest in building a "mobile" site or helpingyour clients understand why they need one. Come learn howCSS Media Queries provide an easy way to begin to supportmultiple devices without the need for developing anentirely new "mobile" site.

• Web Developers Meetup - Topic: "Q&A with Designers"

  2-3 Nov 2011 in Kettering, United States

  "Q&A with designers"Bring your questions about best practices, layouts, fonts, backgrounds, frameworks, templates, you name it and our panel of designers will do their best to answer your questions.Panel:Keith Fisher  - Graphic DesignerMark Wells - Founder of AntistaticTodd Rice  - Creative Director at SaforianKeith Engelhardt - Senior Web Developer/Designer at Triune Group

• Web Developers Meetup - Designing FOR The User Experience

  5-6 Oct 2011 in Kettering, United States

  Inspired by Alan Cooper's "The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity", Keith Engelhardt will present a humorous and informative exploration of "Designing FOR The User Experience".If you have ever been frustrated by high tech products and wondered why it is so, or if you would like to know how to design better user experiences, this presentation is a must see.

• Javascript App Development

  7-8 Sep 2011 in Kettering, United States

  It's time to take control of your JavaScript. More and more web apps are moving logic to the client, which means that JavaScript is doing more than just form validation and trivial tasks. Rob Tarr will present some basic JavaScript principles for development, take a quick look at some popular libraries and frameworks for app development, and step through a small sample app using backbone.js.JS Libraries:- jQuery- Modernizr- LabJSJS Frameworks:- RequireJS

• HTSQL: Easy RESTful database reporting. No, really.

  1-2 Jun 2011 in Kettering, United States

  Catherine Devlin will be sharing on the HTSQL project. Here is a summary.Moving data from a database to a user's eyeballs in ways that are attractive, flexible, and comprehensible to mere mortals is a common problem with a variety of bad solutions. Most existing data reporting tools are closed-source, expensive, complex, mutually incompatible, and generally evil.HTSQL changes this.

• Web Developers Meetup: This Product Sucks -The Business Impacts of UX Breakdowns

  4-5 May 2011 in Kettering, United States

  Join us to hear Darren Kall from Kall Consulting present this  humorous talk that explores the very serious topic of why businesses should be concerned with product and service user experience, the business value / ROI of user  experience investments, how they increase revenues, reduce development and support costs, and decrease time to market. Darren gives examples of products that suck; explaining that at the root of all of them is that they were designed without the user/customer in mind.

• Web Developers Meetup - Topic: "The Alchemy of Collaboration"

  6-7 Apr 2011 in Kettering, United States

  Inside most organizations, knowledge is power.  Hoarding of information and knowledge is a familiar technique used by individuals to maintain their position and status.  However, in today's competitive and rapidly changing business  environment hoarding does not serve individuals or organizations. Organizations and their workforces  must tear down the walls that limit the exchange  of information and ideas and instead share, discuss, schedule, meet, solve group problems,  and produce.

• Web Developers Meetup - Topic: CSS Media Queries

  2-3 Feb 2011 in Kettering, United States

  Join us for Ben Callahan's presentation on "CSS Media Queries"We will also have our monthly book raffle. Attendance at the meeting could result in your pick from an assortment of technical books related to web development.Come one, come all and pick up some tips/techniques to enhance your web development skills.If you would like to meet afterward for food/drinks, plan accordingly.Also, we are seeking people to present at future meetings.

• July Web Standards Meetup

  6-7 Jul 2009 in Dayton, United States

  Keith Engelhardt will be doing a "Grok Talk" on "Object Oriented CSS: for high performance websites and web applications"

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