Carrboro Creative Coworking - North Carolina's First Professional Coworking Space

Dojo Camp with Peter Higgins

brian — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:20:54 -0400

Peter Higgins, project lead of the Dojo JavaScript toolkit, is visiting North Carolina on July 11, so it's time for a dojo.camp() / dojo.beer().

Join us at Carrboro Creative Coworking on Saturday, July 11, starting at 10am until ??? for a day of hacking and learning. We'll order lunch from one of Carrboro's many fine eating establishments, and head out for drinks when it's all over. Come for as little or as long as you'd like, and BYOB if you're so inclined.

The event is free, but donations to Carrboro Creative Coworking for generously donating the space for the event are much appreciated! Please email rebecca (at) rebeccamurphey (dot) com to RSVP so we know we have enough space.

New Training jQuery Fundamentals

brian — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:14:54 -0400

I'm pleased to announce a new training offered here at CCC. Its called jQuery Fundamentals. The instructor is Rebecca Murphey. Here's the low down.

Overview
This course will give you the knowledge you need to properly and effectively start integrating jQuery, the popular JavaScript library, into your web development projects. Over the course of two days, you'll learn the fundamental concepts of JavaScript and jQuery and tackle real-world exercises to solidify your understanding of the language and the library. This class is aimed at beginning jQuery users, although intermediate users may also benefit from the more formalized introduction to the library this class will offer. more

When: July 29-30, 2099, 10 am - 3 pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking Map: 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510
Cost: $489
Only 10 seats available

REGISTER

Registration Deadline: July 22, 2009

Get in while you can! Only ten seats available.

Welcome

brian — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:23:46 -0400

Carrboro Creative Coworking is a professional shared workspace with a community atmosphere. It is designed to be a welcoming environment for software developers, entrepreneurs, designers, and others. Coworkers receive access to a reliable office space inside a unique modern community.

Learn more about us or contact us.

Carrboro Cocoa Consortium Meetup - June 9

brian — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:46:51 -0400

Info from Blake about the next Cocoa meetup:

Carrboro Cocoa Consortium Meetup - a regular iphone and cocoa developer event
Date: Tuesday June 9, 7pm - 9pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking

Topic: Going Social w/ Cocoa Touch - Integrating with Facebook & Twitter
Speakers: Blake Watters & Jeremy Ellison of Objective 3, Rachit Shukla of Two Toasters

Facebook and Twitter offer us an exciting set of tools to build applications that are better connected, more viral, and often just more fun than our standalone offerings. At the June meetup, the group will examine the development possibilities and marketing opportunities available to us through social media integration.

From a development perspective, we'll examine:
- Facebook Connect for the iPhone
- MGTwitterEngine, a full-featured Twitter library for Cocoa & Cocoa Touch
- Various goodies from around the web

On the marketing front, we'll discuss a few questions:
- How can social media extend our application lifecycle and bring users back more often?
- How can smart utilization turn our users into recruitment and advertising assets?
- How can Facebook & Pinchmedia interoperate to provide killer market insight for my app?

Come join us as we explore the technical aspects & business of utilizing social media in iPhone & iPod Touch applications. As usual, we'll meet up at Carrburritos at 6pm to grab some delicious food before heading over for the meetup. Hope to see you there!

Do we need more Coworking spaces in RDCH?

brian — Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:21 -0400

One of my goals is to create coworking spaces that are short distances from where people live. Because the Triangle area, Raleigh - Durham - Chapel Hill/Carrboro [RDCH], is spread out this is a challenge. The first thing to do to reach this goal is to gauge interest. Its what I did for almost two years before I opened CCC.

So if you'd like to see more coworking spaces in the Triangle please take this survey and let us know where.

Thanks!

Color Photos, Painting, and Klezmer for 2nd Friday Art Walk

brian — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:14:14 -0400

Come to Carrboro Creative Coworking Friday June 12 at 6pm for a group show of color photography and the fine sounds of Gmish's Klezmer music.

Photographers include Abby Laddybug, Brad Crittenden, Matt Fields, and Albert Yee. Plus a graffiti inspired triptych by Joshua Sanie.

You'll also get to meet our creative coworkers. They're software developers, designers, writers, and more. Its all part of the 2nd Friday Art walk here in Carrboro and Chapel Hill.

Where: 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510
When: June 12, 2009, 6pm - 9pm

(Here is a small taste of Gimish! This is going to be fun!)

RIA June Meetup on Cappuccino/Javascript

brian — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:41:14 -0400

The Carrboro Rich Internet Applications Meetup Group - June Meetup

Date: Thursday June 18 7pm - 9pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking, 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510

Topic: Exploring Cappuccino
Speakers: Blake Watters & Jeremy Ellison of Objective 3

Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with.

Cappuccino is built on top of standard web technologies like JavaScript, and it implements most of the familiar APIs from GNUstep and Apple's Cocoa frameworks. When you program in Cappuccino, you don't need to concern yourself with the complexities of traditional web technologies like HTML, CSS, or even the DOM. The unpleasantries of building complex cross browser applications are abstracted away for you.

Join the Carrboro Rich Internet Applications Meetup as we take a tour of Cappuccino and examine exactly what this new framework has to offer. Experience with GNUStep/Cocoa is not required -- we'll walk through the fundamentals as we get started.

Window Offices Available

brian — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:39:00 -0400

June first TWO window offices will be available at Carrboro Creative Coworking. Both come with basic furnishings like chairs and desks. We have WiFi, coffee, a technical book library, and a community of brilliant people.

Recently several new office coworkers moved in. One is a real estate software company and another is a senior editor for a big technical magazine. Plus there are a ton of software developers making cool stuff like iPhone applications.

Please contact me if you have any questions. I'd really appreciate it if you'd share this info with friends. :)

Entrepreneur Startup Meetup

brian — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:23:34 -0400

On Wednesday May 27 at 6:30pm join other entrepreneurs working on startups here at CCC. There is no ridged schedule or speaker planned. We'll just talk about startup culture here in the Triangle and exchange ideas. Coffee, water, and soda will be provided. Folks plan on bringing snacks. Feel free to do the same. If you like other kinds of beverages its BYOB. I'm sure lots of people will share.

If you're interested in attending leave a comment at the NC Startup Blog. This event is cosponsored by SpringStage and the North Carolina Startup Blog. Big thanks to Marc Dewalle for suggesting and organizing this event.

A Ton of Regular Meetups

brian — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:38:17 -0400

We now have nine regular FREE meetups here at CCC. Got an idea for a new one? Find a date and time that is available on our calendar and contact me. Several more events in the works right now. Dig it!

Regular Meetup Schedule

Brownbag Lunch
When: Every other Friday
Topic: occasional speakers, casual networking with coworkers

erlounge RDU
Topic: Erlang Programming Language
When: 2nd Thursday, 7pm

The Carrboro Rich Internet Applications Meetup Group
Topic: Flex, Silverlight, etc
When: 3rd Thursday, 7pm

Carrboro Cocoa Consortium
Topic: iphone/Cocoa
When: See Calendar

Westend Ruby Meetup
Topic: Ruby Programming Language
When: First Wednesday, 6:30pm

Chapel Hill / Carrboro Game Meetup
Topic: Boadgames, other games
When: Every Monday Night 7pm

Triangle Game Night Meetup
Topic: Boadgames, other games
When: 3rd Monday 8pm

Magic The Gathering Meetup
Topic: Collectable Card Game
When: Every Saturday night, 6pm - 10pm

2nd Friday Art Walk
Topic: Art, Music, Fun
When: 2nd Friday of each month