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ATX Web Groups Weekly

llbbl — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:14:33 +0000

On Tuesday this week the Austin WordPress Group will be meeting to go over their plans for the future. Looks like there are actually some spots still available for this one, so better jump on it fast before it fills up!

Apparently SEO is extremely popular in Austin, because they have one of, if not, the biggest group right now. The group is called SEO-Austin on Meetup. Roger Dooley, a featured blogger on Internet Marketing, will be speaking at their meeting on Wed this week. The talk is entitled, Brainy Web Marketing: Neuromarketing Tips to Boost Traffic and Conversion.

Also on Wed is the Austin Python Group (not web). They will be going over disaster recovery and fire dynamics simulators.

AustinPHP is this week, on its new night! They are meeting on the 2nd Thursday instead of the 2nd Tuesday. Hopefully this time slot will be much more convenient for people! This month they have a guest speaker, Kevin Schroeder, from Zend who will be going over phpcloud and Zend Studio 9. Kevin runs the show at the yearly Zendcon!

AustinJS and CouchDB

llbbl — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:51:50 +0000

Here is a great video that you might have missed. Thanks to AustinTechVideos for recording.

ATX Web Groups Weekly

llbbl — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:00:41 +0000

The two big groups this week are the Austin NoSQL and the Node.js meetups.

Wednesday is the Austin NoSQL group. They have been meeting recently at the uShip offices downtown. 10gen is sponsoring their meeting this month. If you missed the last talk AustinTechVideos has it posted here. This month Ben Beecher will be talking about how MongoDB uses GridFS to efficiently store large objects on the file system.

On Thursday this week at the Node meetup they are going to be talking about debugging and testing your code. They are meeting a new location this week, HubAustin, so be sure to look up their address before you head out.

The last thing to checkout this week is actually the first thing coming up. On Tuesday the Joomla User Group will be going over the upcoming release of Joomla 2.5. It looking like this will be their biggest group in a while, so be sure to check it out!

Cospace Winter Blood Drive

Sarah Cox — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:29:47 +0000

Blood donors are sexy!
Our second Cospace blood drive is coming up on Wednesday, December 14 from 1:30-5:00pm. The bloodmobile will be in the parking lot of 911 W Anderson Lane, Austin 78757.

Please follow the instructions below to make an appointment. Also please forward these on to anyone who might like to give blood – all are welcome!
Donor Appointment Instructions

Register online at https://www.inyourhandsonline.org/index.cfm?group=registration&function=appointment&opID=0.
On the next page, click “Find a Drive.”
Under Step 1, type “cospace” in the Code box and then click search.
Under Step 2, click on 12/14/2011.
Under Step 3, click on “Schedule” next to the time you want to come in.
Then click OK and follow the directions from there.

(If you have any problems, sarah@cospaceatx.com is also able to register you.)

Find out what to do to prepare and find answers to any questions you might have at http://www.inyourhands.org/aboutblooddonation.php. Remember to drink lots of water before you donate blood and to eat lots of protein that day.
After You Donate

Come on up to Cospace in suite 203! Blood donors are welcome to stay at Cospace for the rest of the day to work and hang out. We will even thank you properly with cobbler!

It’s official: Facebook buys Gowalla

Dave Rupert — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:08:42 +0000

You’ve probably heard the news by now: Facebook has acquired Gowalla, and now it’s official. This news just a few days after it was reported that Gowalla was looking to sell. Soon members of the team, including CEO Josh Williams, will be relocated to join Facebook in-house at Palo Alto and Gowalla as a service will be winding down.

Without a doubt, Gowalla has been the flagship startup for Austin for the past few years. As a city, we’re sad to see it dismantle. It goes without saying that such a talent acquisition is a huge dent in the ATX web community. The Gowalla team have been very active in local meetups and training events. Individuals and the company presence will noticeably be missing from events in the future.

On a personal note: It’s no secret that over the past 2 years the ATX Web Show has been overly-supportive of Gowalla. If a Gowalla podcast ever existed, we were it. We had a great time endlessly reporting on Gowalla, interviewing them, and even working closely with the team to release our own Gowalla API app Goodfoot. We’re sad to hear about the loss of our city’s “coolest” startup, but mostly we’re just going to miss our friends and drinking buddies. We wish everyone the best and brightest future.

Episode 41: Brooklyn Beta

Dave Rupert — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 17:05:13 +0000

Happy to be celebrating 2 YEARS of the ATX Web Show! On this anniversary episode, we hear from Zach Meyer of Four Kitchens about Drupal Camp Austin 2011 and spend some time talking about a recent company trip to Brooklyn Beta – an inspirational conference that took place in New York.

Episode 40: HTML5 & Friends

Dave Rupert — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:59:36 +0000

On this week’s episode I sat down with Christopher Schmitt and Kyle Simpson, co-authors of the new HTML5 Cookbook from O’Reilly Publishing. We spend time digging into the book and exploring some of the innards of HTML5.

Episode 39: Pivot!

Dave Rupert — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 18:31:47 +0000

In this week’s episode we catch up with some in-house news and surprising pivots. We discuss: FitVids – a jQuery plugin for fluid width responsive video embeds, Trent’s article on “Unitasking” to GTD, Facebook poll results for Gowalla’s decision to ditch items, and the great Netflix+Qwikster pivot.

Episode 38: Stocking is the New Planking

Dave Rupert — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:04:11 +0000

Stocking, the act of replicating a stock photo and posting it to the internet, is gathering momentum in agencies across the world. We sit down with the Dennis Van Huffel and Jamie Graham, the folks behind the meme “Stocking is the New Planking” and gain insight into what it’s like to start a meme that ends up landing on sites like Gawker and becoming apart of the internet culture.

Online Accessibility and UX Web Summit

Christopher Schmitt — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:11:58 +0000

At the end of the month, there are two online conferences for Web designers:

- Sept. 27: Accessibility Summit, http://a11ysummit.com
- Sept. 28: UX Web Summit, http://uxwebsummit.com/

Both conferences are great ways to bring experts to your desktop without the travel hassle of regular conferences.

Also, with each ticket purchase you get free access to the recordings of the event if you can’t make it to the event.

Note: You can learn more about these Web Summits by listening to Episode 9 featuring Christopher Schmitt.