Next Meeting: Thursday, September 6th
Our next meeting will at 7:00 pm on Thursday, September 6th at the Creative Treehouse in Bellevue.
We currently have 3 presentation on tap for the evening:
Jason Head will start the evening by giving a review and a demo of Wufoo. Wufoo describes itself as “an Internet application that helps anybody build amazing online forms”. I recently found myself using Wufoo on the recommendation of a friend and I was extremely impressed. I’ll show you how easy it is to use not just for it’s form processing, but also for it’s amazing form-builder. I’ll even remember the power-cord for my laptop this time!
Next, Val Head will be giving a presentation on “Fun with Definition Lists”. She’s going to show you some valuable and neat CSS tricks to go along with this often-overlooked (x)html element.
Finally, Kevin German from the Pittsburgh-based company CastGrabber, LLC will be on-hand to show off their extremely cool product “CastGrabber“. CastGrabber is an internet-appliance that allows you to download Podcasts, anywhere in the world, directly to your iPod/MP3 player without the need for a PC. It’s a neat product that is being developed right here in Pittsburgh.
It’s shaping up to be an interesting meeting with a little something for everyone. Like last time, we should have a few give-aways, hot coffee and maybe even some soda if I remember to pick it up this time!
To get to the Creative Treehouse, please visit our directions page. It’s a very short drive. If anyone needs a ride or has some extra room in their car, please post on our message board to connect with some other folks.
If you will be attending, please RSVP to info@refreshpittsburgh.org by September 4th, so we have a good idea of how many attendees to expect.
I’m so glad to see that this organization is getting off the ground. I got involved early, but when things picked up again this summer, I was out of the state. I think that I should be able to make this meeting and meet all the new people.
I’ve got some ideas for some presentations based on my experience this summer working at Yahoo!, so perhaps you’ll hear me speaking sometime soon
It’s a little bit of a drive coming from CMU - so if anybody needs a ride, shoot me an email paul[at]zpao.com and we’ll (try to) make it happen.
It was a good meeting! I’m looking forward to playing with the forms and the definition lists. If you could post Val’s presentation and examples, that would be helpful.
I’m also looking forward to seeing more of CastGrabber. I have an Apple-formatted iPod so it seems it won’t work for me, but PC users could benefit nicely.
Thanks for the comments.
I’m planning on posting the meeting notes this weekend. It’s second on the list.. right after “fix the formatting of comments on the refresh blog”
I was happy that folks braved the heat to come out last night. It seems Refresh now has some momentum going and I hope to be able to grow on it…