Author Archives: Gerard Ramos

Feburary Meetup - WiFi Wednesday

RSVP now for the inaugural edition of NCET’s Wi-Fi Wednesday on February 27 at the Downtown Cocktail Room, one of Las Vegas’ hottest “Hot Spots.”
NCET, TBAN and VegasFoo are joining forces to bring the wildly popular Wi-Fi Wednesdays to Las Vegas. Each Wi-Fi Wednesday features:
- The very popular “Speed networking,” a twist on the “speed […]

January Meetup - The Downstairs Bar at Viaggio

This month we are joing the User Experience group! From the meetup page: http://gui.meetup.com/43/calendar/6833975/
When
Friday, January 11, 2008 at 6:30 PM
Where
The Downstairs Bar at Viaggio
11261 S. Eastern Ave Suite 200
Henderson , NV 89052
How to find the organizer(s)
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December Meetup

This months meetup is Friday December 7th from 5:30 to 7:30 at Chandelier Mediterranean Hookah Lounge.
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ajax usability notes from GWT conference

usability - Kelly Norton
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- goal is great product / happy users
- unachievable without good usability
- great product / happy users = maximizing user experience
- do task analysis up front
- design, implement, test, design, implement, test …
task analysis
- what does a user need to be done?
- need dictates design, not system elegance
- what does the user […]

AJAX Resources

Javascript Bootcamp and AJAX - The Big Picture slides from a couple of today’s discussions at the GWT conference http://nitobi.com/gwt/ .. the big picture discussion should be online soon …
additional ajax resources:

enterpriseajax.com
billwscott.com
designinginterfaces.com
ajaxpatterns.org
ui-patterns.com
MS Windows UE Guidelines
Yahoo! Pattern Library

Thanks For a Great Event!

Thanks to all who joined us and zappos.com for the sponsorship of the event at downtown cocktail room last night!! Keep an eye out for the announcement of next month’s event which will be in conjunction with PubCon.
I had a blast at Downtown .. rapped about mybloglog with Robyn, real estate and seo […]

VegasFoo n Blogworld Mixer Sponsored By Zappos.com

Join us at Downtown Cocktail Room (some call it lounge) Friday November 9th from 5:30 to 7:30 downtown near the corner of Las Vegas Blvd and freemont street. The first 200 people that show up get free drinks and food!
Stop by booth 233 at the Blogworld and New Media Expo to pick up an invitation.
VegasFoo […]

October Meetup Tonight!

Join us at Claim Jumper on Green Valley Parkway from 6-8pm. Bring your FOO!

HowTo: Wordpress 101

Wordpress is my favorite platform for blogging and can act as a very powerful CMS for a website. There is no need to build a “static” html site when you can have the dynamic features of wordpress for FREE. Its not a solution for every website out there, but for a blogging platform […]

What is Social Network Portability?

Tantek ÇeliK just published a presentation titled Fundamentos Web 2007: Social Network Portability
Here are a couple videos I shot at barcamp up in SF a couple months ago:
Part 1

Part 2

For further reading checkout these resources:

Microformats Wiki
XFN Home Page
Brian Oberkirch’s series of posts on portable social networks