http://vegasfoo.com Las Vegas Web Design, Develpment and User Experience Group Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:43:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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,” ... http://vegasfoo.com/2008/02/22/feburary-meetup-wifi-wednesday/ 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 ... http://vegasfoo.com/2007/12/29/january-meetup-the-downstairs-bar-at-viaggio/ This months meetup is Friday December 7th from 5:30 to 7:30 at Chandelier Mediterranean Hookah Lounge. View Larger Map http://vegasfoo.com/2007/12/05/december-meetup/ usability - Kelly Norton ======================== - 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 ... http://vegasfoo.com/2007/12/04/ajax-usability-notes-from-gwt-conference/ 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 http://vegasfoo.com/2007/12/03/ajax-resources/ 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 ... http://vegasfoo.com/2007/11/11/thanks-for-a-great-event/ 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 ... http://vegasfoo.com/2007/11/07/vegasfoo-n-blogworld-mixer-sponsored-by-zapposcom/ Join us at Claim Jumper on Green Valley Parkway from 6-8pm. Bring your FOO! http://vegasfoo.com/2007/10/23/october-meetup-tonight/ 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, ... http://vegasfoo.com/2007/10/15/howto-wordpress-101/ 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 http://vegasfoo.com/2007/10/04/what-is-social-network-portability/