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Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) Upcoming Events

7/30/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences
with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal of User Interface Engineering
Location: Hurricane Electric "The Matrix" Building
48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Registration URL: http://clientsidestory.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

8/28/2008 Thu 6:30-9:30pm
Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture
MC: David K. Cheng, Partner at Nixon Peabody LLP
Speakers:
Speaker, OpenSocial Evangelist at Google
Joe Shapiro, Founder at uShow
Registration URL: http://082808.eventbrite.com

9/24/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
UI 2.0: Bringing SEXY Back
Moderator:
Holly Liu, Director of User Experience and Co-Founder at Watercooler Inc.
Speakers:
Kevin Fox, User Experience Designer at FriendFeed
John Holland, Chief Experience Officer & Co-Founder at SearchMe
Bill Wetherell, Director of UI Design at AOL
Elaine Wherry, VP of Products at Meebo
Location: AOL Campus
Address: 401 Ellis Street, Mountain View CA
Registration URL: http://ui20.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

10/29/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket
Kevin Nilson Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Speakers:
John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
Alex Rusell, President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

11/8-9/2008 Sat/Sun
Silicon Valley Code Camp (SVCC)
Ruby Track
Hackathon 4 Kids
Location: Foothill College Campus

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7/16/2008 Wed 7-9pm
Unofficial Ruby Gathering
Night-time Story: Learning From Early Success of One Thousand and One Rails Applications
Speaker: Jason Hoffman, CTO at Joyent
Location: Google Campus, Mountain View
Registration URL: http://rubytwitter.eventbrite.com
FREE

Jason A. Hoffman,
Founder and CTO at Joyent
Jason A. Hoffman is a founder and the CTO of Joyent, an on-demand infrastructure and cloud computing company that serves billions of page views and traffics hundreds of millions of emails per month.

Joyent is dedicated to the singular mission that developers should be able to start at a small scale and flex to a global scale with minimal friction. Joyent is among the world’s largest OpenSolaris installations and while supporting all unix-based languages and data stores, Joyent’s products have included the first production support of Ruby on Rails, inclusion of the ZFS file system, and Joyent’s DTrace-enabled Ruby ships on MacOS X Leopard and soon on OpenSolaris.

Jason is a systems scientist with BS and MS degrees from UCLA, and a PhD from UCSD, and is an expert in scalable architectures. He has applied his knowledge and experience from the Web to Games to Computational Chemistry, Proteomics and Cancer biology.

Jason’s past and future talks:

“Scale with Rails: Real-life capacity and deployment planning”, Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, April 2006 (invited)
“Scale with Rails”, Scale with Rails New York Workshop, July 2006 (invited)
“Scale with Rails”, Scale with Rails Laguna Beach Workshop, August 2006 (invited)
“Rails: A System View”, RailsConf Europe, September 2006 (submission)
“Scale with Rails”, Scale with Rails Frankfurt Workshop, October 2006 (submission)
“ZFS, Containers and More”, Sun Solaris Kernel Technical Discussion, October 2006 (invited)
“Collaboration in Small Teams with the Joyent Connector”, Under the Radar: Why Office 2.0 Matters, March 2007 (invited)
“Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom-Up”, RailsConf US, May 2007 (submission)
“Ruby on Rails: To Scale or Not to Scale”, Geeksessions, May 2007 (invited)
“Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom-Up”, RailsConf Europe, September 2007 (submission)
“Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook Developer Garage Dallas, November 2007 (invited)
“Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook App Garage, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2008 (invited)
“Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook App Garage, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2008 (invited)
“Building Applications to Scale”, Opensocial Hackathon II, San Jose, CA, February 2008 (invited)
“Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook Developer Garage Austin, Austin, TX, March 2008 (invited)
“Scaling with DTrace”, dtrace.conf, March 2008
“DTrace and MySQL”, MySQL Conference & Expo, April 2008 (submission with Ben Rockwood)
“Cloud computing”, Structure 08 Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 2008 (invited)

7/30/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences
with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal of User Interface Engineering
Location: Hurricane Electric "The Matrix" Building
48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Registration URL: http://clientsidestory.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence

Browser-side development capabilities, such as Javascript, Ajax, and Rich-Internet Applications (RIAs), (along with the latest additions: Adobe's AIR and Microsoft's Silverlight,) presents developers with tremendous power. We can create more fluid interactions, moving away from the dreaded page refresh, giving users an experience more like the desktop applications they are used to.

As more sites move to using these capabilities, developers are exploring the canvas -- seeing what works and what doesn't. Through this exploration, we've discovered patterns and principals to help guide us to make better designs going forward.

In this presentation, Jared will talk about the different approaches developers have taken with these new capabilities. He'll discuss:

+ What smart clients bring us, such as enhanced progressive disclosure, visualization, and effeciency capabilities?

+ What we can learn from game design for creating immersive experiences?

+ What are the common traps developers fall into when they start playing with these technologies?

He'll show examples from Flickr, Google, Yahoo!, Netflix, Lands End, Gap, and LA Times, deconstructing their use of these new development capabilities to help us understand how we can apply them to our own designs.

Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal
User Interface Engineering

If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably the most effective, knowledgeable communicator on the subject today. What you probably don’t know is that he has guided the research agenda and built User Interface Engineering into the largest research organization of its kind in the world. He’s been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers. Jared spends his time working with the research teams at the company, helps clients understand how to solve their design problems, explains to reporters and industry analysts what the current state of design is all about, and is a top-rated speaker at more than 20 conferences every year. He is also the conference chair and keynote speaker at the annual User Interface Conference, is on the faculty of the Tufts University Gordon Institute, and manages to squeeze in a fair amount of writing time.

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8/28/08 Thu Celebration of Web 2.0

websig — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:42:47 CDT

Date/Time: 8/28/2008 Thu 6:30-9:30pm
Event: Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture
MC: David K. Cheng, Partner at Nixon Peabody LLP
Speakers:
Speaker, OpenSocial Evangelist at Google
Joe Shapiro, Founder at uShow

6:30pm Registration
7:00pm Announcement & Introduction
7:15pm Discussion Panel
8:45pm Networking
9:30pm Ending

Location: Palo Alto, CA
Address: TBD
Estimated: 300+

Joe Shapiro
Founder and CEO at uShow
Joe Shapiro is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Palo Alto, California-based personal-video sharing website uShow.com. Originally from Arizona, Shapiro attended The Wharton School of Business before moving to Silicon Valley, CA. He briefly worked as an investment banker in the Technology, Media, and Telecom sector for Lazard Freres and subsequently worked on a mobile video startup which evolved into uShow.
Shapiro has facilitated partnerships with companies including Ghost House Pictures affiliated with Mandate Pictures / Lionsgate Studios and has explored syndication deals of Hollywood content in China’s Mobile TV market with SARFT (State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television) and China Unicom. Shapiro currently resides in Palo Alto, CA.

David Cheng
Partner at Nixon Peabody LLP

Layout Guide

websig — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:24:30 CDT

The graphic safe area dimensions for printing layouts and for page layouts designed to use the maximum width of 800 x 600 screens are shown below:
Graphic "safe area" dimensions for layouts designed to print well:
Maximum width = 560 pixels
Maximum height = 410 pixels (visible without scrolling)
Graphic "safe area" dimensions for layouts designed for 800 x 600 screens:
Maximum width = 760 pixels
Maximum height = 410 pixels (visible without scrolling)

Screen size Maximized window Max available content area

3%	640×480	Always	618×310
17%	800×600	Always	778×430
60%	1024×768	Often	1004×598
18%	1200×1024 or more	Rarely	1259×853 or more
Total: 100%

Screen real-estate available for browser, based on findings by
Jakob Nielsen with added data by Justaddwater.

Optimize for 1004×598, which is currently the most widely used browser window size. Of course, the general guideline is to optimize for your target audience’s most common resolution, so the size will change in the future. It might even be a different size now, if, say, you’re designing an intranet for a company that gives all employees big monitors.
Do not design solely for a specific monitor size because screen sizes vary among users. Browser window size variability is even greater, since users don’t always maximize their browsers (especially if they have large screens).
Use a liquid layout that stretches to the current user’s browser window size (that is, avoid frozen layouts that are always the same size).
My modified version of Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox “Screen resolution and page layout“, July 31, 2006. My modifications: browser window size instead of screen size.

http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Usability/actual-browser-size-preliminary

http://www.baekdal.com/articles/Usability/browser-size-design/
optimal width of a block of text is between 65-80 characters (with a line-height of about 1.15). This is the optimal size of text, and it has been proven to be:

Easier to move from one line to the next
It is much faster to read in general
The brain use less mental effort (which increases understanding and learnability)

It has no relevance to discuss fixed vs. fluid layout. We know that the best way to present text is when there are 65-85 characters per line. You know that you cannot read the text if you make the text smaller than 11px (translates to a text box width of about 450px). With the report your layout width need to be less than 776px, if you want to reach 95% of your visitors - and that is your design constraint. You cannot make your text larger than 19px, because the text box needs to be larger than the available screen space.

http://www.baekdal.com/reports/actual-browser-sizes/abs-sizes/
If you want to design for 95% of your visitors you need design for no more than 776x424px (fixed layout) - or between 720x400px to 1408x912px (fluid layouts). You can also see the pixel "gab" when designing fluid layouts - at 95% it is a staggering 688px in width and 512px in height.

Sizes to design for

%	Fixed Layout	Fluid Layout	Fluid Gab
75%	1000x576	872x504 - 1256x808	384/304
80%	984x568	864x464 - 1264x848	400/384
85%	912x552	800x448 - 1328x864	528/416
90%	784x432	784x440 - 1344x872	560/432
95%	776x424	720x400 - 1408x912	688/512
100%	568x264	456x232 - 1672x1080	1216/848

http://www.humanfactors.com/downloads/feb03.asp

http://meyerweb.com/eric/articles/webrev/200006a.html
If you're concerned about older user agents that don't know about CSS2, then *.class (or *#id) is an easy way to fool them. Because either of these are examples of an invalid selector in CSS1, CSS1-only parsers should ignore them. For this reason, it might be a good idea to omit the universal selector in conjunction with class and ID selectors, at least for the time being.

The selector is denoted by an asterisk, and if you place the following line of code at the start of your CSS, you will remove the default browser margin and padding on every element, negating the need to include it in any element, except where you need to have something other than the default:

* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

9/24/08 UI 2.0 Bringing SEXY Back

websig — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:29:38 CDT

Date/Time: 9/24/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Event: UI 2.0 Bringing Sexy Back
Moderator: Holly Liu, Director of User Experience and Co-Founder at Watercooler Inc.
Speakers:
Kevin Fox, User Experience Designer at FriendFeed
John Holland, Chief Experience Officer & Co-Founder at SearchMe
Bill Wetherell, Director of UI Design at AOL
Elaine Wherry, VP of Products at Meebo
Location: AOL Campus, Mountain View
Address: 401 Ellis Street, Mountain View, CA
Registration URL: http://ui20.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Moderator
Holly Liu
Director of User Experience and Co-Founder at Watercooler Inc.

Speakers
John Holland, Chief Experience Officer & Co-Founder at SearchMe
John Holland is Co-Founder and Chief Experience Officer of Searchme, Inc., a visual search company initially funded by Sequoia Capital. John brings 20-plus years of consumer brand and technology marketing to the company. John previously owned a consulting company, Newstrategy, which provided online marketing strategies to Fortune 500 companies including Intuit, Gateway and The Walt Disney Company. John was also VP of Brand Marketing at CyberGold, Inc., and Director of Online Marketing Strategy, Worldwide at CKS. He was also a founding partner of MacPeople, a Macintosh staffing and productivity agency. John received a B.S. in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Elaine Wherry
VP of Products at Meebo
Elaine is a co-founder of meebo.com in Mountain View, California. She majored in Symbolic Systems at Stanford and upon graduating, joined Synaptics and led their Usability team for several years. In 2005, she started meebo with two friends from Stanford, Seth Sternberg and Elaine Wherry. Shortly thereafter, Nielsen/NetRatings named meebo the fastest-growing IM destination in the US – ahead of Google Talk and Skype Messenger. Investors include Sequoia Capital and Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Elaine plays the violin and migrated west to California after growing up on a goat farm.

Kevin Fox
User Experience Designer at FriendFeed
From 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader. He’s currently working at FriendFeed.

Bill Wetherell
Director of UI Design at AOL
Bill Wetherell leads the UED Team for AOL Mail. He's been working in user experience design for over 12 years and in past lives has led design teams at TechTV, the Walt Disney Internet Group, and Infoseek. And way before all that he studied film production and screenwriting at San Francisco State University.

UI Tools

websig — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:23:11 CDT

Share Desktop Images & Interaction Videos
http://www.jingproject.com/

Share comments on Images and screen captures
http://vyew.com/site/

Share comments on Images
http://www.conceptshare.com/

10/29/2008 The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket

websig — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:08:24 CDT

Date/Time: 10/29/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Event: The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket
Moderator & Presenter: Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Speakers:
John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
Alex Rusell, President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Timeline:
6:30 - 6:45 Introduce Comet, Introduce Panel Topic, Introduce Panel
Members (Kevin Nilson)
6:45 - 7:45 Panel Discussion (Full Panel)
7:45 - 8:00 Q/A (Full Panel, moderated by Kevin Nilson)
8:00 - 8:15 Break / Networking
8:15 - 9:00 Technical Comet Presentation: Overview of Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming, followed by Details Bayuex using Cometd (Kevin Nilson)

The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket will be an exciting event coving Comet, HTML 5, the latest, and future enhancements to the web. AJAX became popular because it allows a browser to request additional information from the server. One major limitation of AJAX is that the browser must initiate the request for data from the server. Comet solves this problem by allowing the server to push data to the browser at any time. This event will start with a general introduction to Comet, followed by an in depth panel discussion moderated by Kevin Nilson with panelist: John Fallows, Alex Russell, and.. . After the panel Kevin Nilson will give a Technical Comet Presentation which outlines: Overview of Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming, followed by Details Bayuex using Cometd.

John Fallows
CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
John Fallows is a pioneer in the field of rich and highly interactive user interfaces and co-founder of Kaazing. Originally from Northern Ireland, he graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for more than 10 years. Before founding Kaazing, John was a consulting member of the technical staff for server technologies at Oracle. During his last five years at Oracle, he focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate AJAX technologies. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress). In his role as chief technology officer, John formulates Kaazing's vision of creating the best real-time Web framework based on the Java standard. He defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees its development.

Alex Russell
President of the Dojo Foundation
Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Director of R&D at SitePen

Kevin Nilson
Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Kevin Nilson is currently a Principal Software Architect for E*Trade Financial in Menlo Park, CA. He is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG <https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net/>. He is also the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group <http://sv-gtug.org/>.
Prior to E*Trade Financial, Kevin had extensive industry software engineering and consulting experience with companies such as: Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, AT&T Corporation, etc. He also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo.
Kevin received a Bachelors degree in Computer Science with a Minor in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer.
You can learn more about Kevin on his website JavaClimber.com <http://www.javaclimber.com/>.

Our Team

websig — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:04:30 CDT

Bess Ho: Founder & Chairman
Benny Ng: Facility Chair

Alex Amaya: Video Chair
Issac Trotts: Web Operations Chair

Newton Chan: Technical Evangelist
Clive Boulton: Technical Evangelist
Abdulkarriem Khan: Technical Evangelist
Albert Liu: Technical Evangelist
Ariel Jakobovits:Technical Evangelist

Event Calendar

websig — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:03:52 CDT

1/30/2008 Wed 5:00-10:30pm Google Campus, Mountain View CA	OpenSocial Hackathon: Episode I Codelab Getting Started	Developer Platform Engineers at Google Lou Moore Director of Engineering at hi5 Networks
2/23/2008 Sat 1:00-6:00pm University of Phoenix Campus, San Jose CA	OpenSocial Hackathon: Episode II Codelab Application & Server Optimization	Lou Moore Director of Engineering at hi5 Networks Jason Hoffman CTO at Joyent
2/12/2008 Tue 7-8:30pm DLA, Palo Alto CA	Psychology of creating Facebook apps Joint meeting with Facebook & OpenSocial App Development Meetup	Blake Commagere Facebook Developer of Vampire and Zombies
2/28/2008 Thu 5:45-9:00pm Sun Microsystems Santa Clara Campus auditorium	Joint Meeting with Sun Java Groups Host JUGs: Silicon Valley Web Users Group and Silicon Valley JUG JUG Leaders: Mike Van Riper, Kevin Nilson, and Venki Sheshaadri.	James Goslin Vice President and Sun Fellow Father of Java & Inventor of EMACS
3/26/2008 Wed 7:00pm-12:00am Hurriance Electric, Milptias CA	OpenSocial Hackathon: Episode III Western Region Co-host with Utah Social Media Group (aka Facebook Developer Garage - Salt Lake City) Building	Ted Haeger Director, Developer Relations at Bungee Labs
4/19/2008 Sat 4:00-6:00pm Tech Museum San Jose CA	Romancing Ruby with Web Builders & Software Developers Joint Event with SD Forum Demo Party	FREE Admission with approval SVWB Members Only
4/18-19 Fri & Sat The Tech Museum 201 South Market St. San Jose, CA 95113	The Third Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference: Using Ruby and Rails for Innovation and Creativity Two Day Conference Friday April18 8:30AM - 5:45PM Saturday April19 10:00AM - 6:00PM	Price: $50 Platinum Pass $219 SDForum Members $269 Non-members
5/28/2008 Wed	Facebook Developer Toolkit: C#, .NET & ASP using Visual Studio 2008 Express and SQL Server 2008 Express Hand-on session for developers	Kevin Marshall Director of Product Management at Clarity Consulting
6/28/2008 Sat 1:00pm-10:00pm TIPS Group Palo Alto, CA	iPhone Startup Camp	Details at http://www.barcamp.org/iphonestartupcamp
7/30/2008 Wed 7:00pm-9:00pm Hurriance Electric, Milptias CA	Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence	Jared M. Spool Founding Principal of User Interface Engineering
8/28/2008 Thu	Celebration of Web 2.0 Trends & Culture
9/24/2008 Wed 6:30pm-9:00pm AOL Campus 401 Ellis Street, Mountain View CA	UI 2.0: Bringing SEXY Back	Moderator: Holly Liu Director of User Experience and Co-Founder at Watercooler Inc. Speakers: Kevin Fox User Experience Designer at FriendFeed John Holland Chief Experience Officer & Co-Founder at SearchMe Bill Wetherell Director of UI Design at AOL Elaine Wherry VP of Products at Meebo
10/29/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm	Discussion Panel: The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket Comet Workshop: (Computer Lab) by Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial	Moderator & Presenter Kevin Nilson Principal Software Architect at ETrade Financial Speakers John Fallows CTO and co-founder at Kaazing Alex Rusell* President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
11/8&9 Sat & Sun	Silicon Valley Code Camp	Foothill College
Dec	Holiday

Past Events

Dec 2007	Holiday
Nov11-12 Sat & Sun	A Night At Matrix User Experience Barcamp	Nov11 Sat 6pm-10pm Track One Facebook Developer Garage Track Two User Experience Nov12 Sun 1pm-5pm Track One User Experience Contest Submission 2pm Judging 3pm
10/31/2007 Wed	Amazon's Workshop: Launching & running startups on Amazon's Web Services	Jinesh Varia Evangelist at Amazon
9/26/2007 Wed	Wiki of Beauty & The Beast: Usability & Functionality	Moderator: Luke Wroblewski Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. & Author of “Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability” Speakers: Simon Gershey Director of Technology at Wetpaint Ryan Lukehart Director of Sales and Marketing at BrainKeeper Raju Vegesna Zoho Evangelist at Zoho Joshua Wold Global Pre-Sales Team Manager at Atlassian Software Systems
8/29/2007 Wed	Delicious 2.0: Building Candy-like App with Adobe AIR in HTML/AJAX OR Flex	Mike Downey Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe
7/25/2007 Wed	Web Story: Video Mashup 2.0	John Schuman Senior Worldwide Evangelist at Adobe Karl Soule Senior Worldwide Evangelist at Adobe
6/27/2007 Wed	User Behavior Over The Rainbow: Utilization of Heatmap Technology in Web Analytics	Adobe CS3 Photoshop & Illustrator Workshop Terry White Technical Resources Manager at Adobe (NY) Speakers Dr. Tal Schwartz Co-Founder & CEO at ClickTale (Israel) Hiten Shah Founder & CEO at CrazyEgg (LA)
5/30/2007 Wed	Searching For The Next PussyCat Engine: Meow! Too Sexy For My UI	Moderator & Presenter: Bryan Zmijewski Chief Instigator at LuckyOliver & Lecturer at Stanford University Speakers: Hongche Liu Chief Information Architect at Spock Networks Ash Damle CEO at MEDgle Peter Weck CTO at SimplyHired Burak Gokturk CTO at Riya
4/25/2007 Wed	Building Dreams Without Borders Technology that runs across browsers and OS	Mauricio Longo Technology Evangelist at Morfik (Australia) MAX CARLSON Co-Founder & Lead Runtime Architect at OpenLaszlo
3/28/2007	Web Trek - Exploring 4 Known Dimensions Web Trek: Exploring Space How to Integrate Where 2.0 Technology in Web Space 7:30pm-8:30pm Web Trek: Exploring Time How to Integrate Time into Web Space 8:30pm-9:00pm	Kent Brewster Technology Evangelist at Yahoo! Developer Network Ethan Stock CEO & Co-founder at Zvents Mike Geary Senior Engineer at Zvents
2/28/2007 Presentation Video Hosted by Yahoo! Developer Center YUI Theater http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/	Browser Wars - Episode II Attacks of The DOMs 6:00pm Registration/Networking Exhibits/Complimentary Refreshments 7:00pm Session I - Technical Presentations Chris Wilson - IE Mike Shaver - FireFox Håkon Wium Lie - Opera 7:30pm Session II - Browser Wars Discussion 9:00pm Q&A/Giveaways	Speakers Chris Wilson Architect of IE Platform at Microsoft (Seattle) Håkon Wium Lie CTO at Opera & Founder of CSS (Norway) Mike Shaver Director of Ecosystem Development at Mozilla Corporation (Canada) Moderator Douglas Crockford Architect at Yahoo! Founder of JSON MC Lou Gervais Founder of Silicon Valley WebGuild & Silicon Valley WebGuild Technical Development SIG (Outside Bay Area)
1/31/2007	Back To The Future - Beyond Web 2.0 7:30pm-9:00pm	Speakers Harry McCracken Chief Editor In Chief at PC World Sean Ness Co-Founder at Stirr.net & Business Development Manager at Institute for the Future Dmitriy Kruglyak CEO & Community Steward at Trusted.MD Network Moderator Jeremiah Owyang Web Strategist & Director of Corporate Media Strategy at PodTech.net
Dec	Holiday
11/29/2006	Web 2.0 Design Trend & Tool Bonus Session: Deployment of Flex 2	James Ward Technical Evangelist at Adobe.com
10/28/2006	Wiki Technology & Trend: Past, Now and Future	Speakers Ben Elowitz CEO at Wetpaint.com (Seattle) Jon Silvers Director of Online Marketing at Atlassian Software Systems Dr. Jonas M Luster Community Manager and Open Source Team Lead at SocialText.com Scott Johnston VP of Products at Jotspot.com/Google.com Moderator Peter Thoeny Founder at twiki.org & structuredwikis LLC

7/30/2008 Client-Side Story

websig — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:47:19 CDT

7/30/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences
with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence
Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal of User Interface Engineering
Location: Hurricane Electric "The Matrix" Building
48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Registration URL: http://clientsidestory.eventbrite.com FREE if register online

Client Side Story: Enhancing Experiences with Ajax, RIAs, and Browser-side Intelligence

In this presentation, Jared will talk about the different approaches developers have taken with these new capabilities. He'll discuss:

+ What smart clients bring us, such as enhanced progressive disclosure, visualization, and effeciency capabilities?

+ What we can learn from game design for creating immersive experiences?

+ What are the common traps developers fall into when they start playing with these technologies?

Jared M. Spool, Founding Principal
User Interface Engineering

7/16/2008 One Thousand and one Rails App

websig — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:11:20 CDT

7/16/2008 Wed 7-9pm
Unofficial Ruby Gathering
Night-time Story: Learning From Early Success of One Thousand and One Rails Applications
Speaker: Jason Hoffman, CTO at Joyent
Location: Google Campus
Address: Paramaribo Tech Talk Room Building 42, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043
Registration URL: http://rubytwitter.eventbrite.com
FREE

Jason A. Hoffman is a founder and the CTO of Joyent, an on-demand infrastructure and cloud computing company that serves billions of page views and traffics hundreds of millions of emails per month.

Joyent is dedicated to the singular mission that developers should be able to start at a small scale and flex to a global scale with minimal friction. Joyent is among the world’s largest OpenSolaris installations and while supporting all unix-based languages and data stores, Joyent’s products have included the first production support of Ruby on Rails, inclusion of the ZFS file system, and Joyent’s DTrace-enabled Ruby ships on MacOS X Leopard and soon on OpenSolaris.

Jason is a systems scientist with BS and MS degrees from UCLA, and a PhD from UCSD, and is an expert in scalable architectures. He has applied his knowledge and experience from the Web to Games to Computational Chemistry, Proteomics and Cancer biology.

Jason’s past and future talks:

“Scale with Rails: Real-life capacity and deployment planning”, Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, April 2006 (invited)
“Scale with Rails”, Scale with Rails New York Workshop, July 2006 (invited)
“Scale with Rails”, Scale with Rails Laguna Beach Workshop, August 2006 (invited)
“Rails: A System View”, RailsConf Europe, September 2006 (submission)
“Scale with Rails”, Scale with Rails Frankfurt Workshop, October 2006 (submission)
“ZFS, Containers and More”, Sun Solaris Kernel Technical Discussion, October 2006 (invited)
“Collaboration in Small Teams with the Joyent Connector”, Under the Radar: Why Office 2.0 Matters, March 2007 (invited)
“Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom-Up”, RailsConf US, May 2007 (submission)
“Ruby on Rails: To Scale or Not to Scale”, Geeksessions, May 2007 (invited)
“Scaling a Rails Application from the Bottom-Up”, RailsConf Europe, September 2007 (submission)
“Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook Developer Garage Dallas, November 2007 (invited)
“Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook App Garage, Johannesburg, South Africa, January 2008 (invited)
“Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook App Garage, Cape Town, South Africa, January 2008 (invited)
“Building Applications to Scale”, Opensocial Hackathon II, San Jose, CA, February 2008 (invited)
“Scaling Facebook Applications”, Facebook Developer Garage Austin, Austin, TX, March 2008 (invited)
“Scaling with DTrace”, dtrace.conf, March 2008
“DTrace and MySQL”, MySQL Conference & Expo, April 2008 (submission with Ben Rockwood)
“Cloud computing”, Structure 08 Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 2008 (invited)

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6/28/2008 iPhone Startup Camp

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Date & Time: 6/28 Sat 1pm-10pm
Location: TIPS Group
Address: 1000 Elwell Court, Suite 150, Palo Alto, CA 94303
Registration URL: http://iphonestartupcamp.eventbrite.com

Hacking Sessions

Time	Area I	Area II
1:00pm-8:00pm	FREE STYLE	Silicon Valley iPhone Orchestra

Time	Speaker	Topic
1:00pm	Jay Freeman, iPhone Hacker	Workshop - iPhone Objective-C I
2:00pm	Jay Freeman, iPhone Hacker	Workshop - iPhone Objective-C II
3:00pm	Tim Burks, iPhone Meetup Leader	TBD
4:00pm	Jay Freeman, iPhone Hacker	Workshop - iPhone Java Development
5:00pm	Jay Freeman, iPhone Hacker	Workshop - iPhone Python/Misc

Barcamp Style Time	Speaker	Topic
TBD	Al Nevarez, Developer at iMovieMash.com	Demo your iPhone applications. Share development tips and tricks. Brief IUI javascript/css overview
TBD	Alex Amaya, VMware and Virtualization Solutions at HP	Virtual Machine Optimization Cost Saving to Startups
TBD	Issac Trotts, Engineer at Google	Running code Within iPhone
TBD	Philippe Furlan , SearchQuest, Inc	location-based platform to publish web-based application
TBD	Abdulkarriem Khan, Universal Football	Future of Mobile Monetization - How do you get your app on all platforms without it being installed http://thebirthofwebd3.blogspot.com
TBD	Bess Ho, iPhone Developer	SproutCore - Javascript Framework - Flash-LESS, FLEX-LESS Web App on Safari World

Time	Speaker	Topic
1:00pm	Basil Fthenakis, Corporate Partner, TIPS Group	Founder Term Sheets
2:00pm	Glenn Von Tersch, Patent Partner, TIPS Group	Patent Your iPhone Ideas
2:45pm	Dave Izuka, consultant for start-up management teams	iPhone Startup 101
3:20pm	John Ricci, Founder and President at US Angel Investors & Founder and President at Bay Area Startup Network	iPhone Startup Funding
4:00pm	Michael Carter, Kaazing	Impact of the Reverse AJAX (Comet), TCP Connection and HTML5 to the architecture of the Web ** Don't Miss
5:00pm	Wayne Pan, AdMob	Capture iPhone Revenue - Mobile Advertising Platform
6:00pm	Keith Saft, Director of Mobile User Experience Design @ Yahoo!	iphone
7:00pm
8:00pm	Independent Content Creators including Grammy & Golden Globe Nominated Artist Martin Luther http://rebelsoulmusic.com/ check out his video to his smash single "Daily Bread" featuring The Roots & Nona Gayehttp://youtube.com/watch?v=yxHO5J0dcDU ; Tajai Massey (Label owner & Member of Heiroglyphics) & their experiences with Integrating web & Mobile Monetization.	Future of Mobile Monetization & Hosting a Panel

Sponsors:
TIPS
Food will be provided by TIPS - cold cuts, rolls for sandwiches, fruit, and vegetables trays along with fresh coffee, tea and assorted beverages
O'Reilly
iPhone Developer Books

5/28/2008 Facebook Developer Toolkit

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Raffle Prizes Sponsored by
Books from Wiley, Dummies, Apress, O'Reilly
T-Shirts from Apress & O'Reilly
5 Microsoft Software License(s)

Inside: Facebook Developer Kit

Speaker: Jesse Stay, Book Author of O'Reilly FBML Essential
Date/Time: 5/28/08 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Location: Hurricane Electric Building "The Matrix"
Address: 48233 Warm Springs Blvd, Fremont CA 94539
RSVP: http://facebookdeveloperkit.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online; $10 donation at door

Jesse Stay
CEO, Founder, Consultant: Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC
Author: O'Reilly's FBML Essentials http://www.amazon.com/FBML-Essentials-Jesse-Stay/dp/0596519184/
Co-Author: I'm on Facebook -- Now What??? http://www.amazon.com/Im-Facebook-Now-What-Personal-Professional/dp/1600050956/
Blogger:
http://StayNAlive.com
http://OpensocialNow.com
http://FacebookAdvice.com

"Jesse Stay is CEO and Founder of Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC, a Social Applications Consulting and Development company. Jesse has authored and co-authored 2 books, "FBML Essentials", an O'Reilly-published book that focuses on teaching developers how to write FBML Applications for Facebook. He also co-authored the book, "I'm on Facebook--Now What???" with Jason Alba, CEO of JibberJobber.com to help people understand the usefulness of Facebook. Jesse runs 3 blogs, the most popular being StayNAlive.com, which targets Business and Development audiences, lately focusing on Social Applications Development and News. Stay N' Alive has recently been featured on sites such as TechCrunch, How To Change the World by Guy Kawasaki, and CNet's Webware. Jesse also writes for FacebookAdvice.com, OpensocialNow.com, and guest-posts on InsideFacebook.com (posts-forthcoming).

Jesse developed and owns SocialToo.com, a site geared towards providing tools for the Social web (the most popular being the Twitter auto-follow script), and is currently working on a state-of-the art website for businesses in the Social Enterprise."

Kevin Marshall
Director of Product Management at Clarity Consulting in Chicago
Kevin Marshall is the Director of Product Management at Clarity Consulting in Chicago. He currently develops prototypes and proof of concepts for client projects across a variety of industries including financial services, retail and telecom. He has several years of experience as a software developer and consultant specializing in designing and implementing custom enterprise applications. His technology experience is varied from rich internet applications to database design to smart client applications. He enjoys using the latest alpha development tools and ranting on his blog. Kevin is a regular contributor to Microsoft’s Coding4Fun and organizes developer community events like SilverlightDevCamp, MOSSCamp and the Chicago .NET User Group.

4/19/08 Sat SDForum Joint Event

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4/19/08 Sat 9pm until we can't eat any more Gelato
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Joint Reception with SD Forum & Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB)
Sponsored by Sun Microsystems

Event: Romancing the Ruby with Web Builders and Software Developers
Date & Time: 4/19/2008 Sat 4-6pm
Location: Tech Museum
Address: 201 South Market St. San Jose, CA 95113

FREE ADMISSION SVWB Members Only
No Walk-in

Event: Third Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference
Dates: Friday, April 18 (8:30AM – 5:30PM)
Saturday, April 19 (8:30AM - 6:00PM)
Location: Tech Museum in San Jose, Calif.

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Tim Bray, Sun
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Blaine Cook, Twitter
Joel Dudley, Stanford
Qik.com
Tom Mornini, Engine Yard
Pete Armstrong, Ruboss Technology Corporation
ELC
Jason Hoffman, Joyent
Alex Le, Friends for Sale
James Lindenbaum, Heroku
Adam Wiggins, Heroku
Parker Thompson, Pivotal Labs

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