Entries filed under 'Refresh-cambridge'

February Refresh: Productivity

Filed under Refresh-Cambridge on 7.02.08

Last night was the first Refresh Cambridge event of the new year, and an enjoyable couple of hours was spent discussing the topic of Productivity.

Here are some of the tools and sites that members recommended:

We also discussed Google Apps for managing company email, and bemoaned the lack of a solution to synchronise database alterations between development and live servers.

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Refresh Cambridge October: PHP Frameworks

Filed under Refresh-Cambridge, PHP on 8.10.07

Another month, another Refresh Cambridge evening, which this month was all about PHP frameworks.

I kicked off with an explanation of MVC and looked at the positive and negative aspects of the most popular frameworks, before diving into a lengthy demonstration of using CodeIgniter to build a simple ‘latest news’ page. My slides are on SlideShare if anyone’s interested, although obviously there’s no interactive demo available there!

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Refresh Cambridge 09/05 - Flex, Usability, and Drupal

Filed under Refresh-Cambridge on 6.09.07

Back for the new school year, another Refresh Cambridge session took place last night, again hosted by the nice people at Anglia Ruskin University.

Alan Cheung talked about his work with Adobe’s Flex framework, and demonstrated some of the impressive things you can do with it.

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Refresh Cambridge July - eCommerce and JavaScript User Experience

Filed under Refresh-Cambridge, Usability on 5.07.07

Last night saw another successful presentation evening at Refresh Cambridge. 15 attendees, many new, turned out to see sessions on user experience in the eCommerce sphere, and enhancing the user experience with JavaScript and jQuery.

eCommerce user experience

(Just what is the correct capitalisation of eCommerce? Wikipedia hyphenates it, but that just makes it feel old-fashioned, like the newspapers that hyphenate ‘e-mail’. Ho hum.)

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Refresh Cambridge 07/02 - accesskey, usable forms, Google Maps and dropdowns!

Filed under Refresh-Cambridge, Internet on 13.02.07

The Refresh Cambridge crew held another discussion-filled meeting last Wednesday, with four speakers covering topics spanning accessibility, usability and Google Maps.

Accesskeys

First up, GAWDS member Karl Dawson gave a short talk on the hows, whys and—more importantly—the ‘why nots’ of the humble accesskey attribute. While easy to implement, and therefore often employed as an accessibility “quick win”, accesskeys can cause all sorts of problems for users of various assistive technologies; they can also get in the way of typing foreign characters, especially if you follow the UK Government’s accesskey recommendations.

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Refreshing

Filed under Refresh-Cambridge on 16.11.06

Refresh Cambridge held their first non-pub meeting last night. In an IT suite kindly provided by Anglia Ruskin University, we heard from speakers on Flash, CSS file management, automated testing and project management, plus my own improvised Pecha Kucha presentation.

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Refresh Cambridge

Filed under Refresh-Cambridge on 25.07.06

Before we moved away from Peterborough, I had been entertaining the idea of contacting other local web types with a view to both social and business networking, but – as far as I could tell – nobody else in the city was remotely interested in web standards.

Fast-forward a few months and I’m in Cambridge – the heart of Silicon Fen and home to tens of thousands of students – and once more (and in part inspired by @media) I start thinking about a web standards community project… but this time it has a name.

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