Event sponsored by WordCamp Miami http://2012.miami.wordcamp.org/
SuperConf http://superconf.net/

Cost: FREE
When: Thursday, January 26
Time: 7:30PM – 9:30PM
Where: University of Miami – Coral Gables Campus
Learning Center #130
5100 Brunson Drive,
Coral Gables, FL
Diagram of where it is on campus.

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A look at the state of PHP in 2011 and how it fits into the current technology stack followed by an overview of what you should and shouldn’t be doing along with a summary of new and upcoming features in PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4. This will be a 90 minute talk with an extensive Q&A session will follow.

ABOUT PRESENTER

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995 and has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. He spent 7 years at Yahoo and has since worked for and consulted with various startups. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. You can follow Rasmus on Twitter or find him on Google+.

Location:
University of Miami
CIB 3053 (School of Communications)
5100 Brunson Drive
Coral Gables, FL
7:00PM-9:30PM

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Sponsored by
Servergrove

The playwright Irish pub and restaurant (Village of Gulfstream Park facility)
501 S Federal Hwy STE 2597
Hallandale Beach, Florida

Thursday, October 20 · 7:00pm – 10:30pm

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We are teaming up with the South Florida WordPress Group for our August event. It will be held on September 8, 2011 at 7:30PM at UM Launchpad in downtown Miami.

Hot off the heals of the annual WordCamp conference in San Francsico, we’ll be covering our usual technical topic plus sharing what’s coming up in the next version of WordPress. Plus, if you have a WordPress site that you built recently and want to share, let @dimensionmedia know and you can show off your site to the group (be prepared to explain how you used WordPress).

Speaker #1: Rick Tuttle (Topic: Custom Post Types)

Speaker #2: David Bisset (General topic, sharing latest WordPress/BuddyPress sites) *

The Launch Pad at Terremark
50 NE 9th ST
Miami, FL

Google Maps http://j.mp/rtrDBV

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This month’s topic will be:
“Building and Scaling (really) Large WordPress Sites in the Cloud” by Jose Gonzalez of the Z Company. Learn from their experience building out WordPress sites for Yahoo! and others.
Learn more about Jose at http://thezcompany.com/

“ChatChow.tv Introduction”
Giovanny Gutierrez will be demoing his new site ChatChow.tv, exploring the things he has learned, progress they have made, and his vision for ChatChow.
Learn more about Giovanny at http://chatchow.tv/

This month’s food and drinks are provided by TeckPert http://www.teckpert.com/
and Refresh Workshops http://refreshsfl-css3.eventbrite.com/

May 26 2011
7:30-9:30PM
MiamiShared.com
990 Biscayne Blvd – OFFICE 501
Miami, FL

Directions can be found here. http://www.miamishared.com/driving.html

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Startup Weekend is BACK! May 20-22
Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets – primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people – to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.

This event is hosted by our friends at the LaunchPad at UM.

Use coupon code REFRESH to save $20
http://miami.startupweekend.org/

Refresh Workshop! CSS3 Now! with Denise Jacobs June 11
This hands-on workshop answers the question “Can I use CSS3 Now?” with an emphatic “Yes You Can!” CSS3 isn’t the future, it’s the present, and is ripe for the pickin’ and is ready to respond to display your sites in multiple devices right now. Yes, there will be a little code bloat. Yes, you have to institute fall-backs for older browsers. But don’t let the naysayers dissuade you: the pros far outweigh the cons.

This workshop will touch upon the gamut of CSS3 properties from colors, web fonts, and visual effects, to transitions, animations and media queries. If you aren’t yet using CSS3, this workshop will give you the inspiration and resources to go forth and implement the new properties with confidence.
This course is perfect for people who are already familiar with front-end development of websites with CSS and want to add to their skillset.

Join the ranks of the people pushing for change and start using the new CSS3 properties and attributes for true website styling power. You can believe the propaganda: CSS3 rocks! Join the revolution and start using CSS3 now!

What you’ll learn in the workshop:
- Most of the CSS3 selectors, properties and values
- How and where to employ CSS3 selectors, properties and values
- Use of the new, powerful CSS3 selectors that better target page elements
- Application of various CSS3 properties such as border-radius, @font-face, transform and transition, gradient, box- and text-shadow, opacity and rbga, etc.to achieve contemporary web design look-and-feels
- Use of transitions and animations to enhance interactivity and user-experience
- CSS3 cross-browser and graceful degradation coding techniques
- Concepts and approach to incorporating responsive design for viewing sites on multiple devices
- Great tools for generating CSS3 code and helper scripts for cross-browser compatibility

Prerequisites:
- Knowledge of and experience with HTML and CSS syntax and characteristics
- Knowledge of coding using web standards (separation of content and presentation)
- You must bring a laptop capable of connecting to wifi internet.
- Installations of the latest versions of Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, IE9 and IE8 on their computers
- Preferred HTML and CSS editor. Instructor will be using a simple text editor.

Signup before May 31 and get early bird pricing only $75!
http://refreshsfl-css3.eventbrite.com/

This upcoming meeting we will be discussing the tools, techniques, and methodologies used in web application attacks.

We will go over commonly overlooked vulnerabilities that can lead to a breaches, defacements, and denial of service attacks. We will also examine the tools used in their exploitation, as well as strategies for mitigation.

Speaker Bios:

Alexander Heid – is a local security researcher and board member of Hackmiami and co-chair of South Florida OWASP. Heid is also employed within the financial industry as a web application vulnerability analyst.

Fabian Rothschild – is a local security researcher and member of HackMiami. Rothschild is a security consultant and has presented at multiple national conferences on the topic of web application security concepts.

Http://hackmiami.com/

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If you’ve ever been confused by the mood swings of your wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, daughter, friend or some other women in your life, then you need The Daily Cramp. Sign up today, master her cycle and get VIP access to a better, happier life.

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Parking will be by $5 Valet.
This event will be BYOB, so please bring something to share. We will be providing pizzas and sodas, but if you’d like something sudsy, feel free to bring it.

Event Details:
April 21, 2011 7:30 pm
Miami Shared 990 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL, United States
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Sean Kramer is a South Florida native and visionary entrepreneur launching Cupidratings in February, 2011. A current Executive MBA student at the University of Miami, Sean attended Florida International University and has spent his career in the service of others working at the American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society.

Sumontro Sinha founded Sinha Astronautics in 2009. He is involved in every aspect of Sinha Astronautics including engineering, supplier relationships, talent recruitment, marketing and scouting prospective customers. Mr. Sinha began his aerospace engineering career at the age of eight. He grew up designing and flying his own model rocket and aircraft designs, leading to two patents and taking him to the 2005 International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona, and the 2008 Team America Rocket Challenge in Manassas, Virginia. In 2004, after watching the X-Prize winning flight of Space Ship One, Mr. Sinha decided to create an economical way of reaching orbit culminating in the design of the Prometheus rocket. Mr. Sinha is currently an aerospace engineering undergraduate student at the University of Miami College of Engineering.

When:
Thursday February 24, 7:30PM
Where:
University of Miami (exact location to be determined)
1210 Stanford Drive
Coral Gables, FL

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Food before and drinking afterwards close by…the usual routine.

And remember, Refresh Lauderdale is, and always will be, free.

Time: Thursday, February 3 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm
At: AutoNation
200 SW 1st Ave Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fort Lauderdale, FL

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Dan Rubin! Globetrotting Speaker? Author? Usability Design Expert? Photographer? Musician? All of the above.

Denise Jacobs! Web Standards Diva, Rocks CSS, Author, Accomplished Speaker, Makes Us Smile…A Lot

Patrick Haney! Boston-Based Designer, Standards Advocate, Speaker Extraordinaire, and oh yeah, Refresh Boston Organizer

We are hoping to start presentations at 7:45 instead of 8 so that we have plenty of time. Don’t be late.

Planning on having pizza and drinks beforehand…and as always, a few drinks afterwards close by

Thursday December 02 – 7:30PM
AutoNation
200 SW 1st Ave
Fort Lauderdale, FL

You can park in the building and it will be validated for you.

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