DuBose Web Group Position
DuBose Web Group is looking for a highly organized, motivated, reliable, and creative Web developer to become a part of our team. This person will work directly with our Creative Director to develop new, exciting, and effective Web sites and to provide our existing customers with frequent, timely Web site updates and ongoing support.
The candidate must have a four-year degree in a relevant field or emphasis in Web Design/Development, Graphic/Media/Digital Design, Computer Science, etc., and must have updated experience and expert knowledge in both HTML and CSS.
Experience in the following areas is not required, but will be viewed as an asset in our hiring decision:
- Search Engine Optimization / Internet Marketing
- PHP / MySQL or other up-to-date database integration
- Experience with Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator
- Graphic Design
For more information and to apply,
please visit http://www.duboseweb.com/Apply
Voices That Matter 2010
New Riders’ Voices That Matter: Web Design Conference, now in its fourth consecutive year, will take place June 28-29 in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center. The conference brings together respected industry authors and thought-leaders of the Web design revolution like Robert Hoekman, Jr., Dan Cederholm, Steve Krug, and Emily Lewis, just to name a few.
They’re offering user group members $150 off the current price of the Core Conference or Core Conference and Seminar package when they register with Priority Code WDUSERG. You can save even more when this discount is combined with the Early Bird pricing, but you have to register by May 14th!
For conference registration info and the speaker schedule visit:
http://www.voicesthatmatter.com/webdesign2010/
USC Continuing Eduction
USC Announces Launch of new Professional Education Programs
Enhance and learn new job skills through USC’s continuing education offerings.
The University of South Carolina’s Office of Continuing Education and Conferences is expanding its programs to offer local residents the opportunity to advance their careers with affordable, applicable professional education and training options. To discover the latest professional programs offered by USC, visit discover.sc.edu.
…or read the rest of this USC press release at:
http://saeu.sc.edu/cec/announce.php?id=62
April 2010 Meetup
With allergy season well underway, the title of our first talk for this month’s meetup is more than appropriate. Hopefully the pollen count doesn’t keep you away though because our April meetup is sure to be a good one:
The Talks:
Talking germs, flying phlegm & other juvenile joys of illustration
Charles Akins – AkinsTudio.com
A brief look at the career of illustrator, Charles Akins.
Inside the GreyBox
Aaron Quinn (@aaronquinn) & Bob Galmarini (@bgalmar) – {e} house studio
Aaron and Bob are coming all the way from Charleston, SC to give an introduction to UI Greyboxing. They’ll explain the benefits and how it fits into your workflow from early problem solving to usability testing. This talk will be a followup to their popular blog post “Adding Grey Boxing To Our Web Workflow“.
Featured Book:
Thanks to the user group partnerships advertised in the sidebar, we’ll be giving away a free book each month. This month we’ll be giving away a copy of Before & After:How to Design Cool Stuff by John McWade. We’ll choose a random attendee from the sign-in sheet, so be sure to show up and sign-in for a chance to win.
When: April 28th, 2010 at 6pm
Where: USC Swearingen Faculty Lounge – 301 Main Street (map)
Topic: Illustration & Grayboxing
RSVP: On Facebook
POSSCON 2010 Workshops
We wanted to make sure everyone that has attended a Refresh Columbia meeting is aware of POSSCON 2010. This is a local conference with a great speaker lineup this year. One of the more interesting parts of POSSCON this year are the workshops. This will be on Saturday, April 17 and feature some subject matter that should prove to be pretty useful to us Refreshers like; WordPress, Drupal, GoogleDocs, Git/GitHub, Linux, Rails 3.0, Moodle, etc. I believe the lineup appeals to both the “more” and “less” technical among us :)
There is a flyer for this and here are some special details if you think you’d like to take them up on this:
- Must register by 11:59 p.m. this Friday, April 9 to qualify for the Apple iPad to be given away.
- After April 9 the cost to register increases.
- If anyone simply can’t pay the $39, Contact Todd Lewis at 803-240-1213 to register. They’ve set aside a fund pool to pay for anyone that can’t get the cost approved or can’t pay it out-of-pocket. They just don’t want anyone not attending because of money.
- They’ll feed you! All attendees will receive a morning break, lunch, and an afternoon break.
You can register here.
Web Development Quickstart With Rails – Wednesday, April 14th
Along with POSSCON comes POSSDEV which is a day of development talks from some of the open source community’s biggest names. There is an opportunity for a more technical and comprehensive training session on Rails as part of all this. POSSDEV has added a Rails Jumpstart class on Wednesday, April 14th. This course is offered as a complete kickstart into the Rails ecosystem. Within the first few minutes you will have a database driven web application, and shortly after, your site will be running in a live production environment.
Then, they’ll step back and look at the foundation for Rails, the pragmatic language, Ruby.
Advanced topics include Rails 3, testing, and alternative markup languages, haml and sass.
Find a course outline here and register here.
