From mike at stok.ca Tue Oct 18 00:12:04 2011 From: mike at stok.ca (Mike Stok) Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:12:04 +0100 Subject: [tpm] Fwd: UG News: Learn from Experts - Mobile First, CouchDB for Mac & IOS, Better PowerPoint Presentations, Conducting a Technical Interview and more References: <1318878079.27592.0.859285@post.oreilly.com> Message-ID: <4AF6A8CA-961D-44CE-8008-C6428EF0C53F@stok.ca> View in browser. Forward this announcement to your user group or a friend. Meet experts online. Join us for these free, live webcasts. Attendance is limited, so register now. We'll send you a reminder before the webcast. And please feel free to forward this invitation to others. Mobile First Presented by Luke Wroblewski, author of Luke Wroblewski on Designing for Mobile First Tuesday, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:00 PT In this presentation, Luke Wroblewski will dig into the three key reasons to consider mobile first: mobile is seeing explosive growth; mobile forces you to focus; and mobile extends your capabilities. Sync & Swim with CouchDB For Mac & iOS Presented by Jens Alfke Thursday, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:00 PT This talk introduces CouchDB and Couchbase Mobile to Mac and iOS developers who are looking for a way to synchronize app data between mobile devices, desktop computers and the cloud. Create Better PowerPoint 2010 Presentations More Easily Presented by Stephanie Krieger, author of Documents, Presentations, and Workbooks: Using Microsoft Office to Create Content That Gets Noticed Friday, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:00 PT Best practices for creating PowerPoint presentations have changed dramatically over the past two versions. 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URL: From arocker at Vex.Net Sun Oct 30 10:02:57 2011 From: arocker at Vex.Net (arocker at Vex.Net) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 13:02:57 -0400 Subject: [tpm] October Meeting on Thu 27 Oct 2011 Message-ID: Thanks to Stuart for an interesting talk on how to deal with oceans of data, and (as usual), Global Knowledge for the accommodation. It was good to see some new faces. What can we plan for November's meeting? I'd be very interested in hearing about Perl's role in genomics. From mike at stok.ca Sun Oct 30 17:39:52 2011 From: mike at stok.ca (Mike Stok) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 20:39:52 -0400 Subject: [tpm] November meeting, December social... In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: That's a good question Alan - does anyone have any good subjects they think they'd like to talk about or hear about? If we could have a couple of speakers, maybe on different topics, that would help me rest easier. Any volunteers? On a related note, what would people like to do for the December social? Any ideas for a location? Mike On 2011-10-30, at 1:02 PM, arocker at Vex.Net wrote: > Thanks to Stuart for an interesting talk on how to deal with oceans of > data, and (as usual), Global Knowledge for the accommodation. > > It was good to see some new faces. > > What can we plan for November's meeting? I'd be very interested in hearing > about Perl's role in genomics. -- Mike Stok http://www.stok.ca/~mike/ The "`Stok' disclaimers" apply.