February 2010 ~ Boston WebsiteSpark Group

Boston WebsiteSpark Group Turns 1

2010 was a long year, but for the Boston WebsiteSpark Group is was a fast one with a couple of bumps. But we had some amazing sessions and grew from one to over 400 members.

The 411 on Windows 7 Phone

Back again Jim O’Neil gave a great presentation on Windows 7 phone with an overview and the dove into design for and developing for the exciting new mobile phone platform.

Designing Search Engine Friendly Websites

Greg Hill from Excellira gave a great presentation on real world SEO and was followed by Jim O’Neil’s intro to WebMatrix beta and its great SEO tool kit features.

How to design an app without writing a single line of code

Michael Bourque gave a full and entertaining presentation on creating applications and site from concept to wireframes to finished code using Balsamiq Mockup and Napkin with writing any code.

7 Secrets to Business Success

Stuart Goldman, CPA, was our first Speaker during the February 24, 2010 Meeting and gave an greatly informative presentation entitled the “ 7 Secrets of Business Success”. Again we were lucky and had Kurt Eng handy to record the presentation.
Video link: http://kurteng.com/2010/02/bwsg-feb10-7-secrets-to-succeeding/
For any members that have any questions feel free to contact Stuart Goldman, CPA at:
http://www.cpa-boston.com/
or call him at: 781-631-6445

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Intro to JQuery

From our February Meeting, by Chris Bowen. Kurt video tapped the presentation and Chris also shared some links from the presentation:
Video: http://kurteng.com/2010/03/bwsg-feb10-intro-to-jquery/
Links:
• jQuery Home - http://jquery.com/
• jQuery UI - http://jqueryui.com/
• Scott Guthrie on Visual Studio IntelliSense for jQuery - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/21/jquery-intellisense-in-vs-2008.aspx
• jQuery Boston Meetup - http://meetups.jquery.com/group/jqueryboston
• Boston JavaScript Meetup - http://javascript.meetup.com/2
For those interested in the Visual Studio plugin Chris spoke about see:
http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2008/11/07/hotfix-to-enable-vsdoc-js-intellisense-doc-files-is-now-available.aspx