Carrboro Creative Coworking

Peter Higgins, project lead of the Dojo JavaScript toolkit, is visiting North Carolina on July 11, so it's time for a dojo.camp() / dojo.beer().

Join us at Carrboro Creative Coworking on Saturday, July 11, starting at 10am until ??? for a day of hacking and learning. We'll order lunch from one of Carrboro's many fine eating establishments, and head out for drinks when it's all over. Come for as little or as long as you'd like, and BYOB if you're so inclined.

The event is free, but donations to Carrboro Creative Coworking for generously donating the space for the event are much appreciated! Please email rebecca (at) rebeccamurphey (dot) com to RSVP so we know we have enough space.

I'm pleased to announce a new training offered here at CCC. Its called jQuery Fundamentals. The instructor is Rebecca Murphey. Here's the low down.

Overview
This course will give you the knowledge you need to properly and effectively start integrating jQuery, the popular JavaScript library, into your web development projects. Over the course of two days, you'll learn the fundamental concepts of JavaScript and jQuery and tackle real-world exercises to solidify your understanding of the language and the library. This class is aimed at beginning jQuery users, although intermediate users may also benefit from the more formalized introduction to the library this class will offer. more

When: July 29-30, 2099, 10 am - 3 pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking Map: 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510
Cost: $489
Only 10 seats available

Registration Deadline: July 22, 2009

Get in while you can! Only ten seats available.

Info from Blake about the next Cocoa meetup:

Carrboro Cocoa Consortium Meetup - a regular iphone and cocoa developer event
Date: Tuesday June 9, 7pm - 9pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking

Topic: Going Social w/ Cocoa Touch - Integrating with Facebook & Twitter
Speakers: Blake Watters & Jeremy Ellison of Objective 3, Rachit Shukla of Two Toasters

Facebook and Twitter offer us an exciting set of tools to build applications that are better connected, more viral, and often just more fun than our standalone offerings. At the June meetup, the group will examine the development possibilities and marketing opportunities available to us through social media integration.

From a development perspective, we'll examine:
- Facebook Connect for the iPhone
- MGTwitterEngine, a full-featured Twitter library for Cocoa & Cocoa Touch
- Various goodies from around the web

On the marketing front, we'll discuss a few questions:
- How can social media extend our application lifecycle and bring users back more often?
- How can smart utilization turn our users into recruitment and advertising assets?
- How can Facebook & Pinchmedia interoperate to provide killer market insight for my app?

Come join us as we explore the technical aspects & business of utilizing social media in iPhone & iPod Touch applications. As usual, we'll meet up at Carrburritos at 6pm to grab some delicious food before heading over for the meetup. Hope to see you there!

One of my goals is to create coworking spaces that are short distances from where people live. Because the Triangle area, Raleigh - Durham - Chapel Hill/Carrboro [RDCH], is spread out this is a challenge. The first thing to do to reach this goal is to gauge interest. Its what I did for almost two years before I opened CCC.

So if you'd like to see more coworking spaces in the Triangle please take this survey and let us know where.

Thanks!

Come to Carrboro Creative Coworking Friday June 12 at 6pm for a group show of color photography and the fine sounds of Gmish's Klezmer music.

Photographers include , , Matt Fields, and . Plus a graffiti inspired triptych by Joshua Sanie.

You'll also get to meet our creative coworkers. They're software developers, designers, writers, and more. Its all part of the 2nd Friday Art walk here in Carrboro and Chapel Hill.

Where: 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510
When: June 12, 2009, 6pm - 9pm

(Here is a small taste of Gimish! This is going to be fun!)

The Carrboro Rich Internet Applications Meetup Group - June Meetup

Date: Thursday June 18 7pm - 9pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking, 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510

Topic: Exploring Cappuccino
Speakers: Blake Watters & Jeremy Ellison of Objective 3

Cappuccino is an open source application framework for developing applications that look and feel like the desktop software users are familiar with.

Cappuccino is built on top of standard web technologies like JavaScript, and it implements most of the familiar APIs from GNUstep and Apple's Cocoa frameworks. When you program in Cappuccino, you don't need to concern yourself with the complexities of traditional web technologies like HTML, CSS, or even the DOM. The unpleasantries of building complex cross browser applications are abstracted away for you.

Join the Carrboro Rich Internet Applications Meetup as we take a tour of Cappuccino and examine exactly what this new framework has to offer. Experience with GNUStep/Cocoa is not required -- we'll walk through the fundamentals as we get started.