Carrboro Creative Coworking

Info from Blake about the next Cocoa meetup:

Carrboro Cocoa Consortium Meetup - a regular iphone and cocoa developer event
When: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 @ 7pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking, 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510

Topic: iPhone XML & HTML Parsing with ElementParser
Speaker: Lee Buck
http://touchtank.wordpress.com/element-parser/

Let's face it: working with HTML is a total pain. Though a superset of XML, the evolution of the web has brought unique
challenges to developers who want to parse and manipulate HTML programatically. HTML is a world of unclosed tags, poorly composed data, and is, at best, a loosely interpreted specification. High level tools like Hpricot and Nokogiri have removed quite a bit of the sting from working with HTML -- provided you are blessed enough to be working on a platform like Ruby.

But what about Cocoa and Cocoa Touch? Apple offers us only two options: the NSXML family of classes and the low level libxml2
library. Each of these options can be painful -- they really want well-formed XML and don't offer high level query API's such as CSS selectors. We'll explore these existing options and introduce a new kid on the block: ElementParser.

ElementParser is a new XML & HTML parsing library designed to give you "just enough" parsing and querying magic to be productive with HTML on everyone's favorite mobile device.

Come join the Carrboro Cocoa Consortium as we spend an hour exploring the HTML & XML world on the Cocoa Touch platform and take a tour of the new ElementParser library.

As usual, we'll meet up before the meeting at 6pm @ Carrburrito's for some delicious Mexican food and geeky conversation.

Check out the for more info.

During Free May for job seekers we'll have free job coaching and resume editing. Contact me to sign up a free thirty minute one on one session.

Our first job coach is Margot Lester. She's a experienced writer that covers many topics. You may have seen her articles in The Carrboro Citizen. One area she's written a lot about is looking for work. Check out her work on Monster.com.

• Recession Job Hunting
• Finding Work After 40
• Job Tips for Recent Grads
• Stimulus Help for the Unemployed

Margot will be available here at CCC May 6 and May 27. Here are the time slots. I will update this page as they become full. If the time slot is crossed through, its taken. (High tech I know.)
Update All slots for May 27 are taken.

• May 6, 2pm to 6pm

• 2:00 - 2:30pm
• 2:30 - 3:00pm
• 3:00 - 3:30pm
• 3:30 - 4:00pm
• 4:00 - 4:30pm
• 4:30 - 5:00pm
• 5:00 - 5:30pm
• 5:30 - 6:00pm

• May 27, 10am to 1pm

• 10:00 - 10:30am
• 10:30 - 11:00am
• 11:00 - 12:00pm
• 12:00 - 12:30pm
• 12:30 - 01:00pm

To register please email me using our contact form. Be sure to give me the following information; your name, your email, your zip code, and the thirty minute time slot you want.

Stay tuned for more opportunities to work on your resume. Several other people have volunteered their time to help.

Jeff Cohen, aka Digital Papercuts, came by the space last week and we had lunch. After a nice meal at Neal's Deli Jeff shot some video. He used the amazing Flip HD camera. This gadget is really small but makes a nice 740p HD vid.

So here is more from me going on about Coworking. :)

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Friday, May 8, 7pm to 8pm, Carrboro Creative Coworking

If you have technical skills to offer and you have considered starting a business but didn't know how to go about it, this session is for you. After a short presentation on the basics, professionals from the nationally respected nonprofit SCORE will facilitate a discussion and answer your questions. Continuing help for your new business is available free from SCORE at locations around the area, too. Join us to get your business started on a shoestring and network with people who can join forces with you for larger projects than you can handle alone.

The audience for this presentation would be people with technical skills such as computer programming, graphic arts, technical writing, and so on. These people could begin consulting businesses immediately with low risk and low initial investment.

Registration limited to 15. Please use the form bellow or this page to register. I'm sorry. This class has reached it's registration limit.

GOING GREEN: Part One - An Introduction to Options, Resources, Strategies, and an Environmentally Thoughtful Planning Process for Small Businesses

A TOWN OF CARRBORO / SBTDC of NC Business Training Collaboration
WHEN: Wed April 22, (“Earth Day!”) 9am – 3pm
WHERE: 205 Lloyd Street, Carrboro, NC 27510
TO REGISTER:
Free Lunch!

As a small business owner / entrepreneur of the Carrboro business community you are invited at no cost (limited to 15 participants – reserve your seat at this table now) to join us for a customized information & training program that will include the following:

• Why “Go Green”? – feasibility, pros & cons, project management, ROI
• An introduction to Orange County and other NC resources to assist your company in “Going Green” business decisions, planning, and practices
• Planning processes and strategies to develop “Green” projects that are appropriate, affordable, and achievable
• Energy audits – how to select an auditor, what to look at, where’s the payback?
• Building / Retrofitting facilities – LEED certified green building practices / professionals
• “Green” project choices – recycling and re-use, product redesign, pollution prevention, branding and marketing, energy use, policies and incentives for employees
• “Green Jobs” – Trends / Curricula / Training Options for your employees
• Worksheets & Project Management templates and materials
• Triple Bottom Line Business Success: A True, Local Case Study - “People/Planet/Profits”

The design of this training experience will be interactive, informal, practical, and fun. Presenters will include professionals who deliver specialized services in these areas. Participants may be eligible for Part II of this training, scheduled for Wed. June 24th.

Join us Remotely! If you can not attend this event watch and interact on the web. Just go-to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/town-of-carrboro-trainings You can watch the training and submit questions in the chat room to the right of the video. No need to log in or register.

In the month of May Carrboro Creative Coworking will open its doors FREE to anyone who is unemployed. We will be providing our Part Time coworker service to assist people in the chore of finding work. There will also be meetings with small business advisers, resume coaches, fun events, and professional networking. Keep an eye on our calendar for new events. Several new ones will be announced here soon.

Here is the official press release. [PDF]