Sessions

Successful creative frequently involves out-of-the-box thinking… but sometimes it's worth considering what's IN the box… that big metal one in the alley. Ok, the dumpster here is (mostly) metaphorical...

Javascript is great. It brought us Web 2.0, it'll bring us Web 3.0, and who knows, our daughters, our daughter's sons, our daughter's son's daughters; they'll probably all be stuck writing javascript to make websites function nicely.

Join members of the Meetup group Podcast This! as they explain the hows and whys of Podcasting, and where it fits into your Social Media Plan. Podcasts are a great way to spread the word about your business or interests and can develop a following that lasts for years.

During the last 11 years, data mining has become an important feature of countering terrorism, preventing attacks, examining intelligence and basically dealing with the fact that the explosive growth of data has overwhelmed traditional tools and analytic methods. This is serious stuff.

The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP), like a vitamin, can be good for the health of your code and design. However like certain vitamins, chronic overdose is detrimental.

30% of the history of the Egyptian revolution has disappeared.
Yahoo deleted millions of Geocities sites on a whim.
Our generation may have lost its baby photos to failed hard drives.

No matter who you are, your history is primarily digital. And it's vanishing.

A crash course on what you can do armed with geographic data. What's a shape file? How do I use it? What's the difference between a point and a multipolygon? We're going to take it beyond simple longitude and latitude.

America's creative workforce is not what it was in the days of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Large companies are now connecting to freelancers or small, niche community-driven agencies to perform the creative and development work they once reserved for larger agencies.

NEW! Featuring the comedy of the Nashville Improv Company and Dave Delaney (if he makes it in time) and YOU! Some of the funniest content online is developed through improvisation. Find out how!

I've been doing programming for most my 14 year career on the internet. From HTML to CSS to ActionScript, ColdFusion and on to PHP, with other in between.

An overview of what makes modern day multiplayer gaming possible. How do multiplayer games handle their networking? What techniques are common and useful? What is the right networking model to choose for a game wanting to have multiplayer capability?

There are way too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot with Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, etc. and you're probably doing it now. What works and what doesn't? Why do we care about being number one in a search - and does it really matter?

Video games have come a long way in the last three decades, from Nintendo resurrecting the industry left for dead in the wake of Atari's "E.T." debacle, to the PlayStation bringing video game art and music to life in new ways, to the Nintendo Wii forever destroying the previously-held notion tha

When we're building digital properties, we often don't spend enough time thinking about terminology. It's critical to get the names of things right -- and even more important to put stuff in the right place.

When you started you were but the learner, now you are the master. You can make the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs, but you're getting tired of Greedo and Jabba demanding a cut.

We'll take a whirlwind tour of the history of cryptography from the perspective of the modern web developer, glance at the implementations of and use cases for the various algorithms, protocols, and primitives, and learn how to safely implement and use cryptography in your projects.