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When: 4th Thursday evenings (typically) of the month between September and May
Where: We're moving! Details soon.
Logistics: Free wireless internet
Light dinner at 5:30pm
Great discussions at 6:00pm
Welcome to Southwest Michigan's premiere developer's group, MDSM - a community for developers, by developers. Our mission is to strengthen Southwest Michigan's hold on technology professionals through networking, knowledge share, and camaraderie.
Bring your laptop, bring your knowledge, and join us for refreshments and technical discussion at our next meeting.
- Martin Shoemaker, President MDSM
Next Meeting: July 23, 2009
Summary: Introduction to CSS for Programmers
Compare and Contrast Webforms: 1990's to 21st Century
John Burns brings us what should a programmer/developer know about Cascading Style Sheets (aka CSS), how to get started on the "golden path", and as many tips/gotchas that he can fit. The goal will be to help you start using, or improve your use of, CSS within your web applications. The discussion and examples will be conveyed entirely from a non-designer point-of-view (aka function over form).
A small multi-form application will be walked through "from scratch". Q & A is strongly encouraged, as the CSS arena is not old enough to drive a car.
All programmers & developers struggling with what CSS is, or its usage, are invited. Experienced web-developers are encouraged to participate; the session content along with the Q & A period offers you an opportunity to learn and share.
John is a developer and gardener living in the Kalamazoo area. He started writing Turbo Pascal code for fun and entertainment, putzing with early dBase, Paradox, Alpha 4/5 databases and then tossing in a few fixed-length files from Betrieve to write custom sales reports and unbeknownst to him, he was off on a programming career - without the title. He spends his work week at Kalamazoo RESA as an HR/Payroll Programmer/Analyst and Web Programmer/Analyst creating applications and tools used by the Michigan K-12 School Community.
When not at KRESA, John teaches Visual Basic programming at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, participates on the board of the Kalamazoo X Conferences - the non-profit behind the Kalamazoo X Conference, and enjoys giving back to his local community via Michigan Give Camp. You may also find John at local developer conferences, for example Day of .NET (e.g. Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, etc). Contact John via Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jbkazoo or his blog: http://www.aviewoftheMarsh.us (link to Skype on menu).
Summary: Introduction to CSS for Programmers
Compare and Contrast Webforms: 1990's to 21st Century
John Burns brings us what should a programmer/developer know about Cascading Style Sheets (aka CSS), how to get started on the "golden path", and as many tips/gotchas that he can fit. The goal will be to help you start using, or improve your use of, CSS within your web applications. The discussion and examples will be conveyed entirely from a non-designer point-of-view (aka function over form).
A small multi-form application will be walked through "from scratch". Q & A is strongly encouraged, as the CSS arena is not old enough to drive a car.
All programmers & developers struggling with what CSS is, or its usage, are invited. Experienced web-developers are encouraged to participate; the session content along with the Q & A period offers you an opportunity to learn and share.
John is a developer and gardener living in the Kalamazoo area. He started writing Turbo Pascal code for fun and entertainment, putzing with early dBase, Paradox, Alpha 4/5 databases and then tossing in a few fixed-length files from Betrieve to write custom sales reports and unbeknownst to him, he was off on a programming career - without the title. He spends his work week at Kalamazoo RESA as an HR/Payroll Programmer/Analyst and Web Programmer/Analyst creating applications and tools used by the Michigan K-12 School Community.
When not at KRESA, John teaches Visual Basic programming at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, participates on the board of the Kalamazoo X Conferences - the non-profit behind the Kalamazoo X Conference, and enjoys giving back to his local community via Michigan Give Camp. You may also find John at local developer conferences, for example Day of .NET (e.g. Grand Rapids, Ann Arbor, etc). Contact John via Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jbkazoo or his blog: http://www.aviewoftheMarsh.us (link to Skype on menu).