Friday, February 18th 2011 12 – 2PM

Anca has been building sites using Genesis for the last 5 months, and would like to share some of her experiences. Lori has collected some code snippets by building Genesis child themes.
***This session assumes you have worked with Genesis before and want to develop a sophisticated child theme using Genesis hooks and filters. Attendance is limited because of the hands-on nature of the event.***

Please bring a laptop and have a dev site available either locally or online with Genesis installed so you can experiment.

At our regular Sunday meetup on February 20th we’ll cover the introduction to the Genesis theme framework and the child themes and plugins that StudioPress makes available for it.

RSVP here

Cost: $10

A seven week introduction to the Unix system. Meets Wednesdays from 5pm to 7pm starting January 12 and ending February 23.

Schedule:
Jan 12: basic shell commands, stdin and stdout, vi intro, directory structure, what are the usual shells;
Jan 19: grep and find, sed and awk, regular expressions, man pages, internet resource guide;
Jan 26: pipes and command nesting, mysql, special characters, more vi, bg, fg and multiple shells;
Feb 2: the usual editors, diff, shell variables, shell environment, dot files, and scripting, what is make;
Feb 9: users, chmod & chown, processes and cron, kill, more scripting;
Feb 16: copy, network, ftp, wget, perl, interprocess communications, more scripting; (this may be a bit ambitious)
Feb 23: the kernel, systems architecture, init, kill, Apache, PHP, cgi

Each class is 2 hours and we will mix up talk and practical. I will supply some exercises.

Price: $275
Discount price of $250 each for two or more signing up together (rebate given at first class). Limit 8 people in the class. Only three spots left.

The class will not be about installing Unix, so you will need to have access to an installation already, or we could supply local user accounts on a techliminal system. Students with Macs have Unix inside already. Windows users can look into Cygwin. Or use your website hosting account if it is Unix or Linux based (ask your host about getting access through SSH).

Added bonus! The first night class on Jan 12 is right before a Fixit Clinic, which will start at 7 pm. Bring your broken appliances with you and have the geniuses at the fixit clinic help you resuscitate your stuff!

Class is taught by Karla Leibowitz, professional programmer and Unix aficionado with 8 years experience creating and maintaining Unix based applications.

Thursday, June 2   6 – 8PM

Our next East Bay HTML5 will focus on HTML5 as it relates to mobile platforms. When we’re talking HTML5 and mobile we’re mainly talking about web applications that have been design and optimized to be viewed using a mobile web browser. These techniques include responsive web design, geolocation, and new input types.

Let’s also take a look at a couple of the HTML5 Mobile App frameworks that allow developers to create mobile apps that look and feel native on iPhone and Android touch devices such as Sencha Touch and M-Project.

I’m looking for three of four people to present on either developing HTML5 web applications for mobile or developing with HTML5 Mobile App frameworks.

Please drop me a line if you would like to present.

Cost: $5

RSVP to this Meetup here.