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From the Refresh Columbia Meeting, April 29, 2009.

AJAX is one of the most misunderstood and overused buzzwords in tech. Tom Lacas will clear things up by explaining what AJAX is, when to use it, and how tools like JSON and jQuery can help you leverage its power.

From the Refresh Columbia meeting, April 28, 2009.

Scott Means will be talking about the RESTful web architecture model and soliciting feedback about a scripting language that he’s developed to quickly build XML-based web services. Scott actually worked on the initial SQL team at Microsoft and is the author of several books on XML.

Ruby AND Rails
Jason Dew - USC Columbia Ruby Brigade
Jason gave our local Refresh group a primer on Ruby (The Language) and Rails and the future of these two technologies.
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Panoramic Imagery
Don Barth - USC Digital Arts professor
Professor Barth gave us a short overview of his process of photographic based panoramic imaging. The hardware and software he used was included in the overview.
Presented on January 28, 2009 at Refresh Columbia
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Text Layout Framework Beta
Greg Lunn - Columbia Adobe User Group
Greg gave a short intro to the new text format options available in the Flash player.
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