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Amazon at Refresh BCS

September 10, 2007

This Thursday we’ll be having Amazon come and talk about their Web Services. If you’re a developer or interested in building scalable web applications, you don’t want to miss this.
We’re doing it at Mays Business School, Room 182, 7 P.M. on Thursday. Seating is limited to about 70 people so get there early if you [...]

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Refresh BCS - Google

June 27, 2007

(more photos from me, or all photos of refreshbcs)
Tonight we had the biggest Refresh BCS ever. About 150 people came to Downtown Bryan to hear Noman Munif from Google discuss their different products. It was amazing to see so many people in Bryan/College Station interested in new technology. We’re definitely putting B/CS on the map.
We [...]

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June Refresh

June 3, 2007

(from photo shoot for 372 Media and Activist Apparel, more here)
Our next Refresh BCS is June 13, and it’s titled “Service Oriented Architecture: A Mashup Culture:”
Ben Floyd (Texas A&M) will be talking about the move to Service Oriented Architecture, and software as a service. Mashups are becoming very popular in high tech society today as [...]

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Refresh BCS - Design is…

May 9, 2007

(more photos here)
Roby gave a great presentation tonight titled “Design is…”
I’ve been a graphic designer for about 6 years now, and Roby’s presentation put into words a lot of things that I always just felt were right. Like the four basic principles of CRAP:

Contrast
Repetition
Alignment
Proximity

I can usually recognize when something I’m designing finally works, but his [...]

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