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  <event>
    <city>Pittsburgh, PA</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-10-09</end-on>
    <full-description>We have three presentation on tap for this one:

Michael Fulk is a an interactive developer at Wall to Wall and also does freelance work as Future Designs. He&#8217;ll be presenting &#8220;Bending the Pipes&#8221; - which will give us a crash course on making mashups, feeds and recombining web content with Yahoo Pipes and Dapper.

Next, Olivia Blonde is a web designer at the University of Pittsburgh and previous worked at the Carnegie Libraries where she was responsible for the redesign of the Carnegie Library website. She&#8217;ll present &#8220;Design Process in a Nutshell&#8221;. Each designer &#8212; or design group &#8212; develops a method for solving problems, then evolves that method over time. While no one person or group may view a problem from the same perspective, general similarities often appear in their approach. Olivia&#8217;s presentation will take us from requirements to concepts to design and to hand off.

Finally, Isaac Gierard, a new media developer at Elliance with be showing off a recent project of his, a &#8220;CSS Combiner&#8221;. Isaac will give a brief introduction to a recently developed open source CSS preprocessor for combining multiple CSS files into on and it&#8217;s benefits for website performance.

Also, we&#8217;ll be giving away one free pass to the Flashpitt conference taking place the following Friday!

As usual, please RSVP and get more info at refrreshpittsburgh.org!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">535</id>
    <region>PA</region>
    <short-description>Refresh Pittsburgh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet developers in the Pittsburgh area.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-10-08</start-on>
    <title>Refresh Pittsburgh October Meetup</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.refreshpittsburgh.org/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/535</url>
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    <tag-string>html, pittsburgh, refresh, web development, xhtml</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Pittsburgh</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-10-11</end-on>
    <full-description>Flashpitt is a one-day conference for multimedia designers, developers, and artists. It's Pittsburgh's first major Flash-centric conference. National and international industry leaders will be present to inspire, educate, and challenge the region&#8217;s Flash community. Our speaker line up will share inside tips, new technologies and behind the scenes looks to Flashpitt's attendees.

We'll have two tracks of sessions running from 9am until about 6pm. We'll finish it all off with an after party full of fun and networking opportunities.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">496</id>
    <region>PA</region>
    <short-description>Flashpitt is a one-day conference for multimedia designers, developers, and artists.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-10-10</start-on>
    <title>FlashPitt 2008</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.flashpitt.com/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/496</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/496/fp-logo.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>design, flash, flex, interactive</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Pittsburgh</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-10-20</end-on>
    <full-description>PodCamp Pittsburgh is a FREE community UnConference, run by and for people who create, enjoy or are interested in learning more about social media - blogs, vlogs, audio podcasts, web video, content networks and new media monetization.

WHO: New media experts, new media creators, aspiring new media creators, communications and PR personnel, and you! Newbies to Experts welcome &#8211; sessions for all levels!

Nearly 250 people attended PodCamp Pittsburgh 2 in August 2008.

PodCamp Pittsburgh 3 will take place on October 18 and 19, 2008 at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, with a meet-and-greet the evening of October 17 at Alpha Labs in South Side.

INFORMATION and FREE REGISTRATION: http://www.PodcampPittsburgh.com</full-description>
    <id type="integer">536</id>
    <region>PA</region>
    <short-description>PodCamp Pittsburgh is a FREE community UnConference, run by and for people who create, enjoy or are interested in learning more about social media - blogs, vlogs, podcasts, web video, and new media.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-10-17</start-on>
    <title>Podcamp Pittsburgh III</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.PodcampPittsburgh.com/</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/536</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/536/logo.gif</logo-url>
    <tag-string>blog, new media, pittsburgh, podcamp, podcasts, social media, vlog</tag-string>
  </event>
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