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Startup Weekend founders share tips and insights in their first book, How to Take a Company from Concept to Creation in 54 Hours. Funded by the Kauffman Foundation, the book outlines key beliefs that have yielded powerful results. Order your copy Nov. 8, 2011.

 

 

What’s Going on in the Lexington Community

Social, Mobile, Local Lexington
When: Tuesday, Oct 25, 9.00am – 4.00pm
Where: Hyatt Regency Lexington, 401 W. High St., Lexington

Learn about the many tools and technologies available to take your business into the realm of Social Mobile Local and how you can leverage these technologies to maximize your success!

 

Join us to hear from John Meister of Pheeva. John will give a high level introduction to Unity, which is a game engine and development environment for PC/Mac, web, mobile, and consoles. Plus we will enjoy some pizza and discuss upcoming events.

 

Five Across will be an informal gathering of entrepreneurs, investors and service providers from Lexington. Each Five Across meeting features presentations from local entrepreneurs who will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges for the chance to win $500.

 

Breakfast talks to spark ideas.

 

 

Top Upcoming Events

Nov 2 – Startup Slam/Startup Advantage
Nov 11-12 – HackerSpace Workshop
Nov 15 - Commercialize Your Idea

 

Below is an archived version of the Dallas StartupDigest Events List – a weekly curated listing of the best tech startup events in Dallas. If you would like to get next week’s digest on Monday, sign up here.

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A great list of events this week. For the developers, the events are on mobile strategy, PHP, and node.js. For all, there’s drinks at the happy hour and a session on hiring your next employee.Get out there, have fun, make a difference.Chris Bond

 

 

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Four days left to enter Global Entrepreneurship Week’s Startup Open competition sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation. Winners could win a trip to Liverpool and meet global entrepreneur experts or a year’s mentoring by Redbox founders. Sept. 15, 2011 is the deadline. Learn more here and submit your startup here.

 

What’s Going on in the Dallas Startup Community

Mobile Strategy
When: Mon., Sept 12, 7-9pm
Where: Improving Enterprises, 16633 Dallas Parkway, Suite 100, Addison, Texas, United States

In this session, Richard Stone will discuss the critical customer experience elements that should be part of every company’s mobility strategy, and will share the best practices that we have developed in helping thousands of companies around the world to successfully manage their customer’s mobile experience.

Dallas PHP
When: Tues., Sept 13, 7pm
Where: Softlayer, 4849 Alpha Rd, Dallas, TX 

Get a handle on your development environment. If there’s one thing that’s consistent about developers, it’s that their development environments can be wildly different from the next and still get the job done. Learn about loads of technology out there that can be integrated into a development platform to get the job done – virtualization, version control, deployment tools and more.

TECH-Nest Working Lunch – Your Next Employee
When: Tues., Sept 13, 11:30-1pm
Where: TECH Fort Worth,1120 South Freeway, Fort Worth, TX, United States, 76104 

Advice and tips on hiring your next employee (note: your best friends and family aren’t the best option).

Node.js
When: Thu., Sept 15, 7pm
Where: Cohabitat, 2517 Thomas St, Dallas, TX

Learn about the revolution.

Geek Meet Happy Hour
When: Thu., Sept 15, 6-9pm
Where: The Social House, 5100 Belt Line Rd., Suite 410,Addison, TX 75254 

Drink specials, complementary snacks, and IT. Any more fun than that?

 

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What You Need to Read This Week

2011 Rubyist’s guide to a Mac OS X development environment
From robots.thoughtbot.com

I don’t know how many times I’ve wanted to start learning a new language or framework but had no idea how to set up my machine. This is a great guide for doing just that with Ruby on Mac OS X.

The Definitive Guide To Forms based Website Authentication
From stackoverflow.com

The Stack Overflow community tackles website authentication with this extensive guide, covering best practices for logging in, storing credentials and other common authentication scenarios.

Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer
From jasonrudolph.com

Looking to improve your programming chops? Jason Rudolph outlines some suggestions for improving your skills to become a great developer.

rbenv – Lightweight alternative to RVM
From github.com

Sam Stephenson of 37signals introduces a new Ruby version management tool that is less intrusive than RVM.

 

Just Missed the Cut This Week

- The Price of (Dev) Happiness: Part One
- Some People Understand REST and HTTP
- I like PHP
- HTML5 Boilerplate is 2.0!

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Happy Friday,

This week’s edition focuses on Google+ and their usability issues, how retailers leverage psychology to influence your purchasing behavior, optimizing the performance of your mobile app through design, and strategies for working as a designer in an agile development environment.

Check out the Site of the Week for some inspiration from the little details that make great user experiences.

Have a great weekend.

- Jeremy
@jeremymerle

StartupDigest Design is curated by:
Jeremy Merle – Creative Director, Brightcove
Enrique Allen - Founding designer, 500 Startups

 

 

What You Need to Read This Week

Why Google+ Will Succeed Wildly At First
By Bruce Upbin, Forbes

Google+ has had a flurry of positive reviews lately from the tech and design community, but is that their key audience? This article raises a good question about the broad adoption of the social networking site and usability of their core features.

Can We Ever Digitally Organize Our Friends?
From kevnull.com

Kevin Cheng from Twitter asks tough questions like “Why we need groups?” and highlights what Google+ does right and what it sucks at.

Psychological Manipulation In E-commerce Design
By Kristina Bjoran, UX Booth

Interesting and intelligent insight on how retailers leverage human behavior and design to motivate us to share, join, and spend more.

Seven Guidelines For Designing High Performance Mobile User Experiences
By Ivo Weevers, Smashing Magazine

Design choices affect performance and are critical to the success of your app. Here are seven actionable guidelines for optimizing the performance of your mobile app through design.

Change On A Dime: Agile Design
By John Anderson, UX Magazine

Integrating design into an agile development environment is tricky. Here are some tips for working as a designer in an agile environment.

 

Site of the Week

Little Big Details

Whenever someone asks me what differentiates good from great when it comes to user experience, I always say it’s about the details. This blog highlights the little details that make a product experience delightful to use.