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Slide Deck For “Best Internet Practices For Business” Seminar

preston.lee — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:20:57 +0000

The complete 35-slide deck from yesterdays seminar on “Best Internet Practices For Business” is now available for free download and online viewing on Slideshare via the link below. Please forward this on to those that were not able to attend the session. Thanks so much for being a great audience!

For professional implementation and consultation on these practices, check us out at http://openrain.com , email us at sales {at} openrain.com, or call us at (623) 691-7869. Thanks again and enjoy the slides.

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Best Internet Practices For Business Seminar, September 10th, 2009

preston.lee — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:04:05 +0000

OpenRain Founder and CEO Preston Lee is delivering a lunchtime seminar on “Best Internet Practices For Business” on September 10th at the Chandler Chamber of Commerce. Topics include an overview of Internet best-practices provided to OpenRain’s Online Business Platform customers:

Website necessities and common mistakes.
Email marketing and newsletters.
Pay-per-click advertising basics.
Tracking and analyzing website visitor traffic.
Content writing tips for search engine optimization.

Food will be provided. Seating is limited. $5 for members, $10 for non-members. Advance online registration is required.

Tempe Chamber Annual Luncheon: June 23, 2009

erica.lucci — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:15:44 +0000

Are you attending the Tempe Chamber of Commerce’s Annual Luncheon?

The luncheon is themed “21st Century Marketing.” OpenRain is thrilled to be a participant with this wonderful cast of speakers. The event features lunch, exhibits, networking, and thought-provoking break-out sessions.

To register, go to TempeChamber.org.

The cost is $50 for members and $65 for non-members. The Tempe Chamber will also be celebrating their successes over the past year and introduce the incoming Board of Directors. This event will be a fantastic one. We hope to see you there!

When: June 23, 2009
Where: Fiesta Resort & Conference Center – 2100 S Priest Drive Tempe, AZ (map)

Program:
11:00 Registration & Networking
12:00 Lunch
12:20 Chamber Leadership Report
12:30 Lunch Presenters

21st Century Marketing, presented by John DeSantiago, OpenRain Elite Web Software

E-Sales Secrets, presented by Martin Jones, Cox

Finding The Time, presented by Erin Jagodzinski, Express Employment Professionals

1:15 to 2:30 Break-Out Sessions

Branding’s Amazing Race — Driving Your Brand In Online Circles

The Social Media Craze — Using It Wisely In Your Marketing Strategy

Image Is (still) Everything— Reaching Out To Media In a World Gone Digital

Marketing Stimulus Plan— Resources To Stretch Your Marketing Dollar

For more information and to register, go to TempeChamber.org.

DesertCodeCamp: Saturday, June 13th, 2009

preston.lee — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:37:12 +0000

Just a reminder that Desert Code Camp is this Saturday, June 13th, at the DeVry University Phoenix campus. It’s 100% free and has content for pretty much all your popular languages, so developers and students don’t have much of an excuse not to go. You’ll want to register now and pick your sessions to make sure there’s enough space.

http://desertcodecamp.com

“Code Camps are about the developer community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community…Code Camps are always free for attendees…The success of the Code Camps is that they are based on community content. All content that is delivered is original. All presentation content must be provided completely (including code) without any restriction. If you have content you don’t want to share or provide to attendees then the Code Camp is not the place for you.”

Geek ‘n’ Eat XIV: Chinese/Mexican Fusion Edition

preston.lee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:30:40 +0000

What: Geek ‘n’ Eat XIV
When: Friday, February 27th, Noon-1pm.
Where: Chino Bandito, Chandler
Who: All hungry geeks!

[Restaurant Website] [Google Street View Map] [Aerial View] [Google Group] [GnE Website]

As a part-time Asian living in Arizona, Chino’s holds a special place in my heart for successfully blending Americanized Eastern favorites with Mexican classics. (Jerk chicken quesadillas, egg fu yung burritos.. crazy delicious stuff.) Come get your geek on with some awesome unique eats! I’m sure we’ll find some give-a-ways, too.

Note that this is at the CHANDLER location, which happens to have the worst restaurant real estate ever. It’s on the Southeast corner of Chandler and Dobson *behind* the strip mall. (See aerial pic.)

Mark your calendar now. (I’ll wait.) No reservation required, but notes appreciated on the Geek ‘n’ Eat Google Group! Reservation held for 20.

Chino Bandido Takee-Outee was founded in November 1990 by Frank and Eve Collins, husband and wife. The blend of Mexican and Asian cooking styles and flavors came about from Eve’s Chinese background and both Frank and Eve being native Arizonans. The original store was only 1000 square feet, seated 16, and was modeled after those “hole-in-the-wall” restaurants that Frank and Eve love. As soon as they realized that people wanted to stay in to eat, as opposed to taking it out, they expanded the restaurant year by year, until the restaurant grew to over 5,000 square feet, seating about 150.

In June 2005, we finally opened the Chandler location. It is tucked into the corner of San Marcos Square (behind the Walgreen’s) on the southeast corner of Dobson and Chandler Blvd. With 6,000 square feet and an outside patio, we have tried to create a spacious, comfortable dining area. Most of the parking is on the east side of the building, so be sure to drive around back for the closest entrance!

In the fall of 2005, New Times awarded Chino’s Best of Phoenix for “Local Eatery We Wish Were a Chain.” On January 29, 2007, AOL users voted Chino’s in First Place for Best of Phoenix “Cheap Eats” category.

Chino’s is also one of few restaurants that gives you a tutorial in how to place an order. Mark your calendar now. (I’ll wait.)

Test-Driven Rails Development Lunch Session Tomorrow

preston.lee — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:48:58 +0000

Elite OpenRain ninja Remi Taylor will be presenting his approach to test-driven Rails development tomorrow afternoon at 1:30pm at OpenRain HQ. That’s Wednesday, October 8th for approximately 1 hour. All are welcome. No reservations required. Forecast: 99 degrees with a 90% chance of awesome.

You can grab the latest presentation file here. Remi’s synopsis…

Test-driven development has changed the way that many programmers design, write, test, refactor, and maintain their code. Myself included.

In this presentation, I’ll be introducing the concept of test-driven development and walking through the process of test-driving a typical Rails application.

This presentation is intended for Rails developers who:

are new to testing
have been testing, but not test-driving
have been test-driving, but not with RSpec
have been test-driving with RSpec and hope to learn a few new tricks :)

Along with writing specifications for Models, Views, & Controllers, I hope to cover:

writing user stories (acceptance tests)
creating custom RSpec matchers
continious integration using Autotest / CruiseControl.rb
testing JavaScript & AJAX

Getting Started With Rails: 2008.09.27

preston.lee — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:40:19 +0000

Getting Started With Rails evening tutorial workshop with Preston Lee.
Joe Developer at OpenRain HQ
Wednesday, September 27th, 2008. 6pm.
Light dinner provided.

This event is for developers new to or otherwise interested in web development using Ruby on Rails. Laptops encouraged. WiFi provided. See you there!

Geek ‘n’ Eat XII: Aftermath

preston.lee — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:58:16 +0000

If Marc’s gauge of using laughter levels as a measure of event successfulness holds any truth, I’d declare it extremely successful! Major überthanks to…

O’Reilly Media for over $500 of book sponsorships that we’ll continue to distribute to the group for review at future events. If you want to see more awesome O’Reilly stuff, post a review with your thoughts of the book to Amazon, Slashdot, or your blog. (No, twitter doesn’t count… *stares at Sunny accusingly*.)
JumpBox for graciously covering the tab for the entire group and congratulations on your continued success!
All y’all geeky food addicts for showing the love.

To get the low-down on GnE XIII when it’s announced, join the Google Group, and/or subscribe to this blog or the official iCal event feed for discussion and announcements. Thanks again and see y’all soon..

http://www.geek-n-eat.com

Geek ‘n’ Eat XII Reminder: Noon, Pacific Seafood Buffet

preston.lee — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:22:07 +0000

Noon, Pacific Seafood Buffet. Bring $10 for all-you-can-eat sushi and other great buffet eats. (There’s much more than seafood, and veggie stuff too.) Table reserved under “Lee”. Give-a-ways provided by O’Reilly Media…

High Performance MySQL
Understanding MySQL Internals
iPhone: The Missing Manual (2nd ed., covers the iPhone 3G)

Map: http://tinyurl.com/5f5jfj
Venue: http://www.pacificseafoodbuffet.net/
Sit Next To: Someone you don’t know!

Geek ‘n’ Eat XII: Friday, August 29th, 2008

preston.lee — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:22:36 +0000

Geek ‘n’ Eat is a cross-technology discussion and networking luncheon held every couple months. We’ll be at a buffet this month, so skip that breakfast bar and pack it in!

What: Geek ‘n’ Eat (Phoenix) VII
Where: Pacific Seafood Buffet, Chandler. [map]
When: Friday, August 29th, 2008. Noon – 1:30PM.
Who: Computer geeks, dorks, nerds, wizards and wannabes.
Why: Geekery, networking, and, of course, food!

Agenda

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