Come join the Des Moines Web Geeks as we hear from UX designers from the area about how they prototype design solutions. The topics covered are: CSS Microinteractions by Rachel McClung Mobile & Responsive Web Design With Photoshop Artboards by…
Laravel is a web application framework that attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, queueing, and caching. Come join us as we dive…
You might be familiar with what a hassle it is to set up a brand new machine for simple web development. Installing version control, installing build tools, and finding your favorite code editor can take up precious time that could…
There is a lot to running a business. Marketing your brand, quoting work, finding clients, TAXES. Solving these issues is an incredibly hard burden to bare on your own. Let's pool our collective knowledge together, share some of the lessons…
Bootstrap 4.0 alpha was recently announced with a list of great improvements. Join us as and explore the new features. We'll discuss the move to less from Sass, embracing ES6, the improvements to the grid (including flexbox support) and the…
WordPress powers almost 25% of the world's websites – largely because it's both easy to get started and extremely powerful to use as a content management system. Whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced user of the hugely-popular platform, we'll…
We’ve played with PhoneGap and Cordova in the past, and we’ve even tried a bit of Angular. So now let’s set our hands to a mobile framework that uses each of those platforms. Ionic is a powerful HTML5 SDK that helps you…
Meteor's popularity has been out of this world lately and claims to help developers create modern data backed applications using radically less code. Let's put that claim to the test. It incorporates the best ideas from many popular tools like…
Progress never stands still. It feels like every week there's some great new tool to help us do more. For several years now, Zurb has gradually improved their Foundation framework, which is a designer and developer friendly tool for building…
Join the Des Moines Web Geeks for our December dojo. This month, we're digging into Node.JS. Matt Nuzum has written and spoken about Node.JS, and he'll lead us through the evening. We'll start with the basics of building a simple web server and…