Refresh Seattle 2008.03.19

The night before last I attended my first, but definitely not last, Refresh Seattle event. Refresh Seattle according to it’s home page is “a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in the Seattle/Puget Sound area”. Another way to say it is an opportunity to meet some fellow web professionals who happen to be a group of smart and cool people. The evening started with the speaker Kevin Stewart who’s an Engineering Manager at Adobe Systems. He presented to the group about his experiences and perspective on leading a team of software developers. At the moment, I don’t have experience leading a team of developers, so it was interesting for me to be exposed to this topic. I’m sure when it’s my turn to take the helm of a team, I’ll think back to this and say “So that’s what he’s talking about!”.

I met a number of people afterward at Dad Watsons, a bar in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. It’s a very short walk from the Refresh Seattle meeting site. A couple of these people are Craig Saila and Jeff Croft. Jeff has the distinction of not only being a web standards guru, but more importantly he brought a nice camera! He snapped several photos of people, including myself .

I’m already looking forward to the next one.