09:30 am

We're geeks, we know the story:

Print and Music are dying because of the internet. Film is dying because of digital. Paper and handwritten things are dying because of email gmail and Microsoft Word Google Docs. Transportation is dying because of the Middle East. Gardening is dying because of genetically modified plants. Beer is dying because of alcoholic energy drinks. People are dying because of Second Life.

Have you always wanted to start a business, but weren't quite sure where to go to get started?

The *new* Nashville Entrepreneur Center can help direct you to the resources you need to get your business going.

Social Networking Games have seen massive growth in 2009 year with the advent of games like Farmville, Mafia Wars and others though sites like facebook and myspace.

This new frontier in game development offers unique needs and requirements unlike conventional game development. I'll be discussing several points:

- Key traits of social networking games

- Business revenue model

- Backend development technology

Yes really!

Nasvhille, flush with healthcare companies, generally means Java, PHP or .Net when programming topics arise. The LAMP stack is widely accepted but Perl, popular in many places around the world, isn't on the radar in the southeastern US. Perl's age and the stigma it carries from the Matt's Script Archive days have caused Perl's one-time glory to atrophy away. The Perl community, gleefully ignoring themselves being ignored have been soldiering on, borrowing, innovating and creating. I'm here to show you how.

Redesigning a web site without data and testing is like cooking in the dark. Someone is probably going to end up burned, and it's likely to be you.

How do you keep the CEO from designing the site him or herself? How do you hold back the committee of people who want home page real estate for their pet projects? And if the answer is through analytics, how do you make good aesthetic decisions while paying attention to data?