On Saturday I attended the Developers & Designers event at the “Microsoft Nerd Center.” Developers and designers from web startups gave short presentations on topics such as HTML5 and CSS3, web standards, and user experience. They also presented introductions to in-demand technologies and tools for web and mobile, such as jQuery, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Git, and Unix Shell. It was exciting to get a taste of the tools and languages being used now, and I learned about some good resources that I’ve been able to put to use right away, while working on code for my Web Development class.