I dropped the ball last week on upcoming events, but I have a great list for you this week, feel free to suggest other area events in the comment area.

Cold Start Happy Hour (Free)

Monday, April 19, 2010 from 7pm to 9pm

Start practicing your elevator pitch, for the second Cold Start Happy Hour, we’re meeting in The Happy Gnome’s back patio in St. Paul.

We want to hear about the projects you’re working on, share with you what we’ve been working on, and both leave with new local projects to evangelize.

The Happy Gnome
498 Selby Ave
Saint Paul, MN 55102

http://coldstart.eventbrite.com/

Bootstrappers Breakfast

Join Other Entrepreneurs Who
Eat Problems For Breakfast.

* Compare Notes
* Exchange Ideas
* Learn from Others’ Mistakes
* Brainstorm with Peers
* Find Partners
* Small Group Atmosphere
* Serious Conversation

Bootstrappers Breakfasts® are for founders of early stage technology startups. It is a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers. These breakfasts were designed for entrepreneurs to share ideas and leverage thoughts with other folks who are serious about growing their business.

Our focus is on issues for growing a business, not on VC fundraising. We promote the bootstrap business model.

http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/
http://www.meetup.com/Bootstrappers-Breakfast-Minneapolis/

MIMA Event: CATFOA 2010: HASHEM BAJWA, (DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL STRATEGY, DROGA5) (Free)

Monday, April 19, 2010
Doors at 5:00 p.m. Event starts at 6:00 p.m.

Welcome to the third installment of the third year of Conversations About The Future Of Advertising, co-sponsored by MCAD+MIMA.

Fine Line Music Cafe
318 First Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55401

http://www.mima.org/mimaevts/

Twin Cities Silverlight Group (Free)

Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight – Don’t Make Any Assumptions
4/20/2010 12:00 – 1:30 pm

At MIX10 there were a number of announcements and a lot of buzz around Windows Phone 7 and one of its development platforms, Silverlight. While it is undoubtedly tempting to download the CTP bits and start coding, it would be wise to take a step back and come to an understanding of the differences between developing in Silverlight for Windows Phone 7 and developing for traditional (i.e. browser hosted) Silverlight applications.In this session we’ll examine the differences and similarities between the two platforms as well as some other gotchas that come along with developing for Windows Phone 7.

Meeting will be held at the Microsoft Office. 8300 Norman Center Dr., Suite 950, Bloomington, MN 55437

http://www.tcslug.com/

Minnesota Visual Studio User Group

3rd Wed of Every Month @ 5pm

A walkthrough of some the the exciting new features of .NET 4.0.

Microsoft
8300 Norman Center Dr., Suite 950 Bloomington, MN 55437

http://www.vstsmn.com/

Become a LinkedIn Expert – Jobseeker Edition ($99 – $119)

Weekly Event – Every Thursday: 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (CT)

Maybe you’ve received an e-mail with this message in the Subject line.

Did you ask, “what’s a LinkedIn” or did you just blindly sign up and accept the invitation?

Regardless of which road you took, you need to learn more about the latest trend in job search, social networking. In this presentation you’ll discover what the LinkedIn buzz is all about and how you can leverage this powerful tool to that new job – even in today’s challenging economy.

400 Hwy 169 S
Suite 100 (outside entrance on north side)
Minneapolis, MN 55426

http://linkedinexpertjobseeker.eventbrite.com/

As a web designer I am frequently required to embed a Google or possibly Bing map onto the contact page of a new website. Often times the client or the allotted area for the map can be fairly small making it hard to see the “Pop-up” window which contains the address information and such on the map. Frequently the window will get cut off on the top or it simply is aligned oddly for the size of the map.

The issue:

Notice how the window is cut off and you can’t really see much.

How it should look:

Now you can see the full Pop-up window, yet without having to change the allotted width and height of the map area.

The Solution:

HTML:
<div class="mapContainer">
<iframe width="400" height="550" src="”></div>
</div>

*Note that most of the map code is removed for ease of reading.

CSS:
.mapContainer
{
width:400px;
height: 300px;
overflow: hidden;
}

If you look at the code above you will see a few key elements to make this work.

First, you need to wrap your iFrame in a simple div with a class or id attached to it, in this case it’s just a class called “mapContainer”.

Secondly, in the css code you need to define your height and width, specifically the height. As you will notice I have set the css height to only 300 pixels (my allotted space on my site), but the iFrame height is 550 pixels. (more on this in a bit)

Thirdly, you will notice I have a css attribute: overflow: hidden; – this is important as it allows us to hide anything that may fall outside of our div container.

Now back to the height settings, if you look at the iFrame you will notice it is set to 550px and not the 300px that we have in our css. What we are doing is making the map “extra tall” which in return pull our location marker and pop-up down further inside of the div, thus lining it up the way we want need it to be while not extending outside of our div container since we have the overflow: hidden value set. (You need to fiddle with the height values until you get the desired vertical placement)

And that is all there is to it, pretty simple but very effective.

I have never actually tried it, but I would expect you can have the same results if you need to adjust the horizontal placement as well, just set your iFrame width larger than the css width.

You will only be able to pull the pop-up down and/or right with this technique.

Has anyone else had a similar issue? How did you solve it? Is there a better way? Let me know your thoughts.

I’ve decided that at the beginning of each week I will post about some of the upcoming local web design/development, startups and other technology  events happening in Minnesota/Minneapolis area. My goal is to focus on events for that particular week (this week is an exception).

If you know of any other web related events, please let me know so I can add it to the list.

Minneapolis CrowdPitch – (Free)

This event will bring entrepreneurs, innovators, mentors, support providers, and investors together in an informal and energetic setting.

Think ´America Idol´ — selected entrepreneurs will have 4 minutes to pitch their company to both a panel of experts & a live audience, followed immediately by a 3-minute Q&A session with the panel.

A free networking lunch will follow the formal pitch…

Monday April 12, 2010 from 11:30AM – 1:30PM

Hilton Minneapolis/Bloomington
3900 American Blvd West
Bloomington MN 55437

Learn more…

MinneWebCon 2010 – ($200)

MinneWebCon 2010 (web • twitter • facebook) is less than three weeks away! Join Minnov8 (we’re the media group covering the event) and hundreds of your fellow netizens at this fantastic get-together focused on next generation internet, web and social media creation and delivery…

April 12, 2010

Continuing Education and Conference Center, University of Minnesota
1890 Buford Avenue
St. Paul MN 55108

Learn more…

MN Lean Startup Group – (Free)

We are excited to announce that Lisa Foote of MixMobi will be the guest speaker for our April meetup. Lisa Foote co-founded http://mixmobi.com, Software as a Service that allows clients to create offers and promotions that work on any web-capable mobile phone, in 2009…

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 from 7:00PM – 9:00PM

Refactr Offices
11 Fourth Street NE
Minneapolis MN 55413

Learn more…

UIE Web App Masters Tour – ($895)

Join us for two days chock full of the latest thinking about building awesome web-based applications from our team of world-renowned experts. An event loaded with inspirational ideas and actionable insights for just $895…

Tuesday April 27, 2010 at 8:00AM – April 28, 2010 at 5:AM

Radisson Plaza Hotel
35 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis MN 55402

Learn more…