This group intends to offer support to new-intermediate Ruby and Ruby on Rails aspirants interested in learning and sharing what they learn with others. The group is also seeking to create a support network for teachers (and non-teachers) that want to draw connections of programming concepts to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

Getting Started Here's our current plan: Some Ruby first, then Rails. Start by making your way through the "Ruby in 100 Minutes" tutorial by JumpStartLab Next will be giving the Event Manager tutorial a go. (NOTE: I'm not affiliated with JumpStartLab, they just have cool tutorials) If anyone gets hung up on any bits then we can use the discussion tool to ask a question. My goal is to meet every 3 weeks or so to discuss where everyone is, what parts you found challenging, how you solved partic …

Ruby Power Lunch is a collection of some of the best ruby developers in the world. We meet about once a month for lunch to share ideas, challenges and solutions with our peers. In addition to monthly face-to-face meeting opportunities, we use the group discussion and mailing list to keep on the (b)leading edge of ruby tech.

OCRuby is for anyone interested in learning or sharing experiences with "Ruby" or "Ruby on Rails" or tangential technologies (NoSQL, etc.) In existance since 2006 (but new to Meetup), we usually meet the last Thursday of each month (moving on holidays or other exceptions) at smart-soft.com in Irvine, CA. Regards, Forrest Chang OCRuby organizer

This group is for organizing and conducting the San Diego RailsBridge Ruby On Rails workshops. The goal is to increase gender diversity in the Ruby community by helping women learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The workshops are geared to help primarily women learn Ruby on Rails. It is a free workshop and any level of experience is accepted. Anything from "I have never coded before in my life" to "I have been doing this for years and just want to see what is up with this Ruby on Rails thing" will be f …

We do rails Who should join this group? Anyone who wants to discuss real world issues, techniques, and successes with ruby on rails.  Topics assume a basic understanding of ruby and the rails framework.

This group is dedicated to increase gender diversity in the Ruby community by helping women learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails via an ongoing series of weekly meetups in the Westside of the Los Angeles area, primarily meeting in Santa Monica. We are geared to help, primarily, women learn Ruby On Rails. Our aim is to build a rock-solid community of women programmers, specializing on Rails that support each other with a community spirit. You may have absolutely no coding experience to advanced skills, a …

SoCal on Rails (SCoR) strives to be an open-minded community of professionals and students interested in building web applications in Rails, Ruby, Sinatra, and more. People with all levels of experience and backgrounds are welcome! If you're working on an open-source Rails application that you'd like help with or would simply like to share it & gather feedback, this is the place for you.

Los Angeles Hack Night A hack night for anyone wanting to learn a programming language, hack on a software or hardware project, etc. We frequently see people learning and hacking on software projects using Ruby, Python, Node, JavaScript, among other languages and hardware projects using Arduino. Our members include beginners working through the Learn Code the Hard Way or Code Academy exercises as well as experienced developers working on side projects. Twitter: @lahacknight IRC: #lahacknight on …

Full Stack: North County is an event where web designers and developers can come together to learn from and teach each other about emerging technologies. While speakers at Full Stack focuss primarily on Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, we encourage all local web professionals to join us for vivid discussions around technology across the stack in any language. Hang & Code: Till you leave or we kick you out After the talks, we'll have three XBox systems linked playing Halo 4 , as well as billiar …

These are not your typical software engineering events. Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend. Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python. We reach out to the entire Los Angeles metropolita …

This group was started to create a forum for experienced and aspiring web/mobile software entrepreneurs: product strategists, CTOs, hackers, CEOs, COOs, designers, developers/engineers, Scrum coaches, information architects, project managers. We will meet frequently to dscuss the rapidly changing web/mobile consumer software space: - New technologies - New apps! - Cutting-edge hardware releases - Startup process and incubation - Open systems - Development process efficiency/theory - Idea i …

We are a group of people in the San Fernando Valley / Los Angeles area who love and use a variety of programming languages: Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Java, Clojure, Objective-C, C++, C#, C and many more. This group is for Software Developers only!

Carbon Five hosts a bi-weekly, intimate hack night for developers who want to code and collaborate for a couple of hours after work. Bring your own project or work with someone else. Developers of all experience levels are welcome. We'll kick off with a very brief daily-style intro where everyone gives their name, says what they're working on and whether or not that want a hand... then we'll get our hack on. There will be at least a couple Carbon Five folks around to help out. Doors open around …

Are you a web designer, developer, or web enthusiast who lives in or around the SGV? Do you get excited when you hear about new web technologies? Are you a designer who is always up-to-date with the latest trend in web design? Do you like to have fun while nerding out about your latest project with someone who understands it? If this is you, we'd love for you to be a part of the San Gabriel Valley web designers and developers meetup group! This group is designed to create a fun environment for e …

MonkDev Academy is a San Diego based initiative launched by the developers of Monk Development, Inc.  It's goal is to turn people into programmers and good programmers into experts!  Very important to our mission is to create an Alumni of students that forever stay involved in helping each other out and forming connections for future opportunities. Our focus ranges from web applications, to mobile applications, from backend to front end.  Stay tuned for our class schedules.  Classes ranges from …

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Amamzon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the cloud that runs in the AWS cloud. Presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: Set up and getting started with CloudSearch Configuring search fields Relevance tuning APIs and integration Security Working with other AWS services User cases and lessons learned This group is for anyone interested in search technolo …

We are Tech In Motion: Orange County Orange County: Where high tech meets the beach. Our aim is to unite the multitude of industries, from software products to financial giants. If you are a tech lover, an expert in the field, or an open-minded entrepreneur, then this is the group for you. We’re hoping to unite our fellow tech enthusiasts! *We already have 2 staffing firms dedicated to offering career counseling services to our members, so we ask that no 3rd party recruiters join this meetup. An …

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

We are a group using and promoting Ember JS, a Javascript framework that makes sophisticated web development much easier, faster, and more robust. Come join us if you are interested in graduating from JQuery to very sophisticated HTML5 "application functionality" in the browser instead of only in the server.

The LA NewTech Meetup is an open forum for the discussion of new ideas and ongoing challenges in technology. It's informal yet substantive meeting focus on digital media, gaming, mobile and related platforms that support the development of new applications, as well as the revenue models that support them. Our mission is to provide LA area technology and media professionals with engaging, topical forums in which to meet their peers, share ideas, demo new applications and more. Simply put: to conn …

We are a Long Beach, CA area E-commerce sellers group and are open to all who sell or have an interest in selling online. Get away from the computer and enjoy meeting monthly with other Sellers. Have fun and improve your personal economic future by learning how to help you grow your business from great speakers and your fellow members. We network, problem solve, find new tools and solutions to selling in the eCommerce format. Whether you sell on eBay, Amazon, Etsy, Ruby Lane, Craigslist or your …

The purpose of the organization is to support local developers and businesses with the latest information and education on our industry We are a group that participates and organizes events for the LA development community. We are focused on establishing an experience unique to the User Group community. Come join our group. Participation is mandatory! Everyone is welcomed. We are always looking for new and innovative presentation ideas and sponsors.

Calling all designers, developers, and hackers! You've been working for the man and now need to work on something for yourself. Idea Nerd hack nights are a place for you to focus on your project for a few hours every other week. Our bi-weekly hack nights run from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM. All levels welcome.

Exploring cloud computing technologies, implementation, use and business. Ideas of Interest * Cross cloud deployments * Security in cloud deployments * Datacenters * Virtualization * Test driven deployment * GPU computing * Decentralized datastores * Scientific computing

The Los Angeles Puppet Master User Group is a Meetup to share knowledge and experience using Puppet. Puppet s a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively, developed by Puppet Labs. Anyone interested in Puppet and systems configuration should join. Note : nothing to do with the Southern California Amateur puppeteers and puppets meetup.

Join us at Los Angeles's biggest meetup for web application developers (software engineers who build websites). Our purpose is to create a thriving developer community in Los Angeles, promote a free exchange of information and connect with each other at bi-monthly (or so) events. Our events are presentation style. Guests from the community present tips, tricks, new methods, frameworks, tools or anything else interesting to web application development. Our events are hosted by local companies w …

Interested in data visualization tools from Tableau, MicroStrategy, QlikView, IBM Cognos, SAS, Spotfire and others?  Interactive graphics can tell you more than tables of numbers.  Let's get together to hear from users who have implemented these tools or discovered useful knowledge from data visualization.  We will also hear from representatives of various analytics software companies and consulting firms. We can also host some hack sessions to work on projects or learn something from each other …