It takes at least 1000 hours of work to become "hirable" as a junior web developer. It is by no means an easy journey, especially as a beginner when you typically stumble alone aimlessly, not knowing what path to take. You're essentially trying to climb a mountain without a map or a guide. This group will be your map and guide to becoming a web developer. Over the next several months we'll help you design your path for learning a Ruby/Rails-based workflow in a project-based environment that uses …

Have you ever learned something in 5 minutes that saved you hours of work every day? Do you have tips and tricks that you want to share with other developers? Did you ever go to a conference to find out that you learned just 10 minutes worth of new stuff in two hours? Do you work with modern web or mobile technologies, like iOS or Ruby on Rails? If you answered yes to anything of the above, then this meetup is for you!

At OkCupid Labs, we're focused on building great technology to connect and match people. The Labs Technology Meetup group is a forum for intellectually curious engineers, math geeks, designers to meet up and talk about new product prototypes and data systems that help people in their search for connections both on and offline. We're big fans of: Lightning talks Skills workshops Happy Hours Great design User-centric development Some of our Meetups will focus on: Ruby, Rails 3, Backbone, Heroku, P …

A SOMA Meetup for start-ups, entrepreneurs, engineers with great ideas, VCs, Angels and anyone else who wants to build systems, platforms, products or services using elite level Ruby on Rails development.

These are not your typical software engineering events.  BASE is focused on emerging technologies and creating events around topics that have never been attempted.  Events may be around such topics as Big Data, Machine Learning, Robotics, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Synthetic Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer History, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality (AR), and using software to create art. BASE creates events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all walks …

Love to build amazing things quick? Then you've found the right place. Bay Area Hackathons are hosted at Bay Area companies and a are a great way to meet new people, build amazing things, and win killer prizes.

This group is for San Francisco Bay-area Web and Mobile Designers/Developers who wants to barter skills. When signing up, let the group know what skills you possess and what skills you are looking to learn. For each meetup, we will pair people up with complementary skills for two hours - one hour to teach, one hour to learn. You should join if you want to learn a new programming language, a new software framework, a new designing tool, etc. The most effective way to to learn is by observing and …

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This group is for anyone interested in log management and data analysis. Developers, devops, IT, marketing, sales, anyone that deals with logs can benefit from this group as well as professionals that would use log data for analysis of business processes.   We will have lightning talks and guest speakers, including customers with real-world stories, industry luminaries and more. At heart, this is an informal, social gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that think logs are cool. Who Should Join t …

After hosting an impromptu JRuby Meetup in San Francisco after JavaOne, we realized we were on to something. We've decided to host monthly meetups open to any enthusiastic, interested folks in the area who wanted to join us to learn about JRuby. All experience levels welcome. To cater to San Francisco and Peninsula attendees, we'll rotate meetup locations alternative between Engine Yard HQ in San Francisco (in SOMA, within walking distance from BART), and at LinkedIn HQ in Mountain View. If you …

Ever wanted to deploy on Engine Yard but didn't know how? Had questions about how our platform works? Want to collaborate and host events with us? Well this is the perfect group for you! Come hang out, chat, eat and drink with us.

Come swill some beer and eat pizza with us while we discuss and present on mobile application development and security or the lack thereof!

We are inviting some past, present and future students and developers from places like Dev Bootcamp, HackReactor, HackBright, AppAcademy, General Assembly, UCSF and SFSU to teach folks how to get set up properly for programming 101. Get the basics down! Focus will be on Ruby and Javascript. This is a free event. You will need to bring your own laptop, and the coworking space will provide coffee, electricity and internet for us.

Tech in Motion San Francisco offers an exciting opportunity for tech pros and enthusiasts of all ages to network around our beautiful city by the bay. The Bay Area is the epicenter of technological innovation with some of the most talented engineers, programmers, designers, and bloggers in the game. This meetup group is for the SF tech lovers out there to network and stay current. Let’s ‘meetup’ San Francisco! *We already have 2 staffing firms dedicated to offering career counseling services to …

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The SF Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Bay Area. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as …

We are creators of products and our medium is software (and sometimes hardware). We are designers and developers, facilitators and managers, students and teachers. We know building a product is different than writing code or generating designs. Tinderbox is the intersection of product, design, and technology. Our goal is to create a place where folks who are interested in building things people use can discuss, share, meet, create, and exchange useful feedback. Carbon Five is the sponsor of Tind …

Join our meetup group for events centered around building with Twilio cloud communications, design and development, APIs, and more.

Food Startups is a community of food lovers, entrepreneurs, designers, hackers, bloggers, and thought leaders who are passionate about food and technology. We started Food Startups because of the growing demand for improving how we produce, distribute, discover, consume, and share food through the use of technology. We bring together industry experts, entrepreneurs, investors, journalists and thought leaders, fostering collaborative dialogues to better understand these issues and devise solution …

We talk about all things DevOps. We take geek and make it sheek (sic). Our sessions are so cool, we had to call ourselves Cool Geeks. Ah, yeah... we are Silicon Valley geeks so fun is perfectly mixed with knowledge.

Flurry TechHub is a free-to-attend event that brings together high-caliber developers, founders, entrepreneurs and investors in the technology community. Group Meetups will include both technical and market-oriented sessions and will likely meet on a monthly basis. Our primary objective is to educate the market and help expand and inspire the developer base in creating and monetizing mobile applications. Flurry TechHub Meetups are held across the world’s top tech centers including San Francisco, …

Good morning African American web professionals. If you professionally develop code, media, content, or strategy for the web, please come and join us for a networking waffle breakfast.

Are you a Promoter, Developer, Marketer, Collaborator, and/ or Observer? It doesn't matter what role you fill. Your skills, passion, and enthusiasm are what we need to make a difference for the residents of Alameda County. Create a concept, web and/or mobile app that: Will benefit Alameda County residents, businesses and/or visitors & Uses at least one of the data sets from Alameda County Open Data or create data about Alameda County. Join the group today and get the latest info on Apps Challeng …

This group is forum to gather and share experiences around Cloud Computing, especially Amazon Web Services. If you have used EC2, S3, Amazon Payments, Mechanical Turk or are interested in learning more about how others have, come join our group. Cloud Computing is changing rapidly so if you are involved in the cloud or interested in learning about how Enterprise companies are leveraging the cloud, stop on by.

This is a global group focused on Geek meetups and hackathons around the world for the G2 Hackathons (Geeklist Global Hackathons) - We meetup to discuss making the world better through technology and hack to make the world a better place for developers and people around the world. Themes vary, but all of them include social good and are inclusive of all.

We're looking for founders, developers, and designers who want to build real tech startups at the hackathons of our DataWeek.co and DeveloperWeek.com conferences! Our hackathons are usually the 'kick-off' events for our giant conferences where we invite dozens of speakers, advisors, and partners to provide coaching and free services for our hackathon teams. You can expect direct coaching from 12+ silicon valley VC's and engineers in Node.js, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML 5..... We've …

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library, whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open forum. The audience will ask questions and provide feedback. We w …

Meet the Stripe team and members of the Stripe community.

This Bay Area meetup is for all interested in Javascript, Ruby, and the Node JS Platform. The idea is to get together, network and share experiences, designs, components, best practices, learn something new and so forth.