"The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do" ~ Steve Jobs Welcome!  Thank you for joining!  If you are new to Ruby on Rails or an intermediate, advanced Ruby on Rails Engineer - you will love this group! I plan on offering the following: 1.  Variety of Ruby on Rails classes.  These classes will be offered for beginning RoR developers or intermediate/advanced level. 2.  Presentations given by guest speakers(RoR developers) from great startups. 3 …

This is a meetup group for Ruby on Rails Developers who want to build interesting scalable web applications which directly or indirectly affects everyone's life in a positive way. We have many ideas which can help make this world a better place to live. Some of these ideas may not be profitable ideas but which need to be implemented in order to help bring about the social changes that we want to see. We would not build applications with profits in mind, but we would build them for the social imp …

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.

Rails-focused monthly hackathon in downtown Oakland. Convenient to Bart. Less talk more code.

I am interested in finding top software developers looking for their next job opportunity!

With the challenges of launching an internet startup, Ruby frameworks such as Rails and Merb have become a game changer. Web apps are easier than ever to launch. Small teams are developing slick web apps in rapid iterations. Let's meet and discuss Ruby, Frameworks, Rails, Merb, and Entrepreneurship. If you're a ruby startup, we would love to hear about your journeys from idea to launch and beyond. If your a venture capitalist or investor, we would love to hear about trends the ruby community sho …

E-commerce has a lot of challenges. Day one you need to track inventory, add products, process returns and oh yeah... Process payments. This group will discuss all these topics and more. The main focus will be ruby/rails and technology but we will diving into the marketing side of thins also.

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!

Engineers talking ROR lingo and stuff

This group teaches beginners the fundamentals of Object-Oriented, Test Driven, Full Stack Web-Programming. We are a code first, talk second kind of group. No powerpoints, just text editors, Ruby, Rails, Javascript and all the goodies... This is a by beginners for beginners ruby group, ie, a super low stress environment for people new to ruby, rails and full stack development to get a taste for building stuff.

Dev Bootcamp is a 9-week intensive training in an intimate class and lab setting. We teach professional web development using Ruby on Rails. We offer member of the Ruby community a chance to mentor our students. We host a Thursday Speaker Night. We also host private round table on-boarding discussions, workshops for beginners, workshop and weekend events for female developers and hiring events for companies looking for amazing junior talent.

Bring together people who are passionate about Ruby and Rails in an environment that fosters learning from and helping each other while building lasting friendships. "And as you get older, you may find that “Enabling the Dreams of Others” thing is even more fun." From the Last Lecture by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) Get 35% off from O’Reilly books and ebooks when you purchase directly from http://www.oreilly.com/store/. Just use discount code DSUG when …

It takes approximately 1,000 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 tha …

Learn and teach the latest Ruby on Rails topics with other developers. When we meet, we'll create a list of topics we want to learn. We'll pair those that want to learn a topic and have those with expertise advise pairs of hackers on where to start and help them past sticking points. The idea is that we all learn new things quickly and solidify our knowledge and ability to express it by teaching others. Its not "each one, teach one".  Its "every other one spending a little time helping two …

Meet, learn and share with local Ruby on Rails developers.

"Code Social", presented by AnythingSocial, FoodCalc and sponsored by HP/Vertica is a series of very in-depth technical and user engagement presentations by some of the top developers in the industry. Topics will range from Ruby on Rails and developing mobile apps to Facebook applications and CoffeeScript.  We will always be providing food and drinks so please come and join us.

Welcome to Ruby on Trails, the Bay Area tech hiking group.Don't let the name fool you.  This group is definitely not limited to engineers working with Ruby on Rails and is open to anybody interested in technology, startups, hacking, designing, hiking, or just need a break from the office.We welcome everybody and their pets, and we can't wait to meet the community on a fun and challenging hike.  Activity stimulates creativity so join us in sharing ideas, talking shop, and having fun!After each hi …

We're a community for anyone interested in developing and deploying web applications with HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, OOP, MVC, jQuery, AJAX, Cloud Server, and Agile. We meet once or twice a month for discussion, collaboration, and networking with other like-minded people.  We have a terrific group of people from varying technical backgrounds.  All are welcome! For more information about us, and what we do, visit us at CodingDojo.co

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 …

Hi and welcome to California Weekends. California is among the best places in the world for roads trips and camping. The state is home to millions of people of different backgrounds, molding California into a truly unique place rich with incredible must-see attractions and interesting activities for those who want to discover the state's cultural diversity.  Road trips are a lot of fun and so is camping. These are two of our favorite things to do...so why not start a group to share the experien …

This group is all about backbone.js and coffee script.(http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/)

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.

In general Deep stack poker is defined as when the stacks are relatively deep when compared to the blinds. I personally would consider that 200 BBs or more is playing with a deep-stack. In general, my games buy-in will range between 80 BBs - 250 BBs Deep stack games are not easy to find in a home game and at the local casinos, deep-stack games are generally fairly high stakes. CA card rooms drop $5 every hand, roughly $150/hr. The vast majority of players in those clubs can't beat that rake. Eve …

On a Hackternoon, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud, cross platform BlackBerry Developers hack and have fun together. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We learn by watching, asking, listening, and doing. We use a combo of Paired Programming, brain power, and a project deployment to help you stay caught up.  Usually we meet at a WIFI cafe or a co-working location like Ground Floor, Hacker Dojo, or NextSpace.

We are starting a serious of meetups for various QA specialties. Our goal is to build a solid community of QA testers on the Silicon Valley, share our experiences and hacks. Our fierst session will be about Web Testing. Come share your web testing expierence, and learn from other industry leaders. This is a free event.

A place to learn and discuss new developments in web technologies. We are not focused exclusively on any one language or framework. Instead, this group is to help developers explore the rapidly changing world of web development and understand new technologies and techniques that might fit their needs. We'll try to have a diverse set of events from speakers, to tutorials, to hack nights.

We are a crowd of innovative problem solvers that want to change the world. The goal of our meetup is to pair entrepreneurs with passionate co-founders/team members (tech and/or business), and investors/mentors/advisers. This meetup is a great opportunity to meet awesome individuals, practice your elevator pitch, and learn. With that being said, we would love to have freelance developers, designers, and marketers that want to join forces with entrepreneurs at an early stage of a project.

This is a group for Russian Speaking Hackers and Developers from the Bay Area and SF. We meet to hack on new technologies, discuss best practices, startup news, talk about our side projects. Join and tell what are you working on!