Duchess is a global network for women in Java technology. We have been growing since 2007 and are the only global Java User Group. We are recently starting up a chapter in the SF Bay Area to connect the women who work with Java technology in one of the most innovative regions in the world. We believe that women have a role in shaping the future of IT as it becomes more aligned to business goals and customer needs. Come join us to connect, share, and get inspired. Go to http://jduchess.org to be …

Groovy is the second standard language for the Java platform. Grails is an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web development. Let's get together and talk about these important new technologies.

This group is sponsored and organized by GridGain Systems - the guys that develop GridGain day in and day out. We welcome anyone who's interested in high performance distributed application written in Java and Scala.

… We are trying to develop a community of hands-on software engineers who utilize the Eclipse environment and  are interested in JAVA, Android Development, OO programming, mobile application development and relevant cutting-edge technology.   The group is limited to hands-on software programmers. We will only allow hiring managers into the events based on criteria that they are seeking Eclipse developers for an Eclipse based project.  If you are a hiring manager and wish to be considered for the a …

… This is weird, since equally convoluted languages like Java & Ruby dominate the scene, despite being characteristically less efficient, more difficult to scale, and just plain more difficult to write properly in. Sure you can program something fast, but we all know projects don't end after the first demo. Please join if you're in the SF area, know C++, would like to know C++, or just otherwise are piqued.

… Azure is new and initial meetings will be designed to get developers up and running and working on code, using C#, Visual Basic, PHP, and Java. The developer tooling will be Visual Studio or Eclipse. IDC, a well regarded technology market analysis firm forecasted (in October 2008) that IT spending in cloud services will grow by a factor of almost three and reach $42 billion by 2012. Silicon Valley is the startup capital of the world. Being a successful software engineer means being able to code …

Apache Shiro is a powerful and easy-to-use Java security framework that performs authentication, authorization, cryptography, and session management. With Shiro’s easy-to-understand API, you can quickly and easily secure any application – from the smallest mobile applications to the largest web and enterprise applications. We recommend you start with the 10 Minute Tutorial which gives you a feel for Shiro and its API. Then feel free to get started using Shiro in your own applications. If you hav …

Welcome to the Coherence Special Interest Group (CSIG). Whether you're an experienced Coherence user, or new to Data Grid technology, the CSIG is the community for realizing Coherence-related projects and best practices. You won't want to miss our quarterly meetings, featuring some of the most active Coherence users as speakers and in the audience. We hope to see you soon! Dedicated to fostering community-based knowledge sharing, awareness and best practice applications of Data Grid technology t …

These study groups are off-shoots of the Alameda Library Android Programming Classes. I'm giving anyone who's attended my class the access privilege to schedule his/her own study group. These study groups can be used to follow the learning tracks and the programming homework assigned in the main class, but if they grow large enough, or if any of you are so inclined, you guys are more than welcome to use such a study group to start your own separate Android programming meetup/class.

These are short Saturday half-day (or Sunday) paid classes for people who are new to Android mobile programming. Our classes are not affiliated with Android(TM) or Google Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to  Google Permissions.  Portions of this page are reproduced from work created and  shared by Google and used according to terms described in the  Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.  

The place to be for Google Android developers, users, startup entrepreneurs, involved in planning and implementing applications as well as those wishing to learn more about the development knowledge or the business opportunities related the technology. We get together few times a month to share projects, opportunities, and how-tos related to developing for the Android Platform. Experienced developers, newcomers, and people with ideas are all welcome. We've enjoyed presentations from developers, …

We are going to be creating the kind of events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all languages and walks of life as possible speakers in panels and even debates between different languages, IDE's, marketing strategies and more.   This is going to be THE group to join for information on application development, software engineering, OO, cloud, mobile, enterprise, business intelligence, HTML5, Hadoop, Python, Eclipse, JavaScript, JAVA, Machine Learning, HBASE, Mapre …

Parse (http://www.parse.com) is hosted solution and framework which allows mobile developers to instantiate a server stack, database schema, and query APIs automagically. Yes, automagically, as in not having to know how to shh into a remote server for sys admin stuff; no Ruby/PHP/Python/Java/Scala etc or their associated frameworks; no db such as mysql, nosql, or anysql.  On the client side you also don't have to worry about server comm or caching into a local db such as Core Data or sqlite. If …

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 …

The explosion of advertiser tracking, both on mobile devices and the web, has led to new Engineering problems to combat the loss of individual privacy. To this effect, the SF Privacy Engineering group serves as a gathering point for developers who work on efforts to identify, quantify, or mediate privacy data on the web and mobile. The purpose of the group is to help the Developer community network as well as learn and discuss engineering efforts in the Privacy space. We're open to all k …

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.