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.

… 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 …

… 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.

… 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 …

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 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.  

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.

BASES (Bay Area Software Engineers Society) is a professional career organization specific to software engineers, application designers, and hands-on coders. BASES is applying for Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit status and assembling a board of directors. The mission of BASES is to build an eco-system to support local software engineers, by providing direct communications with local small business, technology start-ups, local employers, and established enterprises. BASES will be providing inf …

  We are an interactive group of Android developers and contractors discussing trends in technology, business, and job outlook. Our meetings are technical but also people-oriented. We encourage both front presentation, group discussion, as well as get-your-hands-dirty-with-cool-app-development. We typically meet on the last Tuesday of each month and our meetings are FREE and OPEN to the public. If you are an employer, a recruiter, or simply someone looking for Android employment opportuni …

… *You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. *You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc. *You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It’s the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are those that embed the knowledge and encourage the principles (e.g. Resharper.) Join us and make this a powerful communit …

Terracotta, Ehcache, Quartz, and Hibernate Webcasts/Events Terracotta is excited to offer a full schedule of live webcasts/events for 2010. Webcasts/events are great opportunities to learn more about Terracotta, Ehcache, and Quartz technologies and to talk directly to the developers, which is you! They're all free—all you have to do is sign up.

This group has been created to bring together users of Alfresco Content Management. Technical and non-technical users are invited to become a member to exchange information, code, use cases, case studies, demos, ideas and to make new friends.