Are you annoyed that you have to separate the people that "know jQuery" from the people that actually know JavaScript? Know which direction the browser reads CSS and why that matters for performance? Know how opacity alters compositing in the GPU? Have SpeedTracer, DynaTrace, and others installed on your machine? This group is for you. Moderated by a past core developer of Firebug.

Opa is the ultimate framework for JavaScript. We've decided to create this group to help people to discover and try Opa. We'll regularly organize events and hackathons. The goal is to give you the opportunity to work on a regular basis with Opa and with other people, to ask all the questions you have and to listen to all our advice. Our partner, DotCloud, will provide you lunch and drinks as well as some prizes for the best apps! Anyone with basic skills in web development is very welcome. We'll …

With the launch of Windows 8 Development Preview at the BUILD conference in Anneheim, Microsoft has unleashed the next generation programming environment. How different is it from the previous generation? Very different AND very much teh same. Our Meetup Goal is to help developers usher in that new generation. We will have presentations by industry leaders talking about the best way to develop these new forwarding thinking, touch enabled windows 8 native applications that run on both inexpensive …

This group will meet regularly to discuss cross-device HTML5 developer tools for creating native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows along with HTML5 web apps.  We'll invite guest speakers to discuss new advances in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 that empower web and mobile developers to accelerate their time to market and reduce the costs associated with deploying across a variety of devices. Group Meetups will include both technical and market-oriented sessions and will try to meet on a qua …

This meetup is focused on spreading knowledge and best practices for the use of Node.js. Already exploding with a massive and dedicated developer community, Node is now moving into enterprise stacks. There is an incredible talent pool out there who can bring their experience back to the community, and our goal is to get them into the group to speak. Topics of discussion include OSS projects, architectures, testing, devops, code management, deployment strategies, the future of Node and emerging t …

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.

Despite the attention hogging explosive growth of the mobile app, the browser remains the foundation of the web and is a vital component of the internet. It is not going away and there has been a raft of technical advances taking it to the next level. Faster javascript engines, faster graphics libraries with GPU support, lower latency networking, HTML5 and exciting new technologies such as DART and NaCl are redefining what can be done in the browser. A whole new generation of near native perform …

Australian-founded in 2005, we're headquartered in downtown San Francisco and we build easy-to-use products that help people work smarter with digital documents. We've hired a great team of engineers here in San Francisco in the last few months to not only bolster our desktop products but to also engineer a beta cloud platform to ease the collaborating, signing, and sending process. www.nitropdf.com www.nitropdf.com/jobs www.nitropdf.com/about www.nitropdf.com/nobullshit

AngularJS meetup group in San Francisco, CA.

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

Calling all developers, designers and thinkers! Come together to build open source tools and communities to enable the annotation of the world's knowledge.

Bay.Net is an open and independent forum for evaluating and extending the knowledge of the .NET architecture, technologies, and tools. All developers are welcome, regardless of your preferred platform or language. We host meetings and activities in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, the North Bay and East Bay areas.

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 …

Have a cool data visualization to show? Questions to ask? Want to meet others who have a data driven mindset? Let's meetup and talk d3.js! http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

Millions of users listen to Spotify's streaming music service world wide. Behind the scenes is a world class technology organization that innovates hard to make the music easy. This Meetup is devoted to exploring how Spotify's technology stack works and to the hackers who use Spotify's APIs. We'll get together to meet both Spotify engineers and business leaders and anyone who takes the time to do something cool with Spotify's APIs.

A meetup consisting of casual evening talks and demos on the challenges and solutions of building and maintaining Wikipedia and associated sites (Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, …) at the scale of a top five Internet site with over half a billion monthly uniques. This will be followed by Q&A and other informal lively discussion before and after. This consists of a range of topics such as the MediaWiki software (one of the largest open source web projects), website architecture and inf …

Meet other local developers using Sencha/ExtJS to share knowledge, to review the state of the art, or to dream up new applications. Let's talk about the various topics surrounding AJAX development such as application design, performance, usability, memory management or whatever you want.

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 …

Client/Server Cloud hosts events for developers building applications in the cloud. Our goal is to have the highest quality speakers on the latest technologies such as Node.JS, NoSQL, Python, Platform as a Service etc. We will organize both formal, structured presentation-centric events along with informal gatherings to just chat.

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 …

Users and lovers of the Closure set of tools https://developers.google.com/closure/ or for those who would like to learn.

"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.

The goal of this group is to connect, help and educate BlackBerry developers. We are looking to have monthly meetings. This is a very informal group so we are open to suggestions and feedback on what each member wants out of this group. Feel free to suggest topics for discussion, show off your latest app or what you've learned, or just come to the meetups and meet some other BlackBerry developers. This group is also on Twitter at @BBDevSF

New to Ruby and/or Rails? Join us to get help with your coding questions and learn collaboratively in a supportive environment. This is a social meetup- come to meet others in the same boat as you and to help when you can. I'll also be available to answer your questions (I have a CS background and a few years of Rails experience). Bring your laptop, a project you're working on, and questions to ask. Or just come to hack in a cool environment. Been using Ruby/Rails for awhile? Join to help those …

Parse is the mobile app development platform for iOS, Android, JavaScript, and Windows 8. Parse allows your team to focus more on creating a great user experience and less on server maintenance and complex infrastructure. We offer push notifications, social integration, data storage, and Cloud Code which lets you add rich custom logic to your app’s backend. With Parse, you can add a scalable and powerful backend in minutes and launch your app in record time without ever worrying about server ma …

The mission of this group is to: Help web developers to easily get into telephony development. Help traditional telephony/voice developers to leverage the APIs offered by telephony in the cloud companies such as Twilio, and 2600hz. Help the open-source communities such as FreeSwitch and Asterisk to further integrate into cloud computing. Help entrepreneurs to integrate voice, SMS, IM and other telephony services into their business model.

SF Tech Engineers is creating a community of Tech Engineers coming together to meet like-minded Engineers and exchange ideas and best practices in the evolving Tech scene in SF. Within this community we are promoting mentoring along with professional development within a general forum for Tech Engineers to share their experiences. And we plan to have fun doing it. Software engineers are also welcomed to join this group to gain knowledge and give feedback on what they seek from a technical recrui …

Geekli.st brings the world's top developers and key decision-makers together to meet, share, build, and grow. Like a 24/7 hackathon online. This series of meetups takes that experience and pairs it with special guest speakers in a friendly environment where the highfives are louder.