Architecture Training & Events in North America

Microsoft PubSec Live - Win8 At Night: Everything web developers must know to build Metro style apps. - Reston, United States

Learn how you can use your web skills to build Windows 8 Metro style apps. In this session you’ll discover how to harness the rich capabilities of Windows 8 through JavaScript and Windows Runtime.

Pacific Edition: Notes from the Scrum Gathering - 9pm Eastern online - Cary, United States

Organised by Agile3d Distributed Agile Congress

May had a few interesting events - The Scrum Gathering in Atlanta, and the Federal Consortium of Virtual Worlds in DC. Join me for an open space discussion from those who attended as they summarize their favorite gems of the conferences. (yes, I'm going to both, so you get at least my thoughts)I'l like to extend a special invite to our Aussie friends if they can make it at their lunch hour. I know our European friends may be asleep at this time, so we'll do another Atlantic Edition.

Ruby Study Group - Los Angeles, United States

Organised by The Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup Group

Introduction to Ruby on RailsHave you been meaning to learn to build web sites with Ruby on Rails? Now is the time to get going. The LA Ruby Study Group will be reading Agile Web Development With Rails (4th edition).Please make sure you are using the 4th edition of the book. Earlier editions will not work. If you don't already have a copy, I recommend you purchase the ebook from the Pragmatic Programmers site so you get the version recently updated for Rails 3.2

Microsoft PubSec Live - Win8 At Night: Everything web developers must know to build Metro style apps. - Chevy Chase, United States

Learn how you can use your web skills to build Windows 8 Metro style apps. In this session you’ll discover how to harness the rich capabilities of Windows 8 through JavaScript and Windows Runtime.

LDNUG Reboot - O Fallon, United States

This is a planning for the Lubbock .NET User Group. If you are interested in making LDNUG a worthwhile user group, please attend this message. Send RSVP to info@ldnug.net by next Wednesday (5/23)

IT Martini - save the date - Columbus, United States

Organised by TechLife Columbus

5/24 - IT Martini 21: Agile IT Ability | Presented By COHAA

A Learning Retrospective - Ottawa, Canada

Organised by Ottawa Scrum Users Group

Please join us for a learning, hands-on retrospective! During this meetup we will:- Participate in a retrospective on Agile Ottawa events over the last year- Ask questions and discuss various retrospective techniquesWe are pleased to have this session hosted by Mark Levison.Networking starts at 6:00, and the event at 6:30.As always, the event is free and refreshments will be served.Information on Mark can be found at

Lets talk about Testing Methodologies - San Francisco, United States

Organised by iPhone Testers

Thank you all who came out to our April event. Many folks wanted to chat about various testing methodologies and talk about advantages and disadvantages and share our experiences.We will geek out on QA methodologies, test automation topics and venture into some load and performance concerns.We're informal, community centric, and much more hip than other QA groups

MSDevWNY May Meeting - WindowsPhone Development - Buffalo, United States

Organised by MSDevWNY

WindowsPhone Development with Dani DiazMoCloud: Useful Cloud Patterns for Mobile DevelopersIf you want to spicy up a resume with the latest tech scene buzz words, I can?t think of two better ones than ?mobility? and ?cloud?. We all know that both of these technologies will play a big role in the future of our industry. In this session, I will outline several popular design patterns for building powerful and scalable mobile applications.

Ruby Study Group - Los Angeles, United States

Organised by The Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup Group

Introduction to Ruby on RailsHave you been meaning to learn to build web sites with Ruby on Rails? Now is the time to get going. The LA Ruby Study Group will be reading Agile Web Development With Rails (4th edition).Please make sure you are using the 4th edition of the book. Earlier editions will not work. If you don't already have a copy, I recommend you purchase the ebook from the Pragmatic Programmers site so you get the version recently updated for Rails 3.2

Node.js Meetup - Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 - 7:00pm - Austin, United States

Organised by Node.JS User Group - Austin, TX

Greetings Node'ers,Without further adieu, our next meetup is on Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 at 7pm. Join us for some free food, drinks, PRIZES!, and great presentations. Meet with other local node'ers and engage in active discussions.I'm really really happy to announce that this meetup is also in collaboration with the Austin NoSQL Meetup, the Austin JavasScript Meetup, and the Austin Web Architecture Meetup.

DDD-NYC Monthly Meetup - , United States

Organised by DDD-NYC

To be announced shortly.Please don't forget to bring a photo ID to get access to our meeting location.

Fundamentals of Unit Testing - San Jose, United States

Organised by Silicon Valley Perl

Andrew Hampe from Yahoo will be presenting what he calls "A fist full of perl unit testing tricks".The presentation will provide good enough explanations about the differences between unit, integration and functional testing. The focus will be on how to do unit testing well.While there are many ways to do unit testing, including Test::Class, the general focus will be on a good enough flexible approach that covers testing both apps and modules.

Automated Testing - Chicago, United States

Organised by Chicago Agile Open Space

Automated TestingLightning Talk #1 - Al CersAutomated Testing - Benefits and Misperceptions.Lightning Talk #2 - Satya Kamineni'Continuation of the hands-on demo of how his project team successfully incorporates JBehave tests, into the build process, to verify messaging components.'Lightning Talk #3 - Talker neededPossible topic: 'Demo using Test-driven development (TDD) to create a suite of unit tests that run automatically with every build.

Ruby Study Group - Los Angeles, United States

Organised by The Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup Group

Introduction to Ruby on RailsHave you been meaning to learn to build web sites with Ruby on Rails? Now is the time to get going. The LA Ruby Study Group will be reading Agile Web Development With Rails (4th edition).Please make sure you are using the 4th edition of the book. Earlier editions will not work. If you don't already have a copy, I recommend you purchase the ebook from the Pragmatic Programmers site so you get the version recently updated for Rails 3.2

HPCC Systems One-Click Thor, & Spinning up a Stack (AWS CloudFormation) - , United States

Organised by NYC Amazon Web Services User Group

Presentation by1. Charles Kaminski (HPCC Systems One-Click Thor) is a Senior Architect for the technology department at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a 1.5 billion division of LexisNexis. In this role, Charles consults on various lines of business and customers regarding open source HPC solutions and data analytics to manage Big Data challenges.2. Brian Gupta (AWS CloudFormation) is a principal in Brandorr Group LLC, an Amazon Web Services Solution Provider.

Practical Web Application Security with ASP.NET - San Francisco, United States

Organised by The San Francisco .NET User Group

This session is a hands-on introduction to the web application security threats using the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) top 10 list of potential security flaws. The OWASP Top Ten provides a powerful awareness list for web application security and represents a broad consensus about what the most critical web application security flaws are.

Ruby Study Group - Los Angeles, United States

Organised by The Los Angeles Ruby/Rails Meetup Group

For our first book, we are reading "Everyday Scripting in Ruby for Teams, Testers, and You" by Brian Marick. This project-based book will help everyone learn the why and how of creating projects in Ruby. We will be reading about two chapters per week and working our way through the exercises at the end of each chapter - and any others people come up with during the week.

How to become an Agile Organization? - Chicago, United States

Organised by Chicago Agile Open Space

We will begin the meetup at 5:30 pm with networking, pizza and beverages.The lightning talks start at 6:00 and the open space goes from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.If you want to be a "lightning talker" please email me with the issue or solution that you want to discuss.

An Evening with Eric Evans - , United States

Organised by DDD-NYC

This month we are pleased to be able to once again benefit from the presence of Eric Evans at our meeting.  Join us for this evening for a discussion with the creator of Domain Driven Design.  Bring your questions, share your experiences, and learn how to better understand DDD directly from its originator!Please note that this meeting will be held at the EMC offices at 2 Penn Plaza rather than at our regular location; please plan accordingly.

July DCRUG: Extracting Gems from Your Rails Apps + TBD - Washington, United States

Organised by DC Ruby Users Group

Our meetings are open to all experience levels, from total novices to expert Rubyists.Current agenda: *"Extracting gems from Rails applications using DCI" by Patrick Robertson - The /lib directory of Rails apps can turn into a dumping ground of ad-hoc code for interfacing with third party APIs.