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.

Village Grill - Raleigh, United States

Organised by Culture and Cuisine Meetup

The Village Grill offers gourmet prime burgers, main plate salads, a variety of fresh appetizers, homemade soups, craft beers, and a full line of top shelf spirits.The inventive menu choices surpass the typical casual food found in other restaurants. Locally crafted beers and food products highlight a menu that is focused on the very best that American Cuisine has to offer.Wednesday night is $5 Martini night.BRING CASH, if possible...management prefers cash for separate checks.

Deploying Apps to the Cloud - , United States

Organised by New York ALT.NET Group

AbstractDeploying web application to the internet used to be a multi-days affair, filled with 10s of disparate steps, involving multiple departments and go-no-go checkpoint. With the advent of Platform as a Service (PaaS) such as Heroku, AppHarbor, and Windows Azure, deployment now can be as simple as pushing code to a remote git repo. In the first half of this talk, Alex Hung will show the basic steps in setting up a new node.js application and deploys it to the internet using Heroku.

OpenSource - geeks coding on various projects - Addison, United States

Organised by Geeknight Dallas

Bring you own open source to work on, or help us with one of our projects in Java, .Net. Objective-C, Ruby, Python, Haskell. We'll supply Pizza and soda, you just turn up :)- - - - - -We're back to the ThoughtWorks office in Addison this week!

Web Analytics Wednesday - Columbus, United States

Organised by TechLife Columbus

Web Analytics Wednesdays are an opportunity for full-time web analysts, part-time web analysts, and anyone who is interested in learning more about web analytics to get together and share their experiences! They are always free thanks to the generosity of our sponsors. This month's event is sponsored by Fathom, along with our annual event sponsors: CRM Metrix, ExactTarget, and Resource Interactive.

Happy Hour + Online Marketing = Happy Marketers! Join Us! - Pittsburgh, United States

Organised by SEMPO Pittsburgh and the Internet Marketing & SEO Group

Join us for happy hour on Wednesday to talk shop. Everyone come with your favorite online marketing tool or hack to discuss! Laptops welcome!Please only RSVP Yes if you really really intend on coming so we know how many seats to reserve. Thanks!

May MongoDC Meetup - Washington, United States

Organised by Washington DC MongoDB Users Group

Join us for the May MongoDB Meetup!We've got two presenters lined-up and will have time for an open discussion to answer YOUR questions about MongoDB.Agenda *6:30-7:00: meet, greet, & eat *7:00-7:15: welcome, announcements, & introductions *7:15-9:00: presentations: *Running MongoDB - Zeki Mokhtarzada, CTO, co-foudner Webs, Inc. *Hear how and why Webs, Inc. is monitoring, troubleshooting, and fixing MongoDB in production.

Madison Area Software Developers Meetup Group Monthly Meetup - Middleton, United States

Organised by Madison Area Software Developers Meetup Group

Come and share your experiences as a software developer in the Madison area. We have self-employed, contractors, work-from-home, entrepreneurs, code monkeys, web monkeys, java monkeys, database monkeys, pixel monkeys, you name it. Looking for a job? We have people looking for programmers too.Things we've discussed are previous meetings:* the latest web technologies* scripting languages such as Ruby and Python* compiled languages such as Java, C#, and C++* source control

Meet for SPEED - , United States

Organised by New York Web Performance Workshop

Come join us at Meet for SPEED event at Logicworks at 7:00PM!Bring your laptop and we'll work together on optimizing our sites.You can benefit even if you can't edit your site right now - we will be happy to share the knowledge.We'll all learn how to see what's slow and how to make it fast!Thanks to LogicWorks who's also sponsoring pizza and drinks!DirectionsLogicWorks155 Avenue of the AmericasFifth FloorNew York, NY 10013

You've got Aspects in my Objects - two great tastes that taste great together - St Louis, United States

Organised by St. Louis ALT.NET Meetup

Steve Bohlen will be visiting our group this month, talking to us about Aspect Oriented Programming.It probably comes as no surprise to anyone with any real-world software development experience that Object-Oriented inheritance modeling can’t cleanly solve every class of problem we face as software engineers.  AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming)

Meet and Greet - , United States

Organised by Black Techies

Hey Techies, We've been off-schedule lately, but I want to make sure we're still gathering and building the community. Let's have a more informal mixer so we can get to know each other. A location is needed, but anywhere in Manhattan/Uptown is game. Let's try to support one of our own businesses. Please suggest locations in the comments. Thanks and look forward to seeing you all, Kyle

Ray from Raize - Schaumburg, United States

Organised by Suburban Chicago Delphi Users Group

Join us for an evening of discussion with a truly top level Delphi programmer, Ray Konopka from Raize Software.  Ray is an excellent presenter and will surely bring an evening full of useful information and insight for all who attend so please join us for a great night!

XBOX LAN PARTY - Free Snacks and Soda - Fullerton, United States

Organised by Information_Tech_OC

XBOX Night is back !Come hang out and play against the Milton Team.

Dallas Magento Meetup - Dallas, United States

Organised by Dallas Magento

The very first Dallas Magento Meetup Group! This meetup will happen at the AXZM Offices in Deep Ellum. Stay tuned for more details.

Entrepreneurs/Co-founders Mixer SF: Tea & Social - San Francisco, United States

Organised by Silicon Valley Blackberry Group

This event is co-hosted with for co-founders, partner, core team members in your mobile / app startup? Join this special mixer at Roe restaurant, Lounge and Night Club in downtown SF. Lets make startup fun with music, tea, and social! will offer happy hour drink specials.If you have a startup position including co-founder, partner, core team member, go ahead post as comments at this meetup.Happy hour drink specials and order from the food menu too. welcome.

Founder Co-foudner happy hour - Santa Clara, United States

Organised by The Startups & Societal Ventures Network / Silicon Valley

This event is co-hosted with for co-founders, partner, core team members in your mobile / app startup? Join this special mixer at Roe restaurant, Lounge and Night Club in downtown SF. Lets make startup fun with music, tea, and social! will offer happy hour drink specials.If you have a startup position including co-founder, partner, core team member, go ahead post as comments at this meetup.Sponsors welcome.Service Providers: this is not the right event to look fo

Entrepreneurs/Co-founders Mixer SF - Palo Alto, United States

Organised by Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs & Startups

Entrepreneurs/Founders/Hackers,Looking for co-founders, partner, core team members in your mobile / app startup? Join this special mixer at Roe restaurant, Lounge and Night Club in downtown SF. Lets make startup fun with music, tea, and social!If you have a startup position including co-founder, partner, core team member, go ahead post as comments at this meetup.Happy hour drink specials and order from the food menu too. welcome.

<!doctype society> Entrepreneurship: You Don't Have To Be Crazy, But It Helps - Kennewick, United States

Organised by <!doctype society>

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert OrbenThinking about starting your own business?  Wanting to make your own business better?  You can know SQL back to front, but if you don't also know business, you're sunk!  Join DocType Society on Wednesday, May 23rd for a discussion on what it takes to make it on your own.  We'll share perspectives from lone wolf consultants and startups in the web business.

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

OCPHP May 2012 | Case Study | hosted by Branding Personality - Fullerton, United States

Organised by OCPHP | Orange County PHP

*** We are in need of presenters for topics ***David Lane will be presenting an overview of his website. How a tutorial on store locators using php, MySQL, and Google maps turned into an EARLY BETA website for www.wikitimetraveler.co which is a wiki mash up utilizing Flickr, You Tube, and Google Web Services.It is being free coded on a apple using  a LAMP stack and most of my PHP takes a  Object Oriented approach.

Visualization Open Mic - San Francisco, United States

Organised by Bay Area d3 User Group

Come join us for a visualization open mic at BitTorrent. If you're working on a visualization or other component, sign up to present a demo or give a short presentation.Presentations should be 5-10 minutes long, with a couple minutes for questions.All types of skill levels and projects are welcome. Whether you've spent months refining your first d3 visualization, finalizing the API of a new chart class, or have a new technique to demonstrate, you're welcome to present.

IT Camp: The Future of Virtualization – Hyper-V enhancements in Windows Server “8” - Portland, United States

IT Camps are semi-structured, no-fluff events exclusively designed to serve IT professionals. They are a free, in-person learning event for anyone seeking professional development as it applies to IT Professionals.

Windows Developer Camp - Malvern, United States

Windows 8 changes everything. Combining the broad reach of Windows, best-in-class developer tools, a reimagined user experience, support for new chipsets, and a built-in Store with industry-leading business terms — Windows 8 is the largest developer opportunity, ever.

Microsoft Public Sector 1-Day Win8 Dev Camp Event - Chevy Chase, United States

The agenda will include the following topics:•Introduction to Windows 8 and the new Windows Store•Designing a Metro Style App•Building Metro Style Apps with HTML and JavaScript•Building Metro Style Apps with XAML: What .NET Developers Need to Know •Integrating the Windows 8 Experience with Cont

TechNet Events Presents - IT Camp: The Future of IT - Suite 400, United States

Mark your calendar, set up a reminder, and join us at our IT Camp as we further “The Future of IT” event series. We will begin with the essentials of Microsoft Hyper-V and advance to real-world topics on Hyper-V manager, virtual networks, processes and operations on virtual machines, etc.

Windows Azure Camp - Suite 300, United States

1.The Azure Platform– An Overview- Let’s start off the day with a dive into Windows Azure. We’ll talk about what Windows Azure offers, from hosting applications to durable storage. We’ll look at Windows Azure roles types, hosting web applications and worker processes.

West Michigan AITP monthly meeting - &quot;Medical Laws and IT&quot; - Grand Rapids, United States

This is our monthly meeting of the West Michigan Chapter of AITP. Tom Dumez of Kent Record Management will be updating us on the various IT issues regarding medical law.

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)