Palace Hotel

Events coming up

Past events

• An Event Apart San Francisco 2009

  7-8 Dec 2009 in San Francisco, United States

  From the makers of A List Apart: An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is th...

• San Francisco OpenSolaris User Group August Meetup

  Tue, 25 Aug 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

  Let's meet to hear lightening talks about OpenSolaris , as follows:>OpenSolaris.org Overview (Content/OGB/BootCamp Summary) (Michelle)> Installing OSOL on laptop (dual-boot/Vxm/VirtualBox) (Luc)> Power Management (Rafael)> How SongBird is put together--for Dummies (Stevel)We'll then adjourn to enjoy pub food and drink together at 21st Amendment! We'll have some free CDs of the recent 2009.06 distro!

• Brainstorm Architects Group Direction (Informal)

  Wed, 5 Aug 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

  Local meet-up to determine (1) who are most interested in networking / mentoring opportunities as software architects and tech. leads; and (2) what are some proposed topics for presentations, so I can get a jump on scheduling more substantial events for autumn.My suggestion is coffee or wine bar, somewhere we can hear ourselves think, such as:Bocce Cafe478 Green St (North Beach)San Francisco, CA Please suggest alternate places if more convenient in SF, East Bay.

• San Francisco OpenSolaris User Group July Meetup

  Tue, 28 Jul 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

  Let's meet to talk about OpenSolaris and enjoy pub food and drink together! We'll have some free CDs of the recent 2008.11 distro, and the lead architect will attend to answer your questions.

• Best Practitces with Unit Testing

  Tue, 21 Jul 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in San Francisco, United States

  In this episode of the SF PHP Meetup, Sebastian Bergmann will discuss best practices in unit testing. Sebastian is the creator of PHPUnit, a contributor to PHP, and co-founder of The PHP Consulting Company. Although Unit Testing is a recommended practice for any software project, care has to be exercised such that testing yields the desired benefits. Bad programming practices in both test code and production code can make Unit Testing a nightmare.

• San Francisco's First Official Google Meetup

  Sat, 11 Jul 2009, 01:00 - 03:00 in San Francisco, United States

  Hello,Welcome to San Francisco's first Official Google Meetup! We're excited to announce Google Search Evangelist Adam Lasnik, legal expert Daphne Keller and others will be on hand to answer questions, mingle and talk about all things Google.Plan is to start with a few questions from you. So please visit our Moderator page to submit questions and vote on them in advance of the meeting.First round's on us. Thanks, and look forward to seeing you on later this week.Nate Tyler | Google

• July Meetup - Working on speaker confirmation & date

  Tue, 7 Jul 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in San Francisco, United States

  We're still working on speaker confirmation for the July meetup. We will try to coordinate with the speaker's schedule & OSCON.

• San Francisco OpenSolaris User Group June Meetup

  Tue, 23 Jun 2009, 02:00 - 04:00 in San Francisco, United States

  Let's meet to talk about OpenSolaris and enjoy pub food and drink together! We'll have some free CDs of the recent 2008.11 distro, and the lead architect will attend to answer your questions.

• Scaling SonicLiving's API

  Fri, 5 Jun 2009, 01:30 - 03:30 in San Francisco, United States

  This month Gabe & Steve from SonicLiving, a leading concert discovery service, will be discussing: -Making a legacy PHP CodeBase debuggable -Horizontal scaling -International character sets -Performance and scaling methods using memcached and MySQL -Why they're using php They'll also discuss SonicLiving's new API, who is using it, how their API is driving business development and monetization, and how they aggregate and validate their show data.

• SF PHP Meetup

  Thu, 4 Jun 2009, 18:30 in San Francisco, United States

  Meet the founder and director of engineering from SonicLiving at this month's PHP Meetup! Gabe Benveniste and Steve Churchill will discuss the adventures of launching SonicLiving with a minimal budget and a small team. Discussion will range from the entrepreneurial challenges of starting a web based company from the ground up to the technical challenges of managing internet-scale data and traffic.