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.

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

You learned to hack in JavaScript almost by accident, and now it's a serious language with an amazing diversity of applications. This group welcomes all to learn about the reach of JavaScript weather it be client or server side web development, the best testing frameworks, how to run node on a raspberry pie, how 'let' changes what you can do, what W3C specifications might be right for the server side, how to correctly implement polyfills, or a myriad of other topics all around JavaScript.

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StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

Lever is the company behind the Derby JavaScript MVC Framework. Learn more at http://derbyjs.com/

This meetup is designed to help understand what HTML5 is and how we can use it now. We'll explore the new elements and have some fun debates about browser implementations and new api's. We'll also take a look at the relationship between HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript on both desktop and mobile devices using Responsive Web Design. The meetup is great for the technical web designer/developers, but we encourage anyone to join who wishes to understand HTML5 better.

This meetup group is interested in all the moving pieces that encompass site reliability. Our goal is to have talks that address the issues encountered by technical operations teams running stable and high performing sites at scale.

Welcome to the San Francisco HTML5 User Group—the largest HTML5 Meetup in the World! We have free monthly events in San Francisco with presentations by the industry's leading experts in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and other cutting-edge web technologies. Past speakers have included HTML5 superstars like Paul Irish, Bruce Lawson, Steve Souders, Divya Manian, Brian Leroux, PPK, Faruk Ates, Rob Hawkes, Peter Lubbers, and many more. We enjoy free food and drinks from our generous sponsors and encourage …

Bay Area Mobile (BAM) was founded in 2010 with an emphasis on cross platform mobile development.  We are expanding our vision of the group to include all connected devices and the services that surround them. Topics will range from native to HTML5, cross platform tools and APIs to power your apps.  These apps are currently on phones and tablets. In the future, I expect you'll see them on TVs, glasses, your wrist and beyond. The meeting format will be a mix of presentations from leading experts, …

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.

Events involving the two of mankind's greatest inventions; Beer and JavaScript.

Design&Startups is a group for the best web, mobile, and graphic designers in the Bay Area. With growth and focus shifting from only technology to beautifully designed technology, Design&Startups wants to be the central place to learn about it. We will interview amazing designers, provide access to great products, and showcase beautiful work. Join us if you believe in a more beautiful web.

Dev Bootcamp is a 9-week intensive training in an intimate class and lab setting. We teach professional web development using Ruby on Rails. We offer member of the Ruby community a chance to mentor our students. We host a Thursday Speaker Night. We also host private round table on-boarding discussions, workshops for beginners, workshop and weekend events for female developers and hiring events for companies looking for amazing junior talent.

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

This group is focused on developers and architects who have a deep desire to collectively solve challenges related to CQ5. This group was created specifically for Bay area (SF and San Jose) professionals. This group’s only intention is to provide a forum where technical practitioners can exchange ideas and seek support.

106 Miles is a network of startup founders, engineers, and friends. Our mission is to educate and empower entrepreneurial engineers. Our values are Reputation, Innovation, Solidarity, and Education. This is our Silicon Valley group; see also our Southern California group. Please join us if you're a founder or engineer (or friend!) and... * You have worked at a startup, * You want to work at a startup, * You have started a company, and/or * You want to start a company. We meet several time …

Get your live music fix with other fans of indie/indie rock and music that sounds like indie rock but isn't on an indie label. Places I expect this group will frequent are: the Independent, Mezzanine, Bimbo's, GAMH, the Fillmore, Warfield, Slim's, etc. We aim to check out note worthy local acts as well as great folks coming through town.  We are always open to suggestions and try to meet up at shows with tickets at all price points...including free!  If you like any of the following bands, you'v …

This is a meetup group is for the most innovative developers and entrepreneurs to get together and discuss + create amazing things with Google Glass, the Mirror API, and AR technology. Google and Glass are trademarks of Google Inc. Google is not affiliated with this Meetup.

This group is for people interested in learning web and mobile development as well as more advanced people that want to contribute to the group.

We connect startup founders with startup funding from angel investors, seed and venture capital. We attract the most innovative startups in both tech and non-tech industries. At our events you can demo your startup, meet investors and learn how to build startups. We also  cover the following topics:  disruptive startups, pitching your startup, investor relations, startup law, augmented reality, and mobile development. Take a look at our community here, and join us to build successful start-ups. …

Women in tech welcomes men and women equally. We hold pitch events, classes and networking activities! If you would like to present at one of our pitch events then submit your information to: http://www.startupsaturdays.net/submityourstartup/ Build your team Find Investors Build Partnerships Get Funded Its all possible when you take the initiative! Find us on: Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/womentech/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/StartupSaturdays Twitter: http://twitter.com/Startup99 Web …

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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 …

This group is young professionals in the business of web design and development. Networking, collaboration and sharing resources is the goal.

Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more money.

This group is designed for developers looking to discover APIs and services that can help speed up and modularize their development and so time is not wasted re-inventing wheels. We will meet and learn the ins and outs of a new API every week, and why that API is relevant to development. Every API demo will be fun and engaging, and the goal of this meetup is not only to learn, but to also have a great time and make friends!