The Boulder WordPress Meetup is for individuals, entrepreneurs and small business owners wanting to learn what, why and how WordPress is a powerful content publishing platform, marketing tool, social media hub, CMS and complete Website solution. We invite all WordPress interested designers, developers, directors and related industry professionals who wish to collaborate on innovative ideas, network, present topics and participate in advancing our local WordPress community. This community can d …

A place for .NET developers and designers to get together and talk code, UX, and design. We'll not only cover .NET topics, but also Silverlight, explore Expression Blend, Sketchflow, Surface, XNA, and Windows Phone 7, along with SQL Server.

Like the early pioneers of the west, Frontier Developers explore the vast untamed regions of software development, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in a never-ending quest to find better ways of doing things. Twice a month, we host a presentation and get-together open to all software developers interested in continuous self-improvement. Topics might include: Functional programming; Introduction to new programming languages; Distributed data storage; Extreme testing; Web scalability; L …

While there are some great groups in town that discuss a bunch of cool languages, there wasn't one that focused specifically on the language that you and I both love, JavaScript. Until now. These are fascinating times for JavaScript development, and this group will attempt to explore topics including, but by no means limited to: * the power of raw JavaScript; * Ajax; * libraries like jQuery and Prototype; * techniques for building your own library; * server-side JavaScript with Node.js; * opt …

Boulder is beautiful...and so is a well executed User Experience. The User Experience is everything from the layout/design of a web app or site, to how the end-user interacts with it. BoulderUX is a group dedicated to web development, design, and anything involving the user experience.

Rather than bashing rival technologies, come learn and participate in the Tech Throwdown panel discussion. We're going to bring in some of the area's brightest technology talent to present on competing technologies. Each presenter will have 30 minutes to cover his or her topic, followed by a panel discussion with audience participation. Nubes are welcome, but the presentations and panel discussion will assume working knowledge of the subject. The group will meet bi-monthly on the last Thursday …

This group is intended to meetup every month to discuss the topic of Resilience Engineering for the Web. Each month we will have a speaker to focus on a particular topic. Our goal is to provide a variety of topics including: Experiences & patterns shared by local companies who have found ways to make their systems more resilient. Talks focused on tools which facilitate resilient systems. This includes development, testing, deployment and management tools. Strategies for dealing with the human c …

Boulder Digital Arts (BDA) offers over 250 events a year,including many free social and networking events, affordable classes and workshops, a shared coworking space, private offices, a greenscreen production studio, a 24" color printer, and lots more! Check out our website at www.boulderdigitalarts.com for all the info on events and networking opportunities, and be sure to get listed in our free directory of creative digital professionals!

This meetup is for tech developers that are interested in getting involved in the creation of a startup, and for entrepreneurs that are looking for developers. Here is what to expect at the meetup event. 8 entrepreneurs giving 5 minutes pitches of their ideas. Afterwords there will be a breakout session with food! Entrepreneurs will be stationed around the room with snacks, available for conversation. If you are interested in presenting please see the Information for Future Presenters page.

The goal of the Boulder Web Dev Meetup group is to bring the large community of Web Developers in the Boulder area together to share ideas, beers, and good times. The meetup group is open to professionals, students, freelancers, hobbyists, and anyone with an affinity for Web Development. Our Meetups will be a great opportunity to find new contacts, find new opportunities, and share/learn about web development.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. Our mission is to make application security visible, so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about true application security risks. Everyone is free to participate in OWASP and all of our materials are available under a free and open software license. Find out more about OWASP at https://www.owasp.org/

The Zero to Programmer MeetUp Are you ready to become a part of the Ruby On Rails Revolution? This meetup is designed to encourage people with a mild to medium awareness of the Ruby on Rails programming platform to be able to meet and interact with like-minded individuals who see the opportunity that knowledge of Ruby On Rails and related computer programming knowledge offers. Why Ruby on Rails? Simply put, programming tasks that took 10 hours to code in older languages can now be accomplished i …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Boulder Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Boulder serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who compliments you. …

Boulder Django is a group for all levels of people interested in learning more about using Python and Django and sharing their knowledge and experiences with others. We accept all, from beginners to advanced. Please join us soon at a meetup! Find us on freenode at #denverdjango or our email-list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/front-range-django

Working to create a nonprofit coworking space for tech creators (programmers, designers, etc.), and a community that's focused around startups, learning, work, collaboration, and fun. While there will be a use fee for the coworking space, hopefully the cost will be more then made up for by the enhanced work environment and the new opportunities the community would provide. We also plan to use the space to host and encourage hackfests, meetups, and other community events. Come join us.

Free Ruby on Rails workshops for women and their friends.

We want to build a tight-knit PHP group focused around uniting PHP developers of all skill sets and interests. Our group will aim to connect, collaborate, and hack on projects as a group. If you're already a PHP developer or you want to learn PHP then this is the meetup for you! Join our group and get involved to find out more!

It's time to build some startups! This meetup is for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs. Many of us developers / designers don't have the time to commit to being technical cofounders but would still like to be involved in startups. The idea of this meetup is to pool our time and skills together to build MVPs for startup ideas that interest us. We will be looking at proposals from entrepreneurs, putting together teams, and building MVPs. The application for entrepreneurs can be found here:  …

Do you look at the world as nodes and edges? Does Big Data make you salivate a little? We are getting together to discuss the latest in graph databases, modeling, libraries, data sets, and analysis. People wanting to discuss inner/outer joins need not apply.

Bringing together Developers and Designers with Local Businesses and Startups that are hiring! We will have short presentations as well as a breakout session to get to know each. NO CONTINGENCY / RETAINED RECRUITERS OR EQUITY ONLY POSITIONS PLEASE!

We are a group of technically savvy women in Boulder who are, or hope to become, serious programmers and leaders in our field. The main focus of the group is on software/web development, but we are open to programmers from other fields as well (science, medical, IT, etc). As women developers, we've all probably gotten used to holding our own in large groups of men. We aren't afraid to ask questions, take leadership positions, and for the most part we are treated equally and with respect. However …

So you have an interest in making applications more awesome to use. Well come on and meet others just like you to compare work. App designers, front end developers, UI designers and wannabes of all sorts welcome to bounce ideas.

Build fully-native iOS apps with Ruby, in your favorite editor, without having to touch Xcode or Objective-C. All the benefits of Ruby, and fully-native on iOS. The similarities between Ruby and Objective-C are enough that a former Apple employee named Laurent Sansonetti was able to make a compiler for Ruby that outputs native iOS machine code. It was announced in the spring of 2012 and has been in and out of hacker news since. We're intending to make Denver/Boulder a hub for the Ruby Motion co …

This is a sort of meta meetup made of up the tech/startup meetup organizers. The hope is that together we can: - Learn from each other. - Get help finding venues, speakers, and sponsors. - Help market each other's events. - Create a combined calendar / website. - Put on jointly created / sponsored events.

Global Day of Code Retreat is a world-wide event celebrating passion and software craftsmanship. Last year, over 1800 software developers in 94 cities around the world spent the day practicing the craft of software development using the coderetreat format. What is a Code Retreat? Boulder will participate in this event alongside our international colleagues.This is a language-agnostic event. Each session, the pair chooses what language they want to work in. So, regardless of your language of choi …

A group for women graphic designers, web designers, and those who play well with them. We meet monthly and have speakers or discussions about all aspects of graphic design, from logos and print layout to website design, social media, and more. We also discuss business-related topics.

Meet other developers using Meteor. Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

(This is a clone of the original NYC meetup) If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access the Meetup API in Go!?), whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all …