BTI360's Software Craftsmanship Series is an internal company event that focuses on taking your software engineering skills to the next level. This is done through discussing and diving deep into what constitutes clean code, what coding principles are often disregarded, and how to affect better coding practices on your team.

This is a group for people who are tired of "groups". In the Reston, VA area there are many talented people who work with software every day and enjoy exchanging ideas. All around Reston new solutions, products and even companies are being created in the building next door every day. It’s time for a forum where interesting concepts and ideas are presented to interested people. Large and small software and tech companies office, live and play here. Software pros work hard and play harder. The mis …

Develop, design and publish Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of Developers and Designers. Listings will include events, contests and news of interest to software developers. This group caters to anyone in the greater DC and Baltimore areas wanting to learn more about app development for the Windows Store or Windows Phone.

Agile software development is a great way to make good software that satisfies real needs and creates real value to those who build and use that software. Everyone on the team is concerned with the quality of the product. However, sometimes it can be an overwhelming task being the team member whose job it is to insure that the quality of the product is sufficient. DCAST was created to develop a community of those interested in agile software testing who are also interested in testing agile produ …

Meet other local people interested in the technology, opportunities, marketing, scalability, advertising, and social impacts of social platforms including: * Bebo (OpenSocial, f8) * Facebook (f8) and Facebook Connect * Hi5 * Imeem * Kickapps * Linkedin * Lycos * MySpace * Ning * Orkut * Plaxo * Salesforce / Exchange And also stuff like Friend Connect, MySpace Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and clouds: AppEngine, Amazon Web Services/EC2/S3. And timeless marvels such as Softwa …

Connect with other developers building on the Salesforce Platform

The goal of this group is to foster social and professional connections among women software engineers in the Washington DC area. Let's get together for a casual Friday lunch in downtown or a happy hour or dinner mid- week. We will meet once a month or so. Looking forward to our first event!

This group is a way for the DCPHP Developers' Group to stay in touch and provide a source of information on what we're up to. Sign up for our mailing list for PHP discussion and more meeting info. Recruiters are welcome to post to that mailing list provided jobs are PHP-related and the subject line begins with [job].

This is a group for anyone interested in web design and development living in Reston and Herndon area.  If you are a web designer, web developer, full-time or part-time freelancer, or someone very interested in learning how to make great websites and web applications, then this is the right group for you. Regardless of level of expertise and experience in web development, we all can learn from each other by sharing new tips, news on latest technologies, best practices, new tools, and much more! …

This group is for Android enthusiast, developers and entrepreneurs. Even if you are new to Android and want to know what all the buzz is about you are welcome. We will meet once a month to listen to guest speakers’ talk about various topics related to Android and then network and socialize.

Welcome Lean Kanban DC! Lean Kanban DC is associated with the Limited WIP Society, which is the home of the global community embracing Kanban for software development. "Limited WIP" refers to limiting the amount of work in progress -- a core practice in lean pull systems such as kanban. The goal of this group is to help grow and learn from each about Lean Kanban techniques to help us deliver products. This community is open to a wide array of topics including: Lean, Kanban, Agile, Lean Startup, …

What is ALT.NET? 1. You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. 2. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. 3. You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc. 4. You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It’s the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are thos …

Welcome to the Washington DC Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment User Group. This meetup is dedicated to sharing tools and techniques for delivering software repeatably and reliably to production. If you are interested in learning about automating day to day tasks, writing build scripts, build tools, continuous integration servers, continuous deployment, DevOps, Puppet or Chef, test automation, deployment pipelines, database provisioning, and much much more, then this is the group fo …

Have a web or mobile application you want to test? Have a prototype or mock-up you want to introduce to the light of day? Let's test with 1) real users 2) in real time 3) face to face and 4) FREE? Premise: People who want users for their applications/designs for testing, will test others applications/designs, in exchange. In addition, our group will have expert speakers on usability, UX and UI. You are welcome to attend to learn, network and help others test their software and designs, even if …

The Capital Area ColdFusion User Group meets once a month in the DC Metro area. We are a technical and social community of developers, software architects, managers and students with professional and personal interest in all or some aspects of the Adobe ColdFusion development platform and its related technologies.

Meet, share ideas and learn about Lean Start-up efforts from local entrepreneurs. The initial meeting is intended to discuss the feasibility of a Tysons Corner Lean Start-up group, given that there is already an active group in Washington DC. Can another group exist without diluting the DC group? Lean Startup is a set of processes used by entrepreneurs to develop products and markets, combining Agile Software Development, Customer Development and existing software platforms.

Stay up-to-date with the latest Ruby and Ruby on Rails happenings. Network with other Ruby developers.

If you develop software for a living, you need at least one "dynamic" language in your toolkit. Languages that make it easy to do meta-programming are invaluable for many types of problems. If you are a Java developer, there are especially compelling reasons for investing in Groovy and the numerous Groovy-based frameworks -- Grails, Griffon, Gradle, Spock, Gaelyk, etc. The purpose of this group is to cultivate a local community for learning and sharing about experiences with the Groovy and Grail …

Do you have an idea that could be your organization's next big thing, but you are unsure of what to do next? Innovate DC is a community for intrapreneurs; employees looking to create change and get things done within an organization. We believe that innovation can happen inside organizations of any size.  All you need is someone with an idea and a champion to help navigate the waters of change.  We offer a support organization for intrapreneurs and champions that will focus on providing content …

We're a group of Hadoop & Cloud Computing technologists / enthusiasts / curious people who discuss emerging technologies, Hadoop & related software development (HBase, Cassandra, Hive, PIG, etc). Come learn from each other, meet nice people, have some food/drink.

Our objective is to provide Web API enthusiasts, people who are thinking about, interested in, or actively developing Web APIs, a space to get together, share ideas, and discuss techniques and technologies in a vendor neutral environment. Please come and join us, learn from each other, and have a little fun.

A group, lead by the team at IKANOW, devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the DC/Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data solutions.

Interested in learning Unity3D, helping others learn Unity3D, Unity3D best practices and/or game development? This group helps members become better Unity3D users and game developers through face-to-face meetings, round tables and lectures.  This isn't a group for just programmers, artists are welcome too.

We're a bunch of hackers, inventors, engineers, techies, developers and makers who love all things IT and security. Everyone is welcome - from advanced hardware hackers to those who would like to learn what can be done with these new technologies in the arts, sciences, healthcare, gaming, academia, and business venture opportunities. Our meetups are totally informal and are a great opportunity to chat about projects, create new ones, solve problems, mingle, network and generally shoot the breeze …

We're a rag-tag group of software developers, mostly focused on web tech, but with a wide range of interests and experience. Our meetings are a mix of free-ranging discussion, short presentations, and project co-working. If you have ideas to share, questions to ask, or code to hack on, come by and say hi.

Thank You For Joining & Welcome To The Community! Drupal is widely used by many government agencies, hi-profile businesses, not-for-profit firms and community-based organizations to build their websites and applications. Internationally, Drupal powers millions of websites and applications in many countries and is built, used and supported by an active, passionate and growing world-wide community. The Drupal Technology Meetup is a resource for the growing community -- including professionals in …

The DC Selenium Meetup is a group for Selenium users of all skill levels to come together to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as Agile testing, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, building maintainable automated test scripts and much more.

Our second meetup group! As we continue to build a community of CQ5 users and developers in NYC we're reaching out to the Washington, DC area where we know there are a fair number of CQ5 installs as well. Would you like to meet others that have implemented CQ5? Share code or tricks, strategy or thoughts? Stay tuned!