If you haven’t been to Capital Factory or Tech Ranch, this is the week to go. Capital Factory is hosting an Android developers group, a Python meetup, and this month’s Refresh Austin on personal branding. Tech Ranch is bringing us a pre-accelerator demo day as well as a code-tastic presentation on startup crawl apps. Both are great facilities for anyone in Austin who works in tech. In addition, you can also find oodles of great niche user groups spread out across town.
Agile Austin Monthly Meeting
Nov 13, 6:00 p.m.
BancVue
4516 Seton Center Pkwy, Suite 300
Join us for a panel discussion on agile architecture.
Pre-Accelerate Demo Day
Nov 13, 6:00 p.m.
TechRanch Austin
9111 Jollyville Rd, Room 118
Napkin Venture and TechRanch teamed up to create a service for entrepreneurs who have a great idea but aren’t ready for an incubator or accelerator. If you have nothing more than an idea that you are passionate about, PreAccelerate can help you build a plan and the skills you need to get to the next level. Our companies are formed and they are ready to show off! Please join us!
Android Dev Austin - Optimizing Apps With AT&T ARO
Nov 13, 6:30 p.m.
Capital Factory
701 Brazos St, #1601
Join us for pizza and beer and to learn about the AT&T Developer Program's Application Resource Optimizer (ARO). ARO is a free, open source diagnostic tool for analyzing the performance of your mobile applications. It can help your app run faster and smarter by providing recommendations to help optimize your mobile application's performance, speed, network impact and battery utilization. We'll have a quick presentation about ARO, then you'll have a chance to see it in action and even test you app and get recommendations and support from an AT&T expert.
Austin Web Design and Developers Meetup
Nov 13, 7:00 p.m.
Join to learn the location
The monthly web design meetup exists to help funnel web professionals into Refresh Austin. Refresh Austin is an organization of Web professionals working together to foster new ideas and refresh the creative, technical and professional aspects of their trade.
Personal Branding that Doesn’t Suck
Nov 13, 7:00 p.m.
Capital Factory
701 Brazos St, #1601
Come hear the story of Creative Market, a new platform for handcrafted, “mousemade” design content from independent creatives around the world. Gerren will share lessons from building Creative Market and insights into how and why design should be at the heart of every startup. Also: How not to suck at personal branding (presented by Cecy Correa) Taking a look at your personal branding to make sure it properly represents who you are is very important.
Austin MySQL Meetup
Nov 14, 6:45 p.m.
Pervasive Software Inc
12365 Riata Trace Pkwy Building #8
Join us to learn about Abusing the INFORMATION_SCHEMA for scripting repetitive tasks.
Austin All-Girl Hack Night
Nov 14, 7:00 p.m.
Build-A-Sign
11525 Stonehollow Dr #100
Bring your laptop, bring your projects, bring your knowledge, and bring your questions! From now on, hack night is going to be a more informal affair, a chance to drop in and work together with other female developers in Austin on side projects, work projects, or larger open source initiatives. You can also come get help with presentations, technical articles, testing, or just general feedback.
Cracking the Coding Interview
Nov 14, 7:00 p.m.
Renaissance Austin Hotel
9721 Arboretum Blvd
Unlock the secrets of technical interviewing and find opportunities to put those skills to use. Amazon Web Services is hosting Gayle Laakmann McDowell’s talk on her Amazon.com best-selling book, “Cracking the Coding Interview.” Come enjoy McDowell’s presentation, meet afterward with Amazon Web Services team members, and learn about opportunities to work on the world’s leading cloud platform.
Austin Python Monthly Meetup
Nov 14, 7:00 p.m.
Capital Factory
701 Brazos St, 16th Floor
We typically have a main presentation or a series of lightning talks, followed by discussion and Q&A. There is a diversity of domains and experience levels represented, so come with your questions and be prepared to talk about how you use Python!
A Crawl Through Startup Crawl
Nov 15, 7:00 p.m.
TechRanch Austin
9111 Jollyville Rd, Room 118
The Startup Crawl app was created by Andrew Donoho and highlighted the 46 companies and groups participating in ATX's October 11th "Startup Crawl". Andrew will discuss how the "Crawl" app was conceived, created, and how he got it reviewed in record time, along with the details of each step. In particular, he will discuss the JSON category on NSData, composite properties on Core Data items and the in-app App Store. This is a "code rich" presentation.
Drupal Dojo
Nov 15, 7:00 p.m.
Mangia Pizza
8012 Mesa Dr
Theme: The Drupal Dojo is for anyone interested in hanging out with other Drupalistas in a "hive mind" environment. There is no set topic or presenter so bring your laptop, a pet project and an appetite.
Celebrate Auto Tech With SXSWi
Nov 15, 7:30 p.m.
Intercontinental Stephen F. Austin Hotel
701 North Congress Ave
Join SXSW Interactive for our happy hour meet up at the Intercontinental Stephen F. Austin. SXSW will offer a complimentary beer / wine / well beverages at Stephen F's bar upstairs from 6:00pm-7:30pm on Thursday, November 15. RSVP today for a chance to talk cars before heading over to catch a sneak preview of a brand new F1 documentary, 1, at the Paramount Theatre.
Agile Austin Conference
Nov 16, 8:00 a.m.
AT&T Conference Center
1900 University Ave
Agile Austin will be hosting Keep Austin Agile 2012 at the AT&T Conference Center on November 16, 2012. Agile can be hard. Getting it to stick can be even harder. To do it, you have to get beyond the practices and understand the principles behind them. And then to instill these principles within your organization. At Keep Austin Agile 2012, we'll be focusing on how to make this happen. Join us in exploring how to enable a culture of agility.
Austin Windows App Developers
Nov 17, 11:00 a.m.
Cherrywood Coffee House
1400 E. 38 1/2 St
Code to your heart’s content. It’s the perfect opportunity to get your underway, or to finish that app you’ve already started. Ideally you'll be working on a Windows 8 app, but feel free to come by if you just want to see what all the fuss is about. Hang out with us all day or just come for a few hours. There's not obligation to be there early or stay all day.
