Things are a little quieter than usual before turkey day, but there are still some good tech events going on. Start the week with a Mobile Happy Hour or a casaual C++ gathering, then end it at the Tech Ranch Campfire while everyone else is getting clobbered at Black Friday sales.
Mobile Monday Happy Hour
Nov 19, 6:00 p.m.
Cedar Street Courtyard
208 W. 4th St
MobileMonday Austin is an open community of mobile professionals, researchers and enthusiasts in Austin, TX. Its members share a common interest in mobile technologies and a desire to foster cooperation among individuals, the industry and academia. Please join us at Cedar Street Courtyard on Monday, November 19 for a networking happy hour event. No presentations, no demos -- just some time to grab some free drinks and meet your fellow Austin mobile community members. No tickets are required, but please RSVP so we can get an estimate on number of attendees.
Joomla User Group
Nov 19, 6:30 p.m.
Opal Divine's Freehouse
700 W 6th St
If you're looking to build your own fully functional, feature-rich website, a Content Management System like Joomla! makes the process much easier and quicker. Joomla! is one of the most popular Open Source (free GPL license) content management systems available. Come to the Austin Joomla! User Group!
North Austin Monthly C/C++ Pub Social
Nov 19, 7:00 p.m.
Join to learn the location
All are welcome to show up and chat about C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Java, Python, or software engineering in general. We'll have a sign saying "C/C++" on our table, so look for it! During the first hour, people come in and find a seat at our table. At 8:00 we ask the servers not to interrupt for a little while, so we can give everyone a minute or so to talk about who they are and what's on their mind. After that, people can shuffle around into new groups based on those introductions.
Headspring Brown Bag - ASP.NET Web API
Nov 20, 11:00 a.m.
Headspring
10415 Morado Cir #300
With the release of ASP.NET MVC 4 brought a new component in the ASP.NET web stack, ASP.NET Web API. As described by Microsoft, ASP.NET Web API is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building RESTful applications on the .NET Framework.
In this two-hour brown-bag lunch, we'll look at where Web API fits in with the current choices for building web services. We'll look at what kinds of applications you would build using Web API and where it fits with existing systems.
Agile UX: Developing a Style Guide for a Large Company
Nov 20, Noon
CA Technologies
2nd Floor, Barton Springs Conference Room
5001 Plaza on the Lake
Developing a style guide can be a challenging task. There are many factors that need to be taken into consideration. What are the benefits and difficulties of creating and maintaining a style guide for a large company? And how do style guides affect the Agile dev process? Let's discuss!
Austin Cloud User Group
Nov 20, 6:00 p.m.
Pervasive Software
12365 B Riata Trace Parkway
Our Turkey Day talk centers around Crosstalk and Druid. The talk starts out fairly high-level, discussing the problem domain (i.e., what we do as a company) and showing a demo. Up through the demo, the talk can probably be consumed by anyone technical or non. After that, I'll be getting into the technical details of how Druid operates. This portion should be accessible to any engineer and hopefully of particular interest to people involved in analytics, BI and data warehousing.
Drupal Dojo
Nov 22, 7:00 p.m.
Mangia Pizza
8012 Mesa Dr
Need to escape the family this Thanksgiving? According to their page, The Drupal Dojo is still on. 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.
Tech Ranch Austin Campfire
Nov 23, 3:30 p.m.
Tech Ranch Austin
Jollyville Rd, Suite 100
Campfire is all about connecting you to the larger tech startup community. We bring out lots of interesting, accomplished people from the ecosystem so you can get the introductions, insight, and help you need to move your business forward, while also helping others. Our structured teaming activity facilitates getting know your fellow attendees at a deeper level than a conventional networking event to enable knowledgeable recommendations that quickly get at what you actually need.