Whether building a web, mobile, or gaming backend, Operations is using development tools to make it work. We primarily focus on systems automation and site reliability engineering. We're interested in the built-in facilities in Linux and the BSDs to programmatically seed and deploy. We primarily focus on Open Source solutions, but it is good to keep an eye out on the alternatives. This includes automated deployment to private cloud (eucalyptus, openstack), public cloud (amazon web services, rack …

We are building a small (5-10) group of intelligent/educated people who treat trading and investing in public-market securities as a primary business. Ideal members are those who already spend 20+ hours per week on their trading/investing activities. Whether you trade your own accounts, or are in the process of building a fund or pool to expand your assets under management, this group may be for you. We are open to different trading/investment styles, since we won't spend most of our time discus …

Semantic Web in Orange County Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [ http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web. The existence of a semantic web meetup group in San Diego will hopefully stimulate information exchange, and the growth o …

(LTBKIT=Welcome!, Android Developers, Users, & Entrepreneurs of the US.California.SoCal.Orange County area! Since 2009, we are Your oldest & largest professional community group and we are Here to Serve You! MJZ5CB: quick intros (LTBKK3=Find and join like-minded local developers, designers, & users meeting & succeeding in Android! Get your problems solved, put on presentations, help others, find & offer jobs, and team up on projects. Just join and RSVP & come to our meetings, share knowled …

Dear Volunteer Diggers, Calico Early Man Site is the only archeology site in the Western Hemisphere ever deemed important enough to be worked by Dr. Louis S.B. Leakey. Project Director from 1964 until his death in 1972, Dr. Leakey knew that the thousands of artifacts found in this barren desert environment were eerily similar in appearance and manufacture to those he found in Africa. This striking similarity intrigued and mystified him. The implications for the presence of some of the earliest …

I’m a full stack polyglot (multi-language) software engineer who runs my own Startup and have been saddened by the lack of available talent that I've seen here in San Diego, so instead of crying or running up to San Francisco I've decided to do something about it. Beginning in July, I'm going to be giving a different class each week on a particular programming language or framework, I'll let you guys vote with your dollars on which languages or topics get covered. My goal here is to give you 2 t …