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 fair game. After you present, it's an open f …

This meetup is for people interested in learning iPhone and iPad Programming at a competitive price during the weekend (Saturday, Sunday). Topics covered: Creating Apps with iAd capability. Creating Apps that use the motion sensors in the devices. Hardware (accelerometer, touch screen, GPS Receiver, Three axis Gyro, Proximity sensor, Ambient Light Sensor, Retina Display, etc). IPhone OS (Berkley BSD Unix, Core OS & Core Services, Media Layer and Cocoa Touch Layer). Cocoa Touch (Collectio …

Thanks to the brilliant work of Ryan Dahl, we have node.js, a beautiful and elegant server-side framework built on top of Google's V8 Javascript engine. This opens up a whole new world of possibility for developing web apps, APIs, and lightweight HTTP servers. We meet on Wednesday at 6:30pm.  Each week we'll have a group discussion on a particular aspect of NodeJS, or a whackiest.  Occasionally, we'll may have a more formal presentation. If you'd like to present, please send a note with your t …

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Millions of users listen to Spotify's streaming music service world wide. Behind the scenes is a world class technology organization that innovates hard to make the music easy. This Meetup is devoted to exploring how Spotify's technology stack works and to the hackers who use Spotify's APIs. We'll get together to meet both Spotify engineers and business leaders and anyone who takes the time to do something cool with Spotify's APIs.

With all of us being on the bleeding edge of this first true social networking medium there seems like is a lot of interesting applications it could be used for. I think it would be great to have some question and answer between developers, community groups that would like to use Google+ to help build local connections, regular users and any other movers and shakers in the Google+ Scene to try to flesh out some of the unknowns about it while everyone is still in the trial stage of all of this. W …

A monthly event inviting folks from other disciplines who are intimidated or frightened by the prospect of learning programming to join a judgment-free community that will offer free education and fellowship. The Meetup is typically split into three sections - Section 1 - Learn2Code: An introductory session on some aspect of actual programming with real coding examples. Section 2 - API Junkie: An introduction to the world of APIs. Learn how easy it is to develop using a specific API. Section 3 …

eZ Publish (pronounced "easy publish") is an Open Source Content Management System that provides a platform for multi-channel publishing. eZ Publish is ideal for the development of customized web and mobile applications. The mission of the New York eZ User Community is to lead the community in the New York area, to facilitate collaboration between the local community and eZ Systems, to encourage sharing of relevant ideas, experiences, and "best practices" among members, and to foster innovation …

This group is for front-end developers who are either using the HTML5 canvas element or want to learn how to use it. We’ll host free roundtable-style discussions, offer discounted classes, participate in labs and more. For the canvas experts in the group, there will be opportunities to showcase and share what your knowledge. And for canvas newbies, there will be plenty of learning opportunities to accommodate different learning style preferences. If there is interest, we might also cover SVG a …

Get together with fellow hackers, tech Meetups from across NYC, and the best APIs around for the first ever cross-language hackathon tournament. Every programming language and platform has its strengths and weaknesses, its devoted fans and its bitter detractors. To celebrate the techno-diversity that makes software programming such a fascinating sport, we're hosting a series of hackathons at Meetup HQ... JavaScript in June PHP in July Python and Ruby in August FINAL BATTLE OF THE BRACES in Sept …

We are Developer Evangelists, Advocates and Community Managers. We help people make awesome things. We make heroes every day. This is a place where Developer Advocates, Evangelists and Community Managers can share tips, stories, best practices, developers and anything related to geek shepherding. This group isn't for: Marketing or Recruiting.

A group of web developers meets monthly to build web apps and learn how to do it right and fast using open source, web standards and various API (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Meetup and more). @StartupAPI The list of topics ranges from Security and Identity to Usability and Analytics. If you know a good topic we should discuss, please add it to the wiki, maybe even add some links to good articles / videos about it. We also code web applications right at the meetings - using whatever we want …

We are Facebook developers based in New York. Our goal is to make a community to help developers make the best possible use of the Facebook APIs. We will try to focus on Facebook, but we can cover Twitter, Pinterest, Linked In, GitHub, Foursquare, or whatever other social APIs if there is interest.

This group is for anyone interested in leveraging telephony APIs to build awesome applications. Developers of all skill levels and experience using telephony APIs are welcome. It is my hope that once a month developers who enjoy building applications that leverage voice/SMS funcitonality (and those who would like to learn) can come together, share their projects and ask and address questions over a few beers. The ultimate intent is to learn and have fun! I look forward to meeting you all! You ca …

In the ongoing discussion regarding when to release an API, there is a growing consensus that the API should come early, if not first in the order of tasks to get from concept to fully functioning application. Some say that releasing the API immediately is like putting the cart before the horse, but the emerging popular view seems to say the opposite. Adopting what is now being called an "API-first" philosophy requires that we introspect more around the role of APIs What goals are we accomplishi …

Join us! The first Windows 8 app event will be announced soon.  The New York Windows 8 App Development Group is modeled after the success of the Boston Windows 8 App development group.  (www.windows8boston.com) This NY Win 8 group is Focused on Windows 8 app development and everything and everyone you need to know about Windows 8 style apps. Take advantage of the need for Windows 8 app developers, designers, user experience experts and solution architects. Take your existing skills and create Wi …

Web 2.0 and new technology is disrupting Finance in every area - Banking, Payments, Multi asset trading, Brokerage, Investment, Money management, Funding, E-Commerce. It is also making Finance easily accessible to everyone. Let's get together and look at these trends very closely and learn from the innovators, disruptors, domain experts, doers and visionaries. We are looking for sponsors. Please contact the organizer with any Topic Suggestions Speakers Technologies Sponsorships or membership …

The FinTech Hackathon | www.fintechhack.com The goal of the FinTech Hackathon is to promote the development of financial technology for institutional customers and consumers. The Hackathon brings together FinTech developers and designers to develop financial products and discover new technologies. Example applications include innovations in risk management, trading, big data, retail banking, regulatory compliance, mobile payments and enterprise social. APIs and platforms from technology partners …

This is a group for anyone who is looking to learn web development. We will start by teaching HMTL and CSS. Depending on demand, we would also like to go into Javascript, Python, APIs and other web technologies.

AngelHack Hackathon Workshops are a place for industry leaders, hackers, and entrepreneurs to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about API's, SDK's, and how to use new and creative ideas to empower a new generation of developers.

Meet other developers and members of the Aviary community building amazing photo applications in the web and mobile space. Aviary’s mission is to democratize and power the worlds creativity. To meet this goal, we’ve built a Photo Editing Platform for both mobile and web. We have SDK’s for iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Windows 8, and a JavaScript API for the web that’s also compatible on mobile tablets as well as Blackberry phones. Aviary allows any developer to instantly inject a polished photo …

NYC Pipeline Developers unite! This group is for the people that develop plugins, automation, tools, asset management systems and otherwise hack together the creative engines that keep animation, visual effects, and game studios pumping out their remarkable content. We'll get a chance to network, trade skills, explore cutting edge techniques and drink lots of beer/coffee/tea.

Curious to know about Google Glass? The Glass API has just been released and first batch of devices are being shipped. Here's your chance to ask questions to several Google Glass Pioneers in the NYC area about Glass and what's on the horizon for wearable glass technology. Designers and developers, whether you're just curious about Glass or are waiting for your pair to land on your doorstep in the near future, come join us. Note: This event is hosted by Google Glass enthusiasts in the area and …

All kinds of Khronos technology-related events are hosted, from casual meetups and socials to hack fests, fundraisers, guest lectures, community service and educational events in the city that never sleeps - New York City. Khronos APIs: OpenCL OpenGL OpenGL ES WebGL WebCL COLLADA OpenVG OpenSL ES OpenMAX AL OpenMAX IL EGL StreamInput OpenVX OpenWF OpenKODE OpenML