Our goal is to provide app developers with the strategic and tactical information they need to make their apps and their business better.  This includes both technical and general discussions on app development, deployment & growth. Austin is a hotbed of mobile businesses and AMPD' is your place to learn, share and meet other folks creating the next evolution in computing.

The new entrepreneurship era is all about customers and their problems. The number one reason that startups fail is lack of customers, not product development failure . The Lean Startup is an approach that attempts to acknowledge this and create startup success. The Lean Startup is a collection of techniques built around maximizing validated customer learning through fast Build/Measure/Learn iteration loops. This is not a group to promote general entrepreneurship, it is a focused group for peo …

Design is finally taking center stage in the business world. This presents an amazing opportunity for us to create something meaningful. Learning how to effectively incorporate design into the startup process allows us to change the way products are built, and quite possibly change the world. This group is for anyone interested in design and product development. We are exploring the art of entrepreneurship.

Austin's Community of Practice for Kanban, Kaizen, Second-Generation Agile and Lean Software Development

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium/Webdriver to test their web applications. The Austin Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Austin area. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium/Webdriver and topics extend through related …

A Meetup for software developers to discuss and learn about all things surrounding Continuous Integration: CI tools, continuous delivery, branching and merging strategies, agile methodologies, unit testing, coverage analysis, etc.  Continuous Integration has made a huge impact in the way I develop software.  There are a lot of different facets to CI, and a lot to discuss.  I want to get a multi-platform/language group together so we can learn from one another and get some cross-pollination going …

Seeking all things Twitter Bootstrap

Studies have found that pair programming produces cleaner code, facilitates learning and improves productivity. Pairs often find that seemingly "impossible" problems become easy or even quick, or at least possible to solve when they work together. Let's get together for pair programming in Ruby and Rails. Whether you've never written a line of code or you're the most experienced Rubyist out there, you have something to teach and something to learn. No egos, no intimidation. Come out and experien …