Brandon Satrom
Husband and Father | Christ-follower attempting to live a meaningful story | Product Manager for Kendo UI | Writer and persistent nay-sayer

Grab your running shoes and get your run on during RailsConf. We'll take a 3.1 mile spin on Austin's downtown hike and bike trail.

Should be fun!

BohConf - The official unconference of RailsConf

BohConf is a hacking-centric event that will include community code drives featuring well-known OSS authors, barcamp-style discussions, and more.

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Austin on Rails welcomes the Rails community to Austin!

Come on over to Buffalo Billiards on historic 6th Street for a welcome to Austin happy hour after Ignite RailsConf.

Throw back a couple beers, shoot some pool, and chat with fellow Rails developers from all over the world.

Should be a blast!

We would like to thank our generous sponsors...

Web geeks at SXSW unite! We'll be sharing good conversation, games ( billiards, shuffleboard, and darts), cold beverages, and light appetizers while the guys from 500 Startups Console.fm spin some tunes.

We'll also have a dedicated gaming room to ourselves with an old school game collection including Mission Control, etc. They will...

10 years ago nearly everyone at SXSW Interactive was known by their own personal site or blog.

What happened? Over time we shifted our creative energies to the emergent "social web", sharecropped our content like so many serfs across Flickr/Twitter/Facebook, and watched while our work was framed with ads (or placed inside them!), sold...

Held in 2011 in front of a packed house of tech startups + enthusiasts, 500 Startups & Eric Ries have been asked to bring The Lean Startup SXSW to a larger venue for the 2012 Interactive lineup. The Lean Startup SXSW will take place on Saturday, March 10th from 9:30am - 6:00pm at the Downtown Hilton (across from the Convention Center), with the...

  Startup Weekend, Zaarly and Twilio have teamed up to bring you the must attend party at SXSW this year! Stop by and have some drinks on us and dance into the night with DJ Christian Barbuto and DJ Remmington Steele behind the booth.  Did we mention free drinks?  This is where the whos who of the startup world will be Friday night... and...

Our next Hack, the App Dev Hackathon @ SXSW, takes place March 9-10 during SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX, at the Austin Music Hall. Things start Friday, March 9th at 7pm and run through the night until early the next morning, Saturaday, March 10th.

App Dev Hack @ SXSW is for developers working on mobile and HTML5 apps. Developers will learn new...

UI/UX Developers, this hackathon is for you! #mobileappsxsw AT&T Mobile App Hackathon, an event produced by the AT&T Developer Program, is excited to be making its SXSW debut Friday, March 9th at 6:00 PM in the heart of the action (Austin Convention Center - Room 2). We’ve lined up a special celebrity guest, Chicago Bears 7-time Pro-Bowl...

Come on out to Jo's patio on 2nd Street and let your inner entrepreneur out to play.

Interactive Festival will feature five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders, the unparalleled SXSW Trade Show and an unbeatable lineup of special programs showcasing the best new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the...

  DOWNLOAD THE MAP HERE http://baer.ly/startupcrawlmap   SXSW Interactive badges are available starting at 11am on Thursday, March 8th. You’ll have the badge but most events don’t start until the next day so... now what?Why not stop by for a quick beer, game, snack or just say hi at one of the many downtown tech companies from 4pm to...

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HTML5.tx is the premier event for web designers, developers and technologists in Texas. This single-day event is designed to be a place for people of all disciplines and backgrounds to learn from web experts and each other about HTML, CSS, JavaScript and the future of the web....

Get the latest on Windows Phone and everything you need to know to develop, publish and make money with your application at our free, two-day Windows Phone Developer Events. Day 1 will feature inside advice from Windows Phone experts and local MVPs, plus technical sessions on Windows Phone app development. Day 2 goes hands-on with the opportunity...

Current Location:
September 16-18, 2011 | Zilker Park, Austin, TX
About: ACL Music Festival

September 16-18, 2011
10th Anniversary
Zilker Park, Austin, Texas

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Influences:
The Austin City Limits Music Festival began...

The best darn regional Ruby conference this side of the Pecos.

php|tek is a PHP conference like no other; it brings together great technology content and great people, and mixes them up in a wonderful cocktail of PHP fun.

We like to think of php|tek as a professional conference with a community flair. You will find a combination of high-quality presentations by some of the brightest experts in the PHP world,...

For our May meeting, Microsoft's Brandon Satrom will be coming in from Austin to talk to us about Web Development with HTML 5. I hope everyone can make it

Let's get together and feel alright

BANDS:

Israel Vibration & The Roots Radics Band, Tribal Seeds, Ashes of Babylon, ...Az One, Bandulus, Bachaco, Cinco Doce,Don Chani, Grimy Styles, Jah Sun Josh Heinrichs, Mau Mau Chaplains, Radio La Chusma, Skampida and Taj Weekes

New for 2011
-You will be required to get a permit if you wish to bring...

Don't miss this opportunity to network one last time or bid your final farewell at the party to end all parties — the Interactive Closing Party. Media Temple invites you to go out with a big bang.

So we're throwing another epic event at SXSW complete with some fabulous music. We'll flesh this page out as more details emerge.

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SO YOU WANNA SEE THE SHOW? READ ON VERY CAREFULLY...

We will be able to accommodate about 1200 guests. During SXSW we will be giving away around 600-700 "Priority" wristbands randomly to those...

Note: an RSVP at Plancast will not get you in the door. You must RSVP at EventBrite. SXSW Interactive is the week immediately following DrupalCon Chicago, and we're going to both. You should too. DrupalCon ends on Thursday. SXSW begins on Friday, and runs until Tuesday. We're throwing the party on a Monday night, so you'll have a few...

Google, via its rich snippets, has reported that microformats has a 94% usage share (as compared with RDFa etc.). So how does the future look for microformats? In this session, we'll look closely at real problems with implementing microformats in HTML5 and how this can be done, and whether there will be a continuing place for them. We'll...

Big Data creates problems and opportunities that do not exist when dealing with smaller datasets. You will learn how to scale, utilize, and visualize Big Data as well as create and integrate Big Data related APIs. We will talk about how to scale your data, expose your data through APIs, integrate existing data from the data marketplace, and...