Rather than bashing rival technologies, come learn and participate in the Tech Throwdown panel discussion. We're going to bring in some of the area's brightest technology talent to present on competing technologies. Each presenter will have 30 minutes to cover his or her topic, followed by a panel discussion with audience participation. Nubes are welcome, but the presentations and panel discussion will assume working knowledge of the subject.   The group will meet bi-monthly on the last Thursd …

MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database. dMug is a scalable, high-performance, open meetup group for people interested in learning about, and sharing knowledge of MongoDB. Everyone from novice to expert is welcome to listen to presentations, join in handson hackathons & enjoy some good geeky company.

I have met some great people at New Horizons. New Horizons works on Microsoft certification for Office, SQL Server Database, .NET development, Project Management, and other Microsoft certifications. They also have students in Linux, etc. Come on out and network with local people for job information and socializing.