Pallet is used to provision and maintain servers on cloud and virtual machine infrastructure, and aims to solve the problem of providing a consistently configured running image across a range of clouds. It is designed for use from the Clojure REPL, from clojure code, and from the command line. reuse configuration in development, testing and production. store all your configuration in a source code management system (eg. git), including role assignments. configuration is re-used by compostion; j …

We meet once a month to share lessons learned and give presentations on computer science, programming, design, HCI, complex systems development, compiler optimization, cryptography, computer music, AI... and whatever else the group finds interesting. The common thread is that most of the presenters and audience are programming language polyglots that know at least one dialect of lisp (eg Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Emacs Lisp, etc) The format is usually "educational lightning talks" (5 minute …

Learn about important new technologies in the Java ecosystem: Java, Scala, Groovy, frameworks, tools, etc. We meet on the third wednesday of the month in downtown Oakland. The agenda is typically:  6.30pm-7pm - networking and pizza 7pm-9pm - presentation and Q&A Its a great opportunity to  learn new technologies; network with other developers; and discover job opportunities.