Community developer events venues

SkillsMatter

Events coming up

Past events

• Core NHibernate: Persistence with NHibernate

  Tue, 26 May 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London, United Kingdom

  Ayende Rahien (author of Rhino Mocks, one of the most popular mocking frameworks on the .NET platform, and a leading figure in other well known open source projects including the Castle project and NHibernate) will teach this 3-day introductory NHibernate course. Come join us and learn how to use this O/R mapping tool efficiently in your applications to save time and effort on communicating with database storage.

• Domain Driven Design Overview Course

  Mon, 1 Jun 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London, United Kingdom

  Effective software teams take a torrent of information and knowledge about their subject matter (the domain) and distill it into a stream of quality software. Finding and exploiting domain models is a key to success in projects with complex domains. In this 1-day Domain Driven Design workshop you will learn the basic principles and processes needed to develop the right kind of models, tie them into implementation and business analysis, and deal with some of the realities of multi-team projects.

• NEW COURSE: On Spring, Hibernate, Spring MVC, Ajax, Spring WebServices, Acegi

  Tue, 2 Jun 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London, United Kingdom

  In this brand new 4-day hands-on training course, you will learn modern JEE development with lightweight Java frameworks and open source JEE technologies, including Spring, Hibernate, Ajax, AOP, Acegi, agile testing. The next session will be taught by the course author and well-known Spring expert Matt Raible. And as the next session will be the 1ST TEACH of this course, you can register for this course at half price, if you book on or before May 2nd! LEARN HOW TO:

• Talk: Grails Eye for the Spring guy - London Spring User Group Meeting

  Wed, 10 Jun 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London, United Kingdom

  Grails is a next generation, dynamic web and high productivity web application development environment. In this tongue-in-cheek talk, Russ Miles will take us through developing highly interactive web applications using Grails making no assumptions about previous experience with Grails or the language it relies upon, Groovy.Grails itself is built 'on the shoulders of giants' in that it uses many leading open source technologies under the hood to deliver on its high productivity promise.

• How to run a Successful Open Source project – part 2: Licensing (LCJ meetup)

  Thu, 11 Jun 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London, United Kingdom

  This meetup follows on from recent 'How to run a Successful Open Source project' talk. Due to a large amount of interest on the licensing and legal aspects of Open Source projects, the London Java Community is putting on an extra meetup for those who need guidance in this murky arena!

• Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion Workshop , feat. Gojko Adzic

  Mon, 15 Jun 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London, United Kingdom

  Finding and exploiting domain models is key to success with large software systems. In this Domain Modeling Workshop, a team will learn to cultivate a strong connection between the language used by experts, users, and developers, so that the right kind of models can dramatically accelerate the process of translating the customers' needs into working software.

• In The Brain of Peter Mounce and Michael Delaney, Rake.NET & Iron Ruby

  Tue, 16 Jun 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London, United Kingdom

  At this In-the-Brain session on Rake and on IronRuby, we will have two speakers and talks. Peter Mounce will talk about using Ruby rake to aid with automating .NET software builds. Michael Delaney will talk about Iron Ruby, a .NET implementation of the Ruby programming language.Talk 1: Rake.NETPeter Mounce will talk about using Ruby rake to aid with automating .NET software builds - a build script should use a scripting language, because XML hurts too much.

• Domain Driven Design Conference: The DDD eXchange, June 19th

  Fri, 19 Jun 2009, 21:00 - 23:00 in London, United Kingdom

  Join us at this 1-day, 1-track event and hear from thought leaders in software design, Domain Driven Design, strategic design and domain modeling...Learn about Domain Driven Design, Architecture and lessons learnt applying DDD in the realworld. Learn from and discuss DDD with experts like Eric Evans, Gojko Adzic, Alberto Brandolini, Phil Wills and Dan Haywood.EVENT DETAILSWHO:Eric Evans - Alberto Brandolini - Phil Wills - Gojko Adzic - Dan Haywood -WHAT:DDD eXchange 19-06-09

• Loosely Coupled Messaging with NServiceBus, featuring Udi Dahan

  Tue, 30 Jun 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London, United Kingdom

  In this 2 day introductory course, you will learn how to use nServiceBus effectively in your applications to save time and effort on all communications and distribution aspects. During the course, we will build together a representative slice of an enterprise application that demonstrates all important distribution patterns.

• In The Brain of Mike Vizdos on Scrum in the Real World - Talk + discussion

  Wed, 8 Jul 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London, United Kingdom

  Free talk tonight (08 july 2009) - IN THE BRAIN OF MICHAEL VIZDOS, SCRUM IN THE REAL WORLDAt this In-the-Brain session on Scrum, Mike Vizdos will give a quick overview of Scrum and then use the remainder of the session to actually solve real world problems by using the framework. All levels of experience are welcome, but please register prior at the following URL:

• OPENSOURCE .NET TOOLS CRASH COURSE

  Mon, 20 Jul 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London, United Kingdom

  his 3-day crash course gives an overview of the most popular opensource .NET tools and introduces modern development practices that these tools promote, such as test driven development, continuous integration, dependency injection, object-relational mapping and web development using the model-view-controller pattern.NEXT SESSIONThis .NET Tools Crash course will be taught at Skills Matter - London, on 20-22 Jul 2009 by Gojko Adzic. Gojko is also the author of this course.

• Gojko Adzic's Test Driven Development in .NET Workshop

  Sun, 2 Aug 2009, 18:00 - 20:00 in London, United Kingdom

  This course teaches the basic Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, refactoring and acceptance testing. By applying these practices, you will be able to build quality into software from the start, design and develop systems fit for purpose and write code that is easy to maintain and evolve in the future.