Concurrency Training & Events

Learn Scala in 2 Days - Boulder, United States

happened 2 years ago

Organised by Frontier Developers' Meetup

Scala is the fastest-growing language on the JVM, and quite possibly the fastest-growing functional language ever invented. More companies than ever are embracing Scala as their secret weapon to rapidly build high-performing, powerful desktop and server-side applications, with fewer defects than Java and similar languages thanks to declarative coding, an extremely powerful type system, and an automated testing ecosystem second to none (ScalaCheck, Specs, ScalaTest, etc.

Erlang hackathon - Vancouver, Canada

happened 2 years ago

Organised by The Vancouver Erlang Meetup Group

Hi all,Winter is in the air, and it's about time for another Erlang meet.Let's change the pace this time around and have an Erlang hackathon. All levels of experience welcome -- bring a laptop with Erlang installed and play around. No previous Erlang experience required.I'll be posting beginner, intermediate and advanced problems on the wiki that you can try. Please reply with any suggestions/requests/ideas for problems, and I'll try to incorporate them.

Akka: Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting with Actors - New York, United States

happened 3 years ago

Organised by New York Scala Enthusiasts

Akka is a framework by Jonas Boner for writing correct concurrent, fault-tolerant and scalable applications. It promises:Simpler ConcurrencyWrite simpler concurrent (yet correct) applications using Actors, STM & Transactors.Event-driven ArchitectureThe perfect platform for asynchronous event-driven architectures. Never block.True ScalabilityScale out on multi-core or multiple nodes using asynchronous message passing.Fault-toleranceEmbrace failure.

Ruby Concurrency and Not MongoDb - Baltimore, United States

happened 1 year ago

Organised by B'more on Rails

So far this month, we have the following presentations: *Sometimes Mongo Isn't the Solution — Eric Oestrich and Chris Cahoon *Ruby Concurrency Realities — Mike SubelskyHave something you'd like to present?  Let us know!

Modern Java Concurrency - London, United Kingdom

happened 2 years ago

Organised by LJC - London Java Community

********IMPORTANT ********** SkillsMatter are hosting this event and are handling the attendance it is essential that you confirm your place at this link: | | | | | | the event, we will have two main technical presentations around concurrency which will be preceded by 3-4 of lightning talks from our members.BEN EVANS - Clock speed and performance are no longer increasing as spectacularly as they once did. Instead the focus has turned to more cores per chip.

What Happened at Scala Days 2010? - New York, United States

happened 3 years ago

Organised by New York Scala Enthusiasts

Scala Days 2010 is this month in Lausanne, Switzerland, and you're going, right? Ok, maybe you are not nerdy enough to fly over an ocean for a conference on your favorite programming language, but Nathan and I (Dustin) are!You knew Nathan is one of the presenters, didn't you? You didn't?!? Well, then you've gotta get all the details of not only his, but also the 30 or so other talks (well, just the ones that Nathan and I can make it to

JVM goes to BigData - Mountain View, United States

happened 1 year ago

Organised by Silicon Valley Web JUG

JVM goes to BigData6:00 - 7:00 Networking & Light Dinner7:00 - 7:15 Announcements7:15 - 8:45 Talk8:45 Q&A & DismissSlowly yet surely the JVM is going to Big Data! In this fun filled presentation we see what pieces of Java & JVM triumph or unravel in the battle for performance at high scale! Concurrency is the currency of scale on multi-core & the new generation of collections and non-blocking hashmaps are well worth the time taking a deep dive into.

Parallel Programming .NET 4 & VS 2010 - New York, United States

happened 2 years ago

Special joint meeting of NYC .NET Developers Group & NY ALT.NET User Group! Parallel Programming with .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 Abstract: In the past, introducing concurrency and parallelism into libraries and applications was difficult, time consuming, and error-prone.

VBUG Annual Conference 2009 - Reading, United Kingdom

happened 3 years ago

Organised by VBUG

This years VBUG Annual Conference will be held in Building 3 of Microsoft, Reading.Topics to be covered will include:Concurrency Using Functio

VBUG Bracknell: Virtualising Websites and Robotics - Berkshire, United Kingdom

happened 4 years ago

Organised by VBUG

Join us in Bracknell for an evening of Virtualising Websites and Robotics! Brian Squibb will be giving a session on Virtualising Websites. Brian di

Modern Java Concurrency - London SW3 3XB, United Kingdom

happened 2 years ago

Organised by LJC - London Java Community

The doors will open at 18:00 for some refreshments sponsored by PlayFish and if we're lucky playing in their Rockband lounge.At 18:30 we will have a few lightening talks on Concurrency, including Campbell Wilson of PlayFish speaking on Concurrency and the general architecture of their highly scalable Social Games.For our main event Ben Evans of Deutsche Bank will present a very distinctive take on Modern Java Concurrency

Understanding the Disruptor, a Beginner's Guide to Hardcore Concurrency - London SW3 3XB, United Kingdom

happened 1 year ago

Organised by LJC - London Java Community

Understanding the Disruptor, a Beginner's Guide to Hardcore ConcurrencyThe Disruptor is new open-source concurrency framework, designed as a high performance mechanism for inter-thread messaging. It was developed at LMAX as part of our efforts to build the world's fastest financial exchange. Using the Disruptor as an example, this talk will explain of some of the more detailed and less understood areas of concurrency, such as memory barriers and cache coherency.

September GTUG Meeting - New York, United States

happened 1 year ago

Organised by NYC-GTUG

Combining Android, Near Field Communication, and App Engine - Ralph YozzoNear Field Communication? What is it and how can you use it?  We will show examples of practical (and not so practical) uses of the NFC reader/writer that is built into the Nexus S phone and soon many other phones.  NFC can be used in applications use as credit card payments.  We will also show examples of using the Android In-App Billing support.

budapest.js februar - szakmai talalkozo es sorozes - Budapest, Hungary

happened 2 years ago

Organised by budapest.js - JavaScript Hungary Meetup

Februárban ismét találkozunk, ezúttal egy sörözéssel egybekötött szakmai meetupon.A Colabs új helyre költözik, ezért a februári szakmai találkozónak új helyszínt kerestünk. Választásunk a Ten Minutes Caféra esett. A helyszínt ingyen kapjuk, cserébe a kávézó azt kéri, hogy fogyasszunk. Támogasd a rendezvényt egy sörrel, kávéval!Villámtémák: *Neumark Péter saját fejlesztésésu lockless concurrency-t biztosító JavaScript függvénytárát mutatja be.

Mid-Missouri .NET User's Group - 2401 Lemone Industrial Blvd, United States

happened 4 years ago

The presenters will be James Brockman of the State of Missouri Dept. of Health & Senior Services speaking on building Windows services using .NET, and Matt Sherman, MCPD, of Statler Stitcher presenting on the Microsoft Robotics Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) and other aspects of robot...

Tampa ArcSig Developing with New Parallel Computing Technologies in VS2010 and .NET 4.0 - Jeff Barnes - Tampa, United States

happened 2 years ago

6/24/2010 - 6:30 PM (ET) - Tampa, FL - MSFT Office - ** Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/679887562/fladotnet (Our preferred registration site is Eventbrite, please register there using the Florida.NET ticket type. This allows us to more easily track attendance numbers.

FREE TALK: Concurrency and Complex Event Processing with Scala - London, United Kingdom

happened 2 years ago

During this free event, Russ Miles comes to Skillsmatter to deliver a thought provoking talk on Concurrency and Complex Event Processing with Scala. Russ Miles is CEO, founder and principal consultant at OpenCredo. At OpenCredo he leads a company of passionate open source and agile and lean software development experts who provide unbiased, honest arbiter advice across a wide and varied selection of open source technologies and agile processes and practices.

Russel Winder's Python Workshop - London, United Kingdom

happened 1 year ago

Russel Winder, author of author of "Python for Rookies" and involved with the Python-CSP parallelism framework and the SCons build frameworks, comes to Skills Matter in 2012 for his four day Python workshop. Start right from the basics, Russel will introduce you to the Python programming language, while discussing strategy and rationale. By the second day, you will be confident enough to carry out TDD (Test Driven Development)

Tulsa SQL Server User Group March 2013 Meeting - Tulsa, United States

happened 2 months ago

Join us for an evening of free SQL training, free pizza, free SQL prizes, and networking with Tulsa area IT professionals.OU-Tulsa Learning Center, Room 136Tulsa SQL President Jeremy Marx presents "Are You Reading Between the Lines?&quot

Uncle Bob Martin's Clean Code: Agile Software Craftsmanship - London, United Kingdom

happened 4 months ago

Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organisation to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way? In this two-day Clean Code Workshop you will learn the principles and practices of Clean Code as described in Robert C. Martin's book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. You will also receive this book as part of the course materials.

Russel Winder's Python Workshop - London, United Kingdom

happened 6 months ago

In this 4-day Python Workshop, you will learn both low-level details of Python as well as the idiomatic design approaches in Python. We'll start with the language basics after which we discuss various testing strategies and their rationale. Through lectures, exercises and discussions, we'll introduce Concurrency and Parallelism after which we'll learn about GUI's. We'll then explore Networking, XML processing and Persistence when developing applications with Python.

VBUG Newcastle: Concurrency Using Functional Patterns in C# with Oliver Sturm - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

happened 3 years ago

Organised by VBUG

The multi-core scalability issue is being widely discussed these days, and one solution that is regularly proposed involves the application of pattern

Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 & ATLAS - now with overview of Silverlight - London, United Kingdom

happened 5 years ago

Organised by JB International Consultants Ltd

Our Advanced ASP.NET 2.0 course not only gives delegates with experience in .NET 1.1 the opportunity to learn some of the best new features in Visual Studio 2005, but will also provide delegates with advanced knowledge of ASP.NET programming and techniques. We will focus on best practises, OOP, web services, and focus extensively on the new AJAX-like features implemented in ATLAS.

C# 3.0 and LINQ with Visual Studio 2008 Training Course - London, United Kingdom

happened 4 years ago

Organised by JB International Consultants Ltd

This course has been developed to help existing C#.NET 2.0 programmers and developers upgrade their .NET development skills and learn about the new features of Microsoft's C# 3.0 and LINQ to XML and ADO.NET using Visual Studio 2008 (currently codenamed Orcas).

Spring eXchange Conference 2009 - London, United Kingdom

happened 4 years ago

Organised by Skills Matter

Following the success of last year's Spring eXchange 2008, Skills Matter and SpringSource are joining up forces to organise another exciting conference for 2009!

Jonas Boner's Akka: Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting - London, United Kingdom

happened 2 years ago

Organised by London .NET Meetup Group

Jonas Boner's Akka WorkshopWe believe that writing correct concurrent, fault-tolerant and scalable applications is too hard. Most of the time it's because we are using the wrong tools and the wrong level of abstraction.Akka is here to change that. Akka is using the Actor Model together with Software Transactional Memory (STM) to raise the abstraction level and provide a better platform to build correct concurrent and scalable applications.

FREE TALK: Concurrency and Complex Event Processing with Scala (Russ Miles) - London, United Kingdom

happened 2 years ago

Organised by London .NET Meetup Group

At this London Scala User Group meeting, Russ Miles will deliver a talk on Concurrency and Complex Event Processing in action with Scala.Russ Miles is CEO, founder and principal consultant at OpenCredo. At OpenCredo he leads a company of passionate open source and agile and lean software development experts who provide unbiased, honest arbiter advice across a wide and varied selection of open source technologies and agile processes and practices.For more info, visit

Udi Dahan and Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA - London, United Kingdom

happened 3 years ago

Organised by OpenSource & Agile Community Events

Now, we have all heard of (or should I say 'from') Udi Dahan. What would you give to to be taught by the master himself?! Well here's the perfect opportunity! We here at Skills Matter proudly announce that we will be having Udi over to teach a 5-day course the Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA.As we can appreciate- designing large-scale distributed systems is hard.

Neil Bartlett's OSGi Workshop - the Dynamic Module System for Java - training - London, United Kingdom

happened 3 years ago

Organised by OpenSource & Agile Community Events

COURSE DETAILSwhat: Neil Bartlett's OSGi Workshop - OSGi: The Dynamic Module System for Javawhen: February 16-19thexpert: Neil Bartlett, author of the popular 'Intro to OSGi' tutorials on eclipsezonedeveloper.comwhere: Skills Matter, Clerkenwell, London EC1V 7DPfull description: MATTER COMMUNITY OFFER - 25% DiscountIf you would like to learn the core principles of OSGi, the Dynamic Module System for Java, then

JAOO Conference 2009 - City of London, United Kingdom

happened 3 years ago

Organised by OpenSource & Agile Community Events

Skills Matter is pleased to support JAOO Conference 2009 taking place in Aarhus, Denmark from 4-9th October 2009! JAOO Aarhus is the premier European software conference focused on engaging the hearts and minds of developers. The event has grown over the years and now consists of 5 tracks covering a variety of technologies including Enterprise Java, Ajax, Cloud, .NET, Functional Languages, SOA, Architecture & Design, Databases, Agility and more!