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OpenSource & Agile Community Events

Events coming up

• Nov 27

  AGILE SPECIFICATIONS, BDD AND TESTING EXCHANGE

  London EC1R 0BE, United Kingdom

  Following the excellent response to our Agile Testing and BDD community events and courses during the last 10 months, Skills Matter is proud to organise the first, annual Agile Specification, BDD and Testing eXchange - an intensive and intimate event aimed at bringing together leading thinkers and passionate community members. The aim of this eXchange is to promote awareness and adoption of modern Agile Testing techniques and ideas.

• Nov 30

  David Anderson's Management Success with Common Sense Application of Agile/Lean

  London EC1V 7DP, United Kingdom

  Shift-ALT-CTRL: David J Anderson's Management Success with Common Sense Application of Agile and Lean This 1-day seminar on achieving Management Success with Common Sense Application of Agile and Lean will help managers intelligently leverage agile and lean concepts to positively affect desired business outcomes. Participants in the seminar will hear in plain language how to understand the values and principles and economic model underlying agile and lean.

• Dec 1

  Lean & Kanban eXchange

  London EC1A 4DD, United Kingdom

  Skills Matter is pleased to announce the Lean & Kanban eXchange 2009 taking place at Skills Matter in central London on December 1st - an intensive and intimate event aimed at bringing together leading thinkers and passionate community members. The aim of the Lean & Kanban eXchange is to promote awareness and adoption of Lean and Kanban ideas and techniques. With David J.

• Dec 2

  David Laribee's Leading Lean/Agile Teams

  London EC1A 4DD, United Kingdom

  Calling all technical leads, senior developers, coaches & architects: you can nto afford to miss David Laribee's David Laribee's Towards a New Architect 2-day workshop. David's highly-anticipated workshop is a must for anyone wanting to learn actionable techniques and tools for leading your team toward greater throughput and technical excellence.

• Dec 2

  Droidcon London 2009

  London EC1A 4DD, United Kingdom

  Skills Matter is pleased to organise droidcon London 2009 taking place in London on 2nd December - the UK's first community event aimed at grassroots Android developers! The event moves to London, following the world's first droidcon, in Berlin on 3-4th November. The aim of droidcon is to bring together the Android development community in an informal environment where they can share ideas, demo new apps, talk to the experts and generally have lots of Android-related fun.

• Dec 3

  Ruby on Rails eXchange

  London EC1A 4DD, United Kingdom

  Yep, its that time of year again! Skills Matter will be organising the 3rd annual RoR eXchange on 3rd December 2009! We are putting together an intimate event packed with talks, demo's and discussions, to provide an opportunity for leading thinkers, rubyists, rails fiends and other RoR and Web community members, to get together for a fun day of learning, discussion and sharing and hear about tools, new Ruby or Rails features, emerging best practices, or just interesting ideas and techniques.

• Dec 4

  Amazon WS eXchange

  London EC1A 4DD, United Kingdom

  Come, learn and explore the emerging de-facto standards in cloud computing as provided by the trail-blazer of public, utility cloud computing: Amazon Web Services. No longer a pipe-dream, utility computing is now a valid option for your high-performance computing needs and this one-day conference is an ideal place to get the inside scope from AWS professionals and experts.

• Dec 8

  Cloud & Grid eXchange

  London EC1A 4DD, United Kingdom

  Skills Matter is pleased to announce the Cloud & Grid eXchange. We hope to bring together the leading experts on Cloud and Grid technologies, high scalability and performance, with London's enterprise development community for an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion.

• Dec 9

  Groovy & Grails eXchange 2009 - London - December 9&10th

  London EC1A 4DD, United Kingdom

  [url=] Following on from the success in previous years, Skills Matter is pleased to organise another Groovy & Grails eXchange. We hope to bring together the leading innovators in the Groovy & Grails community, including Guillaume Laforge and Graeme Rocher, the leads on Groovy and Grails projects respectively, with London's Groovy, Grails and Java web development community, for an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion.

• Dec 12

  HTML 5 Communication: Using Web Sockets, Server-Sent Events for real-time web ap

  City of London, United Kingdom

  COURSE SUMMARY This highly practical 3-day class on Comet and HTML 5 Web Sockets and Server-Sent Events (SSE) for Real-time Web applications was designed by Kaazing's Jonas Jacobi, CEO and co-founder of Kaazing corporation. This course will teach you how to create next generation real-time Web 2.0 solutions, using HTML 5 Web Sockets and SSE that work today. Come and learn about Comet architecture, HTML 5 Web Sockets and SSE.

• Dec 15

  Open Source in Finance eXchange

  London EC1A 4DD, United Kingdom

  Following on from the success in previous years, this years OpenSource in Finance eXchange will bring together the leading experts in Open Source technology and Financial Services software development with innovators, technologists, architects and developers in the developer community for an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion.

Past events

• In The Brain of Nicolas Barcet, What is Ubuntu Cloud Computing

  Thu, 5 Nov 2009, 18:30 - 20:30 in London EC1R 0BE, United Kingdom

  There's a lot of talk about Ubuntu Cloud Computing, but what is it and what can it do. Learn how Ubuntu Cloud Computing works and hear how Canonical's cloud offerings (Ubuntu Server Edition on Amazon EC2 and Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud solutions) can provide greater efficiency and flexibility to help enterprises conduct their core business activities.

• Antony Marcano & Rachel Davies' Agile QA Course

  Tue, 3 Nov 2009, 09:00 - 11:00 in London, United Kingdom

  Rachel has been applying agile approaches since 2000 and has experience of a range of agile methods including XP, SCRUM, Lean and DSDM. Antony Marcano has 13 years of industry experience, originally specialising in software testing. This Agile QA course, authored by Antony Marcano and Rachel Davies, will provide test analysts involved in assuring quality for an agile project, with an understanding of the role of Agile QA and the part they play in the project lifecycle.

• Devopsdays 2009

  Fri, 30 Oct 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in Ghent, Belgium

  Skills Matter is delighted to support DevOpsDays 09 - the conference that brings together developers with system administrators. About DevOpsDays Some call this phenomenon devops, others agile system administration. Truth is that agile techniques used in development have an impact on the way operations organises it work. Similarly, operations and sysadmins are becoming programmers because of the virtualization and automation trend where everything is managed through an API.

• TheServerSide Java Symposium

  Tue, 27 Oct 2009, 07:00 - 09:00 in Prague, Czech Republic

  Skills Matter is pleased to support TheServerSide Java Symposium-Europe taking place in Prague on 27-28th October! About The move of open source software into the mainstream has given way to an explosion of frameworks, tools, and application servers that define the state of the art in Java software development.

• Rick Evans' Clustered Caching with Oracle Coherence

  Thu, 22 Oct 2009, 08:30 - 10:30 in London, United Kingdom

  This 2-day course offers both an overview of Oracle Coherence and a deep dive into the more technical aspects of this exciting technology. Oracle Coherence is a Java, .NET, and C++ enabled clustered caching and data grid technology that delivers high availability, rapid performance, and extreme scalability. You will learn the theory of caching and various caching techniques, and you will gain a good understanding of the capabilities of Oracle Coherence.

• Adobe RIA User Group on Matrix, Morgan Stanley's new trading platform

  Wed, 21 Oct 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London EC1R 0BE, United Kingdom

  This sessions covers the development of Morgan Stanley's new trading platform: Matrix. Featuring data visualization, rich-media publishing, collaboration and many bespoke components, Matrix has changed the way investment banks deliver a trading platform and set new standards for look-and-feel.

• Martine Devos' Agile PM, Lean and Kanban Hands-On Workshop

  Mon, 19 Oct 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London EC1R 0BE, United Kingdom

  Martine trains and coaches teams in Agile principles and practices, including Scrum, Extreme Programming and Lean Software Engineering. Martine is a persuasive and highly passionate communicator, public speaker and published author focused on Agile methods.

• CloudStorm London

  Tue, 13 Oct 2009, 16:30 - 18:30 in City of London, United Kingdom

  The newest Cloud Summit will now come to London: CloudStorm The event will take place at the famous Inner Temple Hall on October 13th. Inner Temple is based in the heart of London’s legal quarter and is steeped in history as one of the four ancient Inns of court. Combine with Storage Expo in London Olympia on October 14th and 15th! At CloudStorm, you will receive in 100 minutes an update of the latest trends and products in Cloud Computing, followed by a mini expo and networking opportunity.

• Agile Business Conference 2009

  Tue, 13 Oct 2009, 07:45 - 09:45 in London, United Kingdom

  Skills Matter is pleased to support the Agile Business Conference which takes place in London on 13th - 14th October 2009! Being Agile is more important this year then ever before. As organisations navigate their way through recession, completing successful business and technology change projects as quickly and efficiently as possible is even more essential.

• Venkat Subramaniams Programming Groovy Workshop

  Mon, 12 Oct 2009, 08:30 - 10:30 in London, United Kingdom

  DURATION: 5 days COST: £2500, or just £1250 if booked by Sept 12th LOCATION: Skills Matter, London EC1 INFO & REG: COURSE SUMMARY In this intensive 5-day course, authored and taught by Venkat, you will be transitioned from your familiar grounds of Java and introduced to the low ceremonial, high productivity of Groovy. You will learn to easily intermix Java and Groovy, take advantage of exceptional capabilities of Groovy for Metaprogramming, and work with XML, builders, closures, GDK, and more.

• Andy Hunt's Pragmatic Thinking & Learning: Refactor your Wetware

  Mon, 12 Oct 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London EC1R 0BE, United Kingdom

  Andy Hunt is a programmer, consultant, author and publisher who lectures across the U.S. and Europe on topics from best practices in agile software development, to pragmatic programming, to teamwork, teambuilding and cognitive skills. Andy is a member of IEEE and ACM, founder of the Pragmatic Programmers, founder of the Agile Alliance and author of the Agile Manifesto, and author of six books.

• Agile Testing Days

  Mon, 12 Oct 2009, 07:30 - 09:30 in Berlin, Germany

  Skills Matter is delighted to support The Agile Testing Days taking place in Berlin on 12-14th October! This event is the leading European conference for the worldwide professionals involved in the agile world. We are very proud to count on the support and the work of Lisa Crispin, Elisabeth Hendrickson, Tom Gilb, Stuart Reid, Isabel Evans, Tom and Mary Poppendieck and last but not least Alessandro Collino.

• Java2Days

  Thu, 8 Oct 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in Sofia, Bulgaria

  Skills Matter is delighted to support Java2Days - a brand new event in Eastern Europe to present the latest trends in Java development! Java2Days will be held at the Inter Expo Center on 8-9 October in Sofia, Bulgaria. The conference is hosted by Insight_technologies and the Bulgarian National Academy for Software Development.

• BDD Immersion Workshop: Behaviour-Driven Development for Developers

  Thu, 8 Oct 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London, United Kingdom

  Liz Keogh currently works as an independent Agile Coach and trainer based in London. She is a well-known blogger and international speaker, a core member of the BDD community and a contributor to a number of open-source projects including JBehave. In this highly practical Behaviour-driven development workshop, you will learn how to add the BDD methodology to your existing Agile development process.

• IN THE BRAIN OF VENKAT SUBRAMANIAM, DESIGN PATTERNS IN JAVA AND GROOVY

  Wed, 7 Oct 2009, 05:30 - 07:30 in London EC1R 0BE, United Kingdom

  You're most likely familiar with the Gang-of-four design patterns and how to implement them in Java. However, you wouldn't want to implement those patterns in a similar way in Groovy. Furthermore, there are a number of other useful patterns that you can apply in both Java and Groovy. In this presentation we'll look at two things: How to use some common patterns in Groovy and go beyond the Gang-of-four patterns in Groovy and Java. More details here

• Yahoo! Developer Network : Introduction to data processing with Hadoop and Pig

  Tue, 6 Oct 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London EC1R 0BE, United Kingdom

  Apache Hadoop is an open source Java software framework for running data-intensive applications on large clusters of commodity hardware, which is heavily invested in and used by Yahoo. Pig is a platform on top of Hadoop that includes a high-level language for expressing data analysis programs in a simple manner.

• JAOO Conference 2009

  Sun, 4 Oct 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in City of London, United Kingdom

  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!

• FREE TEAM & TECHNICAL AGILITY CONFERENCE 02-10-09

  Fri, 2 Oct 2009, 07:30 - 09:30 in London, United Kingdom

  Skills Matter is delighted to welcome Alan Shalloway, CEO of NetObjectives to Skills Matter for this mini-conference taking place in London on 2nd October! Alan will show you how to deliver current best practices for effective and sustainable software development without suffering. This event is completely free to attend so get your skates on and register now!

• Gojko Adzic's Test Driven Java Development in Practice

  Thu, 1 Oct 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London, United Kingdom

  Gojko is the author of more than 200 articles about programming, operating systems, Internet and new technologies published in various online and print magazines, and has recently published his latest book, Bridging the Communication Gap. This Test Driven Development for Java Developers course teaches the basic Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, refactoring and acceptance testing.

• Don't miss! David J Anderson's A Kanban System for Software Engineering Workshop

  Thu, 1 Oct 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in City of London, United Kingdom

  Kanban is a new lightweight approach to software development that transfers principles from the Lean Production/Toyota-Production-System to the software development. In this context, two rules are defined: 1. Each process takes work from the previous process (pull principle) in order to avoid overloading. 2. Work in progress is restricted so that no expensive stocks accumulate.

• IN THE BRAIN OF JANET GREGORY, SEVEN FACTORS FOR AGILE TESTING SUCCESS

  Tue, 29 Sep 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London, United Kingdom

  What do testers need to do differently to be successful on an agile project? How can agile development teams employ testers’ skills and experience for maximum value to the project? Janet Gregory describes the seven key factors she has discovered for testers to succeed on agile teams. She explains the whole-team approach of agile development that enables testers to do their job more effectively. Then, Janet explores the “agile testing mindset” that contributes to a tester’s success.

• DDD UK USER GROUP : DDD AND RELATIONAL DATABASES: THE VALUE OBJECT DILEMMA

  Mon, 28 Sep 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London, United Kingdom

  The DDD UK User Group meets on the last Monday of the month to share ideas, knowledge and experience of Domain Driven Design. The group is led by Adam Shimali who is always interested to receive your ideas for future meeting talks. Contact Adam via the meetup.com group here. Value objects are one of the corner-stones of domain-driven design but teams often struggle to use this pattern efficiently when they need to be stored to relational databases.

• LISA CRISPIN & JANET GREGORY'S PRACTICAL AGILE TESTING WORKSHOP

  Mon, 28 Sep 2009, 08:00 - 10:00 in London, United Kingdom

  Lisa Crispin is an agile testing coach and practitioner. She is the co-author, with Janet Gregory, of Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams (Addison-Wesley, 2009). This 3-day Agile Testing course, authored by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory, explains how testers can become valued agile team members, how they contribute to delivering a continuous stream of business value and ways to overcome common cultural and logistical obstacles in transitioning to an agile development pr

• UK Lean and Kanban Conference

  Sun, 27 Sep 2009, 12:00 - 14:00 in London EC1A 4DD, United Kingdom

  Skills Matter is pleased to support the first annual UK Lean and Kanban software management conference. The conference, which will be held over two and a half days from 27 through to 29 September brings together the leading innovators, practitioners, and influential thought leaders in Lean software management.

• Ari Zilka's Core Terracotta: Scaling your Java Application with Terracotta

  Thu, 24 Sep 2009, 08:30 - 10:30 in London, United Kingdom

  DURATION: 2 DAY/S LOCATION: SKILLS MATTER, LONDON EC1R 0BE MORE INFORMATION: COURSE SUMMERY Learn how to use Terracotta's JVM-level clustering technology with your application. Leverage Terracotta to make your Java Applications highly available and scalable, with minimal effort. We'll discuss usage of Terracotta technology in System Implementations.

• ADOBE RIA USER GROUP : INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE BLAZEDS & LIVECYCLEDS

  Wed, 23 Sep 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London, United Kingdom

  Following on from the first meeting in August on "Introduction to Flex" we’ll use this session to explore different approaches to integrating Flex applications with backend data. Ben Forsaith and Richard Curtis from Adobe will move beyond HTTP and Web Services and introduce Remoting using the open source BlazeDS software.

• Talk by Jan Machacek on Web Applications, Semantic Markup & RESTful services

  Mon, 21 Sep 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London EC1R 0BE, United Kingdom

  Today's web applications are not just pretty pages. Learn how to combine the practice for semantic markup in combination with RESTful services. I will show you what you can achieve with the ultimate service-oriented architecture: the internet! You will get the most from my talk if you are aware of today's web technologies; you do not need to be a programming expert. I will give you inspiration for fresh approach to web development. Attendance is free for registered participants.

• LONDON ANDROID USER GROUP : ANDROID

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

  Paul will talk about using GPS hardware on the G1 to turn the phone into a datalogger for lap times, G-forces and car positioning on the track. From this data we can inspect tyre and engine performance, and also see which parts of the track can be taken faster in order to reduce lap times. Carl will present his OAuth provider and explain its integration to the platform. Intents filtering, custom permission and security enforcement will be the topic of this talk.

• The Ajax Experience

  Mon, 14 Sep 2009, 06:00 - 08:00 in Marbella, United States

  Skills Matter is pleased to support The Ajax Experience 2009 - a 3-day conference taking place in Boston, USA from 14-16th September 2009! Brought to you by Ajaxian.com, the Web's largest independent Ajax community, The Ajax Experience is the only place to get state-of-the-art design, scripting, tools and technologies along with expert advice on using them in real life applications. The organisers are so confident of this, that there is a 100% money back guarantee to prove it!

• SPRING USER GROUP SEPT MEETUP - ON THE FUTURE OF SPRINGSOURCE & VMWARE

  Wed, 9 Sep 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in London, United Kingdom

  A real coup for the Spring User Group; just days after the announcement regarding SpringSource and VMWare, Mark Brewer (Senior Vice President and GM of Enterprise Delivery at SpringSource) is generously providing his time to meet with us on Wednesday 9 September. Before his time as a senior VP at SpringSource (based in the San Mateo HQ) Mark was better known as the CEO of Covalent; the leading provider of products and services for Apache Software Foundation (ASF) open source projects.

• RAPID PROTOTYPING AND DATA MUNGING WITH YAHOO! PIPES

  Tue, 1 Sep 2009, 19:30 - 21:30 in London, United Kingdom

  Neil Crosby will present on Rapid Prototyping and Data Munging with Yahoo! Pipes and how it can be used to quickly and easily play with data on the web. Neil will show how to use Yahoo! Pipes, and how easy it is to use Yahoo! Pipes' graphical interface to take data from multiple sources and make it useful for you. Attenance is free for registered attendees. You can here

• Adobe RIA User Group : Introduction to Flex

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

  To kick start what will be a regular meeting for those interested in rich Internet application development using Flex and associated technologies, Andrew Shorten from Adobe will provide an introduction to the Flex 4 SDK and the design and development tools that can be used to build Flex applications.

• Open Source .NET eXchange III 16-07-09

  Thu, 16 Jul 2009, 17:30 - 19:30 in City of London, United Kingdom

  At (already the third event of) this mini-conference, members of the ALT.NET community will talk about their favourite alternative .NET tools that increase programmer productivity and help us do our work better but are still not mainstream.The sessions will be aimed at .NET developers at all levels.EVENT DETAILSWHO:Gojko Adzic - Dylan Beattie - Ian Cooper - Scott Cowan - Sebastien Lambla - David Ross - Phil Trelford -WHAT:Open Source .NET eXchange III 16-07-09

• CLOUD & GRID EVENT BY THE ONLINE GAMING HIGH SCALABILITY SIG

  Thu, 9 Jul 2009, 16:00 - 18:00 in City of London, United Kingdom

  The mission of the Online Gaming High Scalability special interest group is promoting technical advancements to build and operate bigger, better and faster online gaming systems.The first meeting of this Online Gaming High Scalability SIG will be on the 9th of July 2009 in central London, starting at 10 AM and finishing around 5PM.The main topic of this meeting will be potentials for using cloud and grid technologies in online gaming systems.

• 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:

• 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

• 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.

• 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!

• IN THE BRAIN OF DAVID JOYCE, KANBAN FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING & KANBAN OPEN SPACE

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

  David Joyce of BBC Worldwide will be giving a presentation on Kanban for Software Engineering followed by an Open Space session.KANBAN FOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KANBAN OPEN SPACEEVENT DETAILSWHO:David Joyce -WHAT:In The Brain of David Joyce, Kanban for Software Engineering and Kanban Open SpaceWHERE:BBC Worldwide , LondonWHEN:11 Jun 2009 Starts at 18:00COST: FREE for registered participants. Please register here:

• 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.

• 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: