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Skills Matter is a leading provider of training, mentoring and project based skills transfer in agile software development using advanced technologies.
Our curriculum comprises of RUP training, eXtreme Programming, Test Driven Development training and UML training, J2EE & Java training, including Sun, WebLogic and WebSphere training, C and .NET training and training in C programming. We also provide Open Source Technology training, including JBoss training, Hibernate training, Tomcat training and training on the Spring Framework.
Our curriculum comprises of RUP training, eXtreme Programming, Test Driven Development training and UML training, J2EE & Java training, including Sun, WebLogic and WebSphere training, C and .NET training and training in C programming. We also provide Open Source Technology training, including JBoss training, Hibernate training, Tomcat training and training on the Spring Framework.
Skills Matter is based in London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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We help you to adopt modern technology, process, methodology and skills that matter to you:
- To your IT strategy
- To your project's success
- To your staff
- To your bottom line
Free Session: In-the-Brain of Hani Suleiman - on Enterprise Java Testing - Nov 13th 2007 - London - UK
: In-the-Brain of Hani Suleiman on Enterprise Java Testing
This Skills Matter In-the-Brain Session on Enterprise Java testing will cover a pragmatic approach towards enterprise testing.
Enterprise software is usually very difficult to test, and many of us are faced with the harsh realities of a demanding business that either does not value testing or does not prioritise it.
In this more...
Ajax & RIA Training
Ajax Primer: Developing with JavaScript & DOM (JAVASCRIPT-DOM-04-01)



: Course Title: Ajax Primer: Developing with JavaScript & DOM (JAVASCRIPT-DOM-04-01)
Course Code: JAVASCRIPT-DOM-04-01
Course Duration: 1 day
Course Price: GBP 500/delegate
Course Locations: London, Paris, Podznan, Aarhus
This highly practical Ajax Primer course on JavaScript, DOM and JSON will solidy your understanding of core Ajax technologies upon which successful Ajax more...
Core Ajax: Enterprise Web Development in Ajax





: Course Title: Core Ajax: Enterprise Web Development in Ajax
Course Code: AJAX-06-04
Course Duration: 4 days
Course Price: GBP 1990/delegate
Course Locations: London, Paris, Podznan, Aarhus
This intensive, 4-day Core Ajax training course teaches a scaleable way of writing robust, user-friendly and secure Ajax solutions for the Enterprise.
We will more...
BEA WebLogic System Administration
BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1: System Administration Training - 5 days - UK
: This 5-day WebLogic Portal Administration training provides system administrators and data center personnel with techniques for installing, configuring, deploying, monitoring, and tuning distributed, clustered portals deployed on BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1.
The training course prepares you to configure and tune clustering and other application parameters that relate directly to BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 installations.
This First Edition course from BEA Education Services provides you with a head start on your more...
BEA WebLogic Server 8.1: Advanced System Administration Training - 5 days - UK
: This 5-day Advanced BEA WebLogic Server Administration training course trains senior system administrators and senior data center personnel on advanced topics surrounding the administration, monitoring and maintaining of large, distributed, clustered systems deployed on BEA WebLogic Server 8.1. This training prepares you to utilize command-line utilities to monitor and maintain your BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 domains. You will be able to troubleshoot problems, automate repetitive administrative tasks, use common third party tools, and redeploy resources and applications to an active cluster without restarting. more...
BEA WebLogic Server 8.1: System Administration Training - 5 days - UK
: This 5-day BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 System Administration training course trains system administrators and data center personnel on techniques for installing, configuring, deploying, monitoring, and tuning distributed, clustered systems deployed on BEA WebLogic Server 8.1. This training course concentrates on techniques for building a load-balanced, clustered configuration to ensure high availability in your BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 environment. Methods for hardening your implementation to provide reliable more...
C# Developer Training
Object Oriented Programming with C# Training - 4 days - UK
: This 4-day Object Oriented Programming in C# training course teaches you C#'s syntax as well as Object Oriented concepts. This C# training will enable you to grasp not only the C#'s syntax or APIs, but rather to understand object-oriented concepts that make C# so effective. You will also learn C# coding best-practices and C# implementations of some well-known and widely-used design patterns. New concepts are introduced through lectures and hands-on exercises. You will learn how to:
Read and write C#. more...
RUP Driven Development in C# Training - 5 days - UK
: Hands-on Agile Development with C# from Requirements to Code
This intensive 5-day training course introduces the Unified Process (UP) as a suitable phase model for agile development, taken together with a number of best practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and the description of object-oriented systems using the more...
Core Axis
Web Services with Apache Axis2



: This 4-day Axis2 training course has been developed by Paul Fremantle, co-founder of WSO2, lead developer of Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) and co-lead of JSR 110: Java APIs for WSDL, which produced WSDL4J. Paul is also co-chair of the OASIS Web Services Reliable eXchange Technical Committee, which is charged with creating the industry more...
IBM WebSphere Training & Rational Application Developer Training
EJB Training: Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) Development using IBM Rational Application Developer V6 - 4.5 days - UK
: TRAINING COURSE SUMMARY This 4.5-day 'Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) Development using IBM Rational Application Developer V6 training course provides you with the skills required to to develop and test Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) using IBM Rational Application Developer Version 6. This training course is based on the J2EE 1.4 and the EJB 2.1 specifications.
YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO:
Describe the J2EE component model
Implement business logic as a set of EJB components
Explain how EJBs more...
Java Frameworks
Core Struts: Developing Applications with Apache Struts - 4 days - UK


: Skills Matter, the training company for Open Source Technology presents Core Struts. This intensive practical 4-day Struts training course has been designed and Developed by
James Holmes , Struts project committer, creator of Struts Console, and author of
Struts: The Complete Reference.
This Struts training course more...
Ruby on Rails and Ajax Training
Web Development With Ruby on Rails training - 4 days - UK




: This hands-on, practical 4-day Ruby on Rails training has been developed by well-known RoR expert Chad Fowler.
This Ruby on Rails training is aimed and Web 2.0 developers, who have familiarity with Ruby on Rails but need to learn how to apply Ruby on Rails effectively on their Web Projects. The course presumes an understanding of Web concepts and OO programming and will launch directly into hands-on Rails development from day 1. Through more...
Agile TrainingAgile Software Development Training - Agile, Scrum, Process, UML, Design, Testing
Free Session: In the Brain of Roman Pichler on Lean Thinking Nov 22nd
: Free Session: In the Brain of Roman Pichler on Lean Thinking Nov 22nd
You apply Scrum and you use XP development practices. Great but what's next? How can you further improve the way software is created and delivered? The answer is Lean Thinking. Lean Thinking enables you to improve the enterprise beyond software development. Whereas more...
Java & J2EEJava Developer Training
Agile Software Development in Java Training - 5 days - UK
: Hands-on Agile Development from Requirements to Code - RUP Driven Development in Java training
This intensive 5-day training workshop introduces the Unified Process (UP) as a suitable phase model for agile development, taken together with a number of best practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) more...
BEA WebLogic Integration Training: Developing Integration Solutions - 5 days - UK
: Course Summary
This course trains students to integrate using business process management, application integration and Web services on BEA WebLogic Integration 8.1. BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 is the development environment. This training prepares you to perform application integration, business process management, trading partner orchestration,Web services development and complex data transformation.You will become highly productive building integration solutions. This course features more...
BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1: Managing Enterprise Portals - 3 day training course - UK
: This 3-day 'BEA WebLogic Portal: Managing Enterprise Portals' training course trains portal site administrators to manage content, users, applications, look-and-feel, and privileges for live systems deployed on BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1. This WebLogic Portal training immerses you in real-world WebLogic Portal site management activities including personalization configuration, user and content management, and marketing campaign more...
BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1: System Administration Training - 5 days - UK
: This 5-day WebLogic Portal Administration training provides system administrators and data center personnel with techniques for installing, configuring, deploying, monitoring, and tuning distributed, clustered portals deployed on BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1.
The training course prepares you to configure and tune clustering and other application parameters that relate directly to BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 installations.
This First Edition course from BEA Education Services provides you with a head start on your more...
BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1:Developing Enterprise Portals - 5 days - UK training
: This 5-day training course trains experienced Web application developers to create sophisticated enterprise portals using the full capabilities of BEA WebLogic Portal 8.1 and BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 as the development environment.
This BEA WebLogic Portal training prepares you to create real-world interactive, WebLogic portal solutions that integrate with back end applications such as a content management system. You will become more more...
BEA WebLogic Server 8.1: Developing Web Services Training - 5 days - UK
: This 5-day BEA WebLogic Server 8.1: Developing Web Services training course details how to build enterprise Web services and deploy them on BEA WebLogic Server 8.1. This Web Services with WebLogic training prepares you to create, test, debug, and deploy synchronous and asynchronous Web services to integrate business units and business partners.You will be able to describe service more...
BEA WebLogic Server 8.1: J2EE Programming with Servlets and JSP Training - 5 days - UK
: This 5-day 'BEA WebLogic Server 8.1: J2EE Programming with Servlets and JSPs' training course provides you with a head start on your BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 initiative by training you to successfully develop and deploy enterprise applications using the BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 products.
This course focuses on the flexibility afforded by using BEA WebLogic more...
BEA WebLogic Server Training: Developing Web Services - 5 days - UK
: Course Summary
This course details how to build enterprise Web services and deploy them on BEA WebLogic Server 8.1.This training prepares you to create, test, debug, and deploy synchronous and asynchronous Web services to integrate business units and business partners.You will be able to describe service oriented architectures and supporting technologies, such as SOAP,WSDL and UDDI.
This more...
BEA WebLogic Server Training: J2EE Programming with EJB Training - 5 days - UK
: Course Summary
This course covers the fundamentals of distributed development using Enterprise JavaBeans 2.0 (EJB), including stateless and stateful session beans, entity beans and message-driven beans. The course also covers EJB deployment and container-managed persistence, as well as transactional and security concerns with EJBs.You will become familiar with the general
use of Java Message Service (JMS) and more...
BEA WebLogic Workshop Training: Rapid Application Development - 5 days - UK

: Course Summary
This course provides hands-on experience building enterprise applications using all the BEA WebLogic Platform 8.1 products. BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 is the development environment. This training prepares you to contribute immediately to sophisticated J2EE development projects.
You will become more productive building enterprise applications that contain custom Web applications, portals and business processes.
This course features more...
Designing for Extreme Performance with Clustered Caching & Coherence Training- 1 day - UK

: TRAINING COURSE SUMMARY
Clustering, caching, and grid computing are all technologies that are used to gain performance improvements with high availability. However, disappointing results are not uncommon. This class is appropriate for the student looking for caching solutions that will yield exceptional performance even under heavy load, unlimited predictable and economical scalability even with explosive growth, and continuous availability even in the event of server or database failure. It explores the theory of caching and various caching techniques. It identifies the reasons why performance may actually deteriorate rather than improve, and the keys to more...
Developing with the Spring Framework Training - 4 days - UK

: Training Course Summary
This intensive and highly practical 4-day Spring Framework training course was designed and developed by Matt Raible, well known Spring expert and author of the popular book Spring Live published with SourceBeat Publishing.
This Spring Framework Development training course enables developers to more...
Free Session on Going Beyond REST - In-the-Brain of Peter Rodgers - Nov 28th

: Free Podcast Going Beyond REST - In-the-Brain of Peter Rodgers - Nov 28th
Join Peter Rodgers for this free in-the-brain session on What lies beyond REST.
REST describes an architectural style that has helped propel the World Wide Web to its current level of success. For the last eight years Peter has explored what lies beyond and will introduce you to more...
JSF in Action: JavaServer Faces with Ajax, Shale and Facelets




: This JSF course, developed by JavaServer Faces in Action (In Action) author Kito Mann, begins by explaining what JavaServer Faces is, and how it relates to Struts and other web frameworks currently on the market. You will learn about key JSF concepts, and some of the architectural principals behind the framework. The course is a mixture of lecture and labs, including an in-depth case study.
After you have a basic understanding of JSF, you will learn about IDEs more...
TDD Training: Test Driven Development in Java Training - 2 days - UK, Unit Testing and Refactoring Training for Agile Software D

: TRAINING COURSE SUBTITLE
Unit Testing and Refactoring for Agile Software Development
TRAINING COURSE SUMMARY
This intensive and highly practical 2-day course presents a number of modern practices for developing code based on an iterative and incremental development lifecycle. It introduces agility and predictability as two qualities essential to modern software development and offers a test-driven iterative and incremental approach to achieve these qualities.
The course is more...
Process & UMLProcess & UML Training
Craig Larman's Applying Advanced Object Design with Patterns Workshop



: Learn Advanced Object Design Patterns
This popular, high-impact, and hands-on Design Patterns course on mastering advanced object-oriented design (OOD) and design patterns is aimed at architects and developers of OO systems, and is based on acclaimed industry leader Craig Larman-s extensive experience coaching and applying OOD since the mid 1980s.
Object-oriented (OO) design patterns are a critical and fundamental skill of more...
Effective OO Design training - 1 day - UK

: TRAINING COURSE SUMMARY
This intensive 1-day course focuses on how to develop effectively with any OO language according to general OO design principles.
First, general OO terminology is introduced. Then specific aspects of OO design are examined and patterns and anti-patterns are identified. This course covers general topics on -how to improve your OO programming techniques- along with more specific patterns being targeted as needed.
TRAINING COURSE OBJECTIVES
Understand basic OO Terminology
Identify code smells
Know how to improve your code using code metrics
Understand how to use refactoring to improve existing code
Kevlin Henney's UML Workshop: Hands-on Object Modelling with UML and Use Cases





: Learn Agile Modeling with the UML
This UML Workshop course introduces a useful subset of the core modelling notation in UML and follows the four RUP phases in practice (as closely is as reasonable and possible in the context of a modelling workshop). Models appropriate to each development activity are developed, with notation introduced as needed. The common pitfalls of using UML and use cases, such as a tendency to fall into sequential development with a big, up-front design phase and verbose use more...
Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UML Training - 4 days - UK
: The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the industry standard notation for describing objectoriented
systems. It can be used as a medium for describing existing systems as well as for
communicating the requirements and structure of new ones. The notation includes a number of
diagram types that can be applied from analysis, through design and to system deployment.
Although independent of development lifecycle, UML is intended to support iterative and
incremental, and architecture-centric development.
This Object more...

