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Andy Hunts Pragmatic Thinking Learning Refactor your Wetware : Software development happens in your head - not in an editor, IDE, or design tool. We're well educated on how to work with software and hardware, but what about wetware, our brains? Join Andy Hunt for a look at how the brain really works (hint: it's a dual processor, shared bus design) and how to use the best tool for the job by learning to think differently about thinking. Andy looks at the importance of context and the role of expert intuition in software development. Learn to take advantage of pole-bridging and integration thinking. Compare different laterally-specialized more...

Core Apache Tomcat Apache Tomcat 55 and 60 Overview : In this four-day intensive instructor-led training course, you will learn from one of the core developers for Apache Tomcat, specifically about Tomcat 5. 5 and 6. 0 - among the most popular open source technologies in the world today. During this SpringSource Certified Training you will receive an introduction to Apache Tomcat, including an overview of the Tomcat architecture, how to install, configure and administer Tomcat, performance tuning, and more. This four-day course has been developed by more...

Core JSF JavaServer Faces in Action with Ajax : In this 4-day JavaServer Faces (JSF) course, you will learn how to create Java EE web applications with JSF components, utilising JSF's component-oriented development techniques, whilst taking advantage of 3rd party components, IDEs and Open Source projects available. We will start with a thorough overview of key concepts and principles on which the JavaServer architecture is based and will then explain how JSF relates to Struts and more...

Core NHibernate Persistence with NHibernate London UK May 26-28th : The next course will be delivered at Skills Matter - London, on 26th May 2009 by Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien. Ayende Rahien is an experienced developer / architect, focusing on the CLR and building business application and developer productivity frameworks and tools. Ayende is an active member of the opensource .NET community and commits to several open source projects, more...

Core Terracotta Scaling your Java Application with Terracotta : 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. Wea ll highlight real-world use-cases where Terracotta was employed and as compared to alternatives, provided better Scale and HA with semantic correctness, whilst simultaneously more...

Craig Larmans Applying Test-Driven Development Refactoring : In this Test Driven Development and refactoring course, you will learn how to apply test-driven development (TDD) and refactoring, apply the most popular open-source frameworks for TDD and use them within a popular IDE. You will learn how to think and apply test-driven design and programming and establish it as a consistent method for your development team. You will see the value of reducing coupling in your code and learn how to break dependencies, so that tests can be run quickly in isolation. You'll learn how to apply dependency more...

Developing Rich Web Applications with Spring : In this comprehensive course, you will get an overview of the techniques and tools you need to build and test modern web applications. You'll learn how the versatility of Spring MVC, as well as the elegance of its annotation-based configuration, make it an excellent server-side framework choice for tasks as diverse as serving AJAX toolkits and even building lightweight, web service interactions. On the client side, Spring JavaScript adds a lightweight abstraction over popular AJAX toolkits and provides you with a clean programming model. On the server more...

Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Primer : In this 1-day Domain Driven Design workshop you will learn how to: # Understand the basic principles and processes needed to develop the right kind of models # Tie them into implementation and business analysis # Deal with some of the realities of multi-team projects. # Connect to domain experts, developers and the code itself through the cultivation of a model based language # Encourage the exploratory interaction of technical and business people in the modeling process # Apply techniques for dealing with the diversity of models on large project http://skillsmatter. com/ course/ design-architecture/ domain-driven-design/ cd-32

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...

Introduction to Ruby on Rails : In this 4-day, introductory, expert-led course, you will learn foundational Ruby and the theory and practice of Rails. Instructor David A. Black will coach you in Ruby language constructs and the entire Rails development stack: domain modeling with ActiveRecord, controller and view implementation, testing, database migrations, data validation techniques, AJAX fundamentals, and more.

Mule Whizz Mule for Administrators : In this Mule course aimed at administrators you will gain an understanding of what is required to effectively administer Mule Servers. This course will provide you with in-depth insight into the best way to manage your Mule deployments. LEARN HOW TO: * Install, configure and deploy your Mule ESB * Use logs to track errors * Deal with firewalls * Manage your deployments * Build robustness PROGRAMME * Installing and configuring Mule * Deployment of your Mule ESB * Transports and more...

Progressive NET Tutorials London UK 11-13th May : The Progressive .NET Tutorials will feature 16 intensive .NET tutorials on various modern .NET technologies. The tutorials will include many talks with .NET leading experts such as: - Ayende Rahien with Nhibernate - Hammet, creator of Castle framework - Sebastien Rambla with MVC framework, - Gojko Adzic, etc. FULL PROGRAMME:  more...

Rachel Davies Agile Retrospectives : A retrospective is a meeting held at the end of a development iteration or project milestone to help the team identify ways to improve their team effectiveness. In this Agile Retrospectives workshop you will learn about the foundations of retrospective facilitation with implementation tips and practical exercises so you can try out the techniques yourself. The workshop covers how to plan a retrospective, how to run a retrospective and how to integrate retrospectives into agile development lifecycles.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion : 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. Upon completion of this Domain Modeling workshop, the team will have a strong domain modeling capability coupled with programming best practices such as exploiting design patterns, refactoring and test-driven more...

Martine Devos Agile Project Management Workshop : Learn to lead agile Software Projects that adapt to change & discovery, improve collaboration, drive innovation and deliver business value. Agile methods are taking the IT and software development worlds by storm. Why? Because they're effective and they better align with the realities of software development projects, i. e. changing requirements, ever more challenging technologies, highly compressed schedules and evolving teams. This workshop teaches you how to adapt and respond to all of these challenges within your software projects. Software Projects Require more than more...

Martine Devos ScrumMaster or Scrum Product Owner Certification Workshop : In this special 3-day workshop authored and delivered by Scrum and Agile Project Management expert Martine Devos, attendees will learn about the role of both the Scrum Master and the Scrum Product Owner and how people in these roles work together to deliver successful agile projects. The course is therefore aimed at attendees that will be taking on either role or those that would benefit from more...

Michael Vizdos Certified ScrumMaster : This 2-day Certified ScrumMaster course will give you a set of tools and techniques to become an effective Scrum Master, help teams become high performing, and deal with the change management associated with implementing Scrum in your organization. This is your opportunity to learn about Scrum, in the real world, from an industry expert. Come prepared to challenge old beliefs and be open to new ways of thinking about how you approach work in the future -- and have a bit of fun in the process (smile). At the successful completion of the more...

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...

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...

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...

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...