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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 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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

AGILE SPECIFICATIONS BDD TESTING EXCHANGE 2009 LONDON NOV 27 : 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.

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...