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Tue, 05 Feb 2013 11:21:48 +0000

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This Week & Last!

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:07:22 +0000

This Week & Last!

A new year and a fresh look at our community evening events! This is your comprehensive look at what’s on at Skills Matter this week, and what you can catch up on from last.
THIS WEEK
MONDAY

Groovy & Grails User Group

Groovy Coding Session- Peter Ledbrook…

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This Week & Last

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:05:02 +0000

This Week & Last

Here’s your weekly update on what’s ‘happening’ and happened at Skills Matter when the sun goes down…
THIS WEEK
MONDAY

Franz Bettag - In The Brain of Franz Bettag: Scala & LiftWeb for Web Development

Franz will be presenting his experiences with Liftweb…

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This Week & Last

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 12:28:27 +0000

This Week & Last

Here’s our weekly round-up of what’s ‘happening’ and happened at Skills Matter. It’s a simple concept – find out what’s on this week, and how you can catch up on last. All at Skills Matter, all for free!
THIS WEEK
Monday

In The Brain of Paul Stack –…

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Skills Matter’s Wendy Devolder shares her thoughts on Tech...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:15:24 +0000

Skills Matter’s Wendy Devolder shares her thoughts on Tech City in The Observer

Skills Matter CEO & Founder Wendy Devolder was recently featured in an anthology of technology…

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Guess who’s BACK…It’s been a while since we’ve said...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 16:06:37 +0000

Guess who’s BACK…

It’s been a while since we’ve said a couple of words on here. Let’s not dwell on the past too much…

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DDD eXchange 2012: Eric Evans' Case Study Involving Strategic Design And Established Formalisms (video)

Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:00:20 +0100

DDD eXchange 2012: Eric Evans' Case Study Involving Strategic Design And Established Formalisms (video):

It doesn’t get any more expert than this: watch here this video of Eric Evans’ case study from the Skills Matter DDD eXchange

Free event: Jon Jagger’s Cyber Dojo. June 20th. A...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:41:00 +0100

Free event: Jon Jagger’s Cyber Dojo. June 20th.

A CyberDojo is a great practice environment for learning about coding, test driven development, team dynamics, and collaboration. In a CyberDojo the players work in small groups each group works at a single computer each group writes their code and their test-code totally inside a web browser each group submits their code and test-code to the CyberDojo server as often as they wish the CyberDojo server saves the submission, runs the tests, and returns the test-outcome to the browser. Find out more and sign up here!

Free talk: In The Brain of Eric Evans: Case Study Involving...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:15:00 +0100

Free talk: In The Brain of Eric Evans: Case Study Involving Strategic Design And Established Formalisms. Jul 5

The Godfather of DDD, Eric Evans, elaborates and expands on his expert DDD eXchange talk ‘Case Study Involving Strategic Design and Established Formalisms Described by #dddx attendees as a “Cool example of an out of the box approach to the problem”, “Vaguely earth-shattering” and generally great, this is not to be missed! Sign up for free here!

The godfather of DDD, Eric Evans, is coming to Skills Matter...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:13:00 +0100

The godfather of DDD, Eric Evans, is coming to Skills Matter this Nov 5th to join Alberto Brandolini for Eric’s own Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion Workshop!

This is a rare, not-to-be missed opportunity — Eric Evans doesn’t make it to the UK often and we are thrilled that he will be joining Alberto for this expert course on how to put the domain model to work. Find out more and sign up for Eric Evan’s course this November here

DDD eXchange 2012: Cyrille Martraire on Applying DDD in a legacy...

Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:02:00 +0100

DDD eXchange 2012: Cyrille Martraire on Applying DDD in a legacy application

In this talk for the DDD eXchange, Cyrille Martraire reports on how DDD has been applied to capture deep models of the domain, within bounded contexts that emerged in the course of the project, and how DDD also helped to build a strategy for dealing with the legacy code. Watch the video here:

Free talk: TSQER: The Evolution of Code @skillsmatter, with...

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:03:34 +0100

Free talk: TSQER: The Evolution of Code @skillsmatter, with @akinolugbemi

On July 12, Skills Matter welcomes through our doors mini-Seedcamp finalist Seyi Akin-Olugbemifor a…

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London Scala Users’ Group: Chris Turner on Experiences...

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:32:00 +0100

London Scala Users’ Group: Chris Turner on Experiences from a Real-World Scala Project

In this talk for the “award-winning” London Scala User Group, Chris Turner explores how a team of mixed experience Scala developers built and delivered a real-world Scala project in a highly agile, multi-language environment. Chris will give a tour through what they did, how they did it and what we learnt along the way. Watch the video here

Free talk: Neo4J User Group - Introducing Py2neo and Geoff. Jun...

Thu, 14 Jun 2012 09:58:00 +0100

Free talk: Neo4J User Group - Introducing Py2neo and Geoff. Jun 27.

In this presentation for the Neo4j User Group, Nigel Small describes how Py2neo evolved, and provides an introduction to how it is used. Nigel also explores Geoff, a textual format for storing and transmitting graph data (with a syntax heavily influenced by Neo4j’s Cypher language).

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Find Your Ninja // Join us on June 25th!

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:07:00 +0100

Want to be apart of an exciting tech team? Or simply curious about projects in and around Silicon Roundabout. Join us at Skills Matter on June 25th for Find Your Ninja.

Skills Matter and MiniBar have teamed up to bring great developers, software architects, testers and coders together with interesting tech companies and start ups (and vice versa).

Companies involved include: Sky, Import:IO, MoneyVista, Thoughtworks, and The Martingale. Click here to see the full list!

Join us for a networking opportunity where developers, CTOs and CEOs are introduced for a chance to find a new project or hire new developers over some beer & pizza too!

If you are a developer who is looking for the next exciting thing simply register here and we’ll see you on the night.

What: Find Your Ninja When: June 25th Where: Skills Matter, London Twitter: #Findninja Where do I sign up? http://bit.ly/FindYourNinja2012

The biggest names in DDD and Software Architecture are coming to...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:56:00 +0100

The biggest names in DDD and Software Architecture are coming to Skills Matter — don’t miss out!

The Software Simplist Udi Dahan returns to Skills Matter this...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:51:08 +0100

The Software Simplist Udi Dahan returns to Skills Matter this July with his Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA course.

Udi Dahan’s Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA will help you to take the pain out of designing large-scale distributed systems. Join Udi for a course packed with the wisdom of companies like SUN, Amazon and EBay.

If you want to know more about how the big guys run their systems, sign up now for Udi Dahan’s Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA workshop!

Find out more and sign up here: http://skillsmatter.com/course/design-architecture/advanced-distributed-systems-design-with-soa/js-3566

Luke Daley: Gradle - Build Automation Evolved In this talk,...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:35:00 +0100

Luke Daley: Gradle - Build Automation Evolved

In this talk, Luke discusses how powered by a Groovy DSL and packed with innovation, Gradle provides a declarative way to describe all kinds of builds through sensible defaults.

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John Stevenson: Leinigen - the easiest way to get started with...

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:29:28 +0100

John Stevenson: Leinigen - the easiest way to get started with Clojure

John discusses why Leiningen makes Clojure coding even more fun and productive.

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Free talk: In The Brain of Andreas Ohlund: Death to the batch...

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 17:30:41 +0100

Free talk: In The Brain of Andreas Ohlund: Death to the batch job. Jun 27.

When most developers are tasked to implement time-bound business requirements the de facto solution is to create the dreaded batch job. While a batch job might solve the immediate problem their brute force nature makes them resource intensive and forces us to run them at night when the system is under less load.

Join Andreas for some real-time solutions to time-bound processes with the latest and greatest sagas from NServiceBus.