21 September - 27 September 2009
Skills Matter is proud to support
London Digital Week, a weeklong festival of events, awards, conferences and exhibitions bringing together the digital industries in and around London.
2009 marks the beginning of an annual festival, drawing industry members from around the world to celebrate the talented innovators, thinkers and designers who have helped to make London the capital city of the digital nation.
For full details of
London Digital Week 09, find out what's happening where and to volunteer
visit the official website.
Skills Matter will be hosting a full programme of community events throughout the week with the aim to educate, share ideas and harness innovation. To view our current schedule of events at
London Digital Week, see below. We will add further events as they are confirmed.
COURSES
21 September: Adobe Flex for Flash Developers with Peter Elst
This one day Adobe Flex course for Flash Developers introduces the Adobe Flex framework and is aimed at developers coming from a Flash background. We'll look at how ActionScript relates to MXML and how you can combine both to create powerful applications. For full details of this tutorial and to book your seat online
click here.
21-22 September: Martine Devos Scrum Master Certification & Estimation Class
During this intensive, fun 2-day class Certified Scrum Trainer Martine will introduce you to the concepts of Scrum and how to become an effective ScrumMaster within a project. You will certify as a ScrumMaster with the Scrum Alliance and will learn the key techniques to succeed with this key agile process. For more details & to book online please click
here.
21-22 September: Ari Zilka's Developing Applications with Terracotta
This course is aimed at anyone starting with or wishing to scale their Java apps with Terracotta. Learn how to use Terracotta's JVM-level clustering technology with your application and learn how to leverage Terracotta to make your Java Applications highly available and scalable, with minimal effort. Find out more and reserve your seat
here.
21 September: Dylan Schiemann's Introduction to Dojo Data, Grids, Charts, and Comet
Join the founder of the Dojo Toolkit for this 1 day workshop where you will gain practical, hands-on, applied usage of Dojo to create a simple data visualization web application that takes advantage of advanced features of the Dojo Toolkit. If you are a web developer or software engineer anxious to learn Ajax but not sure where to start, then Intro to Dojo, Charts, Grids, and Comet is just the place for you! Book now right
here!
22-25 September: Matt Raible's Spring Fundamentals Workshop
This intensive and very hands-on 4-day Spring course, is aimed at experienced JEE developers, who are new to Spring and who need to gain a deeper understanding of the fundamentals of Spring, and how Spring fits into your overall enterprise Java development - from both a theorical as well as a practical level. If you are interested in understanding and applying Spring this is the course for you. More details and information available
here.
22-23 September: Dylan Schiemann's Dojo and Dijit In Depth
Dojo and Dijit in Depth is a two-day workshop led by SitePen engineers on learning how to build rich internet applications with the Dojo Toolkit. This hands-on training workshop teaches you in depth about Dojo and Dijit to help you develop Dojo-based rich web applications. Book this course
here.
24 September: Mark Birbecks' RDFa, The Theory and Practice of Structured Data Publishing
RDFa is the next generation of structured information on the web. Both Yahoo! and Google have announced that they are storing RDFa that their crawlers discover on web pages, in order to enhance the user experience, and produce more targeted results. This means that organisations publishing large quantities of data -- whether it's job vacancies, product reviews, or a directory of chemical compounds -- need to understand how to get the best from this exciting new technology. Join Mark to learn how RDFa can help you to gain these skills in a fun, learning environment. Book your seat at this course
here.
FREE EVENING EVENTS
21 September, 6:30-8:00pm : In The Brain of Jan Machacek, Web Applications
Today's web applications are not just pretty pages. Learn how to combine the practice for semantic markup in combination with RESTful services. Jan will show you what you can achieve with the ultimate service-oriented architecture: the internet! You will get the most from this talk if you are aware of today's web technologies; you do not need to be a programming expert. Jan will give you inspiration for fresh approach to web development. Find out more about Jan and his talk and reserve your seat
here.
24 September, 6:30-8:00pm: In The Brain of Kevin Ryan, The Red, Amber, Green of Lean
Join lean and agile expert Kevin Ryan to explore the topic of making lean implementation a success, with case study examples demonstrating where existing processes have been migrated to Scrum and XP. The intended audience ranges from those working in an environment with no agile practices at all, to those who have seen some success from agile practices and are looking to gain increased productivity by further implementation of agile techniques. Register online
here.
More events will be added soon!