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Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2012 (Nov 23)

Join us for the next Agile Testing & BDD eXchange on November 23. 2012. Be part of an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion to learn, adopt and share new innovative ideas, tools and practices for enterprise software development.

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Kevlin Henney's Agile Development for Developers

Kevlin Henney's three day Agile Development for Developers course looks at the Agile principles, practices and processes that offer a path to sustainable development for individuals, teams and organisations. For many Developers who want to focus on their craft, it is sometimes difficult to get a view of Agile development that is neither focused on a project management perspective nor just on the practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD).. Find out more here

Kevlin Henney & Jon Jagger's Mastering Agile Practice

For a developer, deliberate practice means trying new things, trying old things with a view to making them fresh and trying to move from accidental practice to intentional discipline. Deliberate practice improves technical agility through increased self awareness.

Learn to:
• Evaluate and improve our test cases using Test-Driven Development
• Learn pairing and team skills by putting them into practice
• Identify blindspots in our own thinking, such as evaluating the quality of our own work
• Learn how to learn and how to unlearn through deliberate practice

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Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala

This two-day Fast Track to Scala course, designed by Martin Odersky, the creator of the Scala programming language, and Heiko Seeberger, a recognized Scala expert, will give you an excellent grounding in Scala.

LEARN HOW TO:
• be a competent user of Scala constructs in application code
• know and be able to apply the functional programming style in Scala
• know how to use the fundamental Scala tools
• be confident to start using Scala in production applications

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Typesafe's Advanced Scala (March 21-22)

If you already have some programming experience with Scala and need to understand it's advanced features, Typesafe's Advanced Scala will show you how to unleash the full power of this scalable language.

It is intended to enable developers, who have at least 3 months programming experience with Scala and feel comfortable to use it in their applications, to fully understand various advanced features of this programming language and how to apply these to create well designed libraries or DSLs using proven practices. Find out more here

Howard Lewis Ship's Web Application Development with Tapestry

This four day Core Tapestry: Web Application Development with Tapestry course is taught as an interactive workshop consisting of seven labs. You will learn a different aspect of Tapestry in each lab; a particular component or set of components, or a particular challenge you are likely to face. Howard Lewis Ship's tapestry workshop gently leads you into the way of Tapestry, and helps you understand exactly what it is that Tapestry does and even how it operates internally. Find out more here

Kito Mann's JSF2 in Action (March 7-9)

Build highly interactive Ajax-enabled applications with JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2, the standard web application framework for Java EE. JSF 2 incorporates time-saving features, such as convention-over-configuration, built-in Ajax, templating, simple custom UI component development, and several powerful third-party Ajax component suites. JSF applications can be integrated seamlessly with Spring and/or Java EE. This course covers the key features of JavaServer Faces and walks you through building different aspects of a JSF application. You will also learn how to take advantage of rich JSF component suites such as ICEfaces and RichFaces.. Find out more here