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GROOVY & GRAILS EXCHANGE 2012

Skills Matter is happy to announce the 6th annual Groovy & Grails eXchange on Dec 12-13th 2012. Join us for 2 days of talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming with core committers and leading experts, including Guillaume LaForge, Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook and may others, to learn and share the latest innovative ideas, best tools and practices for enterprise web development with Groovy and Grails.

MongoDB UK 2012 (Jun 20)

Skills Matter is pleased to support MongoDB UK, the annual one-day conference in London on 20th June, dedicated to the open source, non-relational database MongoDB! The conference will feature over 40 sessions from MongoDB developers at 10gen, MongoDB users from the community, and technology partners, with presentations for both the novice and expert. Past conferences have sold out so reserve your ticket today. Skills Matter is excited to announce a special 10% discount off conference ticket prices! To secure tickets at this exclusive price please enter promo code SKILLSMATTER when booking online! Find out more here.

Dierk Koenig's Practical Grails for Developers

Join Dierk and learn how to build industrial-strength web applications for the JVM. Grails is the rising web application platform for the Java Enterprise Edition. This tutorial introduces application development with Grails by real-world examples.We start with basic, database-oriented web applications that we extend and finish in the course of the workshop – following the best practices that make real Grails projects successful. Our code will be mainly in Groovy, optionally enriched with Java. Grails gives us a seamless integration between both together with sophisticated IDE support.
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MongoDB Essentials

This three day MongoDB Essentials course combines the best parts of the MongoDB for Developers and MongoDB for Administrators and Operations into one. MongoDB Essentials covers everything you need to know from building and designing an application on top of MongoDB, to successfully deploying and maintaining it. Instead of taking two 2-day courses, this MongoDB Essentials training covers the same content in just 3 days. Find out more here

Dierk Koenig's Practical Groovy for Developers

Join this workshop to get proficient with Groovy, Java's dynamic friend. Groovy has become the de-facto standard for dynamic programming on the Java platform. This workshop introduces you to Groovy and its areas of applicability with real-world examples.
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MongoDB for Administrators and Operations

This course covers everything a database administrator needs to know to successfully deploy and maintain MongoDB databases and shard clusters. In addition to deployment and maintenance, course topics will include diagnosing performance issues, importing and exporting data, and establishing the proper backup and restore routines. We'll present ideal hardware configurations and discuss common pitfalls for new deployments. The course also includes an overview of the MongoDB CRUD API, the command shell, and the drivers. Find out more here

MongoDB for Developers

This two-day course spans the MongoDB gamut, covering CRUD, schema design, performance tuning, map-reduce, replication, and sharding.

This course prepares you to:

• Understand the MongoDB command shell, query API, and driver tools.
• Design schemas that take advantage of the document data model and of MongoDB’s core features.
• Understand how typical RDBMS schemas can be migrated to MongoDB.
• Build efficient indexes and troubleshoot slow queries.
• Configure both master/slave replication and replica sets.
• Determine when to set up a shard cluster and how to configure it.
• Troubleshoot common issues and failure scenarios.

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