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CITCON (Nov 11-12)

CITCON, the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, returns to Skills Matter! CITCON, is a world-wide series of free Open Spaces events for developer-testers, tester-developers and anyone else with an interest in Continuous Integration and the type of Testing that goes along with it. Get more info and sign up for free here

Agile, Lean & Kanban eXchange 2012 (Feb 29-March 2)

Following 2010's successful Agile, Lean & Kanban eXchange, we return again in February with another exciting event for our community. We are still putting the programme together, but we already have Uncle Bob Martin confirmed as keynote speaker! Skills Matter will be the ultimate to learn, innovate, and share Agile skills. Don't miss your chance to to learn, innovate and share Agile skills. Get more info and sign up here.

Progressive Scala Tutorials (Dec 2-3)

Following 3 successful Progressive Tutorials on other cool technologies, this December will put Scala firmly in the spotlight for two days of intensive, half-day workshops on progressive software development with Scala.

Join the Scala Tutorials to learn and share skills, the latest ideas, technologies and best practices for the development of scalable enterprise systems with Scala technologies, agile software development practices and software craftmanship and learn straight from the creators and core committers!

These Tutorials are meant to challenge your brain and skills - and are not for the faint hearted! If that appeals to you, get your skates on and register today!

Groovy & Grails eXchange 2011

Skills Matter is happy to announce the 5th annual Groovy & Grails eXchange, scheduled on Dec 8-9, 2011. Be a part of two days of talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming! Learn and share the latest innovative ideas, best tools and practices for enterprise web development with Groovy and Grails. Speakers already announced include Hans Dockter, Andres Almiray, Hamlet D'Arcy and more still to come.
Find out more here

Uncle Bob's Advanced Test Driven Development (Nov 28-30)

This is a intense, hands-on and exercise driven Advanced Test Driven Development course is written and delivered by Uncle Bob Martin and focuses on the design of clean, robust, and maintainable unit and acceptance tests.

You will learn the principles of test design, and the practices of keeping tests clean. More importantly, they will learn the principles of designing applications for testability. Exercises include the refactoring of bad tests, the writing of clean tests, and the design and refactoring of applications to make them testable. Find out more here

Simon Brown's Enterprise Software Developer

This 4-day practical course is about building software within an enterprise environment in a structured, lightweight and pragmatic way. It covers the complete end-to-end software development process; from planning, gathering requirements and software architecture through to the effective use of source code control, automated unit testing, continuous integration and load testing. Pragmatic enterprise software development is about taking the best bits from traditional and modern approaches, blending them together to form a structured yet lightweight approach to building software that's appropriate to the way that your organisation works. This is what the course is all about.
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