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Progressive Scala Tutorials
The 2011 Progressive Scala Tutorials promise to be a two-day festival of Scala learning, featuring Lift, Akka and a host of other Scala-based fun. Sign up
here
NoSQL eXchange 2011
Skills Matter is hosting the first annual NoSQL eXchange this November. Catch Brendan McAdams on MongoDB at this one-day conference, other talks will feature Cassandra, CouchDB, Riak, and Neo4J. Follow #nosqlx for programme updates, and find out more
here.
Heiko Seeberger'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. Prepare to learn to: * be a competent user of Scala constructs in application code, * know and be able to apply the functional programming style in Scala, * use the fundamental Scala tools, * be confident to start using Scala in production applications -- and much more. Get more info and sign up
here
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.
Find out more
here
David Pollak's Lift Basics Workshop
This Lift Basics course by David Pollak (creator of Lift) introduces Scala and Java developers to the Lift Web Framework. You will learn how to create dynamic, interactive, secure web sites using Lift. Whether you are a Scala newbie or an intermediate Java developer, David's practical hands-on style will help you understand Lift's Java and Scala API's. Upon completion of this Lift course, you will be able to create secure, dynamic Lift based sites. Get more info and sign up
here
Jonas Boner's Pragmatic Real-World Scala
Are you already familiar with using Scala in your applications? Would like to now dig deeper and learn how to get the full power out of this scalable language? In this Pragmatic Real-World Scala course, designed by Typesafe, you will get to know advanced features like implicit conversions and the details of the type system. Of course, numerous hands-on labs will make sure that you can build a thorough understanding.
Find out more
here
Miles Sabin's Advanced Scala Development
Miles Sabin's two day Advanced Scala Development course is aimed at developers who have mastered the essentials of core Scala and want to take their understanding of the language and its compiler to the next level. It covers Scala's powerful type system in depth with concrete illustrations of practical applications of it's more advanced features. The course also introduces the Scala compiler's plug-in architecture and shows how it can be used to support tools and extends the language.
Find out more
here
