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Functional Programming eXchange 2012 (March 16)

Skills Matter is delighted to announce the 3rd annual Functional Programming eXchange on March 16th 2012. Join us for a day of talks, open-space discussions and brainstorming on Functional Programming, featuring on Scala David Pollak, Kevin Wright and Miles Sabin.Get more info and book here.

Scala Days 2012 (April 17-18)

Scala Days is the premier event for Scala enthusiasts, researchers, and practitioners. Scala Days 2012 is a fantastic and unique occasion to meet with Scala-using professionals and companies, to exchange ideas and form business relations, as well as to discover the latest practical and theoretical development concerning the Scala language.

A central part of the Scala Days event will be the Third Scala Workshop, a forum to showcase and discuss a wide range of cutting-edge Scala research projects. Get more info and book here.

Progressive Java Tutorials (May 3-4

Skills Matter is pleased to announce the First Progressive Java Tutorials, the annual Java conference offering a unique blend of product and experience mixed, and tempered with theory and practice. Sign up here

Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala (March 19-20)

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

Find out more here

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 (April 30-May 3)

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