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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 recognised Scala expert, will give you an excellent grounding in Scala. This intensive two-day workshop will be a mixture of hands-on sessions and short talks, giving you the perfect opportunity to truly immerse yourself in Scala.

This course will be delivered by Scala expert Trond Bjerkestrand. Trond is an Akka and Scala trainer and consultant at Typesafe with extensive knowledge of the Java development environment and deploying highly scalable applications.

What: Typesafe’s Fast Track to Scala
Where: Skills Matter, London
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Typesafe’s Advanced Scala

This course is designed for those already immersed in Scala. Basic knowledge of Scala covered in Typesafe's Fast Track to Scala course is a prerequisite to understand topics in this advanced Scala course.

In this course:
- You will understand all aspects of the object-functional approach.
- Know and be able to apply advanced features of Scala's type system.
- Fully understand implicit conversions
- Be confident to design libraries and DSLs

This course will be delivered by Scala expert Trond Bjerkestrand. Trond is an Akka and Scala trainer and consultant at Typesafe with extensive knowledge of the Java development environment and deploying highly scalable applications.

What: Typesafe’s Advanced Scala
Where: Skills Matter, London
Learn more and book online: here

Fast Track to Play

This intensive one-day course, designed by Fredrik Ekholdt, a Scala and web application expert, and Peter Hausel, one of the main Play committers, is what you need to quick start your web application development with Play 2.0.

Fredrik Ekholdt has spent all of his free time working with Scala since he was introduced to Scala back in 2009. At Typesafe Fredrik is mainly teaching Scala and Play courses and helping customers to adopt these technologies.

What: Fast Track to Play
Where: Skills Matter, London
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Typesafe’s Fast Track to Akka

This two-day Fast Track to Akka course, designed and delivered by Philipp Haller, a long-term member of the Scala team, is what you need to get started building powerful concurrent applications with the Akka event-driven middleware framework.

By the end of this course:

- Design scalable, fault-tolerant concurrent applications using Akka's actors
- Test, tune, and configure Akka applications
- Know best practices for designing asynchronous, event-driven systems using Akka
- Be confident to start using Akka in production systems

Philipp Haller has been a member of the Scala team since 2006. In 2010 he received a PhD in computer science from EPFL for his research on concurrent programming with race-free actors in Scala. Philipp is the creator of Scala's first actors library, as well as a contributor to the Scala language, standard library, and tools.

What: Typesafe's Fast Track to Akka
Where: Skills Matter, London
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David Pollak’s Lift Basics Workshop

This Lift Basics course by David Pollak (creator of Lift), delivered by Franz Bettag (Lift's newest committer), introduces Scala developers to the Lift Web Framework. You will learn how to create dynamic, interactive, secure websites using Lift. This Lift Basics course covers creating a basic Lift project, dynamic content with Snippets, site navigation and access control via SiteMap, forms including multi-page Wizards, and creating real-time, scalable sites with Lift's Comet support.

This one-day course will be delivered by Franz Bettag, a BSD-enthusiastic hacker with a Scala fetish, a Ruby addiction who loves network engineering and pentesting. Franz has a strong PostgreSQL and FreeBSD/NetBSD background.

What: David Pollak’s Lift Basics Workshop
Where: Skills Matter, London
Learn more and book online: here