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London Ruby User Group : LRUG November Meetup

Join us at Skills Matter on November 12th for two talks at this month's LRUG. We have talks by Andrew Nesbitt on 'An introduction to Rubymotion' and Khash Sajadi on 'Background processing in Ruby (and Rails)'

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Date: 12 November 2012
Location: Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Paul Ardeleanu's Advanced iOS Development

If you are not a developer but would like to learn how to build, test and deploy apps for iPhone and iPad this course is also for you!

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Date: 13 December 2012
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

Designers & Developers Fiesta 2012

Academy Class can help you with new tips and tricks on Adobe Creative Suite 6 with Photoshop, Indesign, Muse, Illustrator, and Edge, HTML5, CSS, Responsive Web, Javascript, Sencha, PhoneGap, iOS and Blackberry App Development.

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Date: 28 September 2012
Location: 15Hatfields, ,, UK

Buffy: The Facebook Saver? From Ads to Apps and Back Again

Facebook App Center through iPhone

The hullaballoo surrounding Facebook's IPO, the eye-watering $100bn headlines and the subsequent bickering, has largely passed by the social giants' 901m users.

Last week's launch of the App Center could make a much bigger impression and may prove a canny move in answering criticism of Facebook's slow progress in monetising it's half-a-billion (yup, you read it right) active mobile users.

If the IPO critics are to be believed, the company's valuation and its future is all about advertising revenue, but the App Center launch launch hints at a longer-term strategy. If successful, it could establish Facebook at the heart of the app ecosystem, as well as seeing the coffers swell with mobile ad and targeting revenue.

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11 June 2012 by Sam Michel

Apps World - Where the Global App Market Meets

Apps World has grown to be one of the leading global multi-platform events in the mobile industry. With over 5000 industry professionals expected for two days of high level insight. With 10 workshop tracks, 1-1 meetings, speed networking, parties, and awards the event will be tackling a spectrum of issues across the app ecosystem.

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Date: 2 October 2012
Location: Earls Court 2, UK

Prototyping your iPhone/iPad app

Prototyping is often a misunderstood subject especially when it comes to mobile apps. It is often mistaken for wireframing or detailed project specifications. In this one-day exclusive workshop, Paul Ardeleanu discusses the tools available and shares his personal expediencies leading a team of iOS and Android developers.

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Date: 27 April 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Paul Ardeleanu Introduction to iOS Development

You will learn how to: convert your programming skills to Objective C use the frameworks and design patterns provided by the SDK build meaningful interfaces

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Date: 16 July 2012
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Paul Ardeleanu Introduction to iOS Development

You will learn how to: convert your programming skills to Objective C use the frameworks and design patterns provided by the SDK build meaningful interfaces

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Date: 5 March 2012
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Paul Ardeleanu Introduction to iOS Development

You will learn how to: convert your programming skills to Objective C use the frameworks and design patterns provided by the SDK build meaningful interfaces

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Date: 30 January 2012
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Apple’s New iOS 5 Operating System: What's New?

iOS 5

Apple’s latest mobile operating system, iOS 5, is due to be released tomorrow and it boasts to have “added over 200 new features — taking a mobile operating system that was already years ahead of anything else and moving it even further ahead.”

With so many new features I’ve put together a quick and easy to read list of the main changes and what it means for iUsers worldwide…

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11 October 2011 by Richard Woods

Droidcon London 2011

Droidcon 2011 returns to London's Islington Design Centre on the 6th-7th October 2011. Upward of 600 Android enthusiasts will rub shoulders and shake hands with the premier experts in the field to dig into every aspect of Android and its ever-growing ecosystem.

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Date: 6 October 2011
Location: Business Design Centre, UK

Going Free Sees Time Out's Mobile App Downloads Jump 6,000%

Time Out Mobile App New York Travel Guide Screenshot

Woah there. Run that past me again? Yup, you read it right. Travel and listings publisher, Time Out, announced a staggering 6,000% increase in the number of downloads of their travel apps after going free.

"In June, Time Out has made the decision to make all travel apps free for the foreseeable future – a move which saw the average weekly download per app jump from 140 downloads a week to over 8000, a rise of a staggering 6000%"

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8 July 2011 by Sam Michel

Latest US Neilsen Study Reveals Games Dominate App Downloads

Angry Birds at Game Design Expo 2011 by Vancouver Film School

Maybe it's the over-developed thumbs of the smartphone natives? Maybe the news doesn't have the draw that it used to. Either way, it's games that dominate app purchases in the US according to the latest Neilsen research.

NMA reports that of the 300,000 users surveyed in May, 93% bought mobile games, compared with 76% paid for apps with a news flavour. Surprisingly, bearing in mind thse figures relate to a US audience, the second most popular category of downloads was weather. I thought it was just us Brits who were obsessed.

The statistics reveal the top 10 categories of apps downloaded in the last 30 days are:

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7 July 2011 by Sam Michel

The State of the Mobile Developer Nation

A discussion of the findings of the report: Developer Economics 2011 (free download) - covering the hottest issues, from app design and promotion to monetisation and user support.

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Date: 4 July 2011
Location: CBI Conference Centre, Centre Point, UK

In The Brain of Matthew Baxter-Reynolds: XML Documents over REST Interfaces

Matthew Baxter-Reynolds – author of Cracking Native Mobile Development: Cross-platform Apps without the Kludge – presents an “In the Brain” session about one particular area of multimobile development, namely how to construct, transmit and read XML documents over REST interfaces.

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Date: 8 August 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK