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Typesafe's Fast Track to Akka

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

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Date: 12 December 2012
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

Well-Typed's Advanced Haskell by Andres Loh

This two-day Haskell course gives you the chance to deepen your understanding and master some of Haskell's more advanced concepts.

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Date: 6 February 2013
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

Kevlin Henney & Jon Jagger's Mastering Agile Practice

If you are a Java or C# developer and would like to learn how to apply useful and effective agile techniques to your day to day life, this Agile Development for Developers workshop is for you!

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Date: 28 November 2012
Location: MWB Business Exchange, UK

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

Korea's Top Tech Talent: Meet the Companies

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In just over a week, we'll be joined by some of Korea's top tech talent, the winners of the Google Global K-Startup competition, in London from 5 - 9th November.

We know you'll be just as keen to chat with them as we are - so there's two opportunies where you can meet them: South Korea's Global K-Startups Pitch London (6th Nov) and Seoul2Seoul - An Evening of Networking for UK and Korean Startups (8th Nov).

You can sign up for both below, but first, let's meet the companies...

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Mobile Web in Africa 2012

Africa’s premier mobile conference, Mobile Web in Africa, returns to Johannesburg November 27th through 29th. Following three sell-out successes, the 2012 edition once again features a day dedicated exclusively to mobile marketing and represents the industry’s foremost opportunity to share knowledge and do business.

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Date: 28 November 2012
Location: The Venue Melrose Arch, ZA

TheMediaBriefing - Revenue Realities of Online Display

Make the most of the revolution in online display ad trading tools!

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Date: 16 November 2012
Location: Radisson Blu Edwardian Kenilworth, UK

Smart Online Marketing: Building a digital future

Marketing ReMix is a group of like minded professionals interested in all things digital and the impact it has on traditional marketing mix. We share, connect and inform each other on trends, tools and insights needed for a marketing ReMix.

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Date: 23 November 2012
Location: Google Campus London, UK

Win a Ticket to Social Gaming & Gambling Summit (15th Nov)

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The third annual London Social Gaming & Gambling Summit (15th Nov) is a conference focused on the intersection of mobile gaming, immersive worlds, real-life brands, and social networking. 

We're delighted the organisers have offered one lucky Chinwagger the chance to win a free conference ticket worth £450.00.

Entering the competition could not be easier, simply fill in the form below by Thursday 8th November and a ticket could be yours.

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Simon Says: Twitter Needs These 3 Improvements

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I love Twitter. I never shy away from admitting I think it’s the best social media platform around at the moment and will continue to be so. Why? Well it knows it’s place online. It knows that people are only using a handful of sites every day so to be one of those sites you need to have content that brings people back.

Twitter is a great place to find things out but this post is more about the main three things that bug me about the platform.

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trafficLIVE Breakfast Event – The Future Of Ad Agency Management & Workflow Software…

trafficLIVE, a SaaS offering is currently helping hundreds of agencies and creative teams save money and time on their projects globally, the system sits at the front end of agencies and integrates with DDS \ BrandOcean, Maconomy, SAP, M/S Dynamics, BCC, SAGE, QuickBooks, Xero, etc..

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Date: 16 November 2012
Location: IBM Southbank Forum London, UK

Swedish Beers celebrates 11 years of parties for mobilists!

Swedish Beers Mobile Networking party celebrates it's 11th Birthday Party with the London mobile sector.

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Date: 17 October 2012
Location: Nordic Bar London, UK

(Mobile) Money Makes the World Go Around

This session will be chaired by Tim Green and will take a look at the world of mobile money, from payments to mobile wallets to the future (if any) for NFC and more. Doors open at 12.30 for a prompt 13:15 start. Other mobile events, further networking and refreshments throughout the day at Mozilla HQ

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Date: 17 October 2012
Location: Mozilla HQ, UK

Silicon Milkroundabout

Previous events in 05/11, 10/11 and 05/12 attracted 4,076 jobseekers to meet 154 start-ups. So far 336 jobs have been filled, and an estimated £5,040,000 saved on recruitment fees.

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Date: 10 November 2012
Location: Truman Brewery, UK

Digital Innovation in Advertising: Exclusive Speed Networking Event

IC tomorrow, in association with UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) and Robot Corp, is excited to bring you a speed networking event that will offer innovative digital companies the opportunity to meet some of the UK’s leaders in the advertising industry.

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Date: 29 October 2012
Location: The Hospital Club, UK