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LeWeb 2011

LeWeb brings together the most influential audience in the Internet ecosystem. Top industry entrepreneurs, executives, investors, senior press & bloggers gather to focus on the key issues and opportunities in the web marketplace.

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Date: 7 December 2011
Location: 

Eurosites Les Docks
, FR

The Designers Fiesta 2011

The designers Fiesta is part of London Design Week and brought to you by Academy Class the Adobe, Apple and Autodesk Accredited Training partner. Learn, Meet and Party

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Date: 23 September 2011
Location: 15 Hatfields, UK

dConstuct 2011

dConstruct 2011 brings together leading thinkers from the fields of interaction design, mobile design and computing to explore how to bridge the gap between physical and digital product design. The event sold out in a record 7 hours but tickets are still available for their workshops.

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Date: 31 August 2011
Location: Clearleft, UK

Mobile & Video in Recruitment Conference

By attending the Mobile and Video In Recruitment Conference you will benefit from the latest information that will be shared from our expert speakers. You will also be able to network with other delegates who are keen to find out more about the use of Online Video and Mobile in recruitment.

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Date: 17 November 2011
Location: The Congress Centre, UK

Droidcon 2011

Android's largest event in London at the Business Design Centre in London on the 6th and 7th October 2011 !

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

Drupal In-Depth Training: Advanced Drupal

Drupal allows us to achieve a lot and quickly with the right mix of tools and techniques. This Drupal training course gives you a head-start and walks you through all the methods used in more advanced dynamic websites.

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Date: 1 September 2011
Location: Baker Tilly, UK

Drupal In-Depth Training: Introducing Drupal

It begins with a basic introduction into the main concepts behind Content Management Systems (CMS) and the types of websites they are meant to help create. We then map these concepts onto Drupal as a CMS and take you through installation to creations of a series of websites each one adding an additional layer of functionality.

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Date: 30 August 2011
Location: Baker Tilly, UK

In The Brain of Linda Rising: Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves

Linda Rising -- a published author, and expert on patterns, retrospectives, and agile development -- suggests that we are "hardwired" for deception; to be overly optimistic about outcomes and with this built-in bias as a starting point, it's no wonder that software managers and agile teams almost always develop poor estimates.

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Date: 27 February 2012
Location: Skills Matter, UK

The Social Networking Wars

Tug of War

So Google and Facebook really seem to be going head to head.  Google does not send people to Facebook and vice versa.

I am sure we remember that back in May, Facebook was discovered to be guilty of hiring a PR firm principally to tar Google’s reputation in regards to their privacy policies.  However, Facebook themselves really aren't any better!  They have been caught red-handed using personal data in inappropriate ways.  All you need to do is read their Terms to find out how blasé they are with some of our most personal information. 

Here are some of the more interesting ones I found –

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Internet Week Europe 2011

Internet Week is a five-day festival of events to celebrate Europe's thriving internet industry and community.

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Date: 7 November 2011
Location: City Wide, UK

Robert Pickering's Beginning F# Workshop

Robert Pickering's Beginning F# Workshop is a two day course that will teach you all about F#, an exciting new language that has evolved from a Microsoft Research project into a first class citizen of Visual Studio 2010.

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Date: 29 September 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Digital Missions: The Story So Far, Future Plans, New Initiatives

Digital Mission Bus

A little over three years ago, preparations for the very first Digital Mission to New York were just starting. A lot's happened since then, so what better time to reflect on the past, and ponder the future?

In this post (sorry it's quite long), we're reflecting on the story so far, looking at the future, how the missions are funded and the work to make them sustainable in the long-term, our plans for the next Digital Missions and three exciting new initiatives, plus how to get involved.

Read on, and do comment, we'd love your feedback.

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Progressive .Net Tutorials - 7-9 September

After 3 successful years, The Progressive .NET Tutorials are back for another year of learning and sharing skills, the latest ideas, technologies and best practices for the development of scalable enterprise systems with modern .NET technologies and agile software development practices.

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Date: 7 September 2011
Location: Skills Matter eXchange, UK

In The Brain of Allan Kelly: What does it take to be an Agile company?

Everyone wants to be Agile, or so it seems. But what does that mean? In this talk, Allan Kelly will considers what it means to be Agile and what you need to do to be an Agile company, rather than a company which just follows an Agile method.

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Date: 10 August 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Eric Evans Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion Worksho

DDD and Agile expert, Albero Brandolini, is making a high profile return to Skills Matter this July. Drawing on his wide experience of software development, Alberto will be personally delivering Eric Evans' Domain Driven Design Hands-On Immersion Workshop -- and showing you how to put the domain model to work.

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Date: 30 June 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK