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Cloud Control Conference and Exhibition

Among the many subjects covered across the three day event a focus will be given to the following cloud topics: Benefits and Cost Analysis Security Questions, Answers and Obstacles Data Center Efficiency and Virtualization

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Date: 19 July 2011
Location: Hilton Boston Logan Airport, US

'BEYOND THE PITCH' Agencies and Digital companies - HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SALES

Pitching is only one 7th of the process your company will go through with clients to win business. Find out the other 6 steps. , ‘Beyond the Pitch’ is the first workshop that demystifies the whole sales process for account managers, directors, heads of business development.

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Date: 7 July 2011
Location: ww.01zero-one.co.uk, UK

'BEYOND THE PITCH' FOR AGENCIES and Digital companies - HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SALES

Pitching is only one 7th of the process your company will go through with clients to win business. Find out the other 6 steps. , ‘Beyond the Pitch’ is the first workshop that demystifies the whole sales process for account managers, directors, heads of business development.

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Date: 8 June 2011
Location: ww.01zero-one.co.uk, UK

Progressive F# Tutorials

This is the first Progressive F# Tutorials, a 2-day, 2-track conference. Speakers lined-up include Chris Marinos, Tomas Petricek, Robert Pickering, Phil Trelford, Zach Bray, Dave Thomas, with more to follow.

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Date: 24 August 2011
Location: Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Uncle Bob's Clean Code: Agile Software Craftsmanship

In this three-day hands-on course you will learn the principles and practices of Clean Code as described in Robert C. Martin's book: Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship.

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Date: 11 July 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Kito Mann's JSF2 in Action

Kito Mann 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.

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Date: 13 July 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Simon Brown's Enterprise Software Developer

This 4-day practical course is about building software within an enterprise environment in a structured, lightweight and pragmatic way.

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Date: 5 July 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Private Social Networks

Does the value in Private Social Networks lie in private or public? Venture money and marketeers like open, big & public. With 10% of the world's population now on one big network where are the other 90%? What's the future? At new Venue - Innovation Warehouse - come along and check it out.. REGISTER HERE

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Date: 23 June 2011
Location: Innovation Warehouse, UK

HTML5 User Group: Dmitry Buzdin presents HTML5 Features in Google Web Toolkit

Come join the HTML5 user group and Dmitry Buzdin for a talk on why GWT is becoming more important with appearance of HTML 5 features and how can it help you to build advanced Web applications. Get more info and sign up here: http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/html5-features-in-google-web-toolkit/js-1629

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Date: 28 June 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

The Limited WIP Society:Experience report

This month the Limited WIP Society presents an experience report by Nader Talai, an active member of the London agile community. Nader will present his experiences working with a geographically spread team accross two location in UK and two sites in India.

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Date: 27 June 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

In The Brain of Kito Mann, Polyglot JavaServer Faces

In this session, Kito Mann will look at different techniques for using other languages with JSF. We'll look at built-in Groovy support in Mojarra, using Groovy as a DSL for JSF views with Gracelets, JRuby integration with Spring, and examine writing JSF applications with Scala.

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Date: 13 July 2011
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Looking for a Digital Internship this Summer? Look no further...

New Intern

Following a discussion on the UK-Netmarketing discussion list, we noticed that many companies are on the hunt for interns.  We're big fans of internship / placement programmes and decided to help both companies and prospective interns by collating a Digital Internship / Placement list.

We'll be keeping this list updated as and when internships are submitted.  If you'd like to add your internship to the list, please fill out the form here.

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In The Brain of Pekka Klarck: Acceptance testing and ATDD with Robot Framework

In this talk, Pekka Klarck -- author of the Robot Framework -- will provide you with a thorough introduction of the most important features of the Robot framework, its history, and the typical use cases.

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Date: 1 January 2012
Location:

Frank Cohen's Test Automation BootCamp

Founder of PushToTest and author of FastSOA, Frank Cohen comes to Skills Matter in October to deliver his Test Automation Bootcamp. Over the course of three intense days, you will learn the latest techniques to deliver Web applications, Rich Internet Applications, Mobile Applications, and Business Process Management (BPM) systems reliably.

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Date: 3 October 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Cookies: Do New Privacy Laws Take The Biscuit? The Lawyer's View

Pac Man Cookies

Last week, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) published guidance on changes to the laws on using cookies that will affect tens of thousands of business owners.

The new law applies to all EU websites and requires website owners to get a user's consent before cookies are saved onto a device. First,  bit of background...

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