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In The Brain of Adrian Buerki, What's new in GWT 2.X

In this free talk, Adrian Buerki, author of Getting Started with the Google Web Toolkit Workshop, will present the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) which is a modern web development environment.

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Date: 19 April 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

GR8Conf Europe 2011

GR8Conf is an affordable conference dedicated to the Groovy dynamic language, the Grails web framework, the Griffon Swing framework, and other great technologies, such as Gradle, Spock, GPars, and more.

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Date: 17 May 2011
Location: IT University of Copenhagen, DK

London Cassandra User Group

This month we are focusing on two things: Cassandra internals (some fundamental data structures and algorithms) and Cassandra Query Language (CQL, coming in version 0.8). Hopefully these topics will be of interest to seasoned Cassandra experts plus people with more of a general interest in distributed databases.

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Date: 18 April 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Fantastic Competitions and Offers Exclusively for Chinwag Readers...

You Win

Here at Chinwag Towers, we've been very busy recently announcing some brilliant competitions and offers exclusively for friends of Chinwag.

We've gathered together a brief summary of all the offers and competitions we currently have on offer.  Take a look through, and remember, you have to be in it to win it!

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London Android User Group : Payment and monetization

This month's Londroid meetup is on Payment and monetization, with three excellent talks on three different payment providers for in-app billing on Android: Google, Paypal, and Paythru.

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Date: 21 April 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Digital Cream Singapore

Digital Cream Singapore is a roundtable forum for the most senior client-side digital marketers to discuss and explore the latest best practice on emarketing procurement, business cases, investment, ROI and supplier selection.

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Date: 10 November 2011
Location: National Library Building, The Pod, SG

Groovy Grails User Group: Natural Language Testing and Infinispan

This month we will have two talks; Stephen Cresswell on Natural Language Testing, and Thomas Fuller on using the Infinispan data grid with Grails applications.

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Date: 18 April 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, London, UK

Andrew Chalkley's Core RoR: Web Development With Ruby on Rails

Andrew Chalkley's Core RoR is a comprehensive look at Ruby on Rails taking you from the basics on day one to using it in a variety of professional environments. Ruby on Rails is a full web stack framework, so you have to have a sound understanding of the ins and outs of web development.

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Date: 3 May 2011
Location: Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Hadoop User Group April

April's meetup will feature Sean Owen on Collaborative Filtering at scale, and Mark Levy on Algorithms on Hadoop at Last.fm

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Date: 14 April 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

OpenMobileSummit

Where mobile, Internet and media world-leaders meet. The open mobile revolution has only just begun. In 2009/2010 the mobile value chain opened to the Internet opportunity, and a new application ecosystem blossomed, on a smartphone platform. In 2011, it's going to explode.

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Date: 8 June 2011
Location: Victoria Park Plaza, UK

SMW London Round-up: From Silicon Roundabouts to a Silicon World over Breakfast, hosted by UK Trade and Investment

SMWLDN

Social Media Week London generated so much coverage that it's taken us a little while to pull together all the information. This review brings together the video, photos and coverage from "From Silicon Roundabouts to a Silicon World over Breakfast", hosted by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI).

The breakfast event helped attendees to find out more about using social media and communities to develop international business. UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) are a UK government organisation that help UK firms build their export business.

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London Ajax User Group: JavaScript Game Engines, Part1

The April London Ajax User Group will be part 1 of a two-part series on JavaScript Game Engines. Part 2 will follow in May. This month, Nick Brown from Boss Level Games will present on game development in Ajax and HTML5.

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Date: 12 April 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, London, UK

Find Your Ninja Project

Following the success of our 'Off-line Job Board', where development teams can talk about new positions on their teams and developers (and agilists, testers, architects) can announce their availability, Skills Matter and MiniBar have joined up to see if we can take the idea of 'jobs for and by developers' further.

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Date: 5 May 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, London, UK

Neo4J 1.3 Release Party

Beers, pizza, and graph database talk to celebrate the new Neo4j release. Afterwards, we'll head to the Slaughtered Lamb for some more NoSQL related chat.

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Date: 19 April 2011
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Kohsuke Kawaguchi's Mastering Continuous Integration with Jenkins/Hudson

Master Jenkins with its creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, and accelerate your team's development process. Continuous Integration is a fundamental best practice of modern software development. Jenkins is the number one open source Continuous Integration Server.

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Date: 1 June 2011
Location: Skills Matter eXchange, UK