skills matter

Skills Matter is hosting the first annual NOSQL eXchange this November, and we are working on a great day of learning and sharing of skills on NOSQL technologies including MongoDB, CouchDB, Cassandra, Riak, and Neo4J.

For years and years top designers and experienced architects have been advising people to structure their systems using decoupling, abstraction, and design principles. Yet every new web framework that comes out seems to ignore these principles, and drives web developers to make the same messes as before!

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

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.

The benefits you get from writing tests first and using them to drive design can apply at the system level too. In this talk, Steve Freeman will present his experiences applying Test-Driven Development (TDD) at all levels of the development process.

Steve Freeman's Growing Real Systems Guided by Tests is an advanced course for those who want to improve their practice of Test-Driven Development.

In this presentation, Rob Schneider will explore the three main cloud computing models -- the public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid model. You will also be provided with some guidance on identifying the ideal option to meet your organization's own specific needs.

Peter Lubbers' HTML5 WebSocket and Communication is a highly-practical two day course that will teach you how to use HTML5 Communication and HTML5 WebSockets to build real-time web applications. The course covers the use of HTML5 WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, Cross-Document Messaging, and XMLHttpRequest Level 2.