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Paul Ardeleanu's Advanced iOS Development

In this 2 day Advanced iOS Development course you will expand on your iOS programming skills and learn how to get the best out of the iOS hardware. The course will also include an introduction to game development on the iPhone and iPad.

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Date: 4 July 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Chinwag Psych Interview: David Stillwell “Be very transparent about what you predict"

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New technologies are helping interpret and analyze how we behave.

One such example is myPersonality, which has attracted nearly 7.5 million people since its launch in 2007.

Developed by David StillwellmyPersonality creates a profile from data on Facebook. It is now opening up to other academics and businesses who might benefit from adding questionnaires to the world’s most ubiquitous social network.

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SpringSource's Groovy and Grails Workshop

This 4-day intensive training covers both Groovy and Grails in great detail. After a thorough introduction to the technology, students are taken through many advanced aspects of both the Groovy programming language and the Grails web application framework.

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Date: 10 June 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Looking for a New Job? Look No Further.

Will Work For Food

Chinwag's Careers Day at Digital Shoreditch is this Friday, May 24th to be exact. The companies are ready and waiting to find their next star employee. Grab yourself a ticket now, it's FREE.

Make the most of Friday, get the medical attention your cv needs at the surgery, wander upstairs for a workshop and catch a presentation in the main room, read the full agenda bellow.

The only thing left to do is introduce the final six companies exhibiting: Pharmiweb Solutions, Inspiring Interns, Harvest Digital, BrightLemon, Enternships, LGCH.

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My Brain is a Temple

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Yielding to my curious side, I had the opportunity to flee the office for the afternoon, and attend Chinwag Psych. With my background in PR I had no clue what to expect from a pyschology conference, but soon enough I was up to my knees in knowledge; learning about how neuroscience, behavioural psychology and machine learning could revolutionise media, marketing and business.

In case you missed out, I’ve put together a couple of highlights from the sessions I sat in on:

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Organic Organization Chart: Autodesk's New View of Organisational Structure

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Organic Organization Chart by Autodesk

A researcher at 3D design software firm, Autodesk is championing a new way of visualising how organisations change and evolve using a company's internal graph.

James Mayes, investigated the Autodesk experiment, chatted to the man behind it and discovered a fantastic offer for those wanting to run the same experiment for their organisation.

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Chinwag Psych Interview: Leigh Caldwell “You might say this is what our whole lives are for..."

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Chinwag Psych saw experts across marketing, advertising, psychology, machine learning and neuroscience deliver ways best to understand your target market. 

Through a range of academic speakers and practitioners, there was a lot to be learned about how we can gain insights to run an efficient team or what a customer might be thinking.

Leigh Caldwell is a combination of both academic and businessman as the CEO of Inon and a cognitive behavioural economist. But what is that and how did he end up with that title?

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Uncle Bob's Agile Principles Patterns Practices & Planning

During this five-day course, Uncle Bob introduces the Principles, Patterns and Practices of professional Agile Object-Oriented development in Java and Agile Planning and Estimating.

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Date: 21 October 2013
Location: The Skills Matter eXchange, UK

Share This Live

Standage’s talk will be supported by an expert panel of speakers from top UK and international brands, organisations and agencies including:

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Date: 11 July 2013
Location: Microsoft, UK

Three Cheers for Careers!

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The Chinwag Careers Day at Digital Shoreditch is May 24th. That, people, is next week.

The agenda and workshops will be published soon, but let us introduce to you some more of the delightful companies looking for you to join them.

The location is the wonderful Modern Jago. Then we'd like you to meet three of the exhibitiors: Microsoft, BPS and Farfetch...

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Briefing Event: Digital Innovation Contest - Fashion

IC tomorrow, a Technology Strategy Board programme, has launched the £120K Digital Innovation Contest - Fashion in collaboration with the British Fashion Council and the Tech City Investment Organisation. This briefing event will give applicants, investors and journalists the opportunity to find out more about the contest.

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Date: 23 May 2013
Location: Modern Jago, UK

Chinwag Psych Interview: Cat Jones, Unruly Media “Go Forth and Amplify.”

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Chinwag Psych was a huge success, with a fantastic selection of great speakers sharing insights into how psychology, neuroscience and machine learning can open new avenues for business.

One of the day's speakers, Cat Jones, talks to Chinwag about her presentation.

As many of us online become accustomed to social sharing, it’s no surprise that there are practitioners looking into how it can be exploited.

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In The Brain of Edsko de Vries: Lazy I/O and Alternatives in Haskell

In this talk we explain how lazy I/O works, what the problems are, and explore some of the solutions that are being proposed at the moment: iteratees, pipes, stream I/O, etc.

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Date: 10 July 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

In The Brain of Linda Rising: Agile: Placebo or Real Solution?

The power of the placebo is based on our brain’s belief system. Because we believe the medication can work it does. I wonder if there is some of that placebo effect in our successes with agile? Could it be that all the results are really a matter of proper expectation?

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Date: 20 May 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Join us for Breakfast, PR & Media at the Daily Record (Glasgow) on 21 May

Business Wire: FREE Breakfast Sessions on Media & PR. With the Commonwealth Games and the Ryder Cup on our doorstep in 2014, Event Scotland, Radio Clyde and the Press Association will provide insight into what their respective organisations are doing, discuss how the major sporting events will affect the media landscape and everything in between.

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Date: 21 May 2013
Location: Daily Record, UK