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London Spring User Group : Fighting for Simplicity with Spring

Join the London Spring User Group after QCON on March 7th for two short talks revolving around the Spring Framework. In this first talk Russ Miles, principle consultant at Simplicity Itself, will explain the best-practices that focus on simplifying Spring usage in a number of domains.

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Date: 7 March 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

BBCW Labs Launch Digital Media Mentorship Event March 5th

BBC

Last year BBC Worldwide launched, BBC Labs a mentoring scheme, for digital media startups. Following the success of the current program which comes to a close next month a second program has been announced for 2013.

To kick-start this fantastic opportunity,there is an induction session to be held on March 5th from 6-8pm at Wayra's London Academy. Giving applicants the chance to meet hear from the Labs team.

If you want to participate, you can reserve a place at the induction session on March 5, or you can just go ahead and submit an application. The deadline for submissions is midnight (GMT) on April 4, 2013.

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22 February 2013 by Chinwag Team

Ashic Mahtab's Fast Track to Git

Join Ashic Mahtab for his 2-day course to get a practical handle on Git.

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Date: 8 April 2013
Location: Skills Matter at MWB Business Exchange, UK

Progressive F# Tutorials 2013 NYC

Skills Matter's Progressive F# Tutorials' conference is returning to NYC on May 2-3rd, bringing together the leading experts in F#.

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Date: 18 September 2013
Location: The Dumbo Loft, US

Win Tickets for #Measure13, (26-27 March, London)

Social Media Measurement and Monitoring 2013

A two-day workshop and conference, it features industry experts including Katie Delahaye Paine, web scientist Jacqui Taylor and analyst Marshall Sponder.

They'll be talking about:

  • Using Google Analytics to Measure the Value of Social Media 
  • How to Measure Marketing Success on Instagram
  • Astroturfing and The Rise of Fake Influencers
  • Discussion: Quality – The Forgotten Metric?

and much more. See the full programme here and book here.

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20 February 2013 by Chinwag Team

Enterprising Music Redux - From Dot to Digital [video]

Audio

Enterprising Music brought together entrepreneurs, start-ups and individuals eager to join the music business.

When the music industry met the internet, it was a clash. Challenged with high-speed connectivity, frictionless sharing, P2P and social networks, find out how parts of the industry turned crisis into innovation.

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20 February 2013 by Fleur Fine Hosken

Thinking Digital Conference

Your opportunity to have conversations with the people who create the future. A three-day event jam packed with presentations and performances to delight, provoke and inspire - unleashing a vision of the world as it could be.

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Date: 21 May 2013
Location: The Sage Gateshead, UK

HCID2013 - City University London Open Day

FREE talks and workshops around the ideas of creativity, usability, user experience, web accessibility, mobile design, multitouch technologies, service design, tours of our state of the art interaction lab and more!

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Date: 17 April 2013
Location: College Building, City University London, UK

In The Brain of Jimmy Bogard: Building External DSLs for Fun and Profit

We've all seen the explosion of fluent interfaces and internal DSLs with the language-oriented features of recent releases of C#. But what if we want to move beyond the barriers of the programming language and into actual external, executable DSLs?

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Date: 6 March 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Masterclass: Reducing Technical Debt with Michael C. Feathers

We're delighted to welcome Michael Feathers to London to deliver his course Reducing Technical Debt at Skills Matter this April.

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Date: 10 April 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

UKTI Announces Guardian Activate India Trip 21-23 Mar - Register for Info

Indian Traffic

The Guardian’s Activate conference heads to Delhi on 21st March for an invite-only event bringing together leading influencers from technology, entrepreneurship and social innovation.

UKTI have a limited number of passes to Guardian Activate plus a local programme of activities and grants towards travel. There's more info coming soon, but in the meantime...

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15 February 2013 by Chinwag Team

Andrey Breslav: Introduction to Kotlin

Kotlin is a modern statically typed language targeting JVM and JavaScript and intended for industrial use. At this talk, Andrey Breslav (Kotlin project lead) gives an overview of the language and the principles behind it.

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Date: 3 April 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

Nic Ferrier - A Year in Emacs

Will this year be when Emacs starts to become a viable application development lisp? Asynchronous servers, web-sockets, web-servers, threads and continuous build systems are all happening. Nic Ferrier, responsible for at least some of this tooling and re-assessment takes us through what will be happening this year in the Emacs world.

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Date: 19 February 2013
Location: Skills Matter, UK

MiniBarLabs CodeMaker Course

MiniBarLabs ‘CodeMaker’ one-day coding course for anyone who needs to understand the digital world better

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Date: 27 March 2013
Location: Mother London, UK

MiniBarLabs CodeMaker Course

MiniBarLabs ‘CodeMaker’ one-day coding course for anyone who needs to understand the digital world better

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Date: 6 March 2013
Location: Mother London, UK