Hi guys,
Some great events coming up over the next couple of weeks - if you wish to add a group or make a suggestion then please get in contact with me or Barry.
February 2012:
27/02/2012
In The Brain of Linda Rising, Deception and Estimation: How We Fool Ourselves
Cognitive scientists tell us that we are hardwired for deception — to be overly optimistic about outcomes. In this talk, Linda Rising demonstrates how hard it is for us to see our poor estimating skills and offers practical advice on living and working with the self-deception that is hardwired in all of us.
27/02/2012
Agile Testing UK : Powershell Workshop
In this short evening workshop for the Agile Testing Group, Chris Guest of Microsoft introduces the key aspects of Powershell to give you the tools to start writing your own scripts. It will start at first principles and go on to show how to leverage basic wmi queries and xml.
28/02/2012
London Clojure coding dojo
A great evening of functional programming fun for both experts and newbies - getting together in small teams to tackle a challenge that will raise everyone’s level of experience with Clojure. No experience of Clojure necessary. Pizza and drinks supplied by Thoughtworks.
29/02/2012
Parallel Programming
Unfortunately this event is already fully booked, but we have included the link in case you wanted to sign up for the community. The LSCC is one of the fastest growing communities in London, Sandro and his team have done an excellent job at putting on some unique and highly popular events. They often become fully booked within a few hours so the best way to get a place is to register for the community now.
March 2012
01/03/2012
Concurrent Programming Using The Disruptor
The Disruptor is an open source concurrent programming framework developed by LMAX, a financial exchange based in London. In this presentation, Trisha Gee from LMAX will show examples of how to use the Disruptor to share data between threads,
proving that concurrent programming doesn't always have to be complicated.
01/03/2012
Spring of Code
Spring of Code is a partnership between many groups who have joined together to build the tools needed to support the movements for social change that are sweeping round the world. All mentors and tech are invited to join this season of coding!
The Spring of Code launch party is Thursday 6.30pm at London Hackspace. Don't miss it if you want to join a team. You can participate from wherever you are as the event will be Livestreamed and Mumbled. Sign up now!
05/03/2012
Agile Testing UK : Powershell Workshop
In this short evening workshop for the Agile Testing Group, Chris Guest of Microsoft introduces the key aspects of Powershell to give you the tools to start writing your own scripts. It will start at first principles and go on to show how to leverage basic wmi queries and xml.
05/03/2012
In The Brain of Steve Vinoski & Andy Gross: Riak
In partnership with QCon and Skills Matter, Steve Vinoski and Andy Gross of Basho, makers of the Riak distributed database, will give a talk on Riak.
06/03/2012
Code & Coffee
Morning session (7am - 9am) on Tuesdays every fortnight on Starbucks in Oxford Street.
06/03/2012
Clojurescript One
A tutorial on how to use clojure as a replacement for javascript.
If clojure is your favorite (or at least another) language you use on the JVM with ClojureScript you can use the same language in the browser. Also included: 2 lightning talks. A few quick trips on Emacs and showing some Clojure generated digital art is quickly followed by an evening of webapp construction with ClojureScript, discussing the patterns and tools that make Clojure development effective and fun! Bring your laptop to join in!
07/03/2012
March's Code Share: First Expressions
Code doesn’t just tell a computer to what to do. Code allows us to express ourselves, organising our thoughts and sharing them with others: both humans and machines. Code provides us with three mechanisms to do this: expressions, combination and abstraction.
This month we are going to look at the first of these: expressions.
More information about this London Java Community event can be found here: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/events/52643562/
07/03/2012
Code & Beer
This is a social / hands-on event at Shooting Start every first Wednesday of the Month.
08/03/2012
In The Brain of Abisola Fatokun & Arcadius Ahouansou, Implementing Enterprise Search at Sky
In this talk, Abisola will be highlighting the importance of Search in the Enterprise, especially at Sky, and will go on to focus on a specific Sky Facebook project - how a Search application for Sky’s Facebook profile page was built using SOLR.
So that's it for all the events, just a couple of small things before I let you all get on with your weekends.
The other role is very new, again working primarily with J2EE and Spring - it's with a world leader in the travel industry - they're a really exciting company who work with the latest, cutting edge Java and NoSQL technologies.
If you're interested in either of the positions above, or would like just like to get your group on the list, please let me or Barry know, we would be happy to help.
See you in two weeks!
Aaron
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