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Speaker:

Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton
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LEARN HOW TO:

* Understand Ruby fundamentals
* Install Ruby and Rails
* Develop a full working web application with Ruby on Rails
* Use new features in Ruby on Rails 2.3
* Grasp and master the fundamentals Models, Views and Controllers
* Apply Behaviour Driven Development and Test Driven Development with Cucumber
* Getting to grips with Git (version control system)

PROGRAMME

DAY 1: INTRODUCTION TO RUBY ON RAILS
Hello Ruby
Install Ruby and explore the syntax and fundamentals of Ruby.

Ruby and Web Applications
Why would you use Ruby on web apps?

Hello Rails
Installation of Rails and creation of our first application. Looking under the hood of Rails and understanding what's happening.

DAY 2: BEST PRACTICES IN WEB DEVELOPMENT
Test Driven Development
Understand why it is important to test your code and how to test it. Write test cases for the web application and make the tests pass.

Improve the application through good design
What is good design?
Best practices in MVC

DAY 3: THE REAL WORLD
See how to deal with complexity in applications and how to solve them using gems, plugins and new to Rails 2.3 - engines.

Don't Repeat Yourself, create your own Rails 2.3 engine.

DAY 4: INTEGRATION
Talking with other system and application using ActiveResource and HTTParty (RSS).

Create Blog aggregator.

Exploring deployment options and deploying to live.
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Registration Codes and Cool Prizes
Register before October 31st and take advantage of the early bird discount and pay just £50!
Additionally, everyone who registers will be eligible to win an iPod Touch that we will raffle of at the end of the workshop.

Detailed Programme:

* 08:30-09:00 arrivals, coffee
* 09:00-09:15 Welcome, introductions
* 09:15-09:30 History of the real-time web
* 09:30-10:00 Enter HTML 5 Communication!
* 10:00-10:30 WebSocket
* 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
* 10:45-11:00 Server-Sent Events
* 11:00-11:30 PostMessage and Cross-Document Messaging
* 11:30-12:00 Beyond WebSocket
* 12:00-13:00 Lunch
* (bring your laptop for afternoon labs)
* 13:00-13:30 WebSocket server installation
* 13:30-14:30 Server-Sent Events Broadcast scenario (Hands-on lab)
* 14:30-14:45 Coffee Break
* 14:45-15:30 WebSocket scenario (Hands-on lab)
* 15:30-16:30 Extending WebSocket and using Stomp and JMS (Hands-on lab)
* 16:25-16:30 Closing comments and raffle prize draw
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The aim of this eXchange is to promote awareness and adoption of modern Agile Testing techniques and ideas. With Lisa Crispin providing the conference keynote and two Parkbench sessions, the programme is structured to encourage discussion and bring together the leading thinkers and passionate members of the UK Agile Development and Testing community. With a maximum number of 125 delegates, we aim to provide an informal and intimate environment where you can share experience, demonstrate new ideas and techniques, talk to the experts and generally have lots of fun.

Speakers
Gojko Adzic has kindly agreed to be the Programme Lead, and is currently working with Antony Marcano, Lisa Crispin, Dan North, Liz Keogh and David Evanson on an interesting and exciting set of talks!

Register today – and pay just £25
To event aims to provide a real opportunity to share ideas, learn and discuss, so we have limited the number of delegates to 125 only. There is also an Early Bird Discount of nearly 75% if you book on or before August 31st, so if you would like to join us, get your skates on, register today and pay just £25

Info & Registration:
http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-testing/agile-specifications-bdd-and-testing-exchange/wd-33

Sponsorship
There are a variety of sponsorship packages available for organisations that wish to reach this audience. For further details about sponsorship packages, please contact Skills Matter's Community Manager Natalie Gray

Programme
You can find the full programme here: http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-testing/agile-specifications-bdd-and-testing-exchange/wd-33
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The aim of the Lean & Kanban eXchange is to promote awareness and adoption of Lean and Kanban ideas and techniques. With David J. Anderson providing the conference keynote and two Parkbench sessions, the programme is structured to encourage discussion and bring together the leading thinkers and passionate members of the UK Agile, Lean & Kanban community. With a maximum number of 125 delegates, we aim to provide an informal and intimate environment where you can share experience, demonstrate new ideas and techniques, talk to the experts and generally have lots of fun.

Structure
1 day, 1 track, 125 delegates. Full programme here: http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-scrum/lean-kanban-exchange/wd-33

Speakers
David J Anderson has kindly agreed to be the Program Lead and is currently working with David Joyce, Martine Devos, Rob Hathaway, David Laribee and others to put together a fantastic programme of talks.

Register Today – tickets just £25 (offer valid until Aug 31st)
To event aims to provide a real opportunity to share ideas, learn and discuss, so we have limited the number of delegates to 125 only. There is also an Early Bird Discount of nearly 75% if you book on or before August 31st, so if you would like to join us, get your skates on and register today!
http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-scrum/lean-kanban-exchange/wd-33

Sponsorship
There are a variety of sponsorship packages available for organisations that wish to reach this audience. If you think your organisation may be interested in sponsoring the event, or you know of any other organisations, please contact Skills Matter's Community Manager Natalie Gray further details about sponsorship packages. Natalie can be reached on natalie [dot] gray [at] skillsmatter dot com or skype natalieskillsmatter

Hope to see you there?!

Wendy
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