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RUBY / RAILS Training - 3 days - London
Learn the most productive web development environment there is!
October 23-25, West London
Agenda: http://www.ratio.co.uk/rat801.html
info: in...@ratio.co.uk
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AJAX AND ADVANCED JAVASCRIPT Training - 2 days - London
October 26-27, West London
Agenda: http://www.ratio.co.uk/rat802.html
info: email info AT ratio.co.uk
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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS - SPA2007 - Conference for Software Practice Advancement
25th - 28th March 2007 in Homerton College, Cambridge, UK
www.spaconference.org
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Third International Workshop on
Formal Aspects of Component Software (FACS'06),
First Call for Papers
Prague, Czech Republic
September 20 -- 22, 2006
http://www.iist.unu.edu/facs06/
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Programming Ruby
Programming Ruby -- Dave Thomas has written an excellent introduction to the Ruby programming language - covering all aspects from classes and object through exception handling, modularity, threads and processes to unit testing and using Ruby in a Windows environment. At over 800 pages, it's certainly a tome, but each page is put to good use and there's an invaluable full library reference thrown in to boot!
If you're serious about using Ruby you need this book.
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Agile Web Development with Rails
Another excellent book from Dave Thomas, this time teaming up with Rails creator David Heinemeier Hansson. Learning Rails is not such a difficult job, and with this book it's made even easier. The book Covers the Action Views (presentation), Active Record (object-relational mapping) and Action Controller subsystems, and takes the reader step by step (agile style) through the development of an web application. Rails is well worth a look - and this book is a welcome addition to available Rails resources.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/097669400X/ref=pd_bxgy_text_b/104-4881395-3201546?%5Fencoding=UTF8
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Prefactoring - Ken Pugh
I have to admit having a smile on my face when I saw the title of this book. Not that our industry goes round in circles or anything - but it seemed inevitable that given the rise of "refactoring" as technique, that someone would finally say - "hey, why don't we write our code so we don't have to refactor it!" Of course *it is* more complicated than that - and as Ken says in the book - many of his prefactoring techniques were learned during refactoring. Anyhow, certainly worth a look at this book - it containts a lot of good design advice that you can apply in a pre- or post-factoring manner. Perhaps inevitably - some Amazon reviews see this book as an attack on "agile" methods but I think they miss a fundamental point - good design advice is good design advice - regardless of whether you emphasise more design up front or refactoring existing code. As with all books - keep an open mind - and take what you think is valuable from it!
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** EVENTS ** USA / N AMERICA **
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Sparx Systems and ICONIX Software Engineering are pleased to announce a series of public classes entitled "Hands-on Enterprise Architect for Power Users" (two days). Students will develop an interactive internet (.Net) mapping application in C# within the Visual Studio environment using Enterprise Architect to take the example project from use cases and functional requirements all the way through sequence and class diagrams, and will generate C# code and test cases. Students will learn, hands-on, how to best leverage the seamless bi-directional integration between EA and Microsoft Visual Studio.
http://www.iconixsw.com/EA/PublicClasses.html
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VERIFY 2006
Software Testing Conference
October 10-11 2006
Washington DC
http://www.effectivesoftwaretesting.com/Conference_Verify.aspx
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The 9th International Business Rules Forum 2006
November 5 - 9, 2006
Omni Shoreham Hotel | Washington, D.C.
Call for Presentations - Submission deadline - March 7, 2006 - is fast approaching
www.BusinessRulesForum.com
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SD BEST PRACTICES 2006
Hynes Convention Center
Boston, MA
September 11-14, 2006
Call for Abstracts will open January 2006
http://www.sdexpo.com/
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The 5th International Conference on New Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques
Location: Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, Canada
Date: October 25-27, 2006
Website: http://www.somet.soft.iwate-pu.ac.jp/somet_06
Submission Site: http://www.paperdyne.com/somet06.html
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Conference on Information Technology in Tertiary Education 2006
Location: Unisa Florida Campus, South Africa
Date: September 18-20, 2006
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006
Website: http://www.citte.ac.za/
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The 10th IASTED International Conference on
Software Engineering and Applications
~SEA 2006~
November 13-15, 2006
Dallas, Texas, USA
Call for Papers - Papers Due - June 2006
http://www.iasted.org/conferences/2006/Dallas/sea.htm?sea
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** ObjectiveView Magazine **
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Issue 9 now available:
Features:
- Obie Fernandez - introduces Ruby on Rails
- Amy Hoy - overviews the Ruby Programming Language
- Richard Vaughan - analysing Ajax
- Alex Ruiz - on Aspect/J
With opinion from:
- Rebecca Wirfs Brock - It's official - specs are bad!
- Kevlin Henney - Abstraction abstraction, what is abstraction?
- Scott Ambler - The Glacial Methodology (TM): A data-oriented software development process
- Ken Pugh - Prefactor and be Agile
- Edsger Dijsktra's letter to the ACM on "Goto Considered Harmful"
VISIT www.ratio.co.uk/objectiveview.html - for this and back issues.
Invite a friend to subscribe - tell them to email: objecti...@ratio.co.uk with subject: subscribe
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www.internationaldeveloper.com
This new site for International Developer magazine has been re-launched and the new site format has been designed to serve you, the developer, better.
We can now provide you with a broader and deeper range of news, reviews and resources to help you stay on top of the big issues, and over the coming weeks you will even be able to access the contents of every single back issue of ID magazine through the site.
So, please take some time to have a look at the site and gain from the content both online and in the magazine.
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Methods & Tools is a free e-newsletter for software developers, testers and project managers.
Winter 2005 issue's content:
* Choosing and Managing the Ideal Test Team by Lloyd Roden
* Risk Based Testing, Strategies for Prioritizing Tests against
37 pages of software development knowledge.
To download or read this issue go to the PDF area of
http://www.methodsandtools.com
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