[Australasia-spring-interest] Spring events across Australasia

[Ben Alex]

Hi everyone

I'm pleased to advise that we have a number of Spring events planned
over the next few months in Auckland, Wellington, Brisbane, Singapore,
Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. All the details that you need are shown
below, and I've also listed some upcoming international Spring events.

Because space is limited, please register using the links provided.

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AUCKLAND
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* USER GROUP: Come along and hear about The Spring Portfolio on 16
April. This topic will be of interest to existing users, plus those not
already familiar with Spring. I've presented this topic in Melbourne,
Sydney, Singapore and Wellington. More: http://tinyurl.com/ysy8ew

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WELLINGTON
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* USER GROUP: I'll be presenting on ROO on 18 April. ROO is my as-yet
unreleased RAD DDD framework. More: http://tinyurl.com/2gttau

* TRAINING: Sorry, the Core Spring course for 17-20 April sold out quite
a few weeks ago. We'll schedule another Wellington course soon.

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BRISBANE
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* TRAINING: Sorry, the Core Spring course for 16-29 April sold out quite
a few weeks ago. We're planning another Brisbane course for 16-19 July.
It will be announced via this list shortly.

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SINGAPORE
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* TRAINING: Core Hibernate will be run in Singapore 23-25 April. The
early bird discount has been extended! More: http://tinyurl.com/2x23cl

* USER GROUP: I'll be presenting on ROO on 24 April. ROO is an as-yet
unreleased RAD DDD framework, which I very briefly demonstrated at the
last Singapore JUG meeting. More: http://tinyurl.com/ypn9vr

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SYDNEY
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* TRAINING: Core Spring will be run in Sydney 21-24 May. The early bird
discount is available until 20 April. More: http://tinyurl.com/36vpat

* USER GROUP: I'll be presenting on ROO, the RAD DDD framework, on 21
May. More: http://tinyurl.com/yoy89t

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MELBOURNE
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* TRAINING: Core Hibernate will be run in Melbourne 4-6 June. The early
bird discount is still available. More: http://tinyurl.com/2rfklj

* TRAINING: Core Spring will be run in Melbourne 18-21 June. The early
bird discount is still available. Combine this course with Core
Hibernate to save a further $300. More: http://tinyurl.com/23nf8l

* USER GROUP: We're planning the next Melbourne user group meeting for 4
June. If you're interested in presenting, please let me know.

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CANBERRA
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Don't worry, Canberra, we haven't forgotten you! Details haven't quite
been finalized yet, but I'm penciled in to present at the Canberra JUG
in June, and our Canberra Core Spring course will run in July. I'll
announce all the details via this list (once they're finalized).

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BEYOND AUSTRALASIA...
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Live outside Australasia, or heading overseas? You can hear about Spring
topics from the Interface21 team at these upcoming events:

* May 2007: JavaOne, San Fransisco. More: http://tinyurl.com/nk33s

* May 2007: JAX07, Bangalore. More: http://tinyurl.com/2b3yw3

* June 2007: SpringOne, Antwerp. More: http://tinyurl.com/277dcb

* June 2007: TSSJS, Barcelona. More: http://tinyurl.com/p3vt4

BTW, I'll be presenting at SpringOne and TSSJS on ROO and Acegi
Security. Plus I'm presenting at the Swedish Spring User Group in
between. So come along and say dag, hola or hej if you're in town.

Regarding India, we're also scheduling a number of public training
courses for later in 2007. I'll announce them shortly via this list.

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[OFF-TOPIC] RESEARCH PROJECT INVITATION
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Whilst not strictly Spring related, I'd like to thank those of you who
have already participated in my licensing research project pilot. This
anonymous research project is part of my doctorate and is both formally
supervised and has university ethics clearance. Anyone who is interested
in the research can receive a free copy of the eventual dissertation and
dataset (ie the research is entirely academic and non-commercial). If
you'd like to learn more, please see http://research.acegitech.com.
Thanks again to those who have already participated or intend to do so.

By the way, the research uses ASM to perform bytecode introspection.
This in turn produces dependency coupling metrics. It also uses the
Maven 2 repository for licensing data, and naturally Spring for the
server-side implementation. So even if you don't participate, you might
be interested in the research methodology and instrument design.

Best regards

Ben Alex
Regional Director, Australasia
Interface21 - the company behind Spring
www.interface21.com