[Australasia-spring-interest] Spring training and next user group meeting

[Ben Alex]

Hello everyone

Welcome to 2007! With the holiday season drawing to a close and thoughts
returning to work, I thought this a good opportunity to let you know
what Spring activities we have planned for February...

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SINGAPORE TRAINING
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I'll be delivering a Core Spring training course in Singapore on 5-8
February. Core Spring is our most comprehensive four-day course,
examining in detail Spring fundamentals, inversion of control,
architecture, persistence, transactions, web MVC, security, AOP, JMX and
remoting.

The early bird discount of SG$2,285 ENDS TODAY, so please register ASAP
if you'd like to attend. See http://tinyurl.com/y4ph8t for more
information or to register. Group discounts are available (see below).

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SYDNEY TRAINING
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Our next Sydney Core Spring course will be run 19-22 February. Every
Sydney course we've ever run has sold-out, so book early to avoid
disappointment. See http://tinyurl.com/yyv2yg for more information or to
register. Group discounts are available (see below).

We also have a Core Hibernate course scheduled in Sydney for 12-14
March. Details are at http://tinyurl.com/yfw8p3. There is a package deal
discount of $300 if you attend both the Core Hibernate and any Core
Spring course.

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BRISBANE AND MELBOURNE TRAINING
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We also have Core Spring courses scheduled for Brisbane and Melbourne.

Visit http://www.interface21.com/training for full details.

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GROUP DISCOUNTS
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If you have four or more employees from one company attending a single
public training course, we offer a group discount. Please email me for
further information.

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PREVIOUS USER GROUP SLIDES
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If you are looking for slides from previous user group meetings, see my
blog entry at http://blogs.interface21.com/ for the links.

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SYDNEY USER GROUP
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Are you living in Sydney, and want to learn more about Spring? Like to
network with other Spring users and share stories, tips, tricks and
experiences? The next Sydney Spring User Group meeting is planned for 12
February. Venue details will be advised separately via this mailing list
(Australasia-spring-interest).

At this time we would like to invite members of the Spring Community to
present at the meeting. The only requirement is your topic is something
Spring-related that the audience would likely find interesting.
Presentations generally last 20-30 minutes, although there is some
flexibility on this. Some suggestions for presentation topics include
(but are not limited to):

* How you've used Spring in your projects
* Less obvious Spring features that are interesting
* Products and projects that integrate with or build on Spring
* Ways you've enhanced productivity on your Spring projects
* Patterns, approaches and methodologies (including DDD)

If you have a presentation topic suggestion, please email either Jayant
Joshi (jayant at iris.com.au) or myself.

Best regards

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