The Functional Programming eXchange returns to Skills Matter for it's sixth year. This is the ultimate chance to meet and learn from the leading experts in the Functional world.

Bringing together experts and developers, this conference is focused on the functional language Clojure. Featuring a huge range of talks, case studies, live coding and panel discussions.(Oh and there will be some AR Drones flying around too).

Cascalog is a Clojure library for writing Hadoop jobs using a declarative syntax. In this talk we demonstrate how to use Cascalog 2 to determine groups of similar Twitter users.

This dedicated Haskell conference will pull together enthusiasts, developers, and thought leaders across the Haskell ecosystem.

Lambda Jam is a new conference that can take your skills to the next level. This is not your traditional conference of sitting and listening - a significant portion of each day will be devoted to hands-on practice or workshops.

After much anticipation, we’re thrilled to announce the fourth annual Scala Days will be held this year in New York at The Hudson Theater on June 10th-12th.

Skills Matter is pleased to announce the Fourth Functional Programming eXchange our annual conference on the functional programming paradigm, practices, technologies and ideas.

Early announcement: the Second Annual Clojure eXchange, led by Bruce Durling has been scheduled for December 6th 2012 at Skills Matter. Follow #clojurex for programme updates or to send us your ideas!

The Alternative Programming Conference

Skills Matter are delighted to announce the second annual NOSQL eXchange, a 1-day conference packed with the latest ideas and best practices in NOSQL technologies, including Neo4J, RIAK,Cassandra and MongoDB!

The Scala eXchange comes in the wake of Scala Days in April - 350+ attendees, 60+ presentations, and the lovebus! - For now, we can reveal that Martin Odersky, creator of Scala, will return to Skills Matter to deliver a Keynote!

CodeKen 2012 is a two day conference for developers with a passion for new technology. We bring together an eclectic range of talks covering new technologies, languages and techniques. Our goal is to inspire developers and celebrate software development.

Skills Matter is proud to announce the first annual Haskell eXchange. This fast paced day will bring together some of the leading experts in Haskell providing a range of talks and discussions.

We are people who live in London and are interested in programming in Clojure. Currently our main activity is a monthly dojo where we help one another to learn Clojure and provide a chance to code that our day jobs may not allow.

Functional programming has been at the forefront of a new generation of programming technologies: Companies employing functional programming use it to enable more effective, robust, and flexible software development.

We are people who live in London and are interested in programming in Clojure. Currently our main activity is a monthly dojo where we help one another to learn Clojure and provide a chance to code that our day jobs may not allow.

The LJC currently has circa 2000 members. It was founded by Barry Cranford of RecWorks Ltd. The LJC is organised and run by Barry Cranford, Martijn Verburg and Ben Evans along with a committee of passionate Java enthusiasts.

Skills Matter is pleased to announce the First Progressive Java Tutorials, the annual Java conference offering a unique blend of product and experience mixed, and tempered with theory and practice.

Join Robert Pickering, David Pollak, Erik Hesselink, Loic Denuziere, Kevin Wright, Andres Löh, Tomas Petricek, Miles Sabin, Bruce Durling, and some 100 others passionate about Functional Programming.

FP Day is a new one-day event for the Functional Programming community in the UK and around the world. Intended to be hands-on and interactive, FP Day will give you the opportunity to share experiences with others.

Thanks to everyone attending, including some great speakers with excellent talks, we enjoyed an exciting, inspiring day packed with learning yesterday.