Near Infinity is proud to announce our first home-grown public class offering, Introduction to iOS development (iPhone/iPad)! This class will be taught by Chris D'Agostino. Chris has been teaching this class at George Mason and in various private offerings to our customers for a while. Now it is ready for prime time!

In August, the NIC Training Center will host an ExtJS 4 Bootcamp presented by Modus/Create. This class will be taught by Jay Garcia, the Author of ExtJS in Action. Jay has been working with ExtJS since its beginning, and is a recognized expert on ExtJS.

Near Infinity is proud to host a new Gradle Expert Training class, taught by Tim Berglund, the Author of the Gradle O'Reilly Book Series. This is an intensive and highly practical 3-day Gradle course. You will become familiar with all major concepts of Gradle and how to best use Gradle for simple as well as complex build scenarios. This course is packed with hands-on exercises.

To learn more please visit Gradeware's Gradle Expert Training course description. To register visit Gradeware's Gradle course registration web page.

Be sure to check out our Upcoming NIC-U Training Courses page for information on future courses at NIC-U!

Near Infinity is proud to host a new class, "Rails in Production: How to Deploy, Secure, Tune, and Monitor Your Production Rails Application", taught by CodeSherpas' Dave Bock. This class will be held on Friday June 10 at the NIC Training Center.

You've build the killer rails app. Now what? This class will go over detailed examples from choosing a hosting provider, through provisioning and securing your servers, to deploying your app, as well as monitoring and tuning performance once in production. In this class, we will publish a real website from scratch, with consideration for real world concerns, like safeguarding passwords, turning on and off application monitoring, multiple machine deployments, and general system administration tasks.

This class is for anyone responsible for deploying live Rails applications. You should be comfortable enough with Rails to generate an app, deal with models and migrations, understand layouts and partials. You'll also need the ability to navigate around a command line.

The instructor, David Bock, has been deploying high-availability, heavily trafficked Rails apps for four years and has amassed some great experience in dealing with different configurations, traffic patterns and optimization techniques.

To learn more and to register please visit CodeSherpas' Rails in Production web site.

Near Infinity is proud to announce that Chris Williams will debut his new JavaScript Bootcamp classes right here at the Near Infinity Training Center, February 10-11, 2011. The JS Bootcamp promises to take developers from being interested in JavaScript to proficiency in just two days.

JS is the scripting language that powers the web and increasingly it is becoming critical for many tasks outside of the browser. Unfortunately, many people, possibly you, are not yet proficient in this highly usable and very important programming language. Maybe you have dabbled with a JS library like jQuery or Prototype, but you now want to understand what is going on and why. Perhaps you program Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl or another language and making your application rich and interactive on the web has you befuddled. Perhaps you are program manager and you want your design and development teams to communicate better with one another Whatever the reason, now is the perfect time to learn JS properly and this is the class for you.

The JS Bootcamp will be taught by Chris Williams, the originator the popular JSConf JavaScript conference, the first real JavaScript conference. Chris is also the producer of A Minute With Brendan and JSConfLive

To learn more and to register please visit the JSBootcamp web site.