Marakana's reason d'être is to help people get better at what they do professionally. We accomplish this by organizing software training courses (both public and private) as well as supporting the open-source community and publishing useful learning resources. Our focus is open source software.

Some of Our Upcoming Classes

Rails (3 days)
by Sarah Allen
on Wed, Mar 17 in San Francisco

Building Real-Time HTML5 Web Sockets Applications (2 days)
by Peter Lubbers
on Mon, Mar 29 in San Francisco

Google Maps API (2 days)
by Robyn Overstreet
on Thu, Apr 1 in New York

Java with Spring™ and Hibernate™ (5 days)
by Aleksandar Gargenta
on Mon, Apr 5 in San Francisco

JavaScript, AJAX, and Frameworks (3 days)
by Adam Breindel
on Mon, Apr 5 in San Francisco

Android™ Bootcamp (5 days)
by Marko Gargenta
on Mon, Apr 12 in San Francisco

Intro to Android™ (3 days)
by Marko Gargenta
on Mon, Apr 12 in San Francisco

Resin Admin (3 days)
on Wed, Apr 14 in San Francisco


Apache (2 days)
by Aleksandar Gargenta
on Mon, Apr 19 in San Francisco


See Complete Schedule

Recent Forum Posts

Scandinavian Developers Conference
posted by Marko in General on 3/15/10 @ 2:13 PM

Learn about Android Internals and NDK
posted by Aleksandar in General on 3/7/10 @ 8:38 PM

Marakana featured in Dublin
posted by Marko in Announcements on 2/19/10 @ 10:48 AM

Learn About Continuous Integration With Hudson Directly From the Source
posted by Aleksandar in General on 2/18/10 @ 10:33 PM

Get a behind-the-scenes look at a real-world Android app
posted by Aleksandar in General on 2/9/10 @ 1:00 AM

We're Hiring
posted by Marko in Announcements on 2/2/10 @ 7:24 PM

Learn how to use Selenium with Maven/Ant to automate testing of web apps
posted by Aleksandar in General on 2/1/10 @ 12:30 AM

Scaling most popular lists
posted by Marko in Ruby on Rails on 12/28/09 @ 9:28 AM

Going Agile With Scrum at Genius.com
posted by Aleksandar in Agile on 12/23/09 @ 12:02 PM

Scrum Overview
posted by Marko in Agile on 12/17/09 @ 3:00 PM

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