Marakana 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.

NEW Spring 2010 Courses

Java™ 6 Programming A Crash Course Training Course (5 days)
Web Application Development with Servlets and JSP Course (5 days)
GWT - Google Web Toolkit Course (3 days)
Rich Internet Applications with Ajax Training Course (5 days)

Some of Our Upcoming Classes

Tomcat (3 days)
by Adam Breindel
on Wed, Feb 10 in San Francisco

GWT 2.0 (3 days)
by Marty Hall
on Wed, Feb 17 in San Francisco

Ruby (3 days)
by Sarah Allen
on Mon, Feb 22 in San Francisco

JSF 2.0 (5 days)
by Marty Hall
on Mon, Mar 1 in San Francisco

Selenium (2 days)
on Mon, Mar 1 in San Francisco

JBoss™ (4 days)
by Aleksandar Gargenta
on Mon, Mar 8 in San Francisco

ScrumMaster (2 days)
by Jeff Sutherland
on Mon, Mar 8 in San Francisco

Android™ Bootcamp (5 days)
by Marko Gargenta
on Mon, Mar 8 in New York

Intro to Android™ (3 days)
by Marko Gargenta
on Mon, Mar 8 in New York

Ruby on Rails (4 days)
by Sarah Allen
on Mon, Mar 15 in San Francisco


See Complete Schedule

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