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Rob Harrop

CTO of Skills Matter and co-founder of SpringSource.

As CTO of Skills Matter, Rob helps to provide a community of over 35,000 software professionals with access to high-quality events and training.

Prior to Skills Matter, Rob served as CTO of UK-based consumer lender First Banco. At First Banco, Rob led the development of all internal and external software projects. Rob remains on the board at First Banco.

Co-founder of SpringSource, the software company behind the wildly-successful Spring Framework.

Specialist in high-volume, high-scale enterprise systems.

Author and co-author of five books, including the highly-popular Spring Framework reference “Pro Spring”.

BOOKS

Pro Spring

*Readers will witness a real application being built with Spring framework, which is a very hot topic.

*Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is most up to date at time of book’s release; AOP is a hot topic right now.

*Will be endorsed by Open Source Spring Framework founder and head, Rod Johnson (plus a Foreward, name on cover, and/or possible Spring logo).