Announcing 7th DevClub.lv

It's time for 7th DevClub.lv!

Here's the speaker lineup:

• Ivars Kalniņš from Select Solution will talk about "Life with Microsoft Dynamics NAV"
  (Language – Latvian )
  Ever heard someone other than a skilled salesperson presenting an ERP system like Dynamics NAV? Here is the chance – the facts and stories from an IT guy to fellow IT guys. Where’s the worth, actually? What’s there for developers? How it compares and where it’s heading?
  Tags: Dynamics, NAV, Microsoft, Navision, Development

  Ivars Kalniņš is a seasoned Dynamics NAV implementer, mostly passionate about the development part of the job. Co-founder at Select Solutions, providing e-commerce solutions for Dynamics NAV.

• Rolands Mekšs from 4Finance will talk about "Infrastructure as Code"
  (Language – English or Latvian)
  At all times development and operations have been different animals. However it has proven that we can (and should) treat infrastructure configuration in the same way as code and apply all development standard practices as version control, testing, continuous integration, development environments (testing/staging/production,etc) and so on. During presentation I will share some common ideas on topic, introduce Puppet – configuration management tool and it's declarative language as well as development workflow using Puppet + Vagrant + VirtualBox.
  Tags: DevOps, Configuration Management, Puppet, Vagrant

  Rolands Mekšs has worked both in Development and Operations positions, has many years experience of Linux systems administration and Java development.

• Antons Kranga from Accenture also will talk about “Infrastructure as Code”
  (Language – English, Latvian or Russian)
  This talk will not be developers vs operations, or let’s claudify everything. We will go through some infrastructure automation practices with Chef. Chef is the configuration management tool that can be used to once bootstrap your infrastructure, periodically, to revisit your infrastructure services or for deployment or release activities automation. We will talk about infrastructure as a code from perspective of Chef.
  Tags: DevOps, Configuration Management, Infrastructure Architecture, Chef

  Antons Kranga Technology Architect in Accenture, has been part of Architecture Innovation group. Working with infrastructure for Enterprise Systems. His last project has been to define Infrastructure Architectures for scalable, cloud based solutions.

• Skype Challenge!
  We are currently looking for talented individuals to join our amazing team developing products that touch the lives of millions people around the world. Showcase your puzzle solving abilities together with coding prowess by completing one of our timed challenges. Its very straight forward – if your code passes then we will be in contact to arrange an interview* and the best code will win a HTC Windows phone x8!
  Full information will be provided on the event. http://www.skypechallenge.com – it will be active from 20th of December

We would also like to thank our sponsors: Devtraining, 4FINANCE Group, C.T.Co. and Skype.