Announcing 17th DevClub.lv

Don’t stay home alone – it’s Christmas DevClub 🙂 with Xmas snacks and hot drinks.

All Xmas heroes are comming:

• Santa Martin Rand (one of the speakers from DevConFu 2013 ) will talk about “Building a startup – lessons learned”
  (Language – English)
  An exciting story on how to build a startup from zero and what pitfalls for avoid.
  More thoroughly on the topics of:
  – The importance of legal contacts
  – Lessons on how investors think and how to get them commit
  – What to get customer to tell what they want
  – Role of alcohol in a startup
  Tags: investment, start-up

  Martin Rand is Ex Skyper, Co-founder of VitalFields.com a farm management platform. Martin has built up a stratup that is generating a considerable amount of revenue and raised several rounds of financing.

• Dwarf Maris Tepers will have a talk “About developers from another point of view”
  (Language – Latvian)
  Most professionals have contact with other members of the specialty, but today we will try to take broader look on IT industry here in Latvia. Let’s look which technologies are most popular today and how it change during last years. What programmer values are important in different types of enterprises and wage levels in various technology categories (changes, trends, etc.)
  Tags: developers, companies, technologies, personality, competition, wages, trends

  Maris Tepers: “I’m working in Human Resources (HR) company as Key Account Manager last years. My daily life is talking with different companies and most part of it is about IT positions. I’ve talked to big part of Latvian IT companies and I will share with the known information.”

• Gingerbread man Shankar Karuppiah will talk about “Why we did, what we did @tawk.to“
  (Language – English)
  The talk would be about our insights on the platform and technologies (like: node.js, mongoDB, redis, ElasticSearch, EmberJS and ect.) we used to develop Tawk.to, and why we chose those technologies.
  Tags: node.js, mongoDB, redis, ElasticSearch, EmberJS, start-up

  I’m the CTO and co-founder at Tawk.to. Tawk.to is a free live chat app that lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website or from a free customizable page. No catch. No spam. No wares. It’s truly free and always will be.

• Hopefully some Snow Whites also will come 🙂

Info from C.T.Co: Senior Web UI Developer (JavaScript or/and GWT) – we are looking for you!

JetBrains has released new IntelliJ IDEA 13 and an early preview of UI designer plugin for developers for iOS. And those who are waiting for C++ IDE can subscribe to an earky private preview of the IDE.

We have 2 new books from Devtraining Library for DevClub.lv –

• 1. Test Driven Development for Embedded C by James W. Grenning!
• 2. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Reis

You can get the book to read by writing to info@devclub.lv! And you can vote what other books we should have for you to read!

DevConFu – the first big DevClub’s conference – have some videos to share with you from the conference! Enjoy!

• J. B. Rainsberger – Integrated tests are a scam
• Brendan Marsh and Kristian Lindwall – How agile coaches help us win – the agile coach role @ Spotify
• Shay Friedman – The wonderful world that is twitter bootstrap
• Mehis Hakkaja – Manual WebApp pentesting fun stories (with hacking demos)
• Stephan J. Mellor – Overview of requirements engineering
• Allan Kelly – Xanpan

Accenture’s open-minded and friendly team is looking for strong FLEX DEVELOPER.

Thanks to our sponsors: Devtraining, Accenture, C.T.Co and JetBrains – we are able to make DevClub.lv events.