Announcing 21st DevClub.lv

This time on XXI DevClub.lv:

• Indrek Sünter from Tartu Observatory will talk about “ESTCube-1 firmware upgrades and testing”
  (Language – English)
  Steps involved in ESTCube-1 firmware upgrades – from cross-platform development on PC to three stages of testing on satellite hardware.
  The talk highlights differences between the development of typical software vs. software for embedded systems.
  Tags: satellite, embedded, testing

  Indrek Sünter is an embedded software engineer and an electrical engineer in the Space Technology department of Tartu Observatory.
  He took part in the hardware design of ESTCube-1 command and data handling subsystem, currently he is developing software for the subsystem.
  He is also involved in the development of attitude determination and control software on-board ESTCube-1.

• Karlis Berkolds from RTU Robotics club will talk about “LEGO Mindstorm robots” (20 min)
  (Language – Latvian)
  Brief introduction to LEGO Mindstorm robots: overview of hardware and software used in LEGO Mindstorm robots, possibilities and restrictions, demonstration of programming LEGO Mindstorm robots. What are the pros and cons of using LEGO Mindstorm sets compared to real robots and programming education.
  Tags: robotics, lego robots, education

  Karlis Berkolds is a member of RTU robotics club where he educates new robot builders, organizes workshops for students about robotics and works on his own projects. He is currently studying for a master’s degree in Intellectual robotic systems and works at Ogre technical college as Electronics teacher and leads a robotics hobby group.

• Alla Babkina will talk about “Microeconomics for Engineering Decisions”
  (Language – English)
  Every day, many times a day, software engineers face the challenge of making choices that affect the quality of the end product they deliver. While all focus on optimizing their technical solutions at some point (this talk will not be about system optimization), few bother to make choices optimal from the business perspective. I will show some good ways to do that that come from college level microeconomics and some examples of how that works in practice.
  Tags: professionalism, solutions, architecture, agile

  Alla is a software engineer and analyst with 5 years of experience as a lawyer in banking and corporate finance and correspondent banking. She has experienced the ups and downs of software engineering from both the business/customer and engineer perspectives and believes that the best results come from carefully balancing the two points of view every single day.

Accenture is looking for Java Spring Evangelists and Ruby Developer.

C.T.Co is looking for professional System Analyst, please take a look!

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Devtraining is having Agile Coaching training by David Hussman and Specification by Example by Gojko Adzic.

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