Announcing 6th DevClub.lv

This time there will be a lot of information about JavaScript and TDD.

Venue and time for this event: 15.11.2012 18:30 at Hotel "Radi un draugi", Mārstaļu iela 3.

Here's the speaker lineup:

Māris Zemgalis from C.T.Co will talk about "JavaScript Trends"
(Language – English )
JavaScript was used for displaying alert boxes and opening annoying pop-up windows.. That was the common use for it for some long time.. It was then.. Now in the era of browser wars JavaScript is used to build enterprise level apps in browser environment, to build native & hybrid mobile apps and even used for building server side applications. In presentation I'll cover the demise of Flash, rise of the JavaScript frameworks and fancy tools to make your work productive and entertainment more fun.
Tags: JavaScript, node.js, Titanium, PhoneGap, Backbone.js

Māris Zemgalis helps people to get things done by giving them simple and beautiful tools to organize themselves. He has enthusiasm for beautiful, pragmatic code and an eye for simplicity.

Raimonds Simanovskis from eazyBI will talk about "Test Driven Development (TDD) – Why and How?"
(Language – English or Latvian)
There are many myths about Test Driven Development (TDD) – takes too much time, not applicable, not working in real life etc. In this presentation these myths will be "busted" and main benefits of TDD will be explained and recommendations how to try it out and start doing. In the end small practical live TDD will be demonstrated using JavaScript.
Tags: TDD, Agile, JavaScript

Raimonds Simanovskis is software developer and consultant with strong "enterprise software development" history and Oracle technologies background but during recent years he has been passionate Ruby and JavaScript developer. He is regular open source contributor and has created Oracle database adapter for Ruby on Rails, PL/SQL unit testing library with Ruby and recently working on integrating Mondrian OLAP engine with JRuby. Raimonds is also active participant in Latvian Agile software development and Open Data communities. Raimonds is founder and core developer of business intelligence web application eazyBI.

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