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Speakers for 1 Year DevClub.lv:

• Devtraining is bringing Aleksandr Jastremski with JavaScript – HTML5 – CSS3 training to Riga and he will visit DevClub.lv to talk about ".NET Development from project Sales to Deployment"
  (Language – Russian)
  "One day I was speaking with one Java developer and he said: "There is no source code merge in .NET". So I decided to show him how to development using all environment that surround .NET. After that, I can not say, that this developer was in one day turn in to .NET religion, but he start to say every Java developer he meet that it will be great if Java whould have same tools and environment. Lets have a look on them…"
  Tags: .NET, project lifecycle, c#, deployment, development, architecture, UML

  Aleksandr Jastremski is .NET Evangelist. Programming .NET starting the date it was founded. Microsoft certified professional. Has an experience of more than 20 years in software development. Currently working as an electronic channel designer at Danskebank's architecture division. Trusts that starting writing programs is not so hard if you have a good teacher who will improve your skills.

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• Oleg Anastasjev from Odnoklassniki will talk about "Класс!ная Cassandra"
  (Language – Russian)
  Odnoklassniki started adoption of Cassandra NoSQL storage engine in 2010 to resolve availability and scalability problems. Nowadays, Cassandra is widely used in many high-loaded clusters inside our infrastructure. We’ll present our experience based on the use case of “Klass!” button database, which is one of the most high-loaded systems we have. Currently this single database stores approx 50 billion individual records of what people like, which occupy more than 8TB of space on disks. To implement this storage we developed our own, not traditional way of cassandra usage.
  We discuss how cassandra operate under the hood, its strong points and weaknesses, what decisions we made and what we changed in Cassandra to make our storage even more efficient and reliable.

C.T.Co is welcoming to join their professional team Senior .NET Developer for Mobile related projects.

Latest Skype challenge is closed and the winner will be announced at 1 Year DevClub.lv.

Thanks to our sponsors: Devtraining, 4FINANCE Group, C.T.Co, Skype and JetBrains – we are able to make DevClub.lv events.

Speakers for 11th DevClub.lv:

• Arvids Godjuks, Senior Web Architect from Voipclub will talk about "E-Currencies – the hidden worl of processing"
  (Language – Russian)
  Most of the people think that working with e-currencies is straight forward – they are wrong, fundamentaly. In my line of work I have learned that in grand scheme of things banking systems are easier to sustain, despite their initial ridicilous corporate technological stack, weird logic and occasional realisation, that WEB tools we are used to sometimes do not have a reliable implementation of certain tech. All in all – it's a giant mine field and only years of experience can save you from blowing up yourself to pieces.
  Tags: server side, e-currency, banking, payment processing

  Arvids is a WEB application architect with 8+ years of experience in PHP and MySQL, organizer of "WebConf Riga" and numerous "WEB Beerfests" (as he calls them) in Riga. He primaraly works with Yii Framework (PHP) and MySQL, takes a semi-active role in "php-internals" mailing list and probably should have taken ZCE years ago.

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• Hanno Jarvet from Devtraining will talk about "Killing Agile"
  (Language – English)
  "If you know the weaknesses of a system, you will be better at protecting it. Taking a system hacker's perspective will help you to do just that. I will present examples from my own consulting practice and give recipes for both disaster and rescue."
  Tags: agile

  Hanno is an independent consultant who helps companies to improve performance. Since 2009 he has helped more than a dozen companies and software teams to improve their processes and productivity. During this time he has also co-founded Agile Estonia non-profit organization and organizes regular agile conferences in Estonia. He is a senator and past national president of Junior Chamber Estonia.

Devtraining is having Javascript and HTML5 training in June by Aleksandr Jastremski in Riga.

And C.T.Co are welcoming new Project Manager (with Java background) to join their friendly team.

Can you say for yourself "Challenge accepted"? Until 3rd June you can prove your coding master skills by taking our friends latest Skype Challenge and become the proud owner of a brand new Nokia Lumia 920.

We are thankful to our great sponsors who help us to make DevClub.lv events: Devtraining, 4FINANCE Group, C.T.Co, Skype and JetBrains.

Speakers for 10th DevClub.lv:

• Dmitri Nesteruk developer evangelist from JetBrains will talk about "Fast Code Craft"
  (Language – English)
  This is a talk about the principle of Fast Code Craft – a paradigm which posits that self-evident code should be created quickly and easily. In this demonstration participants will see how diverse approaches to creating code quickly can boost productivity and effectiveness.
  Tags: productivity, code generation, resharper, intellij idea

  Dmitri Nesteruk is a developer, podcaster and frequent speaker at developer conferences. His passions include modern software development patterns and practices and efficient use of both software and hardware resources in solving challenging problems in IT. Dmitri has been a Microsoft MVP (C#) since 2009. He works as a developer evangelist for JetBrains. He currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden.

• Vasily Popov from C.T.Co will talk about "Difference between web applications and mobile applications from the user experience and uder interface point of view"
  (Language – Russian)
  Fingers are not mouse cursors, mobile devices screens are smaller than desktop monitors. This seems obvious for many, but yet we continue to see the same design mistakes over and over again in mobile apps. Developers are trying to squeeze old applications into smaller screens thinking that's enough, but it's not a straightforward task, mobile UI and UX design calls for starting from a blank slate.
  Tags: Mobile, Design, UI, UX

  Vasiliy Popov is the Head of User Experience and Mobile in C.T.Co, passionate about mobile development and good design; eager in finding new ways to solve old problems.

Did you know that Devtraining is bringing Gojko Adzic, the author of 2nd place book of Top 100 Agile books 2012, to Riga in May with a Specification by Example training?

And our friends C.T.Co is having a new hot offer: GWT Developer position.

Try to take this challenge: Skype is celebrating our partnership and running a new unique challenge for all attendees to be completed by 3rd June. Impress us with your coding wizardry and you could be the proud owner of a brand new Nokia Lumia 920!

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

At Special edition Mobile DevClub.lv we together with C.T.Co invite you to enjoy following presentations:

• Aivars Ritovs from NFC team will talk about "How to start-up"
  (Language – Latvian)
  Stories and main points for IT guys: How to start-up your thought? Best latvian and world stories, NFC team and Aivar’s individual experience about products, platforms, team and start-ups development.
  Tags: Start-up, apps, solutions, NFC, NFC team, MyNfcteam

  Aivars Ritovs is the team leader for a Baltic start-up company „NFC team” that is out to build a world’s first NFC infrastructure for business and consumer solutions. His previous experience with NFC includes working solution with international cleaning service based on Nokia Phones and consulting several big operators on their NFC-enabled services. Currently, the NFC team is the partner for major consumer Electronics Company in launching the word’s first low-cost NFC phone. NFC team has several NFC products and platforms for B2B market.

• Gusts Linkevičs from If P&C Insurance AS will talk about "Live tiles and Lock screen on Windows Phone 8"
  (Language – Latvian)
  Live tiles and Lock screen are one of the biggest advantages of WP8. You will learn what types of Live tiles exist and how to work with them from your application to achieve fantastic customization. Have you ever wanted customizable Lock screen with data you want? It is possible on WP8 and I will show you how.
  Tags: Windows Phone 8, Live Tiles, Lock Screen, ScheduledTasks, Background Agents

  Gusts Linkevičs is member of dotnet user group, Microsoft Student Partner and is passionate about WP8.

• Aleksandrs Pliska from DPA will talk about "Mobile application development"
  (Language – Latvian)
  Nowadays the usage and development of mobile applications is fast growing and important part of whole IT market. Implementation of mobile applications in different business areas and solutions is becoming more and more integrant. This talk will be about DPA experience of mobile applications development in Android, iOS and Windows Phone environments. During the presentation I will introduce three DPA developed mobile applications (one from each environment) and will speak about the development process, key challenges and lessons learnt.
  Tags: Mobile Applications, Development, Android, iOS, Windows Phone

  Aleksandrs Pliska is project manager assistant at DPA Solutions Department. He has experience in mobile applications analysis and testing in DPA projects.

• Dmitry Ivanov from C.T.Co will talk about "Difference in Cross-platform mobile development – native vs hybrid vs HTML5"
  (Language – Russian)
  Every developer thinking about doing something for mobile platforms, wants to maximize potential reach and cover as many platforms as possible. Cross-platform development seems to be an answer and HTML5 is the de-facto standard for that approach. What are the potential caveats of going cross-platform with HTML5? Why Facebook decided to go native with its apps for iOS and Android after trying HTML5 first?
  Tags: Mobile Development, HTML5, cross-platform

  Dmitry Ivanov is the Lead Mobile Developer in C.T.Co interested in various aspects of cross platform development with experience in a number of platforms, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

• Lottery of iPad mini provided by C.T.Co

Please pay attention – this time we start at 17:00 and event will take place at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (RTU), 2nd floor, Mazā zāle, Kaļķu iela 1.

We would also like to thank our sponsors: Devtraining and C.T.Co.

JavaScript Trends

Maris has presented JavaScript trends. This lecture started with the history of JavaScript, its usage in the very beginning and the way it has developed. The main goal of the presentation was to show that starting from the language for the annoying popups and alerts a JavaScript turned to the language that is very powerful. New technologies and frameworks are introduced which make JavaScript really powerful. Ajax requests, hardware acceleration, native mobile applications even server code is something that can be used with JavaScript nowadays. And the most amazing thing is that presentation was prepared with JavaScript framework help. Slides: http://www.rvl.io/zemgalis/javascript-trends

TDD – Why and How?

Raimonds in his presentation introduced the public with the Test Driven Development (TDD) which is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an initially failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards. Raimonds clearly described the benefits of using this approach and the problems which typically arise if software development and testing are done by separate individuals or teams. Presentation included practical demo of writing software on the spot implementing TDD approach. Source code for the demo with step by step guide are available from his GitHub public repository. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/rsim/tdd-why-and-how

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.

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• 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.