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Together with our sponsor C.T.Co we are organizing Special edition Mobile DevClub.lv at 17th of January next year.
Please vote and give us more understanding about topics and other issues you would like to see at Special edition Mobile DevClub.lv .
Nowadays it’s very popular to talk about code quality in software projects. It seems that every programmer can recognize bad code, but does they know how to create good one? This presentation will focus on good code quality, defining it, describing how to achieve, maintain and measure it and what happens if one fails to do that.
Functional programming gone mainstream by making this Microsoft Research language as first-class citizenship in Visual Studio. Developers can use functional approach to resolve specific problem domain issues. F# can also be used in mainstream development like Windows Phone applications. What is functional programming, why should I care about one and where can I make use of that? Those questions will be answered by this session.
PHP and deamon – usually these two together provoke only one reaction from the audience – the speaker is trolling. I will make an effort to convince the audience that this is not the case anymore as of PHP 5.3. This will be a success story of using a daemons written in plain PHP to process some few million USD worth of transactions per month in production mode for 2 years.
Oleg started with history of project "Odnoklassniki", which born in 2002 and for now have 130m registred users. Project is written mainly in Java and database is working on MS SQL 2005. In general presentation was about technologies in differnet layers of project which helps keep all the 5m users online. Was discussed cons and pros of different parts of solutions which was used and some was replaced in past of project, caching (really lot of cahce), project monitoring solutions, deployment, statistics and others.
Draugiem.lv is the biggest social network in Latvia with around 500k daily active users. This talk will introduce you to technology behind draugiem.lv and some of the architecture design decisions made to scale the portal.
SOA for long time is buzzword in Software development field. Technology leaders as Oracle, Microsoft and dozens of others deliver to market plenty of tools that support SOA. What is real usage and benefits of SOA for Latvian software developers remains question. Author will explain real benefits of SOA and what are common usage scenarios
In this talk I will show roots of CoffeeScript awesomeness and explain why everyone who write JS should try it! Talk will be mostly in hands-on mode. So, expect lot of code mixed with HTML5 features and server-side JS.
More than eighty IT developers from Latvia and Estonia gathered in Riga for the first DevClub.lv on June 21st. The event took place in the pleasant premises of TechHub Riga.
Ingus Rūķis from DraugiemGroup shared his experience about the technical structure of the biggest social media Draugiem.lv in Latvia and how this project was technically developed, experiencing a number of radical changes. Ingus himself came to Draugiem.lv as a trainee, now he has been working in the company already for seven years and is the main programmer. He shared his practical experience, problems he encountered with during the project’s history, and what solutions were used. This story attracted the attention of many participants because Draugiem.lv is a very popular local project.
Aldis Ērglis from FMS presented his vision about the advantages of service-oriented web architecture (SOA) and its solutions – how and why it is advantageous to use. Inthe methodology of SOA software components are used as separate services which can later be used elsewhere. You can find the successful examples of SOA on a video.
Aleksandr Motsjonov from Zero Turnaround talked about the new and current technology – CoffeeScript, its application possibilities and benefits. The main idea of this technology is to reduce JS code that makes it more readable and the programming – faster. There was an opportunity to see CoffeeScript code examples, as well as there were pros and cons of the technology discussed.
The first DevClub.lv proceeded thanks to its supporters – FMS, Devtraining, TopConf, Skype, TechHub Riga, DevClub.eu.
During the evening there were 2 lucky winners who won the sponsors’ gifts: • Hugo Duksis won – a free ticket for TopConf worth 550€ • Uģis Ozols won – a voucher worth 850 LVL from Devtraining with a possibility to choose between Certified ScrumMaster and Certified Scrum Product Owner class.
Participants appreciated the possibility to ask additional questions and discuss about these topics during the presentations as well as collectively having snacks and drinks. The event gathered programmers both from Latvia and Estonia – a lot of familiar faces, including the opportunity to get new friends and acquaintances. Visitors shared their emotions of what they had heard, discussed about presentation topics and talked about different work issues. In general, the event passed in a very positive atmosphere which resulted in participants’ interest for the next visit.
Those, who were not able to attend DevClub.lv, are welcome to watch video presentations that will be soon added to the event site DevClub.lv. There will be also information provided about the meeting next month, topics and registration.
We remind that this event is open and democratic – everyone can participate in it. You are welcome!
Ingus Rūķis from Draugiem Group will talk about “Scaling“
Draugiem.lv is the biggest social network in Latvia with around 500k daily active users. This talk will introduce you to technology behind draugiem.lv and some of the architecture design decisions made to scale the portal.
Aldis Ērglis from FMS will talk about “Service oriented Architecture“
SOA for long time is buzzword in Software development field. Technology leaders as Oracle, Microsoft and dozens of others deliver to market plenty of
tools that support SOA. What is real usage and benefits of SOA for Latvian software developers remains question. Author will explain real benefits of SOA and what are common usage scenarios
Aleksandr Motsjonov from ZeroTurnaround.com will talk about “CoffeeScript – let’s add some sugar!”
In this talk I will show roots of CoffeeScript awesomeness and explain why everyone who write JS should try it! Talk will be mostly in hands-on mode. So, expect lot of code mixed with HTML5 features and server-side JS.