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Hi!

Every New Year comes with your resolutions and also with new UX trends. We would like to start 2016 with great knowledge and experience in UX field. We know that deep inside you hate most of the UIs built out there as we do, so how about to start with our selfs and make better UI and UX starting this year?

Come to UX & UI  focused event to start a new revolution at 21st January 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for UX & UI focused 39th DevClub.lv:

• Olegs Jarosevics from Accenture Latvia will speak about Essentials of usability testing and will show how to evaluate your design. Talk is aimed at people who doesn’t have experience in usability testing and don’t know where to start.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Usability, Testing, User experience, Design validation, Evidence-based design

Olegs is fully focused on UX design and research, leaving all the visual/graphical design and coding to other people. Core interest is creating evidence-based and user-tested solutions. A big fan of usability testing and BMW enthusiast.

• Līga Baltmane from Tieto Latvia will give a talk “Nike Riga Run – web application”
  Six years in a row, event “Nike Riga Run” takes a place in Mežaparks, where thousands of enthusiasts and professionals comes together to train for the final marathon. Trainings lasts all summer where everyone can participate in different disciplines, for instance, running (5km and 10km distance), Nordic walking, Functional training outdoors, rollerskating. But what kind of tool do the “Nike Riga Run” administrators use to count so many participants in different disciplines, gain statistics and how it looks like from UX perspective, Liga will be exited to explain to you.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: NikeRigaRun, Web application, Digital registration tool, QR code, Responsive design, UI/UX, Testing

Līga Baltmane has lived in Denmark (Copenhagen) for 5 years where graduated University of Copenhagen and gained a great work experience. After specialising multimedia design, web & e-concept development, touching the basics of UX practices and working as a graphic designer in Copenhagen, for the last year Liga has been taking attention to the UI/UX cases more intense. Since year 2015, working in Tieto office, in Riga. Today is a User Interface designer, when daly basis consists of different challenging and exiting projects and every single part of them is made for a valuable user interface experience with a nice design and functionality in front.

• Vasiliy Popov from C.T.Co will try to find the answer to the question: Is UX a science or just an opinion?
  If you spend more than 15 minutes on Google researching UX you will probably find something of the following: “15 (20, 50, 500) best practices for your mobile app (website, product)”, “Best UX trends in 2016 (2017, 2018)” and “How we changed this small button and conversion increased 10 times”. Most UX materials online are practical applications of interface elements that everyone copies from each other in the search for the best modern day UX. There’s very little research to be found. You can find it, but there won’t be much to pick from, which suggests that this monstrosity everyone calls UX these days is mostly based on opinions of individuals than on real science. Or is it?
  (Language — English)
  Tags: User experience, Usability, Non-technical, Exploration

Vasiliy Popov is the Head of User Experience and Mobile in C.T.Co, specializing in designing and delivering innovative user experience with strong focus on mobile solutions, passionate about good design and finding new ways to solve old problems.

 

Autentica ir looking for Project Manager and Senior JAVA developer. Check your career opportunities at Autentica!

Accenture is looking for Graphic Designer and Senior Front end developer.

Evolution Gaming is searching for passionate JavaScript developers:
“Have you ever dreamed of developing a responsive mobile web application, which is used by users throughout the world, seamlessly adapting and serving video across iOS and Android platforms? Then come to us and you will get the chance.”
Evolution Gaming is also searching for Scala Developers and Software Development Engineers in Test.
You are welcome to join Evolution Gaming team!

Clusterpoint is hiring UI (back-end) Developer.

Android Developers, join Intexsys to work on international large-scale e-commerce projects.
Front-end Developers, Intexsys got a job for you too!

Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game QA/Producer.

 

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

 

  

 

Contact Edgars@DevClub.lv to get special prices for DevClub.lv members

 

 

Ho ho hoooo!

Every year, before Christmas we are doing a commitment to ourselves, reviewing a previous year and planning what we want to achieve in the next year. To close this year, we would like to touch a specific topic, which is very important to everyone – Health. In the end of this year, we will talk about Health trackers, Health Technologies and where are we currently in this field.

If you care about your health, health industry and your future, come to the Health focused 38th DevClub.lv at 17th December 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Health focused 38th DevClub.lv:

• All evening we will have opportunity to check out different sport watches and discuss details about them with Māris from Pulsometrs.lv

• Emil Syundyukov from Institute of Electronics and Computer Science will give a talk “Health Monitoring – nowadays and future”
  During presentation he will talk about the devices that can monitor our activity and vital signs in everyday life. Emil will tell about what is inside of these devices, why they are so popular and are they as smart, as they are positioned on the market. We will also have a chance to see what kind of project are being built in Latvia and hear about the future and challenges of health monitoring.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Vital signs monitoring, Vensors, Embedded devices, Healthcare, Mobile applications

Emil Syundyukov – Research Assistant at Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, Master degree student at University of Latvia. He is working in the field of medical projects – he sees the future in combining Computer Science and Medicine. Emil has strong interest in new technologies and using them to solve problems in different spheres, such as healthcare.
This year he started a community called “Health Hackers” – aiming to connect medical students, engineers, designers etc. for boosting Healthcare Startups and Research projects.
In parallel with that he is working as Microsoft Student Partner and Head of student Parliament in Faculty of Computing.

• Healthy Surprise
• Edgars Letinskis from DevClub.lv will share his experience “How from couch heater get to running for 1h without problems”
  This talk is for people with little sports experience and rather sedentary lifestyle willing to change it, start some sports to get healthier and do it in “smart way”.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Start sports, Sport watches, Activity trackers, Endomondo, Garmin, Polar, Experience

Edgars Letinskis – works with computer, has sedentary lifestyle, had “Burning out syndrome” but found way to get out of it. Now he is smart, strong and gorgeous healthy. 🙂

• Frederico Pinto from Accenture will give a talk “What can IT offer more for a patient-centered Electronic Health Record”
  Electronic Health Records have been around for a couple of decades but nowadays it’s reaching a new level. What is being done in Europe and globally. Patients want it mobile, instant and safe. Are the health national systems able to respond? Is the industry ready to offer more, and does this fall into Big Data?
  (Language — English)
  Tags: EHR, EMR, medical records, health records, big data, pcmh, patient centered medical home, meaningful use

Frederico Pinto has 10 years of experience as a physician in preventive medicine. After specializing into digestive disorders and nutrition, for the last 4 years has been focusing IT solutions for medical records, statistics and client/patient satisfaction. Eventually became a consultant for healthcare organizations to adapt and implement software solutions and digitalize hospital workflows. Today is a Team Lead in Accenture Latvija as an Epic Software consultant.

• Canceled 🙁
  Juris Usackis, Rolands Berzins and Raitis Gorbacevics from startup project TRACDAY will give a talk “Creating workout tracker service from scratch”
  Team will briefly tell their experience about creating workout tracker service both from WEB and app perspective, errors that were made and obstacles other startups should be aware off.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Startups, workout tracker, iOS and Android app developmentJuris Usackis has more than 14 years of experience as UX/UI designer. Hobbies include MTB and coming up with startup ideas. Passionate perfectionist that drives our team.
  Rolands Berzins has 8 years of experience in project management and system integration. Busy working bee during the day and brainstorming enthusiast during night.
  Raitis Gorbacevics has 10 years of experience as PHP programmer. Also while working on TRACDAY has become familiar with all the nooks and crannies of android app development.

 

Evolution Gaming is searching for passionate JavaScript developers:
“Have you ever dreamed of developing a responsive mobile web application, which is used by users throughout the world, seamlessly adapting and serving video across iOS and Android platforms? Then come to us and you will get the chance.”
Evolution Gaming is also searching for Scala Developers and Software Development Engineers in Test.
You are welcome to join Evolution Gaming team!

Clusterpoint is hiring UI (back-end) Developer.

Android Developers, join Intexsys to work on international large-scale e-commerce projects.
Front-end Developers, Intexsys got a job for you too!
For PHP Developers Intexsys got a welcome gift – special edition Symfony 10th anniversary Black elePHPant.

Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game QA/Producer.

Autentica ir looking for JAVA and PL/SQL developers. Check your career opportunities at Autentica!

 

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

 

  

 

Contact Edgars@DevClub.lv to get special prices for DevClub.lv members

 

 

Hi friends!

Not so long ago, we’ve entered a mobile world by building and using Mobile Applications. Since than, everything changed. On the 37th Mobile Focused DevClub.lv event we would like to share with you what is possible with Apple TV, where is Microsoft in mobile world and how Game Industry changed since then.
Come to learn to the Mobile focused 37th DevClub.lv at 19th November 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Mobile focused 37th DevClub.lv:

• Igors Nemenonoks from E-Global Trade & Finance Group will give a talk “Building streaming apps for the new Apple TV”
  Apple has introduced the new Apple TV with tvOS SDK. Now developers can deliver incredible and immersive apps and games on the big screen. During this talk I will share some tips how to make a next generation streaming app for tvOS.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Apple TV, tvOS, TVMLKit, Swift

Igors Nemenonoks has more than 4 years of experience developing apps for iOS and more than 10 years developing for WEB. Previously worked in Odnoklassniki as lead iOS Developer and currently working as Head of Mobile Department in E-Global Trade & Finance.

• Aigars Mačiņš from Microsoft will give a talk “Building Hosted apps with JS”
  In this session you will learn how to create apps in 3 minutes from hosted website and have native OS level interactions from JS. Also you will discover power of open source libary WinJS. That provides mobile app like look and feel for web-apps.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Mobile Apps, Windows 10, WinJS, Universal Windows Apps, App containers, Responsive Design

Aigars Mačiņš – Technical Evangelist @Microsoft Baltics, Software Engineer by heart. Writting code since 7th grade. Developed first handheld app at 11th grade (still in production in some warehouses). Then moved on to become Full stack Developer and ERP consultant. How helping great companies to deliver more value in todays world with using Microsoft services and tools. Technical focus areas: Azure Cloud, Windows Universal Apps and IoT with Machine learning.

• Oleg Bogdanov from Evolution Gaming will give 10-15min talk about how Mobile Device statistics can help to prioritise day to day work and impact future development plans
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Device statistics, Session duration

Oleg Bogdanov – 18 years of extensive IT product/project management experience in software development field. Successfully managed the implementation of enterprise systems for internet payments, internet gaming/gambling, re-insurance and mobile.

• CANCELED 🙁
  Anatoly Ropotov – CEO of Game lnsight will talk about Mobile Games development
  More detailed info will follow …
  (Language —English)

Anatoly Ropotov is CEO at Games Insight with 15 years of experience launching, developing and operating products and services within the game industry.

 

Check out ALSO Cloud product and join their Dev Team at Riga!

Accenture is looking for iOS and Android developers.

Clusterpoint is hiring UI (back-end) Developer.

Magento developers – come to the bright side! Intexsys, an agile company specializing in large-scale e-commerce and business automation is looking for a Senior PHP Developer with Magento experience who wants to work with Symfony2-based applications.
If you’re more into Project Management, Intexsys has a job for you too – Product Owner/Project Manager is welcome, check the details to find out how these two roles come together.

Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game QA/Producer.

Autentica ir looking for Senior Java Developer. Check also other career opportunities at Autentica!

Evolution Gaming is searching for passionate JavaScript developers:
“Have you ever dreamed of developing a responsive mobile web application, which is used by users throughout the world, seamlessly adapting and serving video across iOS and Android platforms? Then come to us and you will get the chance.”
Evolution Gaming is also searching for Scala Developers and Software Development Engineers in Test.
You are welcome to join Evolution Gaming team!

 

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks:

  

 

 

Hi friends!

Do you think that the future of Web Development are Single Page Applications? And what about building fast Single Page Applications? Knowing deep details is your road to success. And what if I tell you, that now, there is a database, where you can do advanced computation directly in the database, and do it in your beloved Javascript?
Come to learn to the JavaScript focused 36th DevClub.lv at 14th October 18:30.

Please pay attention that this time we meet at Wednesday – 14.10 and in different place – “Citadele conference center” at Republikas laukums 2a, 3rd floor (Citadele building) with opportunity to visit Evolution Gaming premises.
Entrance in the building is from Eksporta street near the left elevator – map.
For car parking we suggest to check out Europark and Rigas satiksme parking spots close to the venue.

Agenda for JavaScript focused 36th DevClub.lv:

• Jānis Zaržeckis from Evolution Gaming will talk about how React aims to increase our productivity by increasing simplicity. The initial concept will be illustrated further by discussing the role of Morearty.js and Redux in the React ecosystem.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: js, React, Immutable.js, Morearty.js, Redux

Jānis Zaržeckis is a JavaScript developer at Evolution Gaming.

• Viesturs Zariņš from LG Silicon Valley Lab will give a talk “JavaScript under the hood”
  Over the last 10 years JavaScript has grown to a fast language that rivals Java and .Net in terms of performance. Let’s take a look under the hood and see how this is achieved and how the machine sees your JavaScript code.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: JavaScript, Performance, Memory, Architecture, ASM.js

Viesturs Zariņš – Developer at LG Silicon Valley Lab (WebOs).

• Jurģis Orups – CTO of Clusterpoint will give a talk “Running JavaScript Inside the Database”
  In this session Jurģis will tell you about a computing engine that is built into the database and allows arbitrary JavaScript-based code to be executed directly inside the database.
  This setup provides a simple and powerful computational model that ensures data is accessed through efficient indices directly in the database, thus massively accelerating data manipulation operations.
  Throughout this talk, Jurģis will present examples of how advanced computation can be done directly in the database, including an analysis of geospatial data, and the application of statistical model-like logistic regression to derive predictions.
  (Language —Latvian)
  Tags: Database, NoSQL, Javascript, SQL, API, Clusterpoint v4

Jurģis Orups is CTO of Clusterpoint, has remarkable experience building large-scale, distributed systems and he is also cofounder in Clusterpoint spending his time building emerging NoSQL database.

• Lottery of Apple Watch provided by Clusterpoint

Vote, Vote, Vote, Vote for Themes for next DevClub.lv events! 🙂
We would like to understand which Themes to focus on, which interests you the most, so please help us to understand what are the hot Themes for you!

 

Evolution Gaming is searching for passionate JavaScript developers.
“Have you ever dreamed of developing a responsive mobile web application, which is used by users throughout the world, seamlessly adapting and serving video across iOS and Android platforms? Then come to us and you will get the chance.”
Evolution Gaming is also searching for Java Developers, Adobe Flash Software Developers, Product Business Analysts, Scala Developers, QA Engineers and QA Automation Engineers. You are welcome to join Evolution Gaming team!

Check out ALSO Cloud product and join their Dev Team at Riga!

Accenture is looking for Senior Front-end Developer.

Clusterpoint is hiring UI (back-end) Developer.

Intexsys is an agile software development company, specializing on development and support of large-scale e-commerce websites and custom business automation software. The company operates in US, Latvian and Russian markets.
Intexsys is looking for PHP Developers of different levels (junior, senior, super-senior) and DevOps specialists. If you want to work with the latest technologies in a truly friendly environment, please visit their careers page, there are more vacancies there.

Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game QA/Producer.

Check your career opportunities at Autentica!

Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have drinks and snacks: