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What Oracle, Microsoft and NoSQL have in common? They will all unite under one roof in the next DevClub.lv event! We’ve asked experienced people in SQL field to share their knowledge.

Join SQL focused event at 23rd February 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for SQL focused 52nd DevClub.lv:

• Sergejs Viņņiks from Intrum Justitia SDC will give a talk “PL/SQL legacy today: SPA UI application and automated testing with JavaScript.”
  Businesses which run Oracle-based legacy systems sometimes wish to move to a modern WEB-GUI, without refactoring the business logic written completely in PL/SQL. Demand for implementing iterative agile development comes often hand-by-hand.
  Sergejs will demonstrate two generic solutions, which have been developed by Intrum Justitia SDC to address the aforementioned topics:
  1. Hapio – the HTTP adapter to the Oracle 12c database, which allows to call any SQL and PL/SQL methods directly from the browser;
  2. Jasquel – the PL/SQL testing tool, which utilizes Hapio to help creating and automating PL/SQL module tests in JavaScript.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: PLSQL, Testing, JavaScript

Sergejs is an experienced software developer, mainly focused on the databases and PL/SQL during the past years, as well as on training teens and adults in both programming basics and advanced features.

• Juris Rāts from Scope Technologies will give a talk “SQL Server 2016 – what’s new for developers”
  SQL Server has been around for decades. Lots of developers have used it at some stage of their career. However, most use it just as another data store. With the rise of NoSQL is it even relevant anymore?
  Well, I believe, it is. It still has plenty to go for, each version introduces new features and it covers a wide range of scenarios. And the latest version has some aces upon its sleeve. We will do a quick overview of what is SQL Server, then glance over some of the features of the latest version.
  Finally – some notes from the field. How to approach a SQL Server database on a production server.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: SQL Server 2016, In-Memory, Performance optimization

Juris is a team lead at Scope Technologies. DB wise his main focus has been SQL Server development and optimization. Lately has had some exposure to NoSQL in a couple of projects as well.

• Aivars Kalvāns from Tieto Latvia will give a talk “A NoSQL journey in Oracle SQL world”
  A retrospective of over 15 years of product development and different approaches we saw and tried to add flexibility and extensibility to our products. Starting with extra columns for tables, different key-value stores and document stores on top of RDBMS tables and finally Oracle JSON support. I will look at tasks we were trying to solve and problems we introduced by doing that and how we tried to battle them.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: SQL, Schemaless, JSON, Oracle Database

Aivars is a software architect at Tieto Latvia and has worked on payment card software products for more than 15 years. He is using C++, Python and SQL with Oracle database and Tuxedo middleware to build online and batch processing systems. And Aivars loses sleep tinkering with the opposite needs of both worlds.

 

Tieto is an international IT company, it’s headquarters is located in Helsinki, Finland; more than 13 000 professionals are employed in almost 20 countries across the globe.
To join Tieto Latvia, please feel free to send your CV to darbs@tieto.com or check our webpages www.tieto.lv and www.tieto.com .
Come and see our stand at RTU Career Day on 2nd March, 2017

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:
– PHP Developers – Junior, Mid, Senior – we got work for any level!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– QA Engineer – Can you assure our quality?
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Senior Backend Developer
– IT Operations Support Specialist
– Sr. Business Analyst

 

ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

 

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

 

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

Hi!

What could be better than starting a year with a knowledge of the full cycle of mobile development – from prototype and animation, to the fully working application?
You are right! Nothing could be better than a meetup covering those topics.
This month, great mobile oriented speakers will talk about tools and practices that will help you in that journey.

If you want to be on board, come and join Mobile development focused event at 19th January 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Mobile development focused 51st DevClub.lv:

• Gleb Revkov from C.T.Co will give a talk “Practical Prototyping”.
  Effective collaboration between developers and designers has often been a challenge. Several aspects of software, like interactivity, animation or business requirements can be elusive by nature and therefore difficult to validate before they are actually built. Through many years of experience, we have found a way to build the bridge between both groups. And that bridge are prototypes. In this talk I’m going to share my experience with “Principle” prototyping tool and demonstrate how designers and developers can perform cost-effective software iterations before a single line of production code has been written.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Principle, Prototypes, iOS, Interactions

Gleb is designer with more than 8 years of experience. Quick idea validation through interactive prototypes and user testing are integral part of the daily activities. Previously Gleb was worked on projects like One.lv, Odnoklassniki.ru, Skoda.lv, government projects and others.

• Artūrs Braučs from Autentica will give a talk “Ionic 2 app development – good and bad experience”
  Ionic framework is open-source SDK for hybrid mobile app and progressive web app development, built top of Angular 2, Apache Cordova.
  During talk, Arturs will share his first impressions, experience and few tips.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Hybrid apps, Progressive web app, Ionic 2, Angular 2

Artūrs has more than 8 years experience developing web applications with Ruby on Rails, Javascript etc.. In recent years, had experience with iOS, Android and Windows Runtime applications.

• Igors Nemenonoks from Chili will give a talk “Animations in iOS”
  Animations can make your app stand out as well as ruin the user experience. How to do it right way? Which tools to use?
  Igors will overview the evolution of animation techniques in iOS and talk about the purpose of animations in iOS Apps.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: iOS, Swift, Animations

Igors has more than 5 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 iOS Developer in Chili.

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:
– PHP Developers – Junior, Mid, Senior – we got work for any level!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– QA Engineer – Can you assure our quality?
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for Senior Backend Developer (Temporary position)

 

ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

 

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

                

Hi!

This December, DevClub will inspire you to bring your ideas to life. We believe that there are no limits for our community. With proper guidance, you can jump from idea to solution. That’s why we’ve teamed up with five great startup founders from Latvia who received more than 4’000’000 EUR investments, and they will share most important that they’ve learned on this path.
If you want your own start-up, you don’t want to miss this one!

Come to Start-up focused event at Monday – 12th December 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Start-up focused 50th DevClub.lv:

• Mikus Opelts founder of Giraffe360 and SkatSkat.lv  will give a talk “My experience on developing a product that users will love and how to build business around it.”
  Will share knowledge of what are the mistakes that we have made in our business, what stands behind success and that includes story of why investors decided to back us with 0.5 million EUR investment before official product launch.
  (Language — Latvian)
  20min talk
  Tags: Business Development, New Product Development, Innovations, Sales

Mikus started skatskat.lv right after the high school and in next 6 years built it in to leading interactive technology provider in Northern Europe. In 2015 founded Giraffe360 virtual tour technology company that raised half a Million Euro in seed investment round.

• Eriks Nelsons, Co-Founder & CEO of Champick will give a “Why Champick failed first market entry and why succeeded in the second? Key learnings and crucial ingredients of high-potential startup in Latvia”
  Champick is daily fantasy football platform with more then 30000 users all around the world and successful market entries in Georgia, Hungary and South Africa.
  Eriks will share experience of attracting local angel investor money and failing once, then standing up again by attracting new foreign co-founders and investors, which led startup to successful launch in several markets globally. Will give his opinion about key ingredients to become successful from Latvia and why it’s not mandatory to be located in Riga (Champick team is from Liepaja).
  (Language — Latvian)
  20min talk
  Tags: Business Development, Case Study, Failing, Transition

Eriks after high school started his corporate career and in 9 years achieved to become International Marketing manager in PINS loyalty program with the biggest focus on Northern European and Asian markets. Since May, this year, quit his corporate career and become full-time Champick CEO.

• Ernests Jenavs from Edurio will share the story of founding Edurio – a startup that helps schools find the hidden insights in student, parent and teacher surveys. Ernest’s story will cover the route from the idea and first unsuccessful attempt to create a prototype to having one of Latvia’s most exciting startups and analyse what factors have contributed to Edurio’s growth. He will talk about working across Latvia and the UK, attracting equity and grant funding (Edurio recently got a 1.9m EUR Horizon2020 grant) and growing the team rapidly.
  (Language — English)
  20min talk
  Tags: Start-up, EdTech

Prior to founding Edurio, Ernest studied decision sciences and worked as a strategy consultant in the UK. He has also worked as a freelance consultant, invested in and advised startups in the UK and Latvia and worked as an expert for the European Commission. Ernest is a member of the board at the Latvian Startup Association.

• Marcis Gogis from Mintos will speak about building a company that has fundamentally transformed the concept of peer-to-peer lending, making it into the Top 3 p2p lending marketplaces in continental Europe with lightening speed.
  Within a year, Mintos has grown from a newly established and unknown platform in the Baltics to a fast-developing marketplace well recognized across Europe. To date Mintos has financed more than EUR 100 million in loans. Marcis will share his “hands on” experience of building Mintos from the ground up, including how the Mintos buisness model was developed and important lessons learned, for example, how they used MVP in order to gather validates learning and successfully develop the product further.
  (Language — English)
  20min talk
  Tags: Success Story, Peer-to-Peer Lending, New Business Model, MVP

Marcis is the Head of Product at Mintos, working with cross-functional teams to develop and implement new product ideas.

• Jānis Kiršteins from Notakey will talk about starting a new company. From finding co-founders, to managing initial finances, to coming up with a product and finding external funding. He will share his experiences in these and other topics, from the point of view of a software developer who quit his day job without a clear plan ahead.
  (Language — English)
  40min talk
  Tags: Start-up, Case Study

Jānis has more than 7 years of software development experience. In 2015 he left his day job and in early 2016 co-founded a B2B security startup called Notakey. Currently it has distributors in the Baltic States and Finland, as well as partners in Switzerland such as Credit Suisse and UBS.

 

Our new sponsor ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:
– QA Engineer – Can you assure our quality?
– PHP Developers – Always welcome!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
We promise – it will never be boring!

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Junior Java Developer

 

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

                

 

Hi!

Great hype starts around functional languages and how they fit in the web. In the modern world, needs have changed. Hundreds of thousand connections are not something rare anymore. Needs for languages and tools changed as well.
We would like to present the two, very modern languages – Elixir and Elm, that benefit each other in Backend and Frontend respectively.
And two experienced individuals will share their knowledge how they are using these technologies in production to serve millions of users a month.

Come to Functional Web focused 49th DevClub.lv and be on the edge of new technologies for the Web.
Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 24th November 18:30.

Agenda for Functional Web focused 49th DevClub.lv:

• Boris Goriachev from Meduza.io will talk about: Еlixir in production, for 1.5 years, serving ~ 5 million unique users a month. How we got started, and why elixir? A walkthrough some of the apps, (push notifications for chrome, chat for readers, apps for statistics).
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: Elixir, Backend, Realtime, Delayed jobs, Highload, Background jobs, Not delayed

Boris is Full stack (but mostly backend) developer at meduza.io

• Jānis Zaržeckis from Evolution Gaming will talk about Elm – a purely functional language and an ecosystem for better frontend application development. Let’s discuss different use cases where Elm may or may not be suitable.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Elm, Purely Functional Programming, Frontend development, Frontend performance

Jānis is a JavaScript lead at Evolution Gaming.

 

Our new sponsor ALSO Cloud keeps doing awesome stuff and looking for awesome people.

 

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Java Developer
– Test Automation Specialist
– Temporary PL/SQL Developer

Geta Digital is a international Digital Commerce Agency with offices in Norway, Latvia, Sweden, Netherlands and the U.S. They are looking for
– .NET Web Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Test Engineers

Scope Technologies’ aim is to make the “Connected Car” a reality, through providing innovative, cost-effective and reliable end-to-end telematics products and services. They are looking for C# Developers

Intexsys is looking for:

– Senior UI/UX Designer – Design the complete omni-channel eCommerce experience for US-based top 500 internet retailer!
– DevOps Engineer – Chef/Puppet/Ansible lovers, we’re looking for you!
– Front-end Developers – We have a lot of HTML/CSS/LESS and Javascript work to do!
We promise – it will never be boring!

 

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