DevClub.lv

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Is SKY the limit? What if we gather 3 strong and passionate Software Developers into one room? And if all of them will talk about making your code better and how to push your project into beauty of software development? This is going to be ARCHI.. wait for it … TECTURE event that will make you say – “WOW”.

See you at Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 24th August 18:30.

Agenda for Architecture focused 46th DevClub.lv:

• Andrey Sklyarevsky from OK.RU will speak about the SOLID software design principles.
  Programmers make architectural decisions everyday with each new feature, a tiny fix or an overhauling refactoring. Unfortunately, a fashionable pattern-of-the-day or a cutting edge technology is often given undue emphasis, whereas a comprehensive quality picture is overlooked. We will discuss the symptoms of a rotting design and how to avoid them by applying the SOLID architecture design principles.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: SOLID, architecture design, patterns, principles

Andrey is a full-stack software developer with more than 10 years of experience with C#, .NET, SQL, Java and the web. Currently he is programming mostly in Java and JavaScript for the mobile web.

• Valdis Iļjučonoks from Geta Digital will give a talk “Dependency Injection: Revisit”
  Building components and services it’s common if you will need some external dependencies to complete your work. Constructor injections is just one the mechanism of whole dependency injection topic. In this session we will be revisiting dependency injection principles, will look at common pitfall issues and recap some of most known anti-patterns.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Dependency Injection, .Net, C#, SOLID

Valdis is (Microsoft® + EPiServer) · Most Valuable Professional, system architect and web/mobile technologist in Geta Digital, Visual Studio ALM evangelist and passionate about F#. He writes at blog.tech-fellow.net.

• Vitor Silva from Intexsys will give a talk “Clean Code – The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know”
  This talk is an introduction to the principles outlined by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) on how to write clean code. We will refactor code by exploring the foundations of building clean software, learning core concepts along the way.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Clean-Code, TDD, FIRST

Vitor is a Sr. Web Developer @Intexsys passionate about Software architecture & Design. Current Development stack is Symfony, ElasticSearch and RabbitMQ.

 

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

 

Intexsys is looking for:
– PHP Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Senior Android Developer
We promise – it will never be boring!

 

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Java Developer
– .NET/C# Developer
– Data Scientist

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

       

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Let’s rise quite a familiar topic to the new heights!
We will talk about Node.js and how to do real-time things with it in your project. We will also try to get an answer to the question “why its good to build your framework?” If it still did not convince you, how about that – this time, we will be in an entirely different but very cool place – Browser Cafe.

Please pay attention that this time we meet at Blaumaņa iela 3 – Browser Cafe at 21st July 18:30.

Agenda for Node.js focused 45th DevClub.lv:

• Sergey Grib Team architect from Intexsys will give a talk “Building real-time auction with Node.js, Socket.io & RabbitMQ “
  In the talk, we’ll share our experience in building and scaling real-time bidding system for an auction site with huge load spikes, which now handles hundreds of simultaneous bidders. We’ll talk about implementing bid propagation through Socket.io, handling various issues, tracking statistics and stress-testing the system.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: real-time, Node.js, Socket.io, RabbitMQ

Sergey is in Web software development since 2005, has master degree in computer science. Currently working as Software Architect at Intexsys. His main focus is E-commerce projects and business management systems for mid and large size clients. Technology-wise, Sergey is mostly working with PHP, Symfony2, ElasticSearch, NodeJs and RabbitMQ.

• Jānis Gruzis from Kotique will give a talk “Real-time communication with Node.js”
  In this talk Jānis will talk about real time application in Node.JS and the technologies that help to implement them – Socket.IO, Express.JS.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: real-time, Node.JS, Socket.IO, Express.JS, JavaScript

Jānis has finished LU computer science faculty. Has worked on large scale international projects as a senior developer with real-time components. Contributes into young people education by leading KJPS school and creating systems for improvement of programming education in Latvia.

• Danko Aleksejevs from VeryPositive will talk about their new isomorphic real-time JavaScript framework Headland for web and mobile apps, why it was made and how it’s different from the thousands of JS frameworks out there.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: Headland, JavaScript, Node.js, Real-time, Web, Cordova

Danko co-founded VeryPositive in 2006 and has coordinated the development of many large-scale web applications since then. VeryPositive have often been the early adopters of new technology and now they’re looking for early adopters themselves.

 

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Qlikview Developer
– System Analyst (in Sweden)
– Front-End Developer

 

Our new sponsor 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

 

Intexsys is looking for:
– PHP Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Senior Android Developer
We promise – it will never be boring!

 

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

       

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Many of us want to sell stuff online, but not so many have knowledge how to do that. Therefore we invited people with huge hands-on experience in e-commerce site development to share insights.

Please pay attention that this time we meet at Vienības gatve 109 (Unity Biznesa centrs) 1.st floor at 16th June 18:30 and be ready to stay for Afterparty at the roof terrace (same building) at Intexsys office to celebrate DevClub.lv’s 4th birthday 🙂

Agenda for E-commerce focused 44th DevClub.lv:

• Raitis Zvejnieks from Mediaparks will give a talk “Differences of open source e-commerce platforms”
  In this talk Raitis will talk about advances and cons of architectural approach of most popular open source e-commerce platforms.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: e-commerce, Hikashop, Woocommerce, Prestashop, Magento, OpenCart, Sylius

Raitis has finished LU computer science faculty. From 1994 is in business of software development. More than last 10 years owns and leads Business instruments and more than last 7 years owns and leads Mediaparks and also works with system architecture.

• Dmitry Balabka from Intexsys will talk about “E-commerce Search”
  Search is the cornerstone of online shopping. I will share our experience on creating cutting-edge site search functionality and will reflect on achieved results.
  You will learn about developing auto-suggest, search result pages, faceted navigation and much more.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: e-commerce, search

Dmitry has more than 8 years WEB developing experience for different business spheres. Current occupation is Software Architect at Intexsys, working on large E-commerce project.

• Nikita Tihonov from Intexsys will give a talk “Latvian e-commerce – what’s next?”
  What is going to happen to Latvian e-commerce market tomorrow? Which technologies and economic tendencies affect e-commerce business and how? What businessmen and developers should be prepared to?
  Nikita will share unique experience on succeeding in US online retail market and will draw a business and technological roadmap for local e-shops to pursue.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: e-commerce, gap analysis, business, technology, Latvia, USA

Nikita is Product Owner at Intexsys, currently leading 3 teams, which are developing a complex e-commerce platform. He has 6 years of project management experience in IT, E-commerce and Forex.

• AFTERPARTY
  It has been almost a year since we’ve visited Intexsys roof terrace (same building as the conference). Intexsys is inviting everyone again to join us for an Afterparty at the terrace. As always, free beer, snacks and interesting conversations will be waiting for you!

 

Intexsys is looking for:
– PHP Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Senior Android Developer
We promise – it will never be boring!

 

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Senior .NET/C# Developer
– BI Analyst
– Front-End Developer

 

Our new sponsor 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 in Riga.

 

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

       

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We think, that everyone who tried to build a website in Latvia knows NIC.lv. While we where trying to buy domains and make load on their servers, they where trying to make it fast and secure.

And as a great addition we will get insights on what types of in-vulnerabilities are found in Latvian projects. Be smart and learn on others mistakes!

Come to Security focused event at Wednesday – 1st June 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Security focused 43rd DevClub.lv:

• Mareks Ruskuls from .LV Registry (nic.lv) will give a talk “Mango – dynamic web from markdown files”.
  Using simple markdown files as content to serve fast, secure and editable webpage.
  How NIC.lv (launched) & CERT.LV (to be launched) is updating webpage without CMS as we know it.
  Presenter will also provide a comparison to traditional web development technology and how Mango approach can help keep web development more structured and improve security by eliminating unnecessary security risks that active components usually fail to do.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: web development, performance improvement, security, concurrency, no CMS

Mareks Ruskuls is a lead developer currently working in research and development department for Top Level Domain .lv registry NIC.LV. He has experience of multiple joint project with CERT.LV (Latvian National Computer Security Incident Response Team) and Web development experience for almost 10 years.

• Agris Krusts from IT centrs will talk about most common web and mobile applications security problems found in systems made in Latvia.
  Statistics will come from data gathered in penetration tests. Most problems will be illustrated with examples and some will be real applications, but not from our penetration tests.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: web security, mobile security, OWASP Top 10

Agris has more than 20 years experience in IS security, UNIX system administration and software development and more than 10 years in security training. From 2000 is consultant and owner of information security consultancy SIA IT Centrs; worked as security trainer for Zone-H in Latvia, Italy, Russia, Netherlands, United Kingdom and Korea; in 2004 founded online media company SIA Nerealitate which specializes in online crowd sourcing platform development, in 2012 sold crowd sourcing news and entertainment platform spoki.lv to Schibsted media group.

 

If you want more security, watch videos from previous security focused event:
– Baiba Kaskina – “Responsible Disclosure Policy”
– Veronika Harcenoka – “Cyber Security: Think Security First”
– Major Gatis Graudins – “Cyber Defence Unit and daily life of unit”

 

Intexsys is looking for:
– PHP Developers
– Front-end Developers
– Senior Android Developer
We promise – it will never be boring!

 

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– Senior .NET/C# Developer
– BI/DWH Consultant
– CEU Digitalization Delivery Manager

 

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

      

 

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Do you want to hear real life experience from Agile practitioners?

Come to Agile focused event at Wednesday – 27th April 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Agile focused 42nd DevClub.lv:

• Hanno Jarvet from Jarvet Consulting will give a talk “Defining and executing a portfolio strategy”
  In a perfect world everyone in our organisation knows what and why it should be achieved, has clarity around which decisions need to be made by whom and has the necessary competence, information, resources and authority to do it. Usually this is not the case. I will share practical examples, tools and models that I have used to help organisations make progress in executing their portfolio strategy.
  (Language — English)
  Tags: agile, portfolio management, strategy execution, product development, organisational structure, hierarchy, networks, process improvement

Hanno helps companies to dramatically improve performance. Since 2006 he has helped dozens of companies and software teams improve their processes and productivity. He has worked with such industries as telecom, IT, outdoor media, government, non-profit, education, banking, insurance and energy.

• Anastasija Petrjajeva from Intexsys will give a talk “Removing quotes from “Agile” ”
  Few years ago we’ve been claiming that we’re using “Agile”, but we had to put this word in quotes. This talk is about how we removed the quotes from this word and transitioned to Agile development process.
  (Language — Russian)
  Tags: agile transition, kanban methodology, development process, continuous improvement

Anastasija – CSM, Scrum Master in Intexsys from the very beginning of Agile transition (without quotes).

• Filips Jeļisejevs from Also Cloud Oy will talk about two short topics:
  – What are they hiding from you – dark(er) side of SCRUM – Have you ever wondered what your SCRUM Master knows that you don’t?
  Take a peek into the psychological mechanisms used (or abused?) in SCRUM!

  – Building Xanadu – How would you build a team in the ideal world? Whats holding you back? Some bragging about real things done in real team in a real world environment.

  (Language — English)
  Tags: team building, scrum, psychology, management 3.0

Filips – Agile enthusiast who has been a SCRUM Master before it was cool. Hobbyist of behavioral economics, has worked in companies big and small, but still a believer that biggest challenge in software development is people..

 

Intrum Justitia is looking for:
– BI Analyst
– BI/DWH Consultant
– Qlik View Application Manager
– CEU Digitalization Delivery Manager

 

Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Developer
– Unity Developer
– Back-end Developer

 

Do you want a job, which will never be boring? Intexsys is looking for
– Senior Android Developer
– PHP Developer
– Front-end Developer
– QA Engineer
More open positions available at http://www.intexsys.lv/careers

 

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

 

      

 

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This time, its simple. We will gather people in one room, who just know how to build hardware startups. They will share experience, how to do it from idea generation to how to sell it to end customers. If I would be in your shoes, I wouldn’t miss it 🙂

Come to Hardware focused event at 31st March 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office).

Agenda for Hardware focused 41st DevClub.lv:

• Kaspars Škerba from Greynut will give a speech about electronics product development cycle – starting from process of coming up with idea till final product delivery to client. Main topics will be electronics development steps and manufacturing process.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: Electronics, Product development cycle

Kaspars Škerba is mechatronics engineer and co-founder of Greynut Ltd. – company which is now part of Draugiem Group and have developed more than 10 different products.

• Ingus Rūķis from Mapon will give a talk 10 years in the IoT business
  Mapon is one of the biggest (probably THE biggest) GPS fleet tracking companies in Latvia. During 10 years of work in the field we have eaten several tons of salt and we’re ready to share our experience on the technical challenges we have faced.
  The talk will guide you through the Mapon hardware and hardware integration solutions as well as provide some overall insights into GPS tracking business and future trends.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: hardware, iot, integration, fleet management, vehicle tracking

Ingus Rūķis is Web developer with over 10 years of active development experience, now leading teams of developers and coaching team leaders. Working in companies of Draugiem Group

• Iļja Nevdahs from Airdog will give a talk about “High-tech hardware startup in the world of giants”.
  Story of AirDog development and mass production: ups and downs, competition, surviving price wars, delaying product delivery and future of high tech drones.
  (Language — Latvian)
  Tags: drones, hardware, consumer products

Iļja is former enterprise software developer (web, Java, .Net) now leading hardware and software development teams in AirDog – one of the most renown Latvian hardware startups making drones for action sports.

 

Accenture is looking for:
– Sitecore developer,
– Experienced .NET developer,
– Senior Front end developer.

 

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

 

Are you an expert in HTML/CSS/JS and love to create pixel-perfect websites slice-up with modern tools like Grunt, Bower, LESS, BEM? Join Intexsys team as a Front-End Developer!
If you are more into PHP Back-end development, and would like to work with large international projects using Symfony2 framework, Intexsys got a PHP Developer job for you!
More open positions at http://www.intexsys.lv/careers

 

Clusterpoint is hiring UI (back-end) Developer.

 

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