Announcement of JavaScript focused 36th DevClub.lv
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
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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:
Announcement of Test Automation focused 35th DevClub.lv
Hi friends!
Are you proud of your code? Are you sure, that your code won’t break? Don’t waste it, test it! Go and automate it!
Come to learn from others to Test Automation focused 35th DevClub.lv at 17th September 18:30, Zaļā iela 1, 4th floor (Microsoft Latvia office)
Agenda for Test Automation focused 35th DevClub.lv:
- Risko Ruus from Rush Street Interactive will talk about “Tips for building a framework for automated functional testing of web applications”.
Over time Selenium has become the de facto standard for automated UI testing of web applications. When the time comes to write such tests for your project there will be a need to create a framework around it. During this talk I will share some tips for organizing your framework and getting more benefit out of your tests beyond simple checks.
(Language — English)
Tags: Selenium, Selenide, Test Automation, End to end Testing
Risko Ruus – Quality Assurance Lead, 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Test Automation for Nokia, Playtech, Skype and now at RSI.
- Dmitry Balabka from Intexsys will talk about “Testing automation with PhantomJS”
Testing is a very time-consuming task and it requires automation to reduce costs and regression issues. I will share our experience on test automation and will tell you how we reduced the test execution time 10x.
You will hear about tools that helped us achieve this goal: PhantomJS, Selenium, WebDriver, Behat, Node.JS
(Language — Russian)
Tags: Selenium, PhantomJS
Dmitry Balabka – with more than 8 years WEB developing experience for different business spheres. Current occupation is Software Architect at Intexsys, working on large E-Commerce project.
- Alex Shirov from innoWate will give a talk “Testing Automation in Games”
Developing built-in testing capabilities with configurable bots that test almost every aspect of the in-game experience.
(Language —Russian)
Tags: Testing, Automation, Bots, GameDev
Alex Shirov has more than 15 years of experience developing and operating worldwide AAA hit games. Having begun in the games industry as a C++ developer at CTXM, he is now charged with guiding teams of experienced games production talent as CTO at innoWate. Alex is credited with engineer or lead engineer roles on dozens of game titles, from Xbox to Xbox 360, social games to fully cross-platform mobile titles.
Check out ALSO Cloud product and join their Dev Team at Riga!
Accenture is looking for Test Automation and Performance Test Engineer.
Clusterpoint is hiring UI (back-end) Developer.
Intexsys is looking for PHP Developers and Microsoft SQL Developers.
Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game QA/Producer.
Check your career opportunities at Autentica!
Evolution Gaming – world leading on-line Live casino provider is looking for front-end and server side IT professionals for new game and feature development. We are providing excellent work conditions, challenging projects, friendly and professional colleagues.
– JavaScript/HTML5 Developer for Mobile Games,
– Scala Developer
and more positions you can find at the same page by scrolling down.
Evolution Gaming is located in the A+ class office building in the very heart of the Riga – Citadeles iela 2.
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have some drinks and snacks:
Contact Edgars@DevClub.lv to get special prices for DevClub.lv members
Contact Edgars@DevClub.lv to get special prices for DevClub.lv members
Announcement of PHP focused 34th DevClub.lv
Hi friends!
What do you think – is PHP sexy or not?
At next DevClub.lv event organised together with PHP Baltic meet-up you will have chance to see how you can make cool things with the help of PHP.
Please pay attention that this time we meet at Vienības gatve 109 (Unity Biznesa centrs) 1.st floor at 27th August 18:30 and be ready to stay for Afterparty at the roof terrace (same building) at Intexsys office and win GoPro HERO4.
Agenda for PHP focused 34th DevClub.lv:
- Vitor Silva from Arrobacasa will talk about “Cooking with Yii2: Rapid Development”.
The speed of change is constantly accelerating. A development team needs tools and methodologies that enable rapid development, product and features prototyping. What if I told you that there is a tool that enables best coding practices, favours convention over configuration, makes your product testable and flexible, is easy to deploy and has a logarithmic learning curve? Join us and let’s have a peek in to this full stack web framework and see what makes it stand out and how you can benefit from it.
(Language — English)
Tags: Rapid Development, Code Generators, MVC, Web Development, Code Productivity, End to end Testing.
Vitor Silva – Web Developer, Yii framework contributor, Worked with different code flavours in search of the best web development ingredients.
- Janis Sakars from Accenture will talk about Symfony2
Nowadays frameworks are almost de-facto when it comes to PHP development. There is no best or worth way of doing with one or another framework but obviously each of them can help us in certain situations. Let`s take general overview of Symfony2.
(Language — English)
Tags: PHP, Frameworks, Symfony
Janis Sakars – Senior Analyst, 8 year experience in PHP working on various projects across the globe.
- Konstantin Tjuterev from Intexsys will give a talk “PHP + X = Love”
Nowadays, PHP is by far one of the most widespread programming languages, powering world’s largest websites. However, it wouldn’t be possible with PHP alone.
In this talk, I’ll showcase how to use PHP along with other modern technologies, based on our experience in developing and running large-scale web projects. At Intexsys, we always strive for using the right tool for the job, and during the years, we have integrated PHP with technologies such as Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Varnish, Node.js, Phing, PhantomJs and others. A high-level overview with particular use-cases will be provided during this short talk (aprx 20 min).
(Language — English)
Konstantin Tjuterev is the founder and CEO of Intexsys. With more than 15 years’ experience in web-development, he specializes in E-Commerce and Business automation.
- GoPro HERO4 lottery!
Our sponsor, Intexsys will give away one GoPro HERO4 Silver camera during the conference! In order to get a chance to win this fabulous camera, all you have to do, is register for lottery. The registration is already open, but you need to be present at the event in order to win the prize.
- AFTERPARTY at the roof terrace (same building) at Intexsys office with Nice people, Free beer and snacks! Everyone is invited!
Accenture is looking for PHP Developer.
Clusterpoint is hiring UI (back-end) Developer.
Intexsys is looking for PHP Developers and Microsoft SQL Developers.
Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game QA/Producer.
Check out career opportunities at Autentica!
Evolution Gaming – world leading on-line Live casino provider is looking for front-end and server side IT professionals for new game and feature development. We are providing excellent work conditions, challenging projects, friendly and professional colleagues.
– JavaScript/HTML5 Developer for Mobile Games,
– Scala Developer
and more positions you can find at the same page by scrolling down.
Now Evolution Gaming is located in the A+ class office building in the very heart of the Riga – Citadeles iela 2.
Check out ALSO Cloud product and join their Dev Team at Riga!
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have some drinks and snacks:
Contact Edgars@DevClub.lv to get special prices for DevClub.lv members
Veronika Harcenoka – “Cyber Security: Think Security First” at Security focused 33rd DevClub.lv
Videos from presentation:
APT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_XOrcBxy-E
STUXNET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g0pi4J8auQ
Project2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQletWanDzQ
Announcement of Security focused 33rd DevClub.lv
Hi!
Security is hard, Security breach if frightening. But what is more frightening – now knowing how to secure yourself, or do not have will to?
33rd DevClub will guide you to the world of security in all forms – security breaches, cyber defence and how to hack without problems.
Agenda for Security focused 33rd DevClub.lv at July 16th 18:30 at Microsoft Latvia office (Zaļā iela 1):
- Baiba Kaskina from CERT.LV will talk about “Responsible Disclosure Policy”.
This talk will explain the main principles of responsible or coordinated response, who are the actors of this game, what colour are their hats and what could be the possible implementation. Known cases of responsible disclosure policy Latvia as well as international experience will be discussed and future steps considered.
(Language — Latvian)
Tags: Responsible disclosure policy , non-technical, cases in Latvia
Baiba Kaskina is the head of CERT.LV – Latvian national and governmental CSIRT team.
- Veronika Harcenoka from Data Security Solutions will talk about Cyber Security: Think Security First
The scale and integration of modern technologies into our daily lives has provided tremendous opportunities for everyone. The speed of development and innovation in the ICT sector and the amount of information produced and distributed online is like never before. The process is so fast that we often do not have time to consider the risks and their impact on our society, business, and personal life. So, let us take a moment to think about the security online.
(Language — English)
Tags: Cyber Security Information Security, Cyber Crime, Online Threats, Privacy, Future Crime
Veronika Harcenoka , Business Development Manager, Data Security Solutions
Solid experience in high tech ICT/ICT Security involves major projects in Latvia and the European Union. Previously worked in European Security Round Table and Microsoft Government Affairs office in Brussels.
- Major Gatis Graudiņš from Cyber Defence Unit of the Latvian National Guard (Twitter @kibersargs) will talk about Cyber Defence Unit and daily life of unit
If you would be interested in what happening in Cyber Defence field of Latvian Republic, this presentation would be one to listen for.
I will try to tell short presentation about our unit, what we do on daily basis, where we were already involved and other interesting things in connection to our activities.(Language — Latvian)
Major Gatis Graudiņš is Commander of Cyber Defence Unit of the Latvian National Guard.
Clusterpoint has announced international online hackathon (available also for participants from Latvia) over the ChallengePost SummerJam event platform. The hackathon is dedicated to the “Maps As Art” topic. Special prize provided by Clusterpoint is an Apple Watch for each member of the selected winning team.
Submission deadline: July 20. So, you have still almost 2 weeks to build your idea and submit it!
Our new sponsor Intexsys is looking for PHP Developer and DevOps.
Accenture is looking for:
– Office365/Azure Cloud Integration Specialist,
– Experienced Business Analyst,
– Sharepoint Developer
Autentica is looking for Geographic Information Systems developers.
Check also other career opportunities at Autentica!
Evolution Gaming – world leading on-line Live casino provider is looking for frontend and server side IT professionals for new game and feature development. We are providing excellent work conditions, challenging projects, friendly and professional colleagues.
– JavaScript/HTML5 Developer for Mobile Games,
– Java Developer,
– Scala Developer
and more positions you can find at the same page by scrolling down.
Now Evolution Gaming is located in the A+ class office building in the very heart of the Riga – Citadeles iela 2.
Game Insight is looking for:
– C++ Game Developer,
– Unity Developer,
– Game Server Developer,
– Game AQ/Producer.
Check out ALSO Cloud product and join their Dev Team at Riga!
Thanks to our sponsors we are able to make DevClub.lv events and have some drinks and snacks: