DevClub.lv

 Hi,

Everybody knows that "Merry Christmas" is "Merry" only if it is Safe and Secure, therefore logically this time we will focus on Security issues 🙂

Please pay attention, that this time we meet at Wednesday evening at 10th of December 18:30 at TechHub Riga (Kaļķu iela 12/14 (entrance from Kalēju iela)).

Agenda:

• Agris Krusts from IT centrs will talk about most common web applications security problems found in systems made in Latvia (slides of presentation). 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, OWASP Top 10

  Agris Krusts 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.
   

• Peter Gubarevich from New Horizons Latvia and Toms Pēcis from Lattelecom once again will bring you to the world of hackers. They will provide two sessions:

  1) Most of you probably already know that SQL Injection vulnerability can be very dangerous. Toms and Peter will demonstrate how exactly an attack against this vulnerability is executed. Hearing it for a hundred times is not as good as seeing it once, isn’t it? They will also explain how it is possible to lower the SQL Injection exploitation risks. (aprx 40min session)

• 2) In the second part, they will show you a method of lowering risks of malware infection and illegal software installation — Application Whitelisting (AWL), which in most scenarios is much more effective than any antivirus you could use. Peter and Toms will also explain why it is important for Developers to know and care about the AWL. (aprx 40min session)

  (Language – Latvian)
  Tags: Security, AWL, SRP, SQL, Injection, Whitelisting, Hacker, CEH, MVP 

  Peter Gubarevich is an IT and Security Professional with more than 15 years experience. He holds Microsoft Certified Trainer, Certified EC-Council Instructor certifications, and also is recognized as Microsoft Security Trusted Advisor, and  MVP:Enterprise Security 

  Toms Pēcis is an IT and Security Professional with more than 10 years of experience. He is also Certified Ethical Hacker and MCITP:Enterprise Administrator.

Hi,

XXV DevClub.lv already at 20th of November 18:30 at Microsoft Latvia office!

Agenda for this time:

• Uldis Indriksons from Accenture Latvia will bring Google Glasses and will talk about his experience with Google Glass development. What Glass is capable on and what not. What developers/designers should consider when planning Glass application.
  (Language – Latvian)
  Tags: Google Glass, Android, Java, Wearable technology

  Uldis Indriksons is System Analyst with more than 10 years experience in IT. He has been working in Accenture Latvia 4 years and has been participated in several international projects including Google Glass prototype application development. His expertise is Android development.

   

• Edmunds Medvedevs from Arcana digital group will talk about practical usage of Arduino and Raspberry pi to solve different automation tasks related to "internet of things". Starting from idea until first testable prototype. We will have possibility to see on spot some controllers and components. 
  (Language – Latvian)
  Tags: Arduino, Raspberry pi, GSM, SMS, WiFi, PHP, Unit test, internet of things 

  Edmunds Medvedevs has worked more than 10 years in IT with experience in different programming languages, databases, system analyses, project management, IT department management, also with recruitment and personal development issues in different leading web companies in Latvia. In addition for several years have been providing lectures about programming and project management basics, participated in nationwide programming competitions organization and evaluation.  
   

• Dmitry Klepikov's from Pixout talk will be focused on low resolution LED screens with individually controllable LED pixels and control software. These screens give a new powerful tool to craft spaces and their interaction with an audience. Under the covers technologies used in Pixout media server.
  This talk's goal is to show how to create mood with impressive LED lighting and easy to control it for everybody.
  (Language – Russian)
  Tags: LED wall, Outdoor LED display, LED Lighting, Low resolution LED screen, Javascript, Go lang, C++, Qt5

  Dmitry Klepikov is a software engineer and Pixout startup founder with more then ten years experiences in LED lighting area. The biggest projects where he was involved are Media facade for BMW Museum in Munich, Volkswagen’s IROC, New Wave 2006 transparent LED screen, Essential Club Riga LED wall, … 

Some updates about Special edition Front-end DevClub at 30th of October which is organised in collaboration with C.T.Co:
1) Thanks to C.T.Co we will have lottery and prize will be great and very useful device for Web Developers and Designers from DELL
2) Registration is OPEN but hurry up, because not so many places have left. If you will find that there are no more tickets, please register in Waitlist to help us understand how big is interest and we promise to raffle some extra tickets
3) Unfortunately it seems that we will not have video filming this time, therefore – hurry up, register you ticket and come to event

In collaboration with C.T.Co we organise Special edition Front-end DevClub at 30th of October 2014.

It will be special because:

1) we have gathered 5 good speakers with talks related to Front-end
2) we will start event already at 14:00 at Microsoft office (Zaļā iela 1) – you can treat it as mini conference and ask your managers for free part of day

Agenda of the event:

• Roberts Haritonovs from OK.ru will give a talk on current state of Front-end automation tools for web performance optimisation, testing and development. You will hear everything you must know about modern automation tools with low-level entry barrier.
  (Language – Russian)
  Tags: automation, front-end, performance, testing, tools

  Robert Haritonov works as a Head of Front-End Development Group at OK.ru (Top 10 World Social Network), and specialises on front-end standards and development processes. Currently Robert is managing front-end developers team and coordinates technical improvements for an efficient workflow. He also has created MCSS methodology and SourceJS front-end documentation engine..
   

• Mikhail Larchanka from EPAM Mobile Competency Center will talk about Yeoman – bulletproof workflow for your project.
  Talk will describe amazing tool that allows easy organize web-developer’s workflow. Some examples will be shared and own experience will be shown.

  (Language – Russian)
  Tags: yeoman, grunt, bower, generator, front-end, experience sharing

  Mikhail Larchanka is Belarusian developer with 14 years experience in web-development. Currently he works for EPAM with web-technologies for mobile development.
   

• Dmitry Balabka from Intechsystems will share about BEM Front-End Methodology.
  My talk will be focused to BEM Methodology and how it can be used without BEM-tools. I will share knowledge that have been obtained during BEM integration into our company.
  (Language – Russian)
  Tags: BEM, CSS

  Dmitry Balabka with more than 7 years WEB developing experience for different business spheres. Current occupation is Senior Web Developer at Intechsystems, working on large E-Commerce project. 
   

• Ruslan Zavacky from Intechsystems will talk about Ember.js – Ambitious [WEB] Applications.
  The talk will be focused on Ember.js and how to build ambitious web applications with it. How not to hate it and go the right way from the beginning.
  (Language – Russian)
  Tags: ember.js, javascript

  Ruslan Zavacky is a developer with 8+ years of active web development experience, now Senior Software Architect for the large e-commerce store in USA, opticsplanet.com .
   

• Vasily Popov from C.T.Co will talk about Usability, Usability Testing, Prototyping and Thinking Like a User.
  This session is about users. About wonderful, crazy and often stupid users. It's not a technical session, but it's essential for every developer worth his salt to really understand users, to be able to think like a user. Not as easy as it might seem. And what's even more important is to try validating your new UI concepts before writing a single line of code.
  (Language – Russian)
  Tags: user experience, usability, usability testing, prototyping, non-technical

  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.
   

This time DevClub.lv again will be held at The Mill (Brivibas iela 33 (entrance from Brivibas street))

On XXIV DevClub.lv:

• Janis Koselevs from Accenture Latvia will talk about Introduction to UX
  This talk is more philosophical – lately we hear a lot of talks about UX (it’s now hot topic), but what really is UX, why it’s important and why we should pay more attention to it? Also, UX is not only UI. It’s much more that that – have you ever thought that your backend developer (or even secretary) are doing more good/bad UX to your company or product that you designer does?
  So I will talk about what is UX, UX history, basics of good UX and why UX is important, and a little bit how to sell UX.
  (Language – English) 
  Tags: UX, Philosophy, Psychology

  Janis is a front-end developer at Accenture Latvija and UX evangelist.
   

• Alek Kozlov from Devtraining will talk about Collaborative product charter as a key to product manager success.
  How to be successful in product development from the very first day? I will share with you my last years experience about some good examples, where teams instead of 4-5 months of solely preparation of specs, managed to spend 2 days with stakeholders at collaboratively creating product charter and as a results launched live version of the product in 2,5 months. We had a lot of a-ha moments and many innovation ideas where sprinkling around due to this approach.
  I will show photos from these 2 days (and other workshops), we will go through the whole process and I will answer your questions on the go.

  (Language – Russian)

  Alek is Product management consultant at Devtraining, previsouly has been working at Skype as Agile Coach.
   

• Canceled
  Ingus Rūķis from Draugiem will share about Insights into development of Draugiem Group projects.
  The talk will be focused on development efforts at Draugiem Group projects. What we develop, how we do it, how we encourage learning and experience sharing between companies and projects.
  (Language – Latvian)
  Tags: behind the scenes, experience sharing

  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.

• Ilmārs Poikāns (aka Neo) will talk about Neo case – origins, development, effects and conclusions. Sharing some details on first hand experience with repressive part of state system. How to use information more efficiently for public benefit.
  (Language – Latvian)
  Tags: leak, vulnerability​

Updated – Ilja Nevdahs from AirDog team is going to share the details about modern techologies used to create the first auto-following drone.
AirDog recently raised 1.4 Miljon USD at Kickstarter.

Please take in account that this time DevClub.lv will be held at The Mill (Brivibas iela 33 (entrance from Brivibas street))

On XXIII DevClub.lv:

• Gusts Linkevičs from .NET group will share information about using AngularJS library.
  (Language – Latvian)
  Tags: AngularJS, JSON, WebAPI

  Gusts is software developer (web, Windows Phone) and artist. In his free time he enjoys sports, animation and learning new things.
   

• Sergey Stetsourin from Tieto Latvia will share his insights from reading one of the Devtraining Library for DevClub.lv books: Test Driven Development for Embedded C by James W. Grenning
  (Language – Russian)
  Tags: TDD, Embedded C 

  Sergey is a software developer at Tieto Latvia, before he was working at SIA Idynamic (web development, Drupal). In his free time he plays badminton and he likes to read books very much.
   

• Ilja Nevdahs from AirDog team is going to share the details about modern techologies used to create the first auto-following drone.
  AirDog recently raised 1.4 Miljon USD at Kickstarter.
  (Language – Russian)
  Tags: Robotics, Drones, Embedded, Sensors

  Ilja is former enterprise software developer (web, Java, .Net) now leading UAV research and development lab. He likes photography and action sports.
   

• Vadim Zhepetov from Ask.fm will talk about "Being iOS developer"
  (Language – Russian)
  "This talk will be focused on iOS platform from the developer's point of view. It's current situation, perspectives and what opportunities it opens for us. Different ways of using it for the living and fun. Retrospective for a few projects will be presented, from the day 0 of development to app going mature in App Store."
  Tags: Mobile, iOS, Indie

  Vadims is a software developer with experience of working in various projects and teams, at office, remotely and as a freelancer. His dream is to make games as independent developer and bring fun to a lot of people. Currently works at Ask.fm as IOS developer
   

Hi, You should know Neo (Ilmārs Poikāns) – guy who found whole in LV Tax office system and copied from them bunch of info and part of them published (in the result government decided to make all public sectors salaries public).

Unfortunately Ilmārs still are not totally free to tell what and how happened when government people came to "visit him", because of restriction from court until all litigation process will be finished, but he is ready to consider your questions and give answer on them at some of DevClub.lv events.

So – please submit your questions to Ilmārs and lets see what will come out of it 🙂

2 year DevClub.lv is on it's way! And to celebrate it we will have free beer and Kinect games!

Please take in mind that this time DevClub.lv will be held at Microsoft Office (Zaļā iela 1).

This time on XXII DevClub.lv:

• Andrey Grave will talk about "Specification by Example" (Language – Russian)
  "Specification by example is a collaborative approach to defining requirements as executable examples instead of abstract statements. It is applied in the context of agile software development methods. This talk will be introduction into "Specification by example" practice – what it is, how it can help and in which situations. I will describe theoretical aspects of "Specification by example" as well as describe how it can be applied in the web project using Cucumber tool." Tags: agile, collaboration, testing, automation

  Andrey Grave is passionate software developer with broad experience in all kind of organizations, projects and roles. He believes that software development is magic power of our time because as a software developer you can create anything from nothing. Currently he works as developer/business analyst/QA/operations in a startup called Buyerdeck and is involved in a craftsmans.lv project.

• Janis Orlovs from KPMG Baltics will talk about "Dark Side of IT Operations" (Language – English)
  "Every day IT staff does the job of keeping infrastructures and application lights on, users happy and business rolling. But there is always tar drops in honey barrels, we as IT staff manage to make these tasks much more complicated and painful as it should be. I will share my previous experience when IT operations gone wild and wrong." Tags: professionalism, devops, best practices not implemented, IT operations

  Janis is a system administrator of a few years experience in fast moving financial services sector ecosystem companies.

• Eduards Sizovs will talk about "Continuos Delivery" (Language – Russian)
  "In this talk Eduards will introduce Continuous Delivery – a practice of shipping software frequently and in small increments. You'll learn benefits of CD, how to introduce it in your company and why free food is over. You'll have a chance to discuss more advanced aspects of CD with Eduards just after the talk."
  Tags: Continuos Delivery, XP, Lean

  Eduards is software craftsman passionate about every aspect of software development. During his IT journey towards mastery he's been walking in programmer's, architect's, technical leader's and IT manager's shoes, attacking the most pressing issues of huge enterprises and cozy start-ups. Eduards strongly believes that mix of right attitude, mastery and vision can make software industry flourish. Eduards runs his small software consultancy house in Riga, actively contributes to open source projects, speaks on conferences and consults various teams around the world on technical and organisational aspects of software development.

C.T.Co is looking for experienced .Net Software Architect.

Gojko Adzic will be in Riga with Specification by Example training.

Accenture is inviting PHP Developer, Front-end Developer, Java Architect and .Net Developer.

Thanks to our sponsors: Devtraining, Accenture and

This time on XXI DevClub.lv:

• Indrek Sünter from Tartu Observatory will talk about “ESTCube-1 firmware upgrades and testing”
  (Language – English)
  Steps involved in ESTCube-1 firmware upgrades – from cross-platform development on PC to three stages of testing on satellite hardware.
  The talk highlights differences between the development of typical software vs. software for embedded systems.
  Tags: satellite, embedded, testing

  Indrek Sünter is an embedded software engineer and an electrical engineer in the Space Technology department of Tartu Observatory.
  He took part in the hardware design of ESTCube-1 command and data handling subsystem, currently he is developing software for the subsystem.
  He is also involved in the development of attitude determination and control software on-board ESTCube-1.

• Karlis Berkolds from RTU Robotics club will talk about “LEGO Mindstorm robots” (20 min)
  (Language – Latvian)
  Brief introduction to LEGO Mindstorm robots: overview of hardware and software used in LEGO Mindstorm robots, possibilities and restrictions, demonstration of programming LEGO Mindstorm robots. What are the pros and cons of using LEGO Mindstorm sets compared to real robots and programming education.
  Tags: robotics, lego robots, education

  Karlis Berkolds is a member of RTU robotics club where he educates new robot builders, organizes workshops for students about robotics and works on his own projects. He is currently studying for a master’s degree in Intellectual robotic systems and works at Ogre technical college as Electronics teacher and leads a robotics hobby group.

• Alla Babkina will talk about “Microeconomics for Engineering Decisions”
  (Language – English)
  Every day, many times a day, software engineers face the challenge of making choices that affect the quality of the end product they deliver. While all focus on optimizing their technical solutions at some point (this talk will not be about system optimization), few bother to make choices optimal from the business perspective. I will show some good ways to do that that come from college level microeconomics and some examples of how that works in practice.
  Tags: professionalism, solutions, architecture, agile

  Alla is a software engineer and analyst with 5 years of experience as a lawyer in banking and corporate finance and correspondent banking. She has experienced the ups and downs of software engineering from both the business/customer and engineer perspectives and believes that the best results come from carefully balancing the two points of view every single day.

Accenture is looking for Java Spring Evangelists and Ruby Developer.

C.T.Co is looking for professional System Analyst, please take a look!

Check out also DevConFu, conference that brings to you DevClub atmosphere on a bigger scale. Subscribe to our mailing list and win a Pebble Smart Watch (winner will be announced on 15th April). And Early Bird prices are available until 15th April.

Devtraining is having Agile Coaching training by David Hussman and Specification by Example by Gojko Adzic.

Thanks to our sponsors: Devtraining, Accenture, C.T.Co and JetBrains – we are able to make DevClub.lv events.