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Don’t stay home alone – it’s Christmas DevClub 🙂 with Xmas snacks and hot drinks.

All Xmas heroes are comming:

• Santa Martin Rand (one of the speakers from DevConFu 2013 ) will talk about “Building a startup – lessons learned”
  (Language – English)
  An exciting story on how to build a startup from zero and what pitfalls for avoid.
  More thoroughly on the topics of:
  – The importance of legal contacts
  – Lessons on how investors think and how to get them commit
  – What to get customer to tell what they want
  – Role of alcohol in a startup
  Tags: investment, start-up

  Martin Rand is Ex Skyper, Co-founder of VitalFields.com a farm management platform. Martin has built up a stratup that is generating a considerable amount of revenue and raised several rounds of financing.

• Dwarf Maris Tepers will have a talk “About developers from another point of view”
  (Language – Latvian)
  Most professionals have contact with other members of the specialty, but today we will try to take broader look on IT industry here in Latvia. Let’s look which technologies are most popular today and how it change during last years. What programmer values are important in different types of enterprises and wage levels in various technology categories (changes, trends, etc.)
  Tags: developers, companies, technologies, personality, competition, wages, trends

  Maris Tepers: “I’m working in Human Resources (HR) company as Key Account Manager last years. My daily life is talking with different companies and most part of it is about IT positions. I’ve talked to big part of Latvian IT companies and I will share with the known information.”

• Gingerbread man Shankar Karuppiah will talk about “Why we did, what we did @tawk.to“
  (Language – English)
  The talk would be about our insights on the platform and technologies (like: node.js, mongoDB, redis, ElasticSearch, EmberJS and ect.) we used to develop Tawk.to, and why we chose those technologies.
  Tags: node.js, mongoDB, redis, ElasticSearch, EmberJS, start-up

  I’m the CTO and co-founder at Tawk.to. Tawk.to is a free live chat app that lets you monitor and chat with visitors on your website or from a free customizable page. No catch. No spam. No wares. It’s truly free and always will be.

• Hopefully some Snow Whites also will come 🙂

Info from C.T.Co: Senior Web UI Developer (JavaScript or/and GWT) – we are looking for you!

JetBrains has released new IntelliJ IDEA 13 and an early preview of UI designer plugin for developers for iOS. And those who are waiting for C++ IDE can subscribe to an earky private preview of the IDE.

We have 2 new books from Devtraining Library for DevClub.lv –

• 1. Test Driven Development for Embedded C by James W. Grenning!
• 2. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Reis

You can get the book to read by writing to info@devclub.lv! And you can vote what other books we should have for you to read!

DevConFu – the first big DevClub’s conference – have some videos to share with you from the conference! Enjoy!

• J. B. Rainsberger – Integrated tests are a scam
• Brendan Marsh and Kristian Lindwall – How agile coaches help us win – the agile coach role @ Spotify
• Shay Friedman – The wonderful world that is twitter bootstrap
• Mehis Hakkaja – Manual WebApp pentesting fun stories (with hacking demos)
• Stephan J. Mellor – Overview of requirements engineering
• Allan Kelly – Xanpan

Accenture’s open-minded and friendly team is looking for strong FLEX DEVELOPER.

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

Speakers for 16th DevClub.lv:

• Anton Kasperovich from Axioma will talk about “Process of development in digital agency Axioma, designing, testing (with continuous integration), code review and projects deployment”
  (Language – Russian)
  We’ll talk about the process of development and deployment of project from receive of specification to release. Our approach to organisation of work with remote team. What kind of branching in Git we use. Behat (BDD) code testing. How not to pay for Github/Travis CI and do code review and merge request on our servers with continuous integration. How to simplify the deployment of changes on live servers with Capifony.
  Tags: CI, BDD, testing, designing, code review, projects deployment

  Anton Kasperovich is Senior Team Leader at Axioma with experience in web-development for over 8 years.

• Maris Dagis will talk about “Startups from the eyes of non-developer”
  (Language – English)
  Let’s face it – developers are obsessed with code, technology and building new features. Let’s take a step back and see how non-developers look at different problems – even on technology side. With designers education and business experience running several startups I will try to show how this thing looks from other side of the table and what can we learn from each other.
  Tags: startups, team building, team management, productivity

  Maris Dagis is serial tech entrepreneur with few companies behind him. Currently he is running e-commerce startup Sellfy making easy to sell any type of digital content.

• Andrey Adamovich will talk about “Developer-Friendly Presentation Tools”
  (Language – English)
  “Poweroint, Keynote and some lesser-known desktop apllications were for a long time the only choice for creating presentations.
  Even though there are other ways to share your experience with the public, presentations still remain the key way of delivering structured content to the audience in a short time.
  Recent technologies like html5/Javascript/CSS3 and Markdown allow developers to throw away clumsy UI and start creating content that is easy to version, to merge, to restyle and to collaborate”
  Tags: JavaScript, HTML, frameworks, presentations, developer-friendly, powerpoint

  Andrey Adamovich is a software craftsman with many years of experience in different lifecycle phases of software creation. he is passionate about defining good development practices, documenting and presenting architecture, reuse of code and design patterns, profiling and analysis of application performance as well as extreme automation of development and operations activities. Being an expert in various technologies, Andrey is actively coaching. He is also one of the authors of the upcoming Groovy 2 Cookbook that is going to be published in the end of October, 2013.

The first DevClub’s conference – DevConFu – held in Jurmala on 13th-15th November are having many speakers on schedule, like Mehis Hakkaja, James Grenning, Kristjan Uba, Alvaro Videla, Sami Soderblom, Mark Seeman, Pavel Isakov and more.

DevConFu will be an educational festival spiced with DevClub atmosphere – place where developers can learn the latest information about: .Net, Java, Open Source, Agile, Architecture and Design, Web, Cloud, DevOps, new Languages and Processes in a relaxed environment.

C.T.Co are welcoming to join their friendly team Lead Java Developer and Senior JavaScript Developer. New opportunities and colleagues are waiting for YOU!

You hava a challenging opportunity to work in the one of the TOP 20 most desired companies in the world – Accenture is loking for 3 PHP Developers.

Devtraining is organising William Hudson’s (40 years of experience in the development of interactive systems; he was product and user interface designer for the Emmy-award-winning “boujou”; now an indispensable tool in many film studious, etc.) 2-day hands-on training: Agile User Experience – Persona-Driven Design on 22nd and 23rd October.

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

Speakers for 15th DevClub.lv:

• Andrei Kedrov and Armands Melvags will talk about "Aikido of Powerful Negotiations"
  (Language – Russian)
  How to conduct successful negotiations and agree with the boss for a pay rise? How to explain to a colleague what you really want from him? How to get permission from your wife (don't try it with husbands, please!) to visit a noisy party in the sauna with friends of both sexes? We negotiate every day and every hour. How can you, Mr or Ms IT-guy, earn more by working easier ? How to successfully negotiate in order to realize your ingenious design, development or idea?
  We'll be in fun to share our experience of negotiating in IT projects, and we will work together with you to find answers to the above questions. Everyone will be able to start using some of the techniques of truly profitable, powerful and successful negotiations. Isn't it exciting? You're right! It is 🙂
  The program is based on the latest techniques developed by leading coaching schools in the world and the company SuccessLAB, SIA (www.successlab.lv).
  Tags: Negotiations, Partnership, Success, Coaching, Team Management, Workshop

  Andrei Kedrov about himself: "I have an experience in IT field since 1996. I have worked by software developer, business analyst, project manager, IT solution implementer (CRM, ERP), customer support specialist and trainer. I have an experience in Sales, Customer Support, Marketing and IT consulting. The main interests for today are – client-focused business strategies; successful result-oriented implementation of various IT systems for companies (Hospitality, Service and HelpDesks, Telecommunications); business process optimisation and automatisation. I use coaching approach and techniques in my IT projects very widely: IT systems are designed and implemented by people for people. That's why coaching, powerful negotiations and high-performance team coaching are included in my professional and personal life in 2012."

  Armands Melvags – a professional business coach, founder and CEO of SuccessLAB, SIA. Head, engineer, trainer and just another good and sometimes even perfect man. The main specialization of today – comprehensive support for companies implementing changes in business; development of manager and staff abilities to achieve truly unique results; creation and support of high-performance teams for the successful implementation of even the most complex projects with a smile; powerful negotiations for sales persons, managers, politicians, IT professionals – the opening of the new forces and opportunities in the negotiations; shadow-coaching.

• Valdis Iļjučonoks will talk about share his experience from TechEd '13
  (Language – Latvian)
  Microsoft is holding of the largest Dev & IT Pro conferences around the globe in order to inform, educate and entertain attendees, hardcore developers and professional IT Pro guys. This year I had a chance to attend conference in North America, New Orleans was warm enough to welcome us and host the event. Professionals all around the globe were there to listen to latest trends and future plans from one of the largest software company in the world. I will share my experience and thoughts about future Microsoft plans, trends heard in the event and ideas about the next version of OS.
  Tags: teched, microsoft, noth america, future
• Sandra Biseniece will talk about "Power of Collaboration"
  (Language – Latvian)
  ntroduction: DNA of Playtodo (Android app); Elevator pitch of the project Youth Space; Creation of the Concept – White Paper Collaboration of Product Developer and Product owner via habit of learning Shared responsibilities and categorisation; the Idea Bank Pleasing the God of Small Changes. Examples of the practice.
  Tags: Product Owner, PlayToDo, Android, Collaboration

  Sandra Biseniece is a Project Manager of Central Baltic INTERREG project "Youth Space" by Department of Education, Culture and Sports of Riga City Council International Expert

C.T.Co are looking for experienced Test Engineer to invite to join their friendly team. Someone who really likes to hunt bugzzz.

Accenture offers a challenging opportunity to work in the one of the TOP 20 most desired companies in the world and welcomes BizTalk Developer.

Devtraining is organising William Hudson's (40 years of experience in the development of interactive systems; he was product and user interface designer for the Emmy-award-winning "boujou"; now an indispensable tool in many film studious, etc.) 2-day hands-on training: Agile User Experience – Persona-Driven Design this October.

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

Speakers for 14th DevClub.lv:

• Philip Torchinsky from JetBrains will talk about "Continous Integration with TeamCity"
  (Language – Russian)
  Continous integration (CI) is very popular among developer team worldwide, as it saves time and, more important, keeps people away from doing meaningless work. While there are few popular open source CI servers available, more and more teams choose TeamCity, including companies such as Intel, Boeing, T-Mobile, Hewlett-Packard and others. What is speacial about TeamCity? How can we use it for mobile app development? How does JetBrains use it for internal purposes? Whether the integration with an IDE and issue tracker important or not? Discover with a live demo from JetBrains! The talk and demo are made speacially for this DevClub meeting, and this is a premiere of the talk.
  Tags: Continuous Integration, TeamCity, Project Management, JetBrains, mobile apps

  Philip Torchinsky is a technology evangelist at JetBrains. His main specialization is UNIX technologies, his main interests at the moment are cloud technologies, issue trackers, and other developer tools. Philip has led trainings for IT specialists since 1993, wrote two books on UNIX, and used to work at Sun Microsystems before he joined JetBrains.

• Uldis Karlovs-Karlovskis from Accenture will talk about “Configuration Management is evil!”
  (Language – Latvian)
  Now in Latvia there is a time when IT specialists has started to grow like mushrooms after the rain, but the biggest companies are grabbing new and new foreign projects. It seems like experience is growing, but worry about project’s deadline is still everyday. Novelty in these situations are the excuses we hear – it shows that there has been “a lack of configuration management”. But for another project – “too much configuration management”. The logic is not understandable both for themselves and the client, but that’s just the way it seems to be. It’s definitely evil!
  Tags: Configuration Management, Continous Integration, Continous Delivery, development tools

  About me: “I started to work with configuration management when no one exactly didn’t know what could I do at all. I have done some coding, testing, configuration and did some talking, managed some things… As a result – I didn’t learned much till the end, but the management leaders like it. And they like it for already 8 years – isn’t that strange?”

Devtraining is having Alistair Cockburn – one of the authors of Agile Manifesto (see his last visit in Riga – with 2 courses in September in Riga: Use Cases to User Stories and Agile Workshop – Steps to an Agile Frame of Mind.

C.T.Co is welcoming to join their cool team a Project Manager.

Philip from JetBrains will make a raffle at the event’s place and will give 2 free licenses to their products.

DevClub.lv is gathering all DevClub’s in Estonia and Russia for a festival this November. You are welcome to fill Call for paper form and become one of the speakers at the conference as well.

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