DevClub Best Moments
LETS FIND DEVCLUB’S BEST MOMENTS!
You are invited to take part in crowdsourcing event for creating a promotion video for The Big DevClub. We’ve had many memorable moments and flashes of brightness, let’s find them!
The idea is to put together a video mix that would show the essence of The Big DevClub. And for this we would need your contribution.
In order to make it simpler we have created two categories to which you can submit your videos of the best DevClub Moments:
- DevClub Bloopers – funny bloopers, quotes from speakers;
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DevClub Enlightens – enlightening moments you had or power statements you heard when watching DevClub videos.
Take a look at DevClub videos at:
When you spot a scene that catches your eye, put down the exact time framewhen it took place (right click on the slider down on the video and “copy video URL w/ current time” at the beginning and end of the quote) and submit your entry here http://bit.ly/14pwV0O.
Your contribution will be rewarded! We give away 6 two-day tickets to DevConFu – an educational festival bringing together all DevClub community groups. Two people from each DevClub (Estonian, Latvian and Russian DevClubs) have the chance to win a ticket. DevConFu takes place on 13th – 15th November 2013 in wonderful Lieleupe Hotel (Latvia).
Every clip you submit will give you one ballot in the hat. The winners will be selected as a lottery.
The Deadline for submitting Your entry is on the 1st of October 2013.
Announcing 15th DevClub.lv
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, WorkshopAndrei 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, CollaborationSandra 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.
Accenture job offer
You have a challenging opportunity to work in the one of the TOP 20 most desired companies in the world – Accenture!
Great and friendly colleagues!
Professional and open- minded Managers!
Creative and dynamic working environment!
BIZTALK DEVELOPER
We expect from you:
- MS BizTalk practical experience
- Solid understanding of .Net platform with focus on integration features (Web Services, WCF)
- Following software development best practices and efficient teamwork
- Good verbal and written communication skills in English
- Bachelor or higher degree in computer science or related field
Will be considered as an advantage:
- BizTalk configuration automation
- Multi-layered application development experience
- Hands-on experience with .Net Framework 3.0/3.5/4.0 components
- Hands-on experience with mocking and unit-testing
- Any agile software development experience, e.g. Scrum
- Masters or higher degree in computer science or related field
We offer:
- International projects
- Interesting, challenging work and professional growth
- Secure, good career in a growing company
- Attractive compensation package
Please send your CV and application letter to dagnija.veide@accenture.com with reference "BIZTALK developer"
Announcing 14th DevClub.lv
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 appsPhilip 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 toolsAbout 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.
Call for papers
DevClub is gathering all its community groups for the first time. Estonian, Latvian and Russian DevClubs are coming together and inviting all developers for DevConFu Conference to widen its circles and get to know each other in a festive and enjoyable atmosphere. Conference will be held on 13th – 15th November 2013 in Riga, Latvia. The main organizer of conference is DevClub.lv and co-organizers are Devclub.ee, Devclub.eu, Devclub.ru and Devtraining.
Our vision is that DevClub members and speakers from different countries can meet and share their experiences, have fun and feel the “Big DevClub” community. With this conference we want to grow the community awareness about latest trends in software development. This conference is the first of its kind and will be an annual event for software developers in Baltic region and Russia.
Theme
We intend to go through the whole software development lifecycle during this event, including management (people, product and process), UX, development, testing and operations.
This will be educational festival for developers covering latest information about topics such as: .Net, Java, Open Source, Agile, Architecture and Design, Web, Cloud, DevOps, New Languages and Processes and will have also track for Managers.
Be a part of our conference!
DevClub is inviting you to apply for the following events:
– be a speaker delivering one of the tracks (45min – 1hour + QA)
– lead a workshop that could be a one hour session or multiple sessions
– give an introductory tutorial as a promotion for your future trainings (full day or half day)
Suggestions for the topics to present:
- Management 2.0 and/or 3.0 (Enterprise Agility, Coaching, Self-organization, Beyond Budgeting, Lean startup, Customer and Product development)
- Hard core programming – Java, .NET, …
- Mobile development (UX, age of touch)
- Dynamic web (HTML5, CSS3)
- Quality (ATDD, TDD, Exploratory, automation)
- Continuous Delivery (DevOps, scalability, cloudiness)
- Big Data (Data, Metrics, Insights, Action)
- Architecture (SOA, Security)
- New and hot technology
If you have your own unique ideas for topics that can be integrated in our theme then don’t hesitate to share them with us!
Important Deadlines:
Submission deadline: 26th August 2013
Notification of acceptance: 9th September 2013
What we need from you are the following:
– Type of presentation (speech, workshop or tutorial)
– Previous speaking experience. Tell us where else have you spoken – event, title of session and references if possible.
– A brief biography
– Title and abstract for your presentation (should include prerequisites & takeaways for attendees)
– Prefered language for your talk (English, Russian, Latvian or Estonian)
Fill all the information in the submission form: http://goo.gl/8E5IT
We encourage you to apply multiple presentations – up to 3! Please remember to fill a unique form for every presentation.
Announcing 13th DevClub.lv
Speakers for 13th DevClub.lv:
- Ilgvars Jēcis from BuyerDeck will talk about "Technology stack of BuyerDeck.com startup"
(Language – English)
"I'm going to share my experience of using various cool (and not so cool) technologies which are helping use to move forward very quickly with the product development. I will give you overview of how we got started and what tools & frameworks we have at the backend and frontend (MongoDB, Spring Data, Spock & Geb, AngularJS, CloudFiles and more). Also brief look on deploying and running product on the Rackspace cloud infrastructure. I hope you'll discover few tips to help you build your own startup!"
Tags: cloud infrastructure, lean startup, web development"I'm co-founder of a startup. Our team is building SaaS application called BuyerDeck. Goal is to help sales persons to engage with their buyers and close more deals. I have total 12 years experience in IT field; my previous position was CIO at 4finance."
- Ģirts Kalniņš will talk about “Agile is dead”
(Language – English)
Agile software development. Why cults don’t work in software?
Tags: agile software development, gartner curve, scrum, extreme programming, kittens, project management, hypeProgrammer.
- Andrei Solntsev will talk about "Selenide – library for UI Testing in Java"
(Language – English)
“Do you think that testing is boring, long and useless? Do you think that testing is for testers?
Bullsh*t!
Let’s meet the Selenide – an open-source library for writing concise and stable UI Tests in Java. You will see how Selenide resolves all the typical problems with browsers and timeouts, allowing you to concentrate on business logic and write readable and stable tests in Java, Scala, Groovy and other JVM languages. I will demonstrate examples of using Selenide for testing Gmail, Github and even real internet-bank.”
Tags: Automated testing, Extreme programming, Agile, SeleniumAndrei Solntsev is a software creator at Codeborne. Author of Selenide.org – open-source library for UI Testing. Aggressive fan of extreme programming. Clean coder.
Devtraining is having CSM training in August in Riga and TDD course. Agile Design: Beyond the Basics by J.B. Rainsberger in Tallin.
Learn how to develop iOS applications together with Accenture Programming School. Free of charge opportunity to boost your organization's environment by entering the mobile application world. 100 participants will be taught and 10 of them will get a chance to build their career path at Accenture Latvia.
C.T.Co is looking for Highly Qualified Java Developer and .Net Developer for mobile-related product development project. Appropriate vacancies will be published soon, please, follow the information.
Thanks to our sponsors: Devtraining, 4FINANCE Group, Accenture, C.T.Co and JetBrains – we are able to make DevClub.lv events
Learn how to develop iOS applications
Learn how to develop iOS applications together with Accenture Programming School.
Free of charge opportunity to boost your organization’s environment by entering the mobile application world. 100 participants will be taught and 10 of them will get a chance to build their career path at Accenture Latvia.
More information and application on www.facebook.com/AccentureLatvia.
Job at C.T.Co
C.T.Co are welcoming to join our professional team Senior .NET Developer for Mobile related projects (http://www.ctco.lv/eng/careers/vacancies/index.php?994)
Announcing 12th DevClub.lv
Speakers for 1 Year DevClub.lv:
- Devtraining is bringing Aleksandr Jastremski with JavaScript – HTML5 – CSS3 training to Riga and he will visit DevClub.lv to talk about ".NET Development from project Sales to Deployment"
(Language – Russian)
"One day I was speaking with one Java developer and he said: "There is no source code merge in .NET". So I decided to show him how to development using all environment that surround .NET. After that, I can not say, that this developer was in one day turn in to .NET religion, but he start to say every Java developer he meet that it will be great if Java whould have same tools and environment. Lets have a look on them…"
Tags: .NET, project lifecycle, c#, deployment, development, architecture, UMLAleksandr Jastremski is .NET Evangelist. Programming .NET starting the date it was founded. Microsoft certified professional. Has an experience of more than 20 years in software development. Currently working as an electronic channel designer at Danskebank's architecture division. Trusts that starting writing programs is not so hard if you have a good teacher who will improve your skills.
- Surprise
- Oleg Anastasjev from Odnoklassniki will talk about "Класс!ная Cassandra"
(Language – Russian)
Odnoklassniki started adoption of Cassandra NoSQL storage engine in 2010 to resolve availability and scalability problems. Nowadays, Cassandra is widely used in many high-loaded clusters inside our infrastructure. We’ll present our experience based on the use case of “Klass!” button database, which is one of the most high-loaded systems we have. Currently this single database stores approx 50 billion individual records of what people like, which occupy more than 8TB of space on disks. To implement this storage we developed our own, not traditional way of cassandra usage.
We discuss how cassandra operate under the hood, its strong points and weaknesses, what decisions we made and what we changed in Cassandra to make our storage even more efficient and reliable.
C.T.Co is welcoming to join their professional team Senior .NET Developer for Mobile related projects.
Latest Skype challenge is closed and the winner will be announced at 1 Year DevClub.lv.
Thanks to our sponsors: Devtraining, 4FINANCE Group, C.T.Co, Skype and JetBrains – we are able to make DevClub.lv events.