DevClub.lv

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.​

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, UML

  Aleksandr 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.

Speakers for 11th DevClub.lv:

• Arvids Godjuks, Senior Web Architect from Voipclub will talk about "E-Currencies – the hidden worl of processing"
  (Language – Russian)
  Most of the people think that working with e-currencies is straight forward – they are wrong, fundamentaly. In my line of work I have learned that in grand scheme of things banking systems are easier to sustain, despite their initial ridicilous corporate technological stack, weird logic and occasional realisation, that WEB tools we are used to sometimes do not have a reliable implementation of certain tech. All in all – it's a giant mine field and only years of experience can save you from blowing up yourself to pieces.
  Tags: server side, e-currency, banking, payment processing

  Arvids is a WEB application architect with 8+ years of experience in PHP and MySQL, organizer of "WebConf Riga" and numerous "WEB Beerfests" (as he calls them) in Riga. He primaraly works with Yii Framework (PHP) and MySQL, takes a semi-active role in "php-internals" mailing list and probably should have taken ZCE years ago.

• Surprise
• Hanno Jarvet from Devtraining will talk about "Killing Agile"
  (Language – English)
  "If you know the weaknesses of a system, you will be better at protecting it. Taking a system hacker's perspective will help you to do just that. I will present examples from my own consulting practice and give recipes for both disaster and rescue."
  Tags: agile

  Hanno is an independent consultant who helps companies to improve performance. Since 2009 he has helped more than a dozen companies and software teams to improve their processes and productivity. During this time he has also co-founded Agile Estonia non-profit organization and organizes regular agile conferences in Estonia. He is a senator and past national president of Junior Chamber Estonia.

Devtraining is having Javascript and HTML5 training in June by Aleksandr Jastremski in Riga.

And C.T.Co are welcoming new Project Manager (with Java background) to join their friendly team.

Can you say for yourself "Challenge accepted"? Until 3rd June you can prove your coding master skills by taking our friends latest Skype Challenge and become the proud owner of a brand new Nokia Lumia 920.

We are thankful to our great sponsors who help us to make DevClub.lv events: Devtraining, 4FINANCE Group, C.T.Co, Skype and JetBrains.

Speakers for 10th DevClub.lv:

• Dmitri Nesteruk developer evangelist from JetBrains will talk about "Fast Code Craft"
  (Language – English)
  This is a talk about the principle of Fast Code Craft – a paradigm which posits that self-evident code should be created quickly and easily. In this demonstration participants will see how diverse approaches to creating code quickly can boost productivity and effectiveness.
  Tags: productivity, code generation, resharper, intellij idea

  Dmitri Nesteruk is a developer, podcaster and frequent speaker at developer conferences. His passions include modern software development patterns and practices and efficient use of both software and hardware resources in solving challenging problems in IT. Dmitri has been a Microsoft MVP (C#) since 2009. He works as a developer evangelist for JetBrains. He currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden.

• Vasily Popov from C.T.Co will talk about "Difference between web applications and mobile applications from the user experience and uder interface point of view"
  (Language – Russian)
  Fingers are not mouse cursors, mobile devices screens are smaller than desktop monitors. This seems obvious for many, but yet we continue to see the same design mistakes over and over again in mobile apps. Developers are trying to squeeze old applications into smaller screens thinking that's enough, but it's not a straightforward task, mobile UI and UX design calls for starting from a blank slate.
  Tags: Mobile, Design, UI, UX

  Vasiliy Popov is the Head of User Experience and Mobile in C.T.Co, passionate about mobile development and good design; eager in finding new ways to solve old problems.

Did you know that Devtraining is bringing Gojko Adzic, the author of 2nd place book of Top 100 Agile books 2012, to Riga in May with a Specification by Example training?

And our friends C.T.Co is having a new hot offer: GWT Developer position.

Try to take this challenge: Skype is celebrating our partnership and running a new unique challenge for all attendees to be completed by 3rd June. Impress us with your coding wizardry and you could be the proud owner of a brand new Nokia Lumia 920!

We would also like to thank our sponsors: Devtraining, 4FINANCE Group, C.T.Co., Skype and JetBrains.