DevClub.lv

At Special edition Mobile DevClub.lv we together with C.T.Co invite you to enjoy following presentations:

• Aivars Ritovs from NFC team will talk about "How to start-up"
  (Language – Latvian)
  Stories and main points for IT guys: How to start-up your thought? Best latvian and world stories, NFC team and Aivar’s individual experience about products, platforms, team and start-ups development.
  Tags: Start-up, apps, solutions, NFC, NFC team, MyNfcteam

  Aivars Ritovs is the team leader for a Baltic start-up company „NFC team” that is out to build a world’s first NFC infrastructure for business and consumer solutions. His previous experience with NFC includes working solution with international cleaning service based on Nokia Phones and consulting several big operators on their NFC-enabled services. Currently, the NFC team is the partner for major consumer Electronics Company in launching the word’s first low-cost NFC phone. NFC team has several NFC products and platforms for B2B market.

• Gusts Linkevičs from If P&C Insurance AS will talk about "Live tiles and Lock screen on Windows Phone 8"
  (Language – Latvian)
  Live tiles and Lock screen are one of the biggest advantages of WP8. You will learn what types of Live tiles exist and how to work with them from your application to achieve fantastic customization. Have you ever wanted customizable Lock screen with data you want? It is possible on WP8 and I will show you how.
  Tags: Windows Phone 8, Live Tiles, Lock Screen, ScheduledTasks, Background Agents

  Gusts Linkevičs is member of dotnet user group, Microsoft Student Partner and is passionate about WP8.

• Aleksandrs Pliska from DPA will talk about "Mobile application development"
  (Language – Latvian)
  Nowadays the usage and development of mobile applications is fast growing and important part of whole IT market. Implementation of mobile applications in different business areas and solutions is becoming more and more integrant. This talk will be about DPA experience of mobile applications development in Android, iOS and Windows Phone environments. During the presentation I will introduce three DPA developed mobile applications (one from each environment) and will speak about the development process, key challenges and lessons learnt.
  Tags: Mobile Applications, Development, Android, iOS, Windows Phone

  Aleksandrs Pliska is project manager assistant at DPA Solutions Department. He has experience in mobile applications analysis and testing in DPA projects.

• Dmitry Ivanov from C.T.Co will talk about "Difference in Cross-platform mobile development – native vs hybrid vs HTML5"
  (Language – Russian)
  Every developer thinking about doing something for mobile platforms, wants to maximize potential reach and cover as many platforms as possible. Cross-platform development seems to be an answer and HTML5 is the de-facto standard for that approach. What are the potential caveats of going cross-platform with HTML5? Why Facebook decided to go native with its apps for iOS and Android after trying HTML5 first?
  Tags: Mobile Development, HTML5, cross-platform

  Dmitry Ivanov is the Lead Mobile Developer in C.T.Co interested in various aspects of cross platform development with experience in a number of platforms, including iOS, Android and Windows Phone.

• Lottery of iPad mini provided by C.T.Co

Please pay attention – this time we start at 17:00 and event will take place at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (RTU), 2nd floor, Mazā zāle, Kaļķu iela 1.

We would also like to thank our sponsors: Devtraining and C.T.Co.

JavaScript Trends

Maris has presented JavaScript trends. This lecture started with the history of JavaScript, its usage in the very beginning and the way it has developed. The main goal of the presentation was to show that starting from the language for the annoying popups and alerts a JavaScript turned to the language that is very powerful. New technologies and frameworks are introduced which make JavaScript really powerful. Ajax requests, hardware acceleration, native mobile applications even server code is something that can be used with JavaScript nowadays. And the most amazing thing is that presentation was prepared with JavaScript framework help. Slides: http://www.rvl.io/zemgalis/javascript-trends

TDD – Why and How?

Raimonds in his presentation introduced the public with the Test Driven Development (TDD) which is a software development process that relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle: first the developer writes an initially failing automated test case that defines a desired improvement or new function, then produces the minimum amount of code to pass that test and finally refactors the new code to acceptable standards. Raimonds clearly described the benefits of using this approach and the problems which typically arise if software development and testing are done by separate individuals or teams. Presentation included practical demo of writing software on the spot implementing TDD approach. Source code for the demo with step by step guide are available from his GitHub public repository. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/rsim/tdd-why-and-how

This time there will be a lot of information about JavaScript and TDD.

Venue and time for this event: 15.11.2012 18:30 at Hotel "Radi un draugi", Mārstaļu iela 3.

Here's the speaker lineup:

• Māris Zemgalis from C.T.Co will talk about "JavaScript Trends"
  (Language – English )
  JavaScript was used for displaying alert boxes and opening annoying pop-up windows.. That was the common use for it for some long time.. It was then.. Now in the era of browser wars JavaScript is used to build enterprise level apps in browser environment, to build native & hybrid mobile apps and even used for building server side applications. In presentation I'll cover the demise of Flash, rise of the JavaScript frameworks and fancy tools to make your work productive and entertainment more fun.
  Tags: JavaScript, node.js, Titanium, PhoneGap, Backbone.js

  Māris Zemgalis helps people to get things done by giving them simple and beautiful tools to organize themselves. He has enthusiasm for beautiful, pragmatic code and an eye for simplicity.

• Surprise
• Raimonds Simanovskis from eazyBI will talk about "Test Driven Development (TDD) – Why and How?"
  (Language – English or Latvian)
  There are many myths about Test Driven Development (TDD) – takes too much time, not applicable, not working in real life etc. In this presentation these myths will be "busted" and main benefits of TDD will be explained and recommendations how to try it out and start doing. In the end small practical live TDD will be demonstrated using JavaScript.
  Tags: TDD, Agile, JavaScript

  Raimonds Simanovskis is software developer and consultant with strong "enterprise software development" history and Oracle technologies background but during recent years he has been passionate Ruby and JavaScript developer. He is regular open source contributor and has created Oracle database adapter for Ruby on Rails, PL/SQL unit testing library with Ruby and recently working on integrating Mondrian OLAP engine with JRuby. Raimonds is also active participant in Latvian Agile software development and Open Data communities. Raimonds is founder and core developer of business intelligence web application eazyBI.

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

This DevClub will be focus on security because it is and always will be an important topic!

Venue and time for this event: 18.10.2012 18:30 at Hotel Kolonna "Konventa sēta" (conference room – Kampenhauzens), Kalēju street 9/11.

• Didzis Balodis from DPA Latvia will talk about "Web application security – hacking weak authentication implementations"
  (Language – Latvian)
  After the latest security breaches when millions of user accounts have been compromised at such companies such as LinkedID, Yahoo and Gamigo we will present the current trends in password attacks, how the different attack vectors work and what kind of weaknesses they exploit. Then we will move on to different strategies of secure authentication implementation and will demonstrate some practical proof of concepts.
  Tags: Password attacks, Secure authentication

  Didzis Balodis is currently leading IT Security unit in DPA Latvia. He has more than 10 years of IT experience in development, support and administration of IT systems in the public and commercial sector companies. Last five years Didzis has more focused on IT consulting and security audit, serving clients in Latvia and abroad. Most of the time is spent in leading security audit, vulnerability and penetration testing assignments, among his recent clients there are companies from financial, utilities and public sector. Didzis has also developed and is delivering to its clients a User IT security awareness program which often is accomplished with some social engineering attacks. Didzis also holds CISSP and GPEN certifications.

• Andrey Podshibyakin from C.T.Co will talk about "Mobile security"
  (Language – English)
  Will talk about 3-4 items from our companies mobile app security checklist. Will describe the problems, provide solution and show code examples or demos. Tags: Mobile app security, iOs examples

  Andrey Podshibyakin is working in IT for 6+ years. Geek level 85. Love mobile devices and cutting edge tech. Working in CTCo as development manager in mobile development team.

• Mehis Hakkaja from Clarified Security OÜ will talk about "Red pill vs. blue pill – penetration testing perspective"
  (Language – English)
  Edutainment mode presentation of typical web application blunders with live hacking demos and real-life examples my penetration testing team encounters all too often. I wrap it up with some visually entertaining fun with recent Java and IE exploits.
  Tags: Penetration testing, Live hacking demos, Real-life examples

  Mehis Hakkaja is a security practitioner who has viewed IT security from many different viewpoints. Mehis is a U.S. Military Academy, West Point, graduate with a B.Sc. degree in computer science with special interest in cyber warfare. Besides his military background, Mehis has worked as a penetration tester and pentest team leader, security manager for a telecommunications company, has promoted CERTs (Computer Emergency Response Teams) at ENISA (European Networks and Information Security Agency) and has managed information security for a global company. Currently Mehis is the CEO and founder of Clarified Security OÜ which is specialized in technical security audits and penetration testing and also teaches hands-on security courses.

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