Event in Edinburgh: Lean Startups

25 March, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This just in from Agile Scotland:

We’re Back! Our next AgileScotland event takes place on the 18th April 2011 in Edinburgh at 19:30. The subject: Lean Startups.

Lean Startups are the hot new kids on the block – and like all the new hot things it is a ball of hype wrapped round a steely core of good practice.

Gordon Guthrie (CEO/CTO at Hypernumbers, formerly Chief Technical Architect at if.com, currently Convenor of the Scottish Lean Circle) will provide some perspective.

  • Lean Startups are a combination of influences:
  • Japanese quality management like the Toyota Production Systems
  • software development methodologies like Agile, Scrum and XP
  • theories of company building like 4 Steps To The Epiphany
  • practical experience

    • These have been synthesized to address a very specific problem: “I have an idea for a product – how to I get to having a sustainable repeatable business based on that without running out of money”

The evening is organized by Paul Wilson and generously sponsored by his company EdgeCase – providers of rapid sustainable development here in Edinburgh.

If you are interested in joining us then please email me at clarke.ching@gmail.com. I’ll book you a spot and send you location details.

Cheers,
Clarke Ching

UPDATE:
The date has now moved to Monday 18th April. The above text has been amended to reflect this change.

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DDD Scotland 2011 – Agenda

14 March, 2011 by 3 Comments

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We are pleased to announce the agenda for this year’s DDD Scotland. We will keep this up to date and it will reflect any changes as an when we make them.

We are working to get the agenda published on the DDD Scotland website however this may take a few days

Time Track A Track B Track C Track D Track E
08:45 – 09:20 Registration
09:25 – 09:30 Housekeeping
09:30 – 10:30 Creating your Own Software Company: A Survival Guide Streams of Streams – Your Rx Prescription Introduction to Android Development using Monodroid From .NET to Rails, A Developer’s Story CQRS and Friends: Possibly distributed systems, intentionally.
Kendall Miller Ray Booysen Chris Canal Colin Gemmell Andrea Magnorsky
10:30 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:40 Asymptotics and Algorithms – What You’ve Forgotten Since University Defensive programming 101 Building seriously scalable websites with ASP.NET with and without Windows A Step into Workflow Foundation 4 Caliburn.Micro: Painless MVVM apps for Silverlight and WPF
Gary Short Niall Merrigan Chris Hay David Muir Barry Carr
11:40 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 13:00 Making Crap Code Better – Real world Coding Standards Parallel… Parallelise… Pallar… Doing stuff at the same time in .NET 4.0 Don’t Make Me Wait – Faster Websites 101 Unit Testing, Test Driven Development and the Walking Skeleton Behavioural Driven Development (BDD) with F#
Phil Whinstanly Colin Mackay Duncan McDougall Seb Rose Phillip Trelford
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch and Grok Talks
14:30 – 15:30 Is your code S.O.L.I.D ? SpecFlow – functional testing made easy Real World SLUT (Silverlight Unit Testing) The dark parts of Mono Building composite applications with Open frameworks
Nathan Gloyn Paul Stack Daniel May Toby Henderson Sebastien Lambla
15:30 – 15:40 Break
15:40 – 16:40 Functional Alchemy: Tricks to keep your C# DRY* How to build a framework, and why you almost never should. Produce Cleaner Code with Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) Introduction to Kanban Rewriting software is the single worst mistake you can make – apparently.
Mark Rendle Richard Dalton Gael Fraiteur Chris McDermott Phil Collins
16:40 – 17:00 Closing

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Newsletter – March 2011

11 March, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Welcome

Apologies for not sending out a newsletter in February but we are making up for it this month!

If you have looked at our events calendar recently you will have seen a lot of activity. Tomorrow we have Microsoft’s Glenn Block coming to Edinburgh to talk about his work on MEF, WCF, REST and more followed by a more social conversation with him over dinner. In a couple of weeks Colin Gemmel will be speaking to us in Glasgow on Being Dynamic With Ruby and of course we have our Book Club events in both Edinburgh and Glasgow too. If you are interested in concurrecny in .NET then you might want to check out Colin Mackay’s talk in April on “doing stuff at the same time in .NET 4.0“.

All events (with the exception of the Glenn Blook evening dinner) are free.

On the DDD Scotland front, today is the last day of voting so if you haven’t already done so, remember to vote for the sessions you want to see on the day! Registration will open at 12.30pm on Monday (14th March).

A Day With Glenn Block

On Saturday 12th March Microsoft’s Glenn Block will be at Storm ID‘s offices in Edinburgh talking to us about his work and also taking part in a chalk and talk session where you, the audience, can ask him questions.

Glenn is a PM on the WCF team working on Microsoft’s future HTTP and REST stack. Prior to WCF he was a PM on the new Managed Extensibility Framework in .NET 4.0. He has experience both inside and outside Microsoft developing software solutions for ISVs and the enterprise. He has also been active in involving folks from the community in the development of software at Microsoft. This has included shipping products under open source licenses, as well as assisting other teams looking to do so.

This is a fantastic opportunity to speak to the man that brought us MEF and a host of other things who also gives back to the community. After his session Scottish Develoeprs will be taking him out for a meal and you are invited to join us.

The afternoon event is free however if you wish to attend the dinner you will need to pay for your own meal.

For more information see:

DDD Scotland 2011

As mentioned before, voting for the big day closes today at 11.59pm so remember to get your votes in before then. We will be finalising the agenda this weekend and speakers will be notified before registration opens at 12.30pm on Monday.

Hotel for DDD Scotland

If you are from out-of-town and are looking for a hotel to stay in for DDD Scotland we’ve got a deal with Ramada Jarvis again this year for a 2 night stay at £67 per night B&B from Friday 6th May 2011 to Sunday 8th May 2011.

Here is the link: http://bit.ly/f2osec

The Sponsors

It is not possible to put on an event like DDD Scotland at no cost to the delegates without the support of our sponsors. The following companies have stepped up to the mark and are supporting the community by sponsoring the event.

Glasgow Caledonian University
School of Engineering and Computing 		Microsoft JetBrains
Ramada Jarvis Gibraltar ScotlandIS
Storm ID

If you would like to sponsor DDD Scotland and get your brand out to over 200 industry professionals and students get in touch! Drop us a line at support@scottishdevelopers.com

Until next time…

We have more events in the pipeline so keep an eye on our blog at http://www.scottishdevelopers.com

You can also follow us on Twitter - @scottishdevs

Thanks for reading.

Andy Gibson
Chairman, Scottish Developers

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Event: Being Dynamic With Ruby

9 March, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This month we have a bit of Ruby for you with Colin Gemmell.

Register for Being Dynamic With Ruby in Glasgow, United Kingdom on Eventbrite

The Talk

It should come as no surprise that Ruby is a dynamic language but do you know how to use this to you advantage. In this talk we will look at how to use Ruby’s dynamic nature to keep you code DRY, write less code and make your code easier to maintain. As a final example we will see how to use these same tricks how to create a simple DSL

The Speaker

Colin Gemmell is a Web/Application Developer from Glasgow. He has gained a wide range of experience in his short time as a developer working on everything from enterprise applications to small promotional web-sites. After 3 and a half years working in .NET he made the jump to Ruby on Rails and hasn’t yet looked back (but there’s still time). An avid follower of agile principles and practices and a growing interest in agile project management, he is always happy to pass on his views of software development to anyone that will listen.

Colin has recently started the Glasgow Ruby User Group which held it’s inaugural meeting at the start of the month

The Venue

We are meeting in Room M402 on the 4th floor of the George Moore Building at Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow, G4 0BA.

After the meeting we normally retire to the back bar at Waxy O’Connor’s

The Agenda

18:00 Doors Open
19:00 Welcome
19:10 The Talk
20:20 Feedback & Wrap-up
20:30 Retire to the Pub

Register for Being Dynamic With Ruby in Glasgow, United Kingdom on Eventbrite

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Job: ASP.NET App Dev in Stirling

8 March, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This is an ideal opportunity for anyone that wants a software development position on a part-time basis.

We are looking for an experienced developer with the following skillset.

  • Innovative and flexible
  • Strong object orientated design modelling approach
  • Ability to decompose requirements into architectural components and business objects
  • Positive and proactive attitude

Specialties

  • ASP.NET
  • SQL Server
  • RDBMS database design
  • Object Orientated Analysis and Design
  • SourceSafe
  • IIS
  • XML
  • JavaScript
  • JQuery
  • JSON
  • CSS

Our requirement will initially be up to 20 hours per week and as such may be better suited to a freelance developer who is able to grow quickly with our business over the next 12 months.

Interested parties should email alan in the first instance.

More information about the company can be found here: http://www.pracius.com/

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