Junior .NET Developer – Edinburgh

19 May, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Got a tip-off earlier today about a job going at Company Net in the west of Edinburgh. Here are the details:

Junior .NET Developer

We are currently looking for a Junior .NET Developer to join our team of experienced Developers. This is an excellent opportunity for someone to build their software development career and gain skills using leading-edge technology.

This role will involve working with applications using a range of different Microsoft based solutions. You will be part of a highly experienced team of developers who will provide support in the form of coaching and mentoring which will be key to your development. You will be involved in projects across different market sectors utilising a variety of technical skills.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic to learn, have good communication skills, be able to work well as part of a team or on their own, and be confident to move into a future client facing role. Commercial development experience is not essential as candidates who prove to be willing and determined will also be considered and all the training required will be given for the right candidate.

On a technical front you will ideally have a good knowledge in the following:

  • .NET framework v 2.0 – 3.5 (doesn’t need to be commercial but would be of benefit)
  • C#, ASP.NET
  • SQL Server 2005 and/or 2008
  • Any exposure to SharePoint (2007 or 2010) or Dynamics
  • JavaScript

This role will be based in our offices at Riccarton, Edinburgh however travel to client sites around the UK may be required as appropriate.

If you would like to be considered for this role, please send your CV along with a covering letter to Amie Stevense at careers@company-net.com

Absolutely no agency applications will be accepted for this role.

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Job: C# developer in Glasgow

17 May, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Just got wind of this job in Glasgow at Restaurant Diary:

£35,000 – £40,000 depending on experience

Restaurant Diary (global, software as a service restaurant reservation solution / web application) with recent major investment from the fastest growing company on the web is looking for an experienced .Net developer to be based in Glasgow, UK, helping to develop further our world class Reservation and table management software for restaurants.

Essential Skills

  • C#
  • ASP.NET
  • SQL Server 2005/2008
  • HTML, Javascript, jQuery, CSS (experience of and desire to work with HTML5 would be a definite advantage)
  • Subversion
  • Visual Studio 2010

Desirable Skills

  • WCF Web Services
  • Some Mobile Development Experience

Please let us know your salary expectations

You can apply on their site by filling in this form.

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Glasgow Book Club – July Results

15 May, 2011 by 2 Comments

At the request of the attendees of the last book club meeting we’ve used AV (the Alternative Vote) as a mechanism for the votes. The results are as follows:

 

Round 1

Book Votes
"Mythical Man Month and other Essays" by Fred Brooks 2
"Agile Estimating and Planning" by Mike Cohn 1
"Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction" by Steve McConnell 1
"About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design" by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, and David Cronin 1
"Refactoring" Martin Fowler 1
"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler 0
"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers 3

50% of votes are needed to win, or all the competition needs to be eliminated. Since no book reached the required 5 votes. The lowest scoring book ("Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler) is eliminated and its second preference is used. Since the lowest scoring book got zero votes there is nothing to reattribute. So, the next lowest books (joint 1 vote each) are used instead.

Round 2

Book Previous Votes Alt
Votes		 Total
"Mythical Man Month and other Essays" by Fred Brooks 2 1 3
"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers 3 2 5
"Agile Estimating and Planning" by Mike Cohn 1 X X
"Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction" by Steve McConnell 1 X X
"About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design" by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, and David Cronin 1 X X
"Refactoring" Martin Fowler 1 X X
"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler 0 X X

In this round only two books were left remaining. 3 votes were redistributed, 1 vote was discarded as no alternative was given that hadn’t already been eliminated.

Final Result

"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers wins with 55% of the votes.

You can buy it from Amazon:

The book club meeting will be in Waxy O’Connor’s on 19th July 2011. You can register here.

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DDD Scotland Session Follow Up

9 May, 2011 by 2 Comments

Here are the sessions from DDD Scotland 2011 and links off to the various speakers’ presentations or follow up blog posts.

Track A

  • Creating your Own Software Company: A Survival Guide (Kendall Miller)
    Blog post containing follow up and slide deck.
  • Asymptotics and Algorithms – What You’ve Forgotten Since University (Gary Short)
  • Making Crap Code Better – Real world Coding Standards (Phil Winstanley)
  • Is your code S.O.L.I.D ? (Nathan Gloyn)
  • Functional Alchemy: Tricks to keep your C# DRY (Mark Rendle)

Track B

Track C

  • Introduction to Android Development using Monodroid (Chris Canal)
  • Building seriously scalable websites with ASP.NET with and without Windows (Chris Hay)
  • Don’t Make Me Wait – Faster Websites 101 (Duncan McDougall)
  • Real World SLUT (Silverlight Unit Testing) (Daniel May)
  • Produce Cleaner Code with Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) (Gael Fraiteur)

Track D

Track E

  • CQRS and Friends: Possibly distributed systems, intentionally. (Andrea Magnorsky)
    Slide Deck.
  • Caliburn.Micro: Painless MVVM apps for Silverlight and WPF (Barry Carr)
  • Behavioural Driven Development (BDD) with F# (Phillip Trelford)
    Blog post giving slide deck, code examples and event overview.
  • Building composite applications with Open frameworks (Sebastien Lambla)
  • Rewriting software is the single worst mistake you can make – apparently. (Phil Collins)

Track F

  • Professional Development (Open Discussion)
    Mind Map.
  • Agile Is Dead (Open Discussion)
    Mind Map (scroll down past Professional Development).
  • How to manage your manager (Mark Rendle)
  • Beyond Hackdays/Weekends: Finding Problems To Solve (Glen Mehn)
  • Ask The Speakers (Panel Discussion)

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DevExpress Sponsor DDD Scotland 2011

5 May, 2011 by Leave a Comment

We would like to thank DevExpress for their support as a sponsor for DDD Scotland 2011

DX_Logo_250We are lucky to have a string of great opportunities for UK developers to meet and share their experiences through the DDD events, and DDD Scotland is no exception.

The team at DevExpress hopes that the caffeinated refreshments will help to keep you on tip-top form and get the most out of your day.

Save time and money with high quality pre-built components for ASP.NET, WinForms, WPF and Silverlight as well as Business Application Frameworks and our award-winning Visual Studio plug-in, CodeRush. Our technologies help you build your best, see complex software with greater clarity, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows and Web in the shortest possible time.

Learn more at www.devexpress.com.

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DDD Scotland 2011 – Alternative Track

5 May, 2011 by Leave a Comment

DDD Scotland This year, DDD Scotland has more rooms available and that has allowed us a larger number of delegates through the doors and of course more sessions. We spent a bit of time thinking about what we wanted to do with the 6th and final room. We could have packed in even more stand-alone sessions but we figured, you have so many of them to choose from, why not do something different?

The “Alt” track is a collection of sessions that offer something different which focus on interaction between delegates, sharing of ideas and experiences and a chance to find answers to questions the other sessions just don’t cover. In other words, Track F is proud to be different!

The now complete agenda can be found at
http://www.developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/scotland2011/Schedule.aspx

The agenda for “Alt” Track F is as follows

9:30: Professional Development
(Open Discussion)

An open discussion about how developers can be professional inside the constraints of management or environment. Examples of questions for this discussion could be

  • What obstacles do developers feel they face in regards to adoption of technologies and techniques?
  • How have these been overcome?
  • How can productivity and morale be improved or maintained?

10:40: Agile is Dead
(Open Discussion)

Based on a discussion at QCon around the 10th anniversary of Agile and whether or not “Agile” actually means anything anymore. This discussion opens the floor to delegates to chat about the current state of Agile in software development.

12:00: How To Manage Your Manager
(Mark Rendle)

Developers and managers generally don’t understand each other. Developers know the arcane languages of machines and are motivated by inexplicable forces. Managers seem to spend half their time in meetings and the other half emailing each other Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. The result is that both sides end up frustrated, feeling that the other is stopping them from doing their job to the best of their ability.

  • In this talk, Mark will share some of the things he has learned in 20 years of being managed, including:
  • How to get the PC you want, with the two big monitors and a decent CPU.
  • Also, how to get extra software, training, and even sent to conferences.
  • How to adopt best practices, like TDD, pairing and daily stand-ups even though your manager doesn’t know what they are, and probably doesn’t care.
  • How to earn the respect of people who seem to actively like wearing suits.
  • Maybe, possibly, how to respect them just a little bit.

14:30: Beyond Hackdays/Weekends: Finding Problems To Solve
(Glen Mehn)

Social Innovation camp is a Launchpad and Accelerator for web- and mobile-based social ventures. In this interactive session, we’ll talk a little bit about how Social Innovation Camps work, and work through one of our “itch workshops”, which is a slightly different & useful way to think about problems and iterate towards solutions.

15:40: Ask The Speakers
(Panel Discussion)

A panel of speakers will be taking questions from delegates on any software development related subject that happens to be up for discussion.

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Microsoft Sponsors DDD Scotland 2011

4 May, 2011 by Leave a Comment

We would like to thank Microsoft for their support by sponsoring DDD Scotland 2011.

ms-logo_bLWe are really pleased to be sponsoring such a prestigious event.  Each year, DDD offers outstanding conferences across the country and this is no exception.  With an incredible session line-up, this event is set to be a great success! We’ll certainly be keeping our eyes glued to the #dddscot updates throughout the day. 

Hope everyone has a great day! 

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Gibraltar Software Sponsor DDD Scotland

2 May, 2011 by Leave a Comment

We would like to thank Gibraltar Software for sponsoring DDD Scotland.

Square-LogoGibraltar Software provides tools to help smart developers build rock-solid .NET software.

Gibraltar, our flagship product, provides advanced error reporting, logging and application monitoring for .NET web apps, desktop apps and services. With Gibraltar, you can make reality-based decisions about what bugs are impacting your users, which features are most important, and where bottle-necks are impacting user experience.

VistaDB is database of choice for an easy-to-deploy SQL Server-compatible database engine. The engine is a single 1 MB assembly you can xcopy deploy that provides x86 and x64 compatibility with T-SQL, ADO.NET and Entity Framework including Visual Studio integration.

We’re very proud to be a DDD Scotland sponsor and looking forward to this event. Please check out Kendall Miller’s talk on Creating your Own Software Company (a Survival Guide) to meet one of our founders.

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