Job: Glasgow – UI/Web Developer

28 June, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Xedo Software are hiring a Front-End User Interface Web Developer in Glasgow. If you are interested here are the details:

1. Technology skill set – You will be able to evaluate new tools and technologies that will aid or improve productivity. You will have used or have a working understanding of these technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, C#, .NET, ASP.NET (MVC 2 or 3 desirable, WebForms acceptable), Visual Studio 2010, Web Debugging tools such as FireBug & Fiddler.
We also use: CruiseControl.NET, NUnit, ReSharper, SQL Server, TFS, Infragistics Web Controls.

2. Creative design – Ability to create intuitive user interface when presented with a functional website. To be able to work with business users to capture technical requirements and then be able to communicate these back as functional requirements ensuring these match the business needs

3. Development – Production of code that is well structured, efficient, stable and secure, using best industry practices which allows other developers to quickly understand and follow up.

4. User Interface design (UI) – Looking at user journeys, menu navigation, graphical layout and user functionality. Therefore you will be able to assess the user’s needs and methods of using the application, map this and then be able to effectively translate this into technical requirements.

5. Issues Resolution and Tracking Management – You will monitor and oversee the level of issues raised and resolved. Implementing continuous improvement strategies to areas that keep recurring and ensuring a smooth technical support service to your clients.

To apply for this job, please send your CV detailing relevant experience to recruitment@xedosoftware.com

No agencies, please.

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Event: A Quantum of Computing with Dave McMahon [BCS Edinburgh]

22 June, 2011 by 2 Comments

UK Community speaker and SharePoint MVP Dave McMahon will be delivering a talk on Quantum Computing in Edinburgh on Wednesday 13th July.

Dave McMahon provides his own look into the far future with a brief resume of the world of Quantum Computing. Sounds too Sci-Fi? Too Fantastic? Maybe, but people are today seriously researching Quantum Computing and Quantum Computing Devices. Some companies claim to have already created them, others refute the claims, and the reasons why there is some controversy will be covered in this session. It’ll be fun, mind-blowing and you get a glimpse of what could be in store for us in the coming years and why the future of Search may be in harnessing the power of the sub-atomic and why SSL’s future prospects may not be so rosy …

Room 4.31 (fourth floor), University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB.

For more details on this event please see http://www.edinburgh.bcs.org/events/2010-11/110713.htm

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Job: Java developer in Edinburgh

21 June, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Just got this in from Psymetrix

Job Description

Job Title:  Software Developer
Job ID:  JID-006
Purpose of Job:  To contribute to the development of new and existing products working within a small specialist team
 
 
Responsibilities:
 
 designing, building and testing of world class software
 participating on technical analysis in collaboration with the technical architects and business analysts
 contributing to the maintenance of the product
 collaborate with team members to find alternative design approaches to complex technical issues
 support quality testing
 act in the best interests of Psymetrix Limited at all times
 perform such other tasks as are consistent with the position and in support of the Head of your team
 
Person Specification:
 
You should have the following skills and abilities: 
 
 graduate with degree (2:1 or above) in computing or a related discipline
 strong Java and Object Oriented design skills
 experience with Java Swing, JMS, SQL, Spring and Hibernate would be a significant advantage
 Linux/Windows environments
 networking
 capacity to follow on-the-job coaching and to get quickly productive
 quick learner and proactive in effective problem solving
 capacity to work autonomously and to take proper initiative
 good team player
 ability to organise and work under deadlines, while producing quality deliverables
 good communication skills
 minimum of 2 year’s relevant experience
 
 
 
 
Hours:  37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday
Salary:  Negotiable, based on experience
Location:  Edinburgh, UK.  (You must be eligible to live and work in the United Kingdom)
To Apply:  http://www.psymetrix.com/careers

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SQL Server User Group–Edinburgh meet up

20 June, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The SQL Server User Group will be meeting at 18:30 (for 19:00) on 29th June at Microsoft’s offices at Waverley Gate.

Agenda

18:30 – 18:50 – Introduction, Networking and Food

18:50 – 19:40 – How to get throughput of over 1GBytes per second for less than 2.5K using commodity kit – Tony Rogerson SQL MVP

In this session Tony will talk about the recent paradigm brought into play through the NoSQL movement for dealing with high performance, high scalability requirements but at a fraction of traditional costs. Tony will demonstrate a box built using commodity kit and will talk about how it may be used to good effect in a Business Intelligence setting. It will be an open discussion.

19:40 – 20:00 – Break

20:00 – 20:50 – SQL Injection Attacks (and how to prevent them) – Colin Angus Mackay

With recent reports of a man convicted of stealing the details of 130million credit cards by use of SQL Injection Attacks, isn’t it time to find out how to defend your systems against them? In this talk Colin Mackay will show you what a SQL Injection Attack is, what they look like, how they work and most importantly how to harden your application and database security in order to defend your systems against them.

Although the technologies used in this talk are SQL Server and the .NET Framework, the general ideas presented apply to any database that uses SQL as a query language, and to any framework that may interact with that database.

Colin Angus Mackay

Colin Angus Mackay is a software developer specialising in Microsoft technologies located in Glasgow, Scotland. A former Microsoft MVP (C#) for four years running, the Treasurer of Scottish Developers, Code Project MVP for five years running, and has co-organised four DDD Scotland events. While not involved in software related pursuits is an amateur photographer (which generally involves wondering why his camera’s autofocus mechanism chooses the potted plant off to the side rather than the main subject).

20:50 – 21:00 – Close

To register for this event visit: http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/262/Scottish-Area-User-Group-Meeting-June.aspx

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Refresh Edinburgh July – Pre-Highland Fling Social

17 June, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The Refresh guys will be hosting a pre-Highand Fling social evening on Thursday 7th July at the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh.

Refresh Edinburgh is a community of web developers and designers interested in cutting-edge web technologies. We want to gather great minds, share our knowledge, promote local talent, and be more than we think we can be. We also want to drink and talk geek.

The night before the Highland Fling conference, Refresh Edinburgh are having a get together. The event is graciously sponsored by Storm ID and will feature drinks, free whisky tasting and some chat with like minded web folk.

This event is open to Fling attendees and Edinburgh residents alike.

Tickets are free but limited. We’re putting them online in batches to give everyone a chance to get one.

First batch online at 12pm Friday 17th June
Second batch online at 10am Wed 22nd June
Third batch TBC

To register for the event head over to http://refreshedi-jul11.eventbrite.com

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The Highland Fling Conference – Web Standards In Scotland

16 June, 2011 by Leave a Comment

The Highland FlingBack for it’s 3rd instalment The Highland Fling brings top speakers in the world of Web Standards right to your doorstep and is back again this year in Edinburgh on July 7th.

Modern web design has become a complex beast with many different facets. We’re on the cusp of a revolution with specific areas of the HTML5 spec / CSS3 gaining traction and browsers reaching common ground on how to display the sites that we build.

How do do you tame the beast and set a good baseline from which you can build amazing web sites and applications?

The Highland Fling 2011 will not only give you practical advice on how to do this, it will show you how a back to basics approach will help elevate your game to new levels.

Tickets are £155 each and speakers include Steve Marshall, Jack Osborne, Mike Rundle, Remy Sharp, Rachel Andrew, James Edwards and the host for the day Christian Heilmann.

For more details and tickets see: http://thehighlandfling.com/

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Social Innovation Camp comes to Scotland this weekend

15 June, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Social Innovation Camp LogoOne of the sessions on the Alternative track at DDD Scotland this year was from Glen Mehn and he spoke about Social Innovation Camp which will be invading the nation’s capital this coming weekend (June 17th – 19th).

From 7pm, Friday 17th June to 4pm, Sunday 29th June 2011, at the Informatics Ventures Forum in Edinburgh, we’re bringing together some of the best of the UK’s software developers and designers with those at the sharp end of social problems.

They’ll have just 48 hours to build web-based solutions to a set of social problems – from back-of-the-envelope idea to working prototype, complete with software.

One of the ideas we’ll be helping to develop over the weekend will be a project called Volunteer Impact – inspired by the happiness-tracking app, Mappiness, this is a tool for volunteers to self-measure the impact volunteering has on their personal well-being.

If you’re interested, sign up here: http://www.sicamp.org/si-camp-uk/scotland-2011/weekend-sign-up/

It is shaping up to be a cracking event so if you are interested and have the time to spare, get yourself signed up!

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Event: Mining the Social Web with Gary Short

14 June, 2011 by 1 Comment

Gary Short will be joining us in Glasgow this month to talk about Mining The Social Web.

Register for Mining the Social Web with Gary Short in Glasgow, United Kingdom on Eventbrite

The Talk

With so much customer interaction happening on social web sites right now, companies need to know what kind of information they can extract from them. In this presentation, I’ll show you how to find out such information as: where you customers are, what they want, what they think of your products and who are the influencers in the network.

This session is packed with code samples and will be both fun and useful for anyone who works at a company who already make use of, or who are thinking of making use of, social media as a marketing platform.

The Speaker

Gary Short works for Developer Express as the Technical Evangelist on the frameworks team. He has a deep interest in technical architecture, along with social media, especially on the data mining and analytics side. Gary is a C# MVP and gives presentations at user groups and conferences throughout the UK, Europe and the US.

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

18:30 Doors Open
19:00 Welcome
19:10 Talk
20:50 Feedback & Wrap-up
21:00 Retire to the Pub

Register for Mining the Social Web with Gary Short in Glasgow, United Kingdom on Eventbrite

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Jobs: Edinburgh with ESRI UK

2 June, 2011 by Leave a Comment

ESRI UK have let us know that they are looking for various people in their Edinburgh office at the moment. Here are the details:

Software Developers

We are looking to recruit Software Developers to expand a development team producing core software products. The Software Developer role is responsible for creating and maintaining the source code of a software product, and also contributes to the design and direction of future releases. This is an excellent opportunity for enthusiastic and resourceful individuals with strong programming skills.

The successful applicant will have:

  • B.Sc., M.Sc. or Ph.D. degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, GIS, or a related field
  • Strong experience developing with either:
    • JavaScript and online cloud platforms, or
    • .Net languages, especially with the Microsoft Azure platform.

A range of the following skills and experience may also be beneficial to both roles:

  • Enjoys working as part of a team
  • Knowledge of XML, HTML, REST
  • Experience using database technologies, Oracle or SQL Server, in particular with ArcSDE

In addition, experience with GIS systems, particularly Esri products, is an advantage.

Product Engineers

We are looking to recruit Product Engineers to expand a development team producing core software products. The Product Engineer role is responsible for ensuring the external view of software products, through both the user interface and also programming APIs, is stable, usable, and clearly documented. Product Engineers also contribute to future software product direction by gathering user requirements, researching new technologies and concepts, and designing user experiences and interfaces.

We have 2 Product Engineer roles, as below. Both roles require experience of either JavaScript, or of Microsoft Silverlight and Azure technologies.

Product Engineer – Test:

The responsibilities of this role include:

  • Testing software with component tests and ad-hoc tests
  • Troubleshooting issues, tracking bugs and enhancements
  • Interacting with users to gather feedback and answer questions through forums, email and conferences

The successful applicant will have:

  • Knowledge of industry standard testing methodologies
  • Experience using test suites (NUnit, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System)

Product Engineer – User Experience:

The responsibilities of this role include:

  • Providing input to the design of new products and developer APIs
  • Writing documentation to describe user workflows, and creating sample applications and demonstrations
  • Communicating product functionality through presentations

The successful applicant will have:

  • Experience of user interface and user experience design
  • Solid writing and presentation skills

A range of the following skills and experience may also be beneficial to both roles:

  • B.Sc. or higher degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, GIS, or a related field
  • Enjoys working as part of a team
  • VB.Net or C# programming experience
  • Knowledge of XML, HTML, REST
  • Experience using database technologies, Oracle or SQL Server, in particular with ArcSDE

In addition, experience with GIS systems, particularly Esri products, is an advantage.

All roles are based in Edinburgh, although potential exists for the roles to be alternatively based in other Esri UK office locations.

Applications should be marked ‘Private and confidential’ and submitted to:
HR Department (Email: hrteam@esriuk.com).
ESRI (UK) Ltd, Millennium House, 65 Walton Street, Aylesbury HP21 7QG
Telephone: 01296 745 500
 
Please quote reference number PS001 for the software development position, quote PS002 for the product engineer positions.
 
Closing date for applications: 10th June 2011

No Agencies please.

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