Job: Kilmarnock – VB.Net, ASP.NET, MySQL

19 April, 2012 Leave a comment

Games Centre has a vacancy for a Junior Developer to work with one of the UK’s leading independent video games retailer with outlets in the West of Scotland to provide web and desktop based solutions. You will be working as part of a small team providing bespoke coding solutions in a dynamic fast paced environment.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ONLY APPLICANTS WITH AT LEAST 1 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE OF VB.NET WILL BE CONSIDERED

Junior Developer – Kilmarnock (VB.NET, ASP.NET, MySQL, Web)

The individual most possess:

At least 1 year experience of VB.Net development (desktop and web)
At least 1 year experience of ASP.NET development
At least 1 year experience of MySQL .Net development
Strong knowledge of the .Net page lifecycle
Be well-versed in Object Oriented programming concepts
Be a gifted problem solver
Must be able to work with minimal supervision and produce results on tight deadlines whilst maintaining a high level of detail
Good understanding of written and verbal English

It would be advantageous, although not necessary for the individual to possess one or more of the following:

Good level of web scripting / coding e.g. CSS, XML, Javascript, AJAX, JQuery, HTML and VBScript
Exposure to the Microsoft Office 2010 suite of applications including Microsoft Access
Exposure to working within a distributed environment
Exposure to NoSQL databases such as SQLite
Graphics or video production experience

This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic, intelligent & dedicated individual to join a growing name in the Video Games industry and to have the ability to develop their skill set using the latest in technologies.

If you have the experience and the knowledge required please email a copy of you current CV to Matthew Walton (matt@ghresourcing.com).
NO AGENCIES PLEASE

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Event: Edinburgh, 1 May – Windows 8 for Application Developers

11 April, 2012 Leave a comment

Calling all Scottish Developers!
Microsoft will be bringing Windows 8 to Edinburgh on May 1st – join the UK team for a day of developer-level, demo-driven sessions and see first-hand the opportunities for designing, developing and selling apps world-wide via the Windows Store.

Windows 8 offers unparalleled new opportunities for application developers to build and sell apps world-wide via the Windows Store. In this event, we’ll deliver developer-level, demo-driven sessions that give you an accelerated entry into what it means to design, develop and publish exciting, modern, polished, world-ready applications for next-generation devices running Windows 8.

Level of knowledge required:

1. A familiarity with .NET development and Visual Studio would be advantageous but not required.
2. We will talk about building Windows 8 applications with JavaScript and with .NET with an emphasis on the .NET technologies.

Agenda (subject to change):

0900 – 0930 Registration Opens
0930 – 1030 Windows 8 for Modern App Development
1030 – 1045 Break
1045 – 1130 Metro Design Language
1130 – 1145 Break
1145 – 1245 “Metro Style” Apps – The Power of the Device Part 1
1245 – 1330 Lunch
1330 – 1430 “Metro Style” Apps – The Power of the Device Part 2
1430 – 1445 Break
1445 – 1545 “Metro Style” Apps – The Power of the Cloud Part 1
1545 – 1600 Break
1600 – 1700 “Metro Style” Apps – The Power of the Cloud Part 2
1700 – 1730 Wrap Up and Close

Click here to register now.

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A full day with Gojko Adzic – Winning big with Specification by Example: How Successful teams deliver the right software

1 November, 2011 Leave a comment

Winning big with Specification by Example: How Successful teams deliver the right software

A BCS Professional Awareness Course

Wednesday 7th December 2011, 13:00 to 17:00.

Presenter: Gojko Adzic

Edinburgh Napier University, Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, EH10 5DT.

Cost: £120 for BCS members, £144 for others (both including VAT).

The course is one of a series of Professional Current Awareness Courses aimed at providing greater access to developing subjects for IT professionals.

Registration via the BCS on-line booking system – see “Booking” at the bottom of this page.

Course Overview

Learn how successful teams all over the world collaborate on specifications and tests in agile/lean environments to produce software genuinely fit for purpose and be inspired to improve your software development processes. This half-day seminar is for team leaders, managers and senior technical people. It presents the collective knowledge of about fifty projects, ranging from high-traffic web sites to internal back-office systems, implemented by teams as diverse as small startups to groups spread across different continents, working in a range of processes including Extreme Programming, Scrum, Kanban and similar processes often bundled together under the names Agile and Lean.

In this seminar, Gojko Adzic presents the results of the research conducted for his new book, Specification by Example. Specification by Example is a set of emerging practices in software deåvelopment that affects how teams approach specifications, development and testing. It is the corner-stone of agile testing and delivering high quality software with short iterations or in flow based systems.

You will learn:

key benefits that the teams from the research are getting from agile acceptance testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development;
key principles underlying successful process implementations: deriving scope from goals, specifying collaboratively, illustrating using examples, refining specifications, automating validation without changing specifications, validating frequently and evolving a living documentation system;
key practices to support the principles, and how teams from the research use them in different contexts, from investment banking to web development, from small collocated teams to distributed groups of teams;
how specification by example fits into kanban/scrum;
getting started – key steps to take and key things to watch out for.

About the presenter

Gojko Adzic is a strategic software delivery consultant who works with ambitious teams to improve the quality of their software products and processes. He specialises in agile and lean quality improvement, in particular agile testing, specification by example and behaviour driven development. To get in touch, write togojko@neuri.co.uk or visit http://gojko.net.

Booking

Booking is via the BCS on-line reservation system.

Cost is £120 for BCS members, £144 for others; both including VAT at 20%.

Closing date for bookings is midnight on Sunday 4th December 2011. No more bookings will be taken after this date.

For overseas delegates who wish to attend the event please note that BCS does not issue invitation letters.

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An evening with Gojko Adzic on Challenging Requirements

1 November, 2011 Leave a comment

Challenging Requirements

Wednesday 7th December 2011, 6:30 pm.

Speaker: Gojko Adzic

Room 4.31 (fourth floor), University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB -map (click on Informatics Forum in the list of buildings).

Synopsis

In this presentation, Gojko Adzic talks about common failure patterns with requirements and specifications on agile projects and talks about ideas, patterns and practices for requirements and specifications that lead to much less rework, more consistent specifications with less functional gaps and ultimately happier customers. Learn how to:

spot and avoid common failure patterns in requirements/specifications
get to the right requirements and specifications
focus projects on delivering business goals.

Registration for this event is not required, simply turn up on the night.

About the speaker

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Gill Cleeren on Windows Runtime & Metro Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone App Development

18 October, 2011 Leave a comment

Scottish Developers are pleased to present two talks by Gill Cleeren on Wednesday 23rd November 2011 in Edinburgh.

The event is free to attend, however for health and safety reasons, we request that you register via this page.

Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com), MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider. He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Passionate about .NET, he’s always playing with the newest bits. In his role as Regional Director, Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF. He also leads VISUG (www.visug.be), the largest .NET user group in Belgium. He’s the author of the upcoming book called Silverlight Data Access Cookbook. You can find his blog at www.snowball.be

Building a Windows Phone 7 app from start to finish

Have you been dreaming about browsing through the Windows Phone Marketplace and seeing your application at the top-selling list but don’t know where to start? In this session, we’ll take a look at how to build an entire Windows Phone 7 application from the very start to deployment in the marketplace. You’ll be creating your own apps minutes after you leave the room.

Windows Runtime and Metro Apps for Windows 8

At BUILD 2011, Microsoft announced Windows 8. This upcoming version of Windows is probably the biggest change the OS ever went through. Windows 8 focuses on web, apps, touch and the tablet form factor. For developers, things will change as well. They need to be ready to build applications, called Metro applications, tailored for Windows 8 or adapt their existing applications for the new OS. Together with Windows 8, Microsoft announced Windows Runtime (WinRT), a new way of working with Windows.

As you can see, that’s a lot of new stuff to get your head around! To help you, Gill Cleeren, Microsoft Regional Director and Silverlight MVP will explain you the new strategy that Microsoft is taking. In this talk, we’ll see what WinRT really is, how we can use it to build Metro applications with and how we can leverage C# and Silverlight knowledge to build Metro applications. We’ll take a look at a fully working application as well to give you a clear picture of all the knowledge you’ll gather during this hour.

By joining this session, the developer story for Windows 8 will have less secrets for you!

Location

The Corn Exchange,
35 Constitution Street,
Edinburgh,
EH6 7BS

Agenda

18.30 – Doors open
18.55 – Welcome
19.00 - Building a Windows Phone 7 app from start to finish
19.55 – Break
20.05 – Windows Runtime and Metro Apps for Windows 8
21.00 – Close

Register to attend here: http://gillcleeren2011.eventbrite.com/

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Windows Phone Camp – 12th November 2011 – Edinburgh

17 October, 2011 Leave a comment

What:
If you are a developer looking to start developing for Windows Phone, but you haven’t yet taken the plunge, this free day of training is the quickest way to find out all you need to know. You’ll get all the information you need to get up to speed with Windows Phone in a packaged and compressed form, ready for your consumption, without having to trawl through books, blogs and articles on your own. There will be experienced people available to guide you through a series of hands-on workshops and tutorials, allowing you to work at your own pace and select what is most useful for you. Once you have the basics in place, you’ll be off and running and ready to develop your own apps.

Where:
John McIntyre Conference (Microsoft Event)
Edinburgh First
Pollock Halls
18 Holyrood Park Road Edinburgh EH16 5AY
United Kingdom

When:
12 November 2011

Further Info:
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032496497&Culture=en-GB

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Windows Azure Bootcamp – 11th November 2011

17 October, 2011 Leave a comment

What:
If you are a developer looking to take advantage of cloud computing, but you haven’t yet taken the plunge, this free day of training is the quickest way to get up-to-speed with Microsoft’s offering; Windows Azure. We’ll take you from knowing nothing about the cloud to actually having written some code, deployed it to the cloud service and made a simple application available on the public Internet. You’ll get all the information you need to get up to speed with Windows Azure in a packaged and compressed form, ready for your consumption, without having to trawl through books, blogs and articles on your own. There will be experienced people available to guide you through each exercise. Once you have the basics in place, you’ll be off and running.

Where:
John McIntyre Conference (Microsoft Event)
Edinburgh First
Pollock Halls
18 Holyrood Park Road Edinburgh EH16 5AY
United Kingdom

When:
11 November 2011

Further Info:
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032496082&Culture=en-GB

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Amazon are hiring at their Development Centre in Edinburgh!

29 September, 2011 Leave a comment

Amazon are looking to fill a number of positions at their Development Centre in Edinburgh.

There are four roles available:

Senior Product Manager/Business Analyst

Senior Software Engineer

Software Development Engineer

Graduate Software Development Engineer

Amazon’s Development Centre is located here: Waverley Gate, 2 – 4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh EH1 3EG. It’s an excellent location, it’s as close to Waverley railway station as any office can be!

The on-site amenities are fantastic – we were lucky enough to have enjoyed a short tour of the facility earlier this month! It’s not all about work work work: there’s recreational space (with a pool table!), a library of books and a fully-equiped kitchen and break-out area. The office environment is relaxed and offer peace and quiet when required. There’s a huge writeable wall too – great for planning the next big thing!

If you’re looking for a new challenge and would like to your great mind to work alongside other great minds, here’s your opportunity!