DunDDD – Bringing a DDD Conference to Dundee!

8 November, 2011 by Leave a comment

DDD ScotlandThe Developer! Developer! Developer! series of conferences has gone from strength to strength. This year saw DDD North added to the lineup to join Belfast, South West and of course Scotland as regional events taking place through out the year after DDD 9 in January.

Scottish Developers have teamed up with the people who brought you the NoSQL Autumn Conference last year and are proud to be bringing another DDD north of the border, to Dundee!

DunDDD is a 3-track, 15-session FREE conference that will take place on Saturday 19th November 2011 at the Queen Mother Building in the University of Dundee. There is an entire track dedicated to NoSQL and Big Data, a track deddicated to The Web and Web Technologies and a general track that isn’t based (too heavily) on any single platform, language or framework.

This is a fantastic opportunity to network with local developers from all across Scotland, learn some new tricks or even revisit some old ones. Spaces are limited so get registered before you miss out!

http://dundee.dddscotland.co.uk

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Developer Day Scotland 2011 – Call For Speakers Open

5 January, 2011 by Leave a comment

DDD Scotland LogoHot on the heels of the record-breaking sell-out of DDD 9 in 12 minutes yesterday (congratulations to the DDD 9 team!), we are pleased to announce that session submission for DDD Scotland 2011 is now officially open! You have until the 6th of February to submit as many sessions as you wish however they MUST be within the scope of Software Development.

You can submit sessions via the DDD website at
http://www.developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/scotland2011/Default.aspx

For those of you unfamiliar with DDD events, check out our earlier post.

 

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Developer Day Scotland 2011 – Date Announced

23 November, 2010 by 2 Comments

DDD Scotland Logo

Building on the success of Developer Developer Developer Day 2010, we are currently in the process of organising next year’s event and are pleased to announce that DDD Scotland 2011 will be held on Saturday 7th May 2011 at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Developer Developer Developer events are founded on a number of principles which we think makes it unique and well worth a single day of your time once a year.

DDD events are free. It doesn’t cost you anything to attend. Think of any large conference that you might like to go along to. They costs hundreds of pounds, if not more. Sure, we might not have all the bells and whistles of a big fancy conference, but at the end of the day what do you want out of an event like that? Do you want the glitz and schmaltz or do you want to learn something new?

Speakers from the community. We invite people that have something to say, a story to tell, or an experience to learn from. This year we had 65 session submissions from all sorts of folks and on all sorts of subjects. The majority of these people are real day-to-day software developers or DBAs that actually work for a living.

DDD events are democratic. All the sessions are voted in by the community, so we only put on what people have asked to see. This year the 65 sessions were whittled down to 20. We had sessions ranging from ASP.NET MVC to MonoTouch, from Defensive Programming to HTML5 and from concurrency to behaviour driven development delivered by both community new comers and veterans alike.

No Marketing BS. The core philosophy for the sessions are that they contain useful information. Stuff that you can either take back and start using the next day or (if not yet available) to start planning how to move to that technology.

To paraphrase the Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, Developer Day Scotland is of the developer community, by the developer community and for the developer community.

(Ok, so many of those words were written by my predecessor, Colin Mackay, but they are still true)

Call for Speakers

We will be opening the call for speakers shortly

Call for Sponsors

We wont lie, running a free community event like DDD Scotland isn’t a cheap thing to do and it is only through the support of our sponsors that we can make it happen. Last year one of our sponsors, Storm ID, produced the speaker t-shirts that are worn on the day and they included the Storm ID logo, those t-shirts have now been seen as far afield as Perth, Australia. If you are interested in sponsoring DDD Scotland 2011 and would like more information, please contact us: support [at] scottishdevelopers dot com.

You can get updates on Twitter by following @scottishdevs and @dddscot

The official DDD Scotland website will be live shortly and will be available from http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com

Regards,
Andy Gibson, Chairman, Scottish Developers

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DDD Scotland 2010 – Session Resources

17 May, 2010 by Leave a comment

Now that DDD Scotland 2010 is over and the dust is beginning to settle we have been receiving requests from delegates for the slides and demos for various sessions. We have brought together links to some of the session resources and we will continue to add to this list as and when we hear back from other speakers.

Niall Merrigan – Defensive Programming 101
http://www.certsandprogs.com/2010/05/post-ddd-scotland.html

Craig Nicol – HTML5: The Language of the Cloud
http://craignicol.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/html5-the-language-of-the-cloud/

Martin Hinshelwood – Scrum with Team Foundation Server 2010
http://blog.hinshelwood.com/archive/2010/05/09/scrum-with-team-foundation-server-2010-done.aspx

Liam Westley – Commercial Software Development
http://geekswithblogs.net/twickers/archive/2010/05/12/commercial-software-development–my-presentation-for-ddd-scotland-now.aspx

Paul Cowan – What ASP.NET (MVC) Developers can learn from Rails
http://thesoftwaresimpleton.blogspot.com/2010/03/rails-love-part-1-rubygem-love-story.html

Ray Booysen – Silverlight Real World Gotchas
http://edgeug.net/blogs/nondestructive/archive/2010/05/09/code-and-slides-from-ddd-scotland-2010.aspx

George Adamson – Get Going With jQuery
http://blog.softwareunity.com/2010/05/jquery-slides-and-demos-from.html

Chris Hardy – C# on the iPhone With Monotouch
http://weblogs.asp.net/chrishardy/archive/2010/05/12/developer-developer-developer-scotland-2010.aspx

Barry Wimlett – Developments in MultiCore and Concurrent programming with .net4
Slides

Guy Smith-Ferrier – Enforcing Code ‘Beauty’ With StyleCop
http://www.guysmithferrier.com/post/2010/05/DDD-Scotland-Enforcing-Code-Beauty-With-StyleCop.aspx

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Bridgeall sponsor Developer Day Scotland

11 May, 2010 by Leave a comment

Scottish Developers are pleased to announce that we have signed up Bridgeall as a sponsor for DDD Scotland 2010:

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Rapid Quality Systems sponsor Developer Day Scotland

5 May, 2010 by Leave a comment

Scottish Developers are pleased to announce that we have signed up Rapid Quality Systems as a sponsor for DDD Scotland 2010:
Rapid Quality Systems

Code Rocket is an innovative new plugin for Visual Studio and Eclipse which reveals the inner workings of C#, Java, and C/C++ code. It makes documentation a seamlessly integrated part of the software development process, plugging directly into your development IDE with minimal overheads and delivering the following benefits:
Code Rocket

  • Design and visualization support for complex algorithms and business processes;
  • Visualizing test paths in complex methods;
  • Improved visibility of the detailed stages of software development, supporting review, QA, and project management.
  • Reviewing and agreeing functionality with non-programmers, e.g. during requirements gathering with customers;
  • Automated documentation generation at the touch of a button or as part of an automated build process;
  • Works out of the box with existing code, no additional markup required.

Code Rocket automatically generates and displays flowchart diagrams and pseudocode designs inside your IDE alongside your code. The designs are fully editable and fully synchronised with the code so that changes in either are automatically detected and reflected.

Code Rocket seamlessly integrates with existing tools and processes. Write your code the way you currently do and Code Rocket works its magic behind the scenes. Get your documentation and design support when you need it, and allow others to get it when they need it too: project managers, customers, and new team members who wish to explore your code and start contributing fast.

Find out more at:
http://www.getcoderocket.com

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Scott Logic sponsor Developer Day Scotland

5 May, 2010 by Leave a comment

Scottish Developers are pleased to announce that we have signed up Scott Logic as a sponsor for DDD Scotland 2010:Scott Logic

Scott Logic provides the very best in bespoke financial software and consultancy for the investment banking, stockbroking, asset management and hedge fund communities. Our spectrum of service includes:

  • Application design and development.
  • Application enhancement and re-engineering.
  • Enterprise integration.
  • Technology and architecture consultancy.
  • Technology training.

We specialise in the following technologies on distributed platforms (Unix/Windows):

  • OO languages (C#, Java, C++)
  • Web technologies (ASP.NET, JSP, Javascript, AJAX)
  • Rich Internet Applications (Flex, Silverlight, AJAX)
  • Desktop Applications (Windows Forms, WPF, AIR)
  • Relational databases (Sybase, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL)
  • Middleware (JMS, WebSphere MQ, TIBCO Rendezvous, XML)
  • Agile Development Methodologies (SCRUM, DSDM etc)

For talented developers, Scott Logic offers a rare opportunity to work at the cutting edge of financial technology in roles seldom found outside the City of London. We have the feel of a small and friendly company, where personal contribution is valued and team work encouraged. We have a pretty flat, informal operating structure and our people enjoy a work-life balance and a level of autonomy that’s unusual in this sector.

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Aspose sponsor Developer Day Scotland

14 April, 2010 by Leave a comment

Scottish Developers are pleased to announce that we have signed up Aspose as a sponsor for DDD Scotland 2010:Aspose

Aspose is a leading vendor of .NET and Java development components as well as rendering extensions for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, JasperReports and SharePoint. The core focus of Aspose has been to offer the most complete and powerful set of file management products available on the market.

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JetBrains sponsor Developer Day Scotland

9 April, 2010 by Leave a comment

Scottish Developers are pleased to announce that we have signed up JetBrains as a sponsor for DDD Scotland 2010:

JetBrains are a Developer tools company. They are creators of award winning IDE’s such as IntelliJ as well as tools and plugins for .NET like ReSharper, dotTrace and dotCover.

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March Newsletter

4 March, 2010 by Leave a comment

Welcome

Welcome to a somewhat delayed February newsletter. In fact it is so delayed I’m just going to call it the March newsletter.

So, what’s been going on to make this as late as it is? Well, we’ve been pretty busy organising DDD Scotland 2010 (AKA Developer Day Scotland) which will be on the 8th May in Glasgow. We’ve also got Jesse Liberty coming across from the US in April, we’ll be announcing more details of that once we finalise the arrangements. We’ve also got some events in Edinburgh and Tayside.

The biggest piece of late-breaking news is that Scott Guthrie is making a visit to Glasgow. He’ll be talking about a number of new things, so new we don’t even know what they are yet. They are set to be announced at MIX in Las Vegas later this month, then the following week he’ll be in the UK. It will be an all day marathon, nay, Guathon!

As always, you can follow us on twitter @scottishdevs or if you want conference specific tweets follow @dddscot.

Regards,
Colin Mackay, Chairman.

Upcoming Events

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