Jobs: Web Developer & Information Systems Developer in Edinburgh

28 November, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Video game studio Rockstar North in Edinburgh have the following opening right now:

Web Developer

Rockstar North are seeking an experienced and talented Web Developer to join our Rockstar Games Social Club team. The role is primarily front-end focused but back-end knowledge and experience is required. The successful applicant will have very strong front-end skills, great attention to detail and possess excellent team-working and communication skills.

Required

  • Extensive experience developing web apps with Javascript & jQuery
  • Very strong CSS and HTML skills
  • C# experience
  • Excellent communication & team working skills
  • Ability to work in a pressurised environment and to meet agreed deadlines

Desired

  • ASP.NET MVC experience
  • Experience with facebook connect & facebook apps
  • SEO experience

For more information and to apply, see https://www.rockstargames.com/jobs/position/cbc4464713b4ae127114acb0008cf549/rockstar-north

 

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Job: Python/Django in Edinburgh

18 November, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Mercurytide sent this in to us

Mercurytide is looking for “Awesome Developers”

We’re looking for 2 outstanding developers to join our team.

You need to be an expert in preferably Python and Django (however if you have PHP, RoR or a similar programming language and have an eagerness to learn we would be delighted to talk to you). You need to have a good understanding and experience in developing for the web.

About you:

  • You would be embarrassed to do a “half-hearted” job
  • You’re constantly looking for new and better ways to do things
  • You’re always learning new tools and technologies to improve yourself
  • You’re good at communicating
  • You have a good understanding of browser capabilities and have shared our pain in supporting IE6 over the years
  • You know your 403s from your 301s and your PUTs from your POSTs
  • You take personal pride in your work

What you’ll be doing:

  • Writing well-designed, efficient and maintainable Python code
  • Building user-friendly sites and systems that make use of modern web technologies (e.g. HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, AJAX)
  • Designing technical solutions to fulfil client requirements in innovative yet practical ways
  • Working with a smart, supportive team
  • Working in an environment where your opinion matters and where your ideas and recommendations can make a difference

Other stuff:

  • We like a laugh, but we’re also very serious about getting our work done, and getting results.
  • We’d like someone able to get to Edinburgh or willing to relocate.

What to do now:

If it sounds like this might be a good match, please send us an email with your CV, along with a description of your experience building online “stuff” to careers@mercurytide.co.uk.

Salary is £20-£30K depending on experience and ability.

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Job: Mobile Developer in Edinburgh

13 September, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Storm ID LogoOur friends over at Storm ID are recruiting a Mobile Developer.

Storm ID is a top digital agency with a dedicated mobile team.

We’re seeing huge growth in mobile opportunities on the back of our bespoke web and social apps.

We’re looking for a full-time native iOS and Android developer with the skill and experience to play a key role in our ambitious mobile team.

Fancy it?

LET’S DO THIS »

The full job ad is available at http://bit.ly/StormMobileJob and specific requirements can be found on Storm ID’s blog at http://blog.stormid.com/2011/09/were-hiring-full-time-mobile-developer.html

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Event: “Functional Alchemy” and “CoffeeScript 101″

6 September, 2011 by Leave a Comment

Scottish Developers are pleased to present two talks by Mark Rendle on Tuesday 11th October 2011 in Edinburgh.

Mark is currently employed as Principal Software Architect by Dot Net Solutions Ltd, creating all manner of software on the Microsoft stack, including ASP.NET MVC, Windows Azure, WPF and Silverlight. He is a Windows Azure Development MVP.

Mark’s career in software design and development spans three decades and more programming languages than he can remember. C# has been his favourite language pretty much since the first public beta, when you had to write the code in a text editor and compile it on the command line. Those were the days. You kids today, with your IntelliSense and your ReSharpers, don’t know you’re born…

Things vying for Mark’s attention lately include functional programming, internet-centric applications, the Azure cloud platform and NoSQL data stores.

Register for Functional Alchemy and CoffeeScript 101 in Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City Of on Eventbrite

Functional Alchemy: Tricks to keep your C# DRY*

C# 3.0 and LINQ have made anonymous delegates and closures a hot topic. C# 4.0 improves on them. But these “functional” features have applications beyond messing about with IEnumerable. In this session I’ll present 10 simple and not-so-simple uses of first-class functions to help cut down on repeated code and improve maintainability; hopefully you’ll discover a new and exciting way of approaching coding problems.
The main thrust of it is that F# is cool and groovy but there’s a lot of mileage in functional-style programming in C#, which people are using every day, so let’s look at some cool examples there.

*Awarded “Top Speaker by Knowledge of Subject” at DDD South West 2010.

CoffeeScript 101

Hidden deep within JavaScript, there is an elegant, powerful and clean language waiting to be discovered. This subset of the language was documented by Douglas Crockford in JavaScript: The Good Parts. Now, that subset is accessible through the CoffeeScript language. It’s like Python and Ruby spent a wonderful night together and spawned a beautiful baby scripting language that is succinct, expressive and compiles to The Good Parts.

Modules, classes, lambdas and more are supported, and you can interact with your existing JavaScript code, as well as all the diverse, wonderful libraries that are out there jQuery.
This session will cover the basics of the language, and interoperability with existing libraries. I’ll also show you how to integrate CoffeeScript into your development process, with Visual Studio and other tooling as well as runtime compilation for on-the-fly changes.

Location

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

Agenda

18.30 – Doors open
18.55 – Welcome
19.00 – CoffeeScript 101
19.55 – Break
20.05 – Functional Alchemy: Tricks to Keep Your C# DRY
21.00 – Close

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Job: .NET Developer in Edinburgh

1 September, 2011 by Leave a Comment

We have received some information from Games Analytics who are looking for a .NET developer to join the ranks. The job is based in Edinburgh:

We are looking for an experienced .Net developer with good experience of MySQL and web development.

The project is to bring a web application from MS SQL to MYSQL, implement a new database architecture in collaboration with our DBA and extend the application with new functionality.

The developer should have experience in web application development ideally with large data sets. The application is part of our analytics suite so an understanding of analytics is useful but not required.

The project is expected to take 40 days, with follow on work as new functionality is added on a project by project basis.

For more information or to apply, please contact Chris Wright <chris.wright@gamesanalytics.com>

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Event: A Developer’s Morning with Microsoft

18 August, 2011 by 2 Comments

Microsoft

Friday, 9th September 10am – 1pm at Microsoft’s Edinburgh Offices

Scottish Developers in partnership with Microsoft bring you a morning of developer-focused content. The event will include a session on Windows Azure and a session on the user experience of Visual Studio (including a sneak peak at vNext!)

Microsoft’s UK Managing Director Gordon Frazer is also in town and will be delivering a keynote.

Register for A Developer's Morning with Microsoft in Edinburgh, Edinburgh City on Eventbrite

Agenda

09.30 – Doors Open & Registration
10.00 – Keynote by Godron Frazer
10.20 – Windows Azure with Steve Plank
11.20 – Break
11.30 – What are those guys at Visual Studio thinking about? (Steven Clarke)
12.30 – Q&A
13.00 – Closing

Venue

Microsoft (Edinburgh Office)
Conan Doyle
4th Floor Waverley Gate
2-4 Waterloo Place
EH1 3EG
Edinburgh

See: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/about/offices/edinburgh.aspx

Windows Azure

Steve Plank

This session will explain the mystery and mystique behind some of the common cloud computing terms – private cloud, public cloud, IaaS, PaaS. It will contrast the way an on-premise development project is deployed compared to a cloud-based project. You’ll understand the over-arching Windows Azure Platform and then we’ll dive in to each component – Windows Azure Compute (including Storage), SQL Azure and Windows Azure App Fab. There will be demos of how to create simple apps and deploy them as live internet-accessible services. The talk will also show how to integrate applications in to the online enterprise environment. Also, for the consumer-focused developer there will be a section on how to easily consume facebook, google and live-id users in to Windows Azure applications.

Bio

Steve Plank or “Planky” as he is more usually known works in the UK as a Cloud Evangelist. He writes, presents and blogs on Microsoft cloud technologies for the developer, IT Pro and business audiences. You can usually catch him at his blog or at events such as TechEd, Gartner, RSA and so on. He also has an active interest in security and digital identity and wherever the worlds of cloud, identity and security collide you are sure to find him enthusing. He’s an old-timer at Microsoft, having been around since ‘93 when the first version of Windows NT was released.

What are those guys at Visual Studio thinking about?

Steven Clarke

Have you ever wondered why Visual Studio is the way it is? Ever been curious to see a little bit behind the scenes and see how Visual Studio is designed? Or do you just want a sneak peek at some of the new features that will be part of the next release of Visual Studio?

In this talk I’ll describe the work that my team, the Visual Studio User Experience team does. I’ll show you how we gather feedback from developers and how we use that feedback to identify and design new features and experiences for Visual Studio. In the process I’ll show you some of the new features that we’re working on for the next release of Visual Studio – and I’ll be asking for your feedback, so that we can make it even better.

Bio

Steven is a User Experience Researcher on the Visual Studio team in Redmond, USA. He works on understanding how to improve the experience that developers have with the programming languages, frameworks and tools they use every day. He’s been with the team since November 1999. Prior to joining Microsoft, Steven was a developer at Motorola in East Kilbride.

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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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