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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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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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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Edinburgh Book Club September Meeting

26 April, 2011 by Leave a comment

We are re-attempting to get the Edinburgh book club going. We plan to have the meeting in September to give everyone who is interested a chance to vote on the book they want and read the book first.

The choices are:

Which book would you like to read? Click here to take the survey.

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