ASP.NET Web Developer in Glasgow

17 November, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This just in from Barrhead Travel:

ASP.NET Web Developer

Job Location: Glasgow City Centre

Web department in a large travel agency require a Web Developer to join the team.

The position will require the successful candidate to assist developing and maintain the existing portfolio of Websites. The role requires candidates with a good all round skill set of both front and back end development.

Essential Skills: ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL Server 2000/2008, Jquery, XML, xHTML and CSS.
An excellent opportunity to get involved with the complete end to end operation and development of several busy ecommerce websites in a fast paced environment. A background working in travel would be advantageous but not essential.

Competitive Salary DOE

Steven Curran
Head of Ecommerce
Barrhead Travel Service Ltd
Email: Steven.Curran@barrheadtravel.com
Tel: (0141) 242 1367 Ext: 3212

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Upcoming Glasgow Events

5 September, 2011 by Leave a Comment

First up in October is Zen and the Art of Software & How to Manage your Manager:

Zen and the Art of Software

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a book about Quality; what it is, where it exists, and how we may try to attain it. In this talk, I will use passages from the book to introduce ideas on how we, as software developers, might try to improve the Quality both of the software we create and of ourselves. I’ll talk about what “Quality” means in the context of software, how to measure it, and the importance of close interaction with users at all stages of software development.

How to Manage Your Manager

Developers and managers generally don’t understand each other. Developers know the arcane languages of machines and are motivated by inexplicable forces. Managers seem to spend half their time in meetings and the other half emailing each other Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. The result is that both sides end up frustrated, feeling that the other is stopping them from doing their job to the best of their ability.

In this talk, I will share some of the things I’ve learned in 20 years of being managed, including:

  • How to get the PC you want, with the two big monitors and a decent CPU.
  • Also, how to get extra software, training, and even sent to conferences.
  • How to adopt best practices, like TDD, pairing and daily stand-ups even though your manager doesn’t know what they are, and probably doesn’t care.
  • How to earn the respect of people who seem to actively like wearing suits.
  • Maybe, possibly, how to respect them just a little bit.

Then in November is “The Happy Developer” – Is it a Myth?

“The Happy Developer” – Is it a Myth?

It’s a great time to be a developer right now don’t you think? Even in all of the economic chaos we still have it pretty good so what reason would any of us have to not be happy in our jobs?

The answer, as it turns out, is quite a lot. We have had our rants about poor management choices, the lack of proper code reviews, having to work with outdated/inappropriate technology, processes and methodologies, demands and pressure from those above us and we put up with it because at the end of the day, it pays the bills.

In this session I will explore with you the pitfalls of being a developer in these difficult times and with the help of some case studies and good old-fashioned reasoning, give suggestions on how these frustrations can be addressed.

If you are stressing out over a problem in your job, bring it with you, this is built entirely on experience from developers who have been there.

Audience participation is encouraged and this session is not technology or platform specific.

Click on the links above for more information and to register for each event. All the above events are technology and platform neutral.

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Event: Mining the Social Web with Gary Short (Edinburgh)

7 July, 2011 by Leave a Comment

For those who missed Gary’s talk in Glasgow last month we have arranged for him to speak in Edinburgh in August.

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 at Storm ID, The Corn Exchange, 35 Constitution Street, Edinburgh, EH6 7BS

After the meeting there is the option of retiring to a local pub to continue the evening

The Agenda

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

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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

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Glasgow Book Club – July Results

15 May, 2011 by 2 Comments

At the request of the attendees of the last book club meeting we’ve used AV (the Alternative Vote) as a mechanism for the votes. The results are as follows:

 

Round 1

Book Votes
"Mythical Man Month and other Essays" by Fred Brooks 2
"Agile Estimating and Planning" by Mike Cohn 1
"Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction" by Steve McConnell 1
"About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design" by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, and David Cronin 1
"Refactoring" Martin Fowler 1
"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler 0
"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers 3

50% of votes are needed to win, or all the competition needs to be eliminated. Since no book reached the required 5 votes. The lowest scoring book ("Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler) is eliminated and its second preference is used. Since the lowest scoring book got zero votes there is nothing to reattribute. So, the next lowest books (joint 1 vote each) are used instead.

Round 2

Book Previous Votes Alt
Votes		 Total
"Mythical Man Month and other Essays" by Fred Brooks 2 1 3
"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers 3 2 5
"Agile Estimating and Planning" by Mike Cohn 1 X X
"Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction" by Steve McConnell 1 X X
"About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design" by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, and David Cronin 1 X X
"Refactoring" Martin Fowler 1 X X
"Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" by Martin Fowler 0 X X

In this round only two books were left remaining. 3 votes were redistributed, 1 vote was discarded as no alternative was given that hadn’t already been eliminated.

Final Result

"Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers wins with 55% of the votes.

You can buy it from Amazon:

The book club meeting will be in Waxy O’Connor’s on 19th July 2011. You can register here.

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DDD Scotland 2011 – Alternative Track

5 May, 2011 by Leave a Comment

DDD Scotland This year, DDD Scotland has more rooms available and that has allowed us a larger number of delegates through the doors and of course more sessions. We spent a bit of time thinking about what we wanted to do with the 6th and final room. We could have packed in even more stand-alone sessions but we figured, you have so many of them to choose from, why not do something different?

The “Alt” track is a collection of sessions that offer something different which focus on interaction between delegates, sharing of ideas and experiences and a chance to find answers to questions the other sessions just don’t cover. In other words, Track F is proud to be different!

The now complete agenda can be found at
http://www.developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/scotland2011/Schedule.aspx

The agenda for “Alt” Track F is as follows

9:30: Professional Development
(Open Discussion)

An open discussion about how developers can be professional inside the constraints of management or environment. Examples of questions for this discussion could be

  • What obstacles do developers feel they face in regards to adoption of technologies and techniques?
  • How have these been overcome?
  • How can productivity and morale be improved or maintained?

10:40: Agile is Dead
(Open Discussion)

Based on a discussion at QCon around the 10th anniversary of Agile and whether or not “Agile” actually means anything anymore. This discussion opens the floor to delegates to chat about the current state of Agile in software development.

12:00: How To Manage Your Manager
(Mark Rendle)

Developers and managers generally don’t understand each other. Developers know the arcane languages of machines and are motivated by inexplicable forces. Managers seem to spend half their time in meetings and the other half emailing each other Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. The result is that both sides end up frustrated, feeling that the other is stopping them from doing their job to the best of their ability.

  • In this talk, Mark will share some of the things he has learned in 20 years of being managed, including:
  • How to get the PC you want, with the two big monitors and a decent CPU.
  • Also, how to get extra software, training, and even sent to conferences.
  • How to adopt best practices, like TDD, pairing and daily stand-ups even though your manager doesn’t know what they are, and probably doesn’t care.
  • How to earn the respect of people who seem to actively like wearing suits.
  • Maybe, possibly, how to respect them just a little bit.

14:30: Beyond Hackdays/Weekends: Finding Problems To Solve
(Glen Mehn)

Social Innovation camp is a Launchpad and Accelerator for web- and mobile-based social ventures. In this interactive session, we’ll talk a little bit about how Social Innovation Camps work, and work through one of our “itch workshops”, which is a slightly different & useful way to think about problems and iterate towards solutions.

15:40: Ask The Speakers
(Panel Discussion)

A panel of speakers will be taking questions from delegates on any software development related subject that happens to be up for discussion.

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Scottish Developers Book Club Glasgow July

26 April, 2011 by Leave a Comment

At the moment we are looking to find the book that you want to read for the July Book Club meeting.

The choices are:

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

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DDD Scotland 2011 – Agenda

14 March, 2011 by 3 Comments

DDD Scotland Logo

We are pleased to announce the agenda for this year’s DDD Scotland. We will keep this up to date and it will reflect any changes as an when we make them.

We are working to get the agenda published on the DDD Scotland website however this may take a few days

Time Track A Track B Track C Track D Track E
08:45 – 09:20 Registration
09:25 – 09:30 Housekeeping
09:30 – 10:30 Creating your Own Software Company: A Survival Guide Streams of Streams – Your Rx Prescription Introduction to Android Development using Monodroid From .NET to Rails, A Developer’s Story CQRS and Friends: Possibly distributed systems, intentionally.
Kendall Miller Ray Booysen Chris Canal Colin Gemmell Andrea Magnorsky
10:30 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:40 Asymptotics and Algorithms – What You’ve Forgotten Since University Defensive programming 101 Building seriously scalable websites with ASP.NET with and without Windows A Step into Workflow Foundation 4 Caliburn.Micro: Painless MVVM apps for Silverlight and WPF
Gary Short Niall Merrigan Chris Hay David Muir Barry Carr
11:40 – 12:00 Break
12:00 – 13:00 Making Crap Code Better – Real world Coding Standards Parallel… Parallelise… Pallar… Doing stuff at the same time in .NET 4.0 Don’t Make Me Wait – Faster Websites 101 Unit Testing, Test Driven Development and the Walking Skeleton Behavioural Driven Development (BDD) with F#
Phil Whinstanly Colin Mackay Duncan McDougall Seb Rose Phillip Trelford
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch and Grok Talks
14:30 – 15:30 Is your code S.O.L.I.D ? SpecFlow – functional testing made easy Real World SLUT (Silverlight Unit Testing) The dark parts of Mono Building composite applications with Open frameworks
Nathan Gloyn Paul Stack Daniel May Toby Henderson Sebastien Lambla
15:30 – 15:40 Break
15:40 – 16:40 Functional Alchemy: Tricks to keep your C# DRY* How to build a framework, and why you almost never should. Produce Cleaner Code with Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) Introduction to Kanban Rewriting software is the single worst mistake you can make – apparently.
Mark Rendle Richard Dalton Gael Fraiteur Chris McDermott Phil Collins
16:40 – 17:00 Closing

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Event: Being Dynamic With Ruby

9 March, 2011 by Leave a Comment

This month we have a bit of Ruby for you with Colin Gemmell.

Register for Being Dynamic With Ruby in Glasgow, United Kingdom on Eventbrite

The Talk

It should come as no surprise that Ruby is a dynamic language but do you know how to use this to you advantage. In this talk we will look at how to use Ruby’s dynamic nature to keep you code DRY, write less code and make your code easier to maintain. As a final example we will see how to use these same tricks how to create a simple DSL

The Speaker

Colin Gemmell is a Web/Application Developer from Glasgow. He has gained a wide range of experience in his short time as a developer working on everything from enterprise applications to small promotional web-sites. After 3 and a half years working in .NET he made the jump to Ruby on Rails and hasn’t yet looked back (but there’s still time). An avid follower of agile principles and practices and a growing interest in agile project management, he is always happy to pass on his views of software development to anyone that will listen.

Colin has recently started the Glasgow Ruby User Group which held it’s inaugural meeting at the start of the month

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

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

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Book Club – February 2011 – The Pragmatic Programmer

17 January, 2011 by 1 Comment

In February Scottish Developers starts its book club. It will alternate between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

The first book on the agenda is The Pragmatic Programmer, from Journeyman to Master.

You can now get more details and sign up for The Pragmatic Programmer in Glasgow. In March the book will be RESTful Web Services in Edinburgh – Further details to follow.

We are aiming to keep the books fairly technology independent (focussing on higher level processes and practices) in order to appeal to a wider audience. If you have any suggestions for books you’d like to see in the future then please contact us at support@scottishdevelopers.com

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