Scott Hansleman – Scotland Tour

15 May, 2012 by 1 Comment

Scottish Developers in partnership with Aberdeen .NET Developers User Group are proud to announce that Microsoft’s very own Scott Hanselman, a Principal Program Manager and highly-active community developer, will be speaking at 4 events across Scotland in July. Scott will be speaking in Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and Glasgow between the 9th and 13th of July.

All of the talks are free however we do request that you register if you wish to attend so we can ensure we avoid any issues with capacity at the venues.

Monday 9th July, Edinburgh

Mobile Web

Mobile traffic on the web is exploding. Are you ready? ASP.NET MVC 4 includes new mobile-friendly templates, a focus on responsive design as well as dedicated mobile templates that leverage jQuery and jQuery mobile.

Scott Hanselman will show you what you can do today and tomorrow to make your site friendly on a mobile device. When should your mobile site become a mobile application? Should you use CSS3 media queries, or go “all in” and use jQuery mobile or another mobile framework?

Tuesday 10th July, Dundee

InfoOverload

As developers, we are asked to absorb even more information than ever before. More APIs, more documentation, more patterns, more layers of abstraction. Now Twitter and Facebook compete with Email and Texts for our attention, keeping us up-to-date on our friends dietary details and movie attendance second-by-second.

Does all this information take a toll on your psyche or sharpen the saw? Is it a matter of finding the right tools and filters to capture what you need, or do you just need to unplug. Is ZEB (zero email bounce) a myth or are there substantive techniques for prioritizing your live as a developer?

Join Scott Hanselman as we explore this topic…perhaps we’ll crowd-source the answers!

Thursday 12th July, Aberdeen AND Friday 13th July, Glasgow

One ASP.NET (super everything talk)

It’s an exciting time for ASP.NET and Open Source.

What does the next version of Visual Studio and ASP.NET bring to the world of web development? How will you use HTML5, CSS3 and new advances in JavaScript with ASP.NET? There’s new advances in ASP.NET with the addition of realtime (Signalr), new features in WebForms as well as support for mobile. How will it all snap together in a way that makes sense?

Join Scott Hanselman as he shares some internal documents and exciting surprises about the future of ASP.NET. What about Azure? We’ll talk about the world’s most misunderstood cloud and what it means for developers of all flavors and persuasions.

Scottish Developers would like to thank Gary Park of Aberdeen .NET Developers User Group for working with Scott to make these events possible.

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Job: .NET Web Developer in Glasgow (C# / SQL Server/ CSS/ JQuery)

11 May, 2012 by Leave a comment

Frame Digital is currently looking for a .NET ninja to join their team.

Web Developer (C# / SQL Server/ CSS/ JQuery)

Frame Digital is recruiting for a graduate web developer.  You’ll be joining a small team of experienced digital experts working on the development of new projects and maintenance of existing online applications. You must be self-motivated and able to work on your own initiative. In return, you’ll have scope to put your own stamp on projects and make a real impact on the growth of the business.

The successful Web Developer / Software Graduate will take on a hands-on and varied role, gaining all round web development experience on content management systems. You will be working with backend technologies including .NET/C# and SQL Server while delivering web front-ends using the latest working practices in HTML, CSS and JavaScript/JQuery in a dynamic and fast moving development environment.

This is a fantastic learning opportunity for the right candidate who is looking for a role where they can learn and develop on the job.

Skills required for the successful candidate are

  • Web Development experience gained either commercially or through academic studies during a final year project or placement using ASP.NET and Winforms (candidates will be expect to be able to demonstrate this at interview)
  • Experience working with Microsoft technologies, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 and C#
  • Strong understanding of HTML, CSS and javascript
  • Must be proficient  with Photoshop and able to deliver complex HTML layouts from source Photoshop files
  • Enjoys problem solving and has an analytical and logical mind
  • A genuine interest and aptitude for web development
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to work well within a team and under their own initiative
  • To be self-motivated and have a strong ability to learn new skills quickly

Candidates will benefit if they have the following skills

  • Experience working within content managed environments (such as Umbraco, WordPress, Drupal etc) will be of particular interest
  • Experience developing frontend UIs using jQuery
  • Knowledge of the project life cycle from initial specification through to test and implementation
  • Awareness of waterfall and agile methodologies
  • Ability to demonstrate existing websites which they were involved in the development process.
  • Our primary development platform is .NET, but candidates that also have any knowledge of PHP would be advantageous.
  • Knowledge of version control systems

Our projects range from small website development to complex online applications for a range of B2B and B2C clients, brands and charities. For example:

Competitive introductory salary available with benefits package including private healthcare.

How to apply
More information is available at http://bit.ly/KH7jCa.

Alternatively please email your CV to darren.james@framecreates.co.uk  including any relevant experience. Any online examples would be particularly beneficial.

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Job in Glasgow with Chunk Digital

3 April, 2012 by Leave a comment

Chunk Digital have been in touch to let us know of a position they have available:

Are you a passionate programmer?

We’re looking for a .net developer who cares about software quality to work on brand sites and digital campaigns. You’ll have full lifecycle involvement from planning and design, through development to deployment and testing. Technology choices vary based on project needs but frequently involve greenfield development using the latest versions of ASP.NET MVC, WCF, NHibernate, log4net, Json.net, NUnit and RhinoMocks.

Key Responsibilities

  • Developing new websites and web services, often integrating with a range of external systems including games and interactive applications developed in-house and social media.
  • Working closely with a development team, taking ownership of particular functional areas or, taking full ownership of smaller development projects.
  • Involvement in all stages of a typically iterative, often short-cycle, development process.
  • Breaking down assigned functional requirements into specific, estimable development tasks.
  • Making use of cloud technologies, such as Amazon Web Services, to develop flexible and scalable high-traffic applications.
  • Identifying and evaluating ways to improve development processes and practices.

Qualifications

  • Obtained degree at 2:1 or above in computing science or a related discipline.
  • 3+ years web development experience using C#, including ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript and CSS.
  • Detailed knowledge of SQL with experience developing MS SQL Server and/or MySQL databases.
  • Familiarity with software design patterns and experience in their application.
  • Deep understanding of object oriented development concepts.
  • Understanding of the importance of automated testing and experience developing testable code.

Fancy it? Send us your CV!

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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

Register for Mining the Social Web with Gary Short in Glasgow, United Kingdom on Eventbrite

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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

Register for Mining the Social Web with Gary Short in Glasgow, United Kingdom on Eventbrite

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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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