DDD Scotland 2011 – Agenda

14 March, 2011 by 3 Comments

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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.

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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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Event: A guide to installing Google Analytics

14 January, 2011 by Leave a comment

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Scottish Developers would like to welcome a new speaker to the floor, Jarrod McGuire who has very kindly agreed to talk on installing Google Analytics. The talk will take place on Thursday 17th February 2011 at Glasgow Caledonian University.

The Talk

Google AnalyticsThis session will focus on sharing the experiences had while installing Google Analytics in various configurations, and some of the pitfalls, tips and tricks involved. We will cover basic installs leading up to more advanced topics such as cross-domain tracking – all using the new GA syntax. We won’t be focusing on the reporting side of things, although we may look at this if there is time. Some of the topics we will cover are:

  • What is GA doing behind the scenes?
  • A basic GA install and code explanation
  • Ins and outs of the _trackPageview method
  • Problems in a template driven environment with a focus on ASP.NET WebForms
  • Where to put the code in the page
  • Domain tracking
  • E-Commerce tracking
  • Event tracking

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 Speaker

Jarrod McGuire

Jarrod heads up the interface development team at Equator Ltd. He specialises in html and client-side scripting with a focus on user experience; gradual engagement, intuitive interactions and progressive enhancement. Due to his experience with javascript he has also been conned into doing advanced setups and deployments of Google Analytics and Google Web Optimizer.

The Agenda

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

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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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Event: What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 2.0 & 3.0

7 December, 2010 by Leave a comment

We’re back! It’s been a while since our last event but after an unexpected hiatus, we have resumed our regular evening sessions. January’s talk will be held in Glasgow at Glasgow Caledonian University.

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The Talk

ASP.NET MVC has been making waves over the past 2 years within the ASP.NET community and quite rightly so with features such as promoting separation of concerns, strongly typed views and a great routing system but it doesn’t stop there. ASP.NET MVC 2.0 is now publicly available and is also being shipped with Visual Studio 2010 and hot on its heels is version 3.0 which adds Microsoft’s new Razor view engine to the mix. But what new features have been brought to the table? What has changed? And most importantly, how will you be affected by upgrading from 1.0 or even 2.0?

This session will bring you up to speed with all the information you need to know delivered through slides and more interestingly, live demos. Topics covered include (but not limited to)

- Razor
- Model-Validator Providers
- Optional URL Parameters
- Template / HTML Helper improvements
- Improved Dependency Injection / Inversion of Control integration
- NuGet Package Manager
- Additions and updates to MVC Attributes
- Visual Studio integration improvements
- Breaking changes from MVC 1.0/2.0
- Pros and cons to MVC
- To upgrade or not to upgrade (or simply, Advice)

We will look at features brought in by both v2.0 and v3.0 of the MVC framework and this session provides a good source of information for those looking to learn more or to upgrade existing projects.

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 Speaker

Andy Gibson is a .NET Application Developer at Equator in Glasgow with a background in web application development including ASP.NET MVC, PHP and jQuery. He is always on the lookout for new technologies to play with and loves to learn what he can about things especially in the web development arena.

Keen to give back to the community, Andy has spoken at a number of community events including DDD8, DDD Scotland 2009 and Epicenter 2009/2010. He is currently the chairman of Scottish Developers, a user group for programmers all across Scotland, for which he organises various talks and events including DDD Scotland.

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The Agenda

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

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Developer Day Scotland 2011 – Date Announced

23 November, 2010 by 2 Comments

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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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Job: Senior Interface Developer in Glasgow

1 September, 2010 by Leave a comment

Glasgow based digital media agency Equator are looking for a Senior Interface Developer to join their growing development team.

Due to continual expansion, we are currently looking for a Senior Interface Developer to join our Development team.

You must have a genuine enthusiasm for development work, be committed, client facing, talented, fun and have at least five years experience in web based technologies.

As part of the team you will be expected to take on new projects, work on existing projects, provide mentoring for junior members of the team and help continually push the implementation of new technologies and best practice in every aspect of the development project life cycle.

Key Technical skills/Experience

  • 5+ years HTML with expertise of Web Standards with an emphasis on modern, semantic mark-up and knowledge of HTML 5 techniques and practices
  • 5+ years CSS with proven progressive enhancement techniques
  • 5+ years of JavaScript. Working with JS frameworks (e.g. jQuery) also an advantage
  • Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
  • Knowledge and application of Ajax for enhancing user experience
  • Knowledge and application of usability and accessibility best practice.
  • Data integration from server-side technologies
  • Experience of C#, Asp.NET and Visual Studio a distinct advantage
  • 3 year + of working with CMS applications. Umbraco an advantage
  • Proven lead roles on projects
  • Produce accurate and well documented solutions
  • An eye for detail and an ability to work from design templates to produce design assets and complete websites

Key Role Skills

  • Ability to teach and mentor others
  • Willingness to take full responsibility for design and development on client projects
  • Deliver presentations at monthly team meetings
  • Attend and represent the team at internal company meetings
  • Provide input and implement improvements in the development life cycle
  • Present ideas and solutions to clients
  • Undertake design and development reviews and buddy testing
  • Be comfortable working in agile project methodologies
  • Provide input into the recruitment process within the team

In return for this you will get to work for a dynamic and very talented development team. Equator has recently been voted the number 1 Digital Agency in Scotland and 15th in the UK for Design and Build by the NMA. We do more than just create web sites! We carry out CMS implementations, integration into third party systems including stock management, payment gateways and ecommerce solutions, create business applications and we also lead the field in Google analytics and other tracking technologies.

On top of this we have just moved into our new Glasgow based head quarters which are truly unique and a really great place to work.

If you think you fit this job profile then please get in touch at devjobs@eqtr.com or call us on 0141 229 1800 and ask for Robert Graham.

Thanks

More information about this position and other job openings at Equator can be found at http://www.eqtr.com/who-are-equator/join-us

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Job: Senior Test Engineer in Glasgow

1 September, 2010 by Leave a comment

Glasgow based digital media agency Equator are looking for a Senior Test Engineer to join their growing development team.

Ever fancy being given the opportunity to define and control the direction of testing within an organisation? Make the case for the tool sets and approaches for testing? Improve existing test practices and processes? Work with a talented development and design team to ensure an integrated testing strategy is realised?

Now is your chance!

Due to continual expansion, we are currently looking for a Senior Test Engineer to join our Production team.

You must have at least 5 years experience in testing and have a proven track record testing web applications.

Key Role Skills

  • Create and manage test plans
  • Plan, develop and implement automated tests for web based projects
  • Experience of SQL Server investigation and data querying
  • Implementation of tests against ASP.Net web applications and C# based libraries
  • Manage the execution and reporting of all test outcomes
  • Ensure feedback to other production and client teams is timely and accurate
  • Create and recommend approaches to improve testing processes
  • Deliver presentations at monthly team meetings
  • Attend and represent the team at internal company meetings
  • Provide input and implement improvements in the development life cycle
  • Be comfortable working in agile project methodologies
  • Provide input into the recruitment process within Equator

In return for this you will get to work for a dynamic and very talented company. Equator has recently been voted the number 1 Digital Agency in Scotland and 15th in the UK for Design and Build by the NMA. We do more than just create web sites! We carry out CMS implementations, integration into third party systems including stock management, payment gateways and ecommerce solutions, create business applications and we also lead the field in Google analytics and other tracking technologies.

On top of this we have just moved into our new Glasgow based head quarters which are truly unique and a really great place to work.

If you think you fit this job profile then please get in touch at devjobs@eqtr.com or call us on 0141 229 1800 and ask for Robert Graham.

Thanks

More information about this position and other job openings at Equator can be found at http://www.eqtr.com/who-are-equator/join-us

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Job: Web Application Developer in Glasgow

1 September, 2010 by Leave a comment

Glasgow based digital media agency Equator are looking for a Web Application Developer to join their growing development team.

Due to continual expansion, we are currently looking for a Web Application Developer to join our Development team.

You must have a genuine enthusiasm for development work, be committed, client facing, talented, fun and have at least 2-3 years experience in web based technologies.

As part of the team you will be expected to take on new projects, work on existing projects, provide support to the senior members of the team, provide updates on progress and also support junior team members. You will also continually push for the implementation of new technologies and best practice in every aspect of the development project life cycle.

Key Technical skills/Experience

  • 2/3 years + ASP.Net
  • 2/3 years + c#
  • 2/3 years+ SQL Server
  • CSS, (X)HTML, JavaScript/ JQuery and Ajax experience
  • An understanding of web services and application integration
  • Knowledge of and a desire to use continuous integration technologies
  • Knowledge of automated testing and load testing
  • A good grasp of Object Oriented Design and techniques
  • Produce accurate and well documented solutions

Key Role Skills

  • Willingness to teach and mentor others
  • Take responsibility for design and development on client projects
  • Provide input and implement improvements in the development life cycle
  • Present ideas and solutions to clients
  • Undertake buddy testing
  • Be comfortable working in agile project methodologies

In return for this you will get to work for a dynamic and very talented development team. Equator has recently been voted the number 1 Digital Agency in Scotland and 15th in the UK for Design and Build by the NMA. We do more than just create web sites! We carry out CMS implementations, integration into third party systems including stock management, payment gateways and ecommerce solutions, create business application and we also lead the field in Google analytics and other tracking technologies.

On top of this we have just moved into our new Glasgow based head quarters which are truly unique and a really great place to work.

If you think you fit this job profile then please get in touch at devjobs@eqtr.com or call us on 0141 229 1800 and ask for Robert Graham.

Thanks

More information about this position and other job openings at Equator can be found at http://www.eqtr.com/who-are-equator/join-us

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