CodeCraftConf 2016 - Attendees and Guides wanted

24 July, 2016 Leave a comment

We’ve been asked to pass on a message from the organisers of CodeCraftConf

CodeCraftConf logoHello Scottish Developers,
Following on from last year, we are running CodeCraftConf in Glasgow on Friday 16th September at Citizen M.

CodeCraftConf is a conference geared towards developers with the goal of exchanging ideas between attendees. To facilitate this the majority of the sessions will be GuidedConversations:

A GuidedConversation is a meeting where a facilitator comes up with a starting set of questions around a single topic. The group then discuss those questions with 8 minutes given for each question. This worked well last year, so this year we are having three guided conversation tracks and one workshop track.

Topics will include: Tech Leadership, Simplicity, Legacy Code, Modern QA and Cloud amongst others. Our Call for Guides is open if you fancy running a session.

All developers are welcome, we are deliberately not concentrating on Ruby internals or the latest C# features. Instead we will be asking questions that are relevant to all developers regardless of their current chosen language.

Thanks,
Joe.

CodeCraftConf

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Glasgow Event: Microsoft .NET Core Deep Dive

29 June, 2016 Leave a comment

[Register Here]

Talk Description

.NET Core, the new, open source, light weight framework, has been written from the ground up to be the best  development platform for Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can now use your favorite editor to create faster, leaner and more memory efficient NET applications that run everywhere. In this 2-part session, you’ll get an introduction to the major advancements and an overview of what’s changed in the new, brave world of .NET Core. You’ll also get the chance to see how you can create ASP.NET  Core apps that leverage all the new front-end tooling like npm, Bower, Grunt and Gulp to make development easier. Join us on the 7th for an evening full of demos and information that promises to rock your world!

Speaker

Christos Matskas is a software devoloper, dad, blogger, husband, speaker and all around geek. He currently works for Microsoft as a Sr Azure Dev Premier Field Engineer (mouthfull) helping developers and teams leverage the power of the cloud. Before joining Microsoft, he was a successfull entrepreuner collaborating with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin and Barclays. He’s been building software for over 12 years and he’s a passionate Open Source advocate. He contibutes regularly to numerous OSS projects and works closely with the developer community to make the space bigger and better.

Agenda - Thursday, 7 July 2016 from 18:30 to 20:30

18:00 – 18:30: Doors open

18:30 – 19.15: Intro to .NET Core

19:15 – 19:45: Break (refreshments and networking)

19:45 – 20:30: Deep dive to .NET Core

20:30: Closing

The Venue

We are meeting at Rookie Oven. Thre is free on-street parking outside the office, the nearest subway station is Govan which is about a 10 minute walk.

[Register Here]

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DDD Scotland Agenda

21 March, 2016 1 Comment

ddds-unicorn-side-284-086We’ve finalised our agenda and already people have said they’re finding it difficult to decide which sessions to see and which they’ll have to miss out on.

For full information visit ddd.scot. Tickets are available here.

Napier / Doyle Lauder / Heriot Clark Greyfriar
08:30 Registration
09:20 Welcome and housekeeping
09:30 Paul Gillespie
Architecture at Web scale: the good, the bad and the ugly		 Keith Kirkhope
A Squad Lead’s tale: the Skyscanner Squads model		 Christos Matskas
ASP.NET Core (formerly 5) deep dive		 Matt Lacey
Six dimensional mobile user experiences
10:30 Break
10:50 Craig Nicol
Developers are users too : why the user experience of your API sucks		 Clarke Ching
Lesstimating: how to fix estimating by doing less of it, not none of it.		 Naeem Sarfraz
Windows brings Docker Goodness - What does it mean for .NET developers?		 Chris Canal
React for the .Net Developer
11:50 Break
12:10 Raymond Davies
Breaking the monolith		 Nathan Gloyn
You keep using the word agile, I do not think it means what you think it means		 Gary Ewan Park
Having your Cake, and eating to too!		 Don Wibier
Responsive Web Design for Developers
13:10 Lunch
14:25 Sebastien Lambla
Versions are evil – How to do without in your APIs		 Chris McDermott
“Ladies and gentlemen, the plane is no longer the problem”		 Toby Henderson
Brighter to the Core, moving an OSS project to .Net Core 1.0		 Gary Short
Would You Have Survived The Titanic?
15:25 Break
15:45 Max Vasilyev
CQRS and how it can make your architecture better		 Richard Dalton & Ashic Mahtab
“Advanced” Functional Programming For The Absolute Beginner		 Mike Ritchie
The Code Craftsmanship Thing for the Internet Of Things Thing		 Kendall Miller
To The Cloud! How Azure helped us improve the scalability of our SaaS
16:45 Prize draw
17:15 Close

[tickets]

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Lean Agile Scotland - Tickets now on sale

9 February, 2016 Leave a comment

lean-agile-scotlandThe organisers of Lean Agile Scotland are happy to announce that they have dates, a venue, keynote speakers and their tickets are now on sale!

This year the conference will take place on the 5th, 6th & 7th of October and they are back at the John McIntyre conference centre n Edinburgh.

They’ve put together another awesome group of keynote speakers, they are Dave Snowden, Melissa Perri, Sal Freudenberg, Simon Wardley, Carina C. Zona and Jez Humble.

Tickets are on sale and if you are fast you can pick up one one of the Super Early Birds. There are also single day tickets available if you can’t make it along for the full conference.

 

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DDD Scotland returns

8 February, 2016 Leave a comment

DDD Scotland, the free community conference, is returning on 14th May 2016 in Edinburgh.

Developer! Developer! Developer! events are founded on a number of principles which makes it unique and well worth a single day of your time.

DDD events are free. It doesn’t cost you anything to attend.

It’s on a Saturday. That means for the majority of software developers there is no need to get time off work. For contracters/freelancers it is unlikely to impact billable hours.

Speakers from the community. We invite people that have something to say, a story to tell, or an experience to learn from. The majority of these people are real day-to-day software developers, DBAs, and so on that actually work and face the reality of their craft each day.

DDD events are democratic. All the sessions are voted in by the community, so we only put on what people have asked to see.

No Marketing. 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, DDD Scotland is OF the developer community, BY the developer community and FOR the developer community.

Call for speakers now open!

If you are interested in speaking at DDD Scotland, then head on over to the site, sign in and create a speaker profile and submit the talk(s) you’re interested in presenting. The call for speakers remains open until the end of February. After that the submitted talks go to the vote and the community decides what it wants to see.

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Techorama On Tour

7 February, 2016 Leave a comment

techoramaIn March Gill Cleeren, Pieter Gheysens, and Kevin DeRudder will be in Edinburgh and Glasgow to talk software development as part of Techorama on Tour.

Over the course of two days they’ll deliver sessions on JavaScript 6, writing mobile apps on iOS and Android in C#, DevOps, and deploying web applications.

For full details and to register for tickets:

  • Glasgow 10th March
    • Advanced Techniques for Web Deploy (msdeploy) to simplify the deployment of web applications
    • Building your first real-world Android app using Xamarin in just 60 minutes
  • Edinburgh 11th March
    • Webpack: handle your JavaScript dependencies with Style
    • Building your first real-world iOS app using Xamarin in 60 minutes
    • DevOps with Visual Studio Release Management

 

 

 

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.NET Rocks! is coming to Scotland

1 December, 2015 1 Comment

Join Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell as they take you on a tour of the broad range of subjects they’ve explored recording more than 1200 episodes of .NET Rocks! over the past 10+ years. The development world today is evolving rapidly, but a look at the history of development can help inform the path we’re on and where we’re going. Along the way you’ll hear some great stories from the various .NET Rocks! episodes and get some ideas of how you can take your career and your company into the future of technology.

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They have a three date tour of Scotland coming up in January. More information and tickets can be found here:

 

Each evening, Carl and Richard will delivery their keynote talk followed by a recording of .NET Rocks with a special guest.

Sponsors

Big thanks to our sponsors, whose support and generosity have enabled us to bring you the .NET Rocks! Scottish Tour.

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Founded in 2000, Codify have over a decade of experience developing custom applications for the oil and gas industry used by companies of all sizes, from small local businesses to global corporations.

Being based in Aberdeen has allowed Codify to gain a high level of knowledge about the energy industry. Codify love to hire smart people, have happy customers and build software that helps their clients get their job done.

For more information please visit their site at http://www.codify.ltd.uk/

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Evoke IT specialise in all things SharePoint. Since 2011 they have been building and providing businesses with a wealth of tools created to transform the way your company operates. Equipped with the largest team of SharePoint resources in Scotland means they can fully customise the technology to suit your business processes. Evoke IT pride themselves on the individual strengths that each member of their growing company can contribute.

For more information please visit their site at http://www.evokeit.com/

Lockheed Martin

 

LLM.jpgockheed Martin is a global technology organisation with three key areas of focus in the UK; Transportation & Energy, Public Services and Security & Defence. With over 3,000 people throughout the UK, our team of experts ensure our technology solutions enable customers to overcome challenges and become more efficient. We have a proven history of supporting some of the most complex businesses in the world. Our customers include Scottish Government, Heathrow Airport, the NHS, Total E&P, the Ministry of Justice, NATS and Scottish Power.

SkyScanner

Skyscanner is a global travelskyscanner_RGB_cirrus_small meta search engine enjoying phenomenal growth right now. Behind our brand is a culture of continual innovation and right now we’re doing great things to drive transformation in online travel search. We’re proud to employ the best in the business and as we grow our global operations we need more brilliant people to join us in making an impact in our industry.

You can help us get there even faster. Check out our current job opportunities across the business! http://skyscanner.net/jobs/

 

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