Lightning Talks: Spotlight
At this event, up to 10 Tech Companies will pitch their coding projects in a series of 3-minute lightning sessions to software developers looking for interesting, agile projects using progressive technologies.
 In this Lightning session, Dylan Beattie will present on Spotlight's Ninja Project. Spotlight exist to promote professional actors, and are looking for a Senior .NET Web Developer. From database optimization to SOLID principles to TDD to user experience and accessibility, you understand what makes software great - great to use, great to maintain, great to extend.
You're an experienced scrum master, who knows how to work with business and technical people to make things happen. You understand software architecture. You understand the importance of naming, and you know how much documentation is enough. You understand .NET code - from DataReaders to dynamics. You know your way around NServiceBus, NHibernate, Castle Windsor, Moq and NUnit. You use tools like Resharper, Reflector, TeamCity, FinalBuilder and SQL Compare - in fact, you wouldn't be prepared to do your job without them.
You know JavaScript - and not just the good parts. ou know HTML5 and CSS 3, and when to use them, and when NOT to use them. ou know who's who and what's what in the world of modern .NET development. Maybe you're on Stack Overflow, or Github, or Twitter. Maybe you've been to DDD or AltNetUK or MIX. Either way, you know that there's more to .NET than Visual Studio and MSDN magazine.
Spotlight are a unique hybrid of an 80-year-old company and an agile startup. We've gone from classic ASP to MVC to SOA and NServiceBus in just over three years. We don't have a single project in mind - we have an entire whiteboard full of them, and all they need is the right people in place to make them happen. We're early adopters - we pushed nearly a million pounds' worth of sales through ASP.NET MVC before it even hit beta. We have the best hardware and tools money can buy, we start at 10am, we don't do WebForms, and every permanent coder we've ever hired is still here.
For a full job description, see the Spotlight website at http://www.spotlight.com/jobs/developer.html
Udi Dahan's Enterprise Development with NserviceBus
This course teaches you all the ins-and-outs of NServiceBus - the most popular, open-source service bus for .NET. Used in production since 2006, NServiceBus is now used in hundreds of companies in finance, healthcare, retail, SaaS, web 2.0, and more. From basic one-way messaging, through publish/subscribe; providing solutions from transactions to cross-machine scale out; this hands-on course will show you how simple distributed systems development can be. To find out more, please go here
Gojko Adzic's Test Driven Development Workshop
Gojko Adzic's two day workshop on Test Driven Development (TDD) enables you to experience and learn test driven development by doing it. You will be immersed in a realistic TDD project, allowing you to learn the practices and principles of test driven development and try them out in practice. Through facilitated exercises and discussion, you will experience two days of working on an agile test-driven team. You will use and learn basic Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, refactoring and related agile practices such as continuous integration and pair programming. You will understand the reasons behind TDD and experience its benefits first-hand. By applying what you learn, you will be able to build quality into software from the start, design and develop systems fit for purpose and write code that is easy to maintain and evolve in the future. The is a completely hands-on workshop with coding straight from the start, interrupted by very short presentations to explain the practices and put things into a wider perspective. It is based on the very latest tools, current knowledge and ideas from the community. Find out more here
Damjan Vujnovic's Advanced JavaScript Workshop
As Douglas Crockford once said, JavaScript is the world's most misunderstood programming language. It is also one of the world's most popular programming languages and one of the cornerstones of a modern web application development. With web clients becoming thicker and more complex, it is no longer easy to get away with sloppy, ad-hoc JavaScript programming style. In this advanced JavaScript hands-on course you will learn how to write good code (by employing its good features and avoiding quirks and common pitfalls). To find out about learning objectives, dates and how to get some tickets, go here
ABOUT DYLAN BEATTIE
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Dylan Beattie was writing server-side domain models in Javascript way before it was cool. He even once ran code in JScript.NET.
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ABOUT THE FIND YOUR NINJA PROJECT
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We are organising some evening events, dedicated to help development teams find new colleagues, and where developers (and project or product managers, architects, testers..) can find out about some really cool projects.
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PODCAST LIGHTNING TALKS: SPOTLIGHT
This session took part at the Cool Projects in May. You can view the other 11 podcasts here.
COOL PROJECTS IN MAY PHOTOS
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