We are glad to provide a platform for the initiative groups that invite developers for knowledge and best practices sharing. This time we welcome the third Ruby and Rails BarcCamp on Saturday, March, the 20^th at the kitchen of Bozhenko office from 12-00 till approximately 17-00.

Program of the camp is the following:

I. MongoDB by Vladislav Gorodetsky (Metaconomy, Dnepropetrovsk)

An overview of MongoDB - high-performance, schema-free, document-oriented database with real-world examples.

• introduction and foundational items;
• overview of the possibilities;
• the frameworks;
• Conclusion: where to go from here?
• QA session.

II. Fast prototyping of applications. Inherited Resources, Has Scope and Responders + Formtastic by Roman Babenko (www.romanvbabenko.com)

• RESTful controllers in one line (inherited_resources);
• we build not HTML pages, but information resources (Responders);
• the Filtration of the data in the controllers (has_scope);
• intelligent plotters of forms. One form for all (Formtastic).

III. Mechanize by Dmitry Shaposhnik

• mechanize for processing of sites;
• use with nokogiri;
• start by means of delayed_jobs, loops;
• use of turn Rabbit MQ.

IV. Secrets of profitable startup on Ruby on Rails by Hussar Evgenie

• David Hensson, founder of Ruby on Rails, talks about secrets of profitable startup;
• examples of successful startups on RoR in the world and the CIS;
• how to create successful startup;
• approach “Getting Real” in creation of web applications.

If you are interested to visit Ruby and Rails BarCamp, please, register on the site: http://rubylang.org.ua

HR Retention

The on-line conversation club will gather 4 practitioners with real experience in applying Scrum. We have collected questions and will discuss them on-line, so all attendees will hear advices and hints regarding interesting topics.

The conversation will take place on 3d March 2010. Time: 18:00-19:30.

More details you may find on: http://tim.com.ua/2010/01/gathering-questions/

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February 27^th “Web testing with Selenium”.

Target audience: developers, testers, PMs &TLs.

Training goal: introduction to Selenium, practicing skills and knowledge of its implementation, as well as considering tools which exist in Selenium platform or can be integrated into it.

Price – 800 UAH.

You can find the detailed program and register for the training at this site.

March 13^th “QA in Agile”.

Target audience: developers, testers, PMs &TLs.

Training objectives:

· talk about problems of QA process in Agile projects;

· provide participants with  several well-tried models of QA process design;

· describe methods and roles in the automation process;

· practice received knowledge in mini-groups.

Price – 800 UAH.

You can find the detailed program and register for the training at this site.

March 20^th, “Engineering practices in Agile”

Training objectives:

· talk about engineering practices in Agile;

· explain methods of their implementation on different stages of a project;

· try some of the practices.

Price – 800 UAH.

You can find the detailed program and register for the training at this site.

Ciklum and Coffee-n-Code are glad to invite you to the first Ruby and Rails Barcamp.

Ciklum continues to invest into the development of SWD expertise in Ukraine. This time we are sponsoring Ruby and Rails Barcamp, which will take place on September the 26^th in Kiev at the address I. Mazepy Str, 34. Venue of the camp is offered by Ciklum’s partner i-Klass.

This event’s target audience is Ruby, Python, .NET, Java, C++ developers and everyone interested in gaining knowledge and experience sharing.

Ruby and Rails Barcamp program consists of 3 sections:

·         Ruby for beginners  (general overview, benchmarking, language advantages);

·         Development tips for advanced participants (performance practices);

·         ShowTime (projects presentation).

Event blog: http://rubylang.org.ua

Let us encourage you to join us and participate in the event!

HR Retention continues contributing into the development of expertise in hot technologies in Ukraine. This time we assisted in organization of Kiev Drupal Camp on the 28-29th of August.

About 200 developers from Ukraine, Russia, Moldova and Belarus, interested in Drupal, participated in the Camp. Ciklum was one of the main sponsors and organizers of the event.

The event had “open schedule” therefore each participant could declare a topic and become a speaker.

In addition at the beginning of the first day Camp Leaders (Yaroslav Azhnyuk and Anna Iurchenko) announced FAQ session where camp participants could brainstorm topics they would like to consider during the Camp and find speakers for those topics. It was a really great initiative as it helped creating live communication between participants; and deliver topics which were interesting for both: speakers and the audience.

General atmosphere of the Camp was very interactive, democratic, interesting and lively. Presentations ran simultaneously in 3 rooms, so that everyone could choose a topic of their interest.

Everyone was able to share own opinion about the event and ongoing speeches in twitter. Free Wi-Fi allowed messages to be projected on the wall at the central hall.

Discussions continued during the coffee-breaks and lunch time.

Some developers found new ideas and started to implement those.

At the end of the first day many participants decided to continue discussing Drupal issues over the glass of beer and went to Bochka pub at Kreshchatyk metro station.

To encourage the best speakers, Ciklum as a main sponsor, ran a 2 days voting campaign for the best one. As a result participants identified 3 winners who were awarded at the Camp closure ceremony by Ciklum:

• 3rd place took Alexander Shvets with the topic “What’s new in Drupal7?” He got Ciklum branded T-shirt and book on Drupal.



• 2nd place took Igor Kandyba with topic “Why do we hate Drupal?” Igor also won a prize for his presentation on FAQ topic. That’s why we presented him with 2 Ciklum branded T-shirts and 2 books on Drupal



• And absolute winner among speakers according to the participants’ votes turned to be Viktor Levandovskiy with the topic “Managing development of Drupal Projects”. Typical management mistakes. He was awarded by Ciklum branded T-shirt, book on Drupal and a presenter to make his future presentations more effective.

Camp participants really enjoyed this year Drupal conference and are eagerly looking forward to the next Camp.

More pictures and participant’s feedbacks you can find at the following links:

http://www.camp09.drupal.ua/ru/blog

http://w2.com.ua/blogs/fry/otchet_o_konferencii_drupalcamp_kyiv_2009

http://moreintelligentweb.net/post/753

You are welcome to join our communities!

Ciklum sponsors DrupalCamp Kyiv on August the 28—29^th and opens doors to developers and web-studio representatives, who use Drupal in performing internet projects. 300 participants from Ukraine, Belorussia, Moldova, Kazakhstan and France have registered by now!

Bar camp format of the conference gives a free hand for anyone to suggest topics for a potential speech at the conference and receive feedbacks of other participants. You can take part in forming the conference program now at http://camp09.drupal.ua/ru/schedule/sessions/r and enjoy the event which will be of value for beginners, and professional developers as well as those who are looking for a proper system for their future projects.

The program will touch upon construction and support of web-sites, development and coding, design and usability. Issues of creating sites and internet-magazines with the help of Drupal and its opportunities compared to other CMS systems will be separately considered.

Participation is free. Please, register at http://camp09.drupal.ua.

Last Saturday, August the 8th, developers gathered for the first Coffee-n-Code meeting in Kiev.

Thanks to the initiative of Alexander Petrov, who has introduced the format of this event, 30 developers  could  share their experience and knowledge in a friendly atmosphere with coffee and  croissants.

Ciklum was one of the sponsors for the coffee breaks and Luxoft Training Center provided premises for the venue.

The four speakers highlighted topics, which spurred interest and very dynamic polemics: 

Andrey Legayev (Oberon-Media) told about outsourcing front end platforms & cross-domain problems;

Oleg Smirnov (Incom) gave tips on JQuery Performance Optimization; 

Vladimir Puzanov (Hack&Dev) impressed audience with Objective-J language and technologies MacOS in web;

Andrey Savchenko (Freelance Developer) shared experience on Capistrano framework and remote application deployment.

Each speaker from now on can drink coffee from the branded Coffee-n-Code cup.

The idea to hold such event was well received by the audience; all participants are looking forward to the new Coffee-n-Code meeting which will take place next month.

Join the club! You can find more info about Coffee-n-Code events at: http://coffee-n-code.org.ua/

Dear Colleagues, we would like to announce new format of event, called Coffee’n'Code, that takes place in Kyiv already this Saturday, August, the 8^th.

Coffee’n'Code is to bring together specialists and to exchange their knowledge in Peer2Peer. The organizers of the event do not represent any particular company; they are specialists in software development who wants to share their knowledge with other people without imposing particular technology.

Participation in Coffee’n’Code is absolutely free of charge. Registration is not compulsory, but if you want to be kept up-to-date, you can register in Google group.

FAQ on Coffee’n'Code: http://coffee-n-code.org.ua/faq/ .

Date: Saturday, the 8^th of August 2009 14:00—18:00.

Location: Kyiv, Radishcheva 10/14, Business Centre “Irva” section B (“Б”), 1^st floor (2-ой этаж) (map).

List of speakers and topics:
1. Maxim Rodionov (B-Cool): Software development process building based on example of gaming studio.
2. Andrey Legayev (Oberon-Media): Outsourcing front end platforms & cross-domain problems.
3. Vladimir Puzanov(Hack&Dev): Objective-J, technologies MacOS in web.
4. Andrey Savchenko (Freelance Developer): Capistrano framework and remote application deployment.
5.Oleg Smirnov (Incom): JQuery Performance Optimization.
6. Light Talks.

Blog of the project:http://coffee-n-code.org.ua/.

Google Group:http://groups.google.com/group/coffencode/.

Twitter:http://twitter.com/coffeencode/.