New Job – Senior Java Developer – Surrey based Consultancy – 40-45k #Java #Job

Here are the details of our latest role:

My client is a well established industry leading Agile consultancy based in Surrey. Their clients include a variety of clients from the Financial and Retail industries based in and London, the M25 & the M3.

They are looking for a Senior Java developer to work with an Agile team of highly skilled developers on bespoke software development.

The initial project will revolve around a thick client implementation using bleeding edge technology stack including: Java, Swing/SWT, Spring, JEE, Web (Spring MVC / Struts / Seam), Messaging and ORM/JPA.  Spring Rich, Flex, BlazeDS, OSGi or Hyperic.

The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience of Java and be experienced with both Client and Server side development environments.

This will be within a Spring environment, making use of ORM technology.

Experience with any of the following would be a distinct advantage:

Swing/SWT, Java Spring, Any experience of Spring Rich, Flex and BlazeDS,

Knowledge of OSGi or Hyperic.

Moving forward this role will involve an element of client interaction so excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential.

The role is paying 40-45k and will initially be based out of Surrey, although flexibility to travel around London/M25 is essential.

If you’re interested then send your CV to me – b.cranford@clearview-itrs.co.uk

The LJC Unconference – #LJCUC1

A week ago at the LJC we had our first Unconference which was held at IBM’s South Bank offices and it was a superb success. We had a good mix of full presentations, lightening talks & discussion groups (the full list can be seen below) before retiring to the Slaughtered Lamb to chat about the day. The feedback I have picked up on the day and read afterwards suggests that everyone had a great time and we will look to repeat the event next year.

My thanks go firstly to Zoe Slattery of IBM. The Unconference was Zoe’s initial idea and it was Zoe that lead the initial planning and organization of the event, with Martijn Verburg and myself. Zoe has been involved with BarCamp and a few similar events in the past and her experience was evident in ensuring it was carefully planned to get the most out of the day. Zoe’s latest blog post illustrates her experience with Unconferences. http://zoomsplatter.blogspot.com/

Martijn was great, not just with the pre-event planning but making sure the day ran smoothly from 8:30am to 11:00pm whilst giving a few presentations along the way, I would recommend everyone check his presentation on “How to be a rock star developer” http://martijnverburg.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-be-rock-star-developer.html

Thanks to IBM for allowing us to use their impressive South Bank offices. There were no marketing messages rammed home, the whole event was run by the IBM development team & the LJC.

Thanks to Catherine Hope, Mark Hindness, Anthony Phillips & Robin Fernandes of the IBM Development team who helped with the planning, and making sure the day went well (as well as giving presentations that proved to be very popular)

Finally thanks to everyone who came along on the day and got involved either with presenting or attending the events. You made the event what it was. I look forward to the next one – which is already in the initial planning. Watch this space!

Normal Talks (40 mins)

• Bug of the month
• Mocking in Java: Mockito
• What’s stopping you adding Scala to existing JAva projects?
• Real time Java and tuning fork visualisation tool
• Graduate development community
• IBM Research’s view of how technology will evolve over the next 2-10 years
• Java development tools shoot-out
• Performance tuning hygeine
• Building autonomous scaling solutions with JAva
• PHP on Java
• Web apps meets OSGi – Apache Aries
• Ask the recruiter
• How to be a rock star developer
• Bytecode swap meet

Lightning Talks (7 minutes)

• Plumbing with Apache Camel
• Dump diving (JSR 326 and Apache Kato)
• Custom JVMs
• Apache Harmony project
• Financial data warehouse

Barry Cranford

New Job – Junior Java Developer – Central London – 30k

My client are seeking a Junior Java/JEE developer (min 1-2 yrs experience) for a permanent position in Central London.  The successful candidate will be working on a public facing web-site that represents a new paradigm in scientific literature publication. You will work in a team of highly skilled passionate developers, it is a superb chance to learn new technologies and receive mentoring from experienced programmers. 

The successful candidate will be expected to have:

 * Experience in Java based web development (preferably with a web framework of some sort).

* Excellent face to face communication skills.

* A university degree, preferably in a numeric based field (e.g.  Computer Science, Math, Physics).

 The candidate will ideally be familiar with:

 * An ORM technology (e.g. Hibernate) as well as Stored Procedure (SQL) development.

* Agile Methodologies (e.g. Pair Programming, Standups, Test Driven Development).

* A RDBMS (e.g Oracle).

 The candidate should at least have an interest in:

 * Spring (MVC, I/O)

* Templating Engines (e.g. Velocity).

* Build Tools (e.g.  Maven), Source Control (e.g. SVN) and Web Application servers (e.g.  Tomcat).

Please send recent CV to b.cranford@clearview-itrs.co.uk quoting reference 2264. Please email if further information required.

JAX London – Enter The Draw For A Free Conference Place – 5 To Give Away

JAX, the conference series on Java, Enterprise Technology, Agile, SOA and Cloud, is coming to the UK for the first time and will run alongside OSGi DevCon from 22^nd – 24^th February 2010. 

We have 5 delegate places to giveaway to JAX London for members of the London Java Community.

This is your chance to attend one of next year’s most important events in the Java development calendar.  Each place is worth up to £600, and could be yours for free.

Simply send me an email – cv@mailcv.co.uk with ‘JAX London’ and let me know if you’re interested in being entered for the prize draw. The deadline is Monday 7^th December, shortly after we’ll announce the 5 lucky winners.

If you are not one of the lucky winners you can still attend and save money too.  We have negotiated a special discount for members of London Java Community giving you an extra 5% off delegate places – just enter the special discount code ‘LJC01’ when you book your place.

These discounts can be applied to already reduced ‘very early bird’ delegate rate offers, giving you a double saving if you book early.

Book by 17^th December and you can get:

1 day delegate pass – only £189.05

2 day delegate pass – only £331.55

3 day delegate pass – only £474.05

This is your chance to hear from speakers including Architecture Expert Kevlin Henney, Enterprise Architect & Language Expert Ted Neward, Charles Nutter – creator of JRuby, Guillaume Laforge – Groovy Project Lead and many more…

Visit www.jaxlondon.com for further information and to check out confirmed content and speakers so far.

Barry Cranford

LJC hit’s 800 members, 50 sign-ups in 2 weeks!

Quick membership update for you – today we hit 800 members and are seeing a real surge in activity through the group and with readers of the blog!

Just 2 weeks ago today I announced that we had hit 750 – I’m really pleased that we are continuing to grow and it’s incredible to read all the various places our new members are coming from… of course the amount of active members is a more important statistic than the total number of members, but they need to be in the community to get involved. The news that the Brazilian Java Community has over 30,000 members is very inspiring and I see no reason why we can’t triple again in size by the end of next year!!

Keep spreading the word guys – 1000 members here we come!

25% discount on 7 conferences

Skills Matter, our sponsor, is organising some exciting conferences in London, UK for the open source and agile developer community. They have offered LJC members 25% discount of the ticket price. To qualify for this special community discount, please email me for the discount code to use when registering, or see our mailing list.

Agile Specifications, BDD and Testing eXchange (1 day), London, UK, November 27th – for agile developers and testers

http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-testing/agile-specifications-bdd-and-testing-exchange/wd-441

Featuring Dan North, Gojko Adzic, Liz Keogh, Janet Gregory, Antony Marcano, Andy Palmer, David Evans and two ParkBench Panel Discussions

Follow the event on http://twitter.com/skillsmatter #agiletestingx

 

Lean & Kanban eXchange (1 day), London, UK, December 1st – for project managers, IT Managers, agile developers, architects and anyone interested in Lean thinking

http://skillsmatter.com/event/agile-scrum/lean-kanban-exchange/wd-441

Featuring David J Anderson, David Laribee, David Joyce, Zi Makki, Benjamin Mitchell, Karl Scotland, Martine Devos and two ParkBench Panel Discussions

Follow the event on http://twitter.com/skillsmatter #kanbanexchange

 

Droidcon (1 day), London, UK, December 2nd – for android developers

http://skillsmatter.com/event/os-mobile-server/droidcon-london-2009/wd-441

Featuring Carl-Gustaf Harroch, Kevin McDonagh , Andreas Reuterberg, Alex Shaw, Akshay Dashrath, Gabor Paller, Martin Roth and two ParkBench Panel Discussions

Follow the event on http://twitter.com/skillsmatter #droidconlondon

 

RoR eXchange (1 day), London, December 3rd – for ruby on rails developers

http://skillsmatter.com/event/ajax-ria/ruby-on-rails-exchange-246/wd-441

Featuring Amy Hoy, Jason Davies, Frederic Cheung, Sven Fuchs, David Black, Andrew Chalkley and two ParkBench Panel Discussions

Follow the event on http://twitter.com/skillsmatter #rorexchange

 

Functional Programming eXchange (1 day), London, UK, December 7th – for functional programmers of all languages

http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/functional-programming-exchange-2009

Featuring Robert Pickering, Sadek Drobi, Matthew Sackman, Anton Schwaighofer, Ganesh Sittampalam, Miles Sabin, Duncan Coutts and two ParkBench Panel Discussions

Follow the event on http://twitter.com/skillsmatter #functionalpx

 

Groovy & Grails eXchange (2 days), London, UK, December 9th and 10th (only very few tickets left) – for groovy and grails developers

http://skillsmatter.com/event/java-jee/groovy-grails-exchange-2009/wd-441

Featuring Russ Miles, Guillaume LaForge, Russel Winder, Hans Dockter, Burt Beckwith, Venkat Subramaniam, Dierk Koenig, Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook, Tareq Abedrabbo, Sébastien Blanc, Tomas Lin and two ParkBench Panel Discussions

Follow the event on http://twitter.com/skillsmatter #groovygrailsx

 

Open Source in Finance eXchange (1 day), London, UK, December 15th – for JEE architects and developers of high performance, scalable systems in financial services

http://skillsmatter.com/event/cloud-grid/open-source-in-finance-exchange/wd-441

Featuring Alan Hardy, Rob Davies, Angelo Corsaro, David Vincent, Alex McGuire, Janne Valkealahti, Emma McGrattan and two ParkBench Panel Discussions

Follow the event on http://twitter.com/skillsmatter #opensourcefinx

 

 

 

A Career In Software – What are the options?

I have created a Wikimap for anyone to contribute to. The aim of the map is to make it easy for students, graduates and entry level programmers to understand the industry and decide which route seems more appealing.

I need help from the LJC to add to the map and highlight areas that I have missed or information that you feel would be useful.

It can be found here: http://www.mindmeister.com/34704025/a-career-in-software

We are now an official JUG…

We are now an official Java User Group (JUG) http://www.java.net/project/london-java-community-0

This will not affect the way that we are run however we can now benefit from being hooked into the international Java User Group scene and can benefit from Java developers moving to the UK looking for a User Group to participate in. If anyone is planning to relocate overseas let me know and I can provide an introduction to the User Group in that country. To read further about Sun’s JUG scheme you can visit this site: http://java.sun.com/community/usergroups/

I enquired as to how large the communities grow and was sent these statistics:

Cologne JUG Germany — has about 900 members

javaBin Norway runs JavaZone conference: 2000+ members

Belgian JUG runs DEVOXX.com developer conference about 2000 members

Netherlands JUG nljug.org runs Masters of Java Coding Competition, J-Fall Developer Conference, J-Spring Developer Conf. 3000 members

Java Community Process of Korea has over 8000 members in Seoul

But the big one – DFJUG Brasilia Brazil has over 30,000 JUG members!!!

New Meetup – RIA’s with Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS & Flex

http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/calendar/11801621/

James Ward: The RIA Cowboy

We have just confirmed a new Free Meetup from Adobe’s James Ward: Click the above link to RSVP.

RIAs with Java, Spring, Hibernate, BlazeDS, and Flex

Java developers want to use what they already know to build great software.

Rich Internet Applications allow us to build better software but with many of the options out there developers have to replace what they know with a new software stack. This session will help you learn how to use what you already know to begin building RIAs. For those new to Flex the session it will cover the basics of connecting a Flex application to a Java back-end powered by Spring and Hibernate. There will be tons of code aimed at those looking to make the move to RIA.

As usual we will find a suitable bar to frequent after the presentation for a free sponsored drink from myself.

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90’s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90’s; then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late 90’s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.

Design by Daniel Smallman – http://www.vanillachipcookie.co.uk/artwork.html

Barry Cranford

Free Technology books competition – just let me know which you want…

LJC/Packt Publishing Monthly Book Promotion

We have some new sponsors of technology books to the group. Packt Publishing are a unique publishing company specializing in highly focused books on specific technologies and solutions.

We are running a new promotion which will be taking place every month in which ONE LJC member will be selected at random to receive a free book.

Each month we will send you a list of 10 books. To take part in the promotion all you have to do is send an email to me at b.cranford@clearview-itrs.co.uk with your name, your book choice and the address you would like your book to be sent. Please mark Packt Publishing as the subject title.

Here are the books on offer this month, the winner will be picked at random and announced at the end of the month.

1. Drools JBoss Rules 5.0 Developer’s Guide
2. Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development
3. JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development
4. Alfresco 3 Enterprise Content Management Implementation
5. Flex 3 with Java
6. Spring 2.5 Aspect Oriented Programming
7. JBoss Drools Business Rules
8. JBoss Portal Server Development
9. WebSphere Application Server 7.0 Administration Guide
10. Blogger: Beyond the Basics

This offer is only open to LJC members. Membership is free, if you’re not already a member and would like to take part, please sign up here: http://www.meetup.com/Londonjavacommunity/

Good luck to you all.

Barry Cranford