As big codebases age they often struggle to keep up with changes to programming languages and package development.
New language features can't be easily adopted, and packages are often stuck on an old version due to a backwards-incompatible change. Fixing this requires large scale refactoring which can often take hundreds of hours. Why not automate it?
In this talk we'll look at Rector, a PHP refactoring tool that automates hundreds of different refactorings. We'll look at different use cases, writing our own refactorings, and even converting an entire project from one framework to another!
As big codebases age they often struggle to keep up with changes to programming languages and package development.
New language features can't be easily adopted, and packages are often stuck on an old version due to a backwards-incompatible change. Fixing this requires large scale refactoring which can often take hundreds of hours. Why not automate it?
In this talk we'll look at Rector, a PHP refactoring tool that automates hundreds of different refactorings. We'll look at different use cases, writing our own refactorings, and even converting an entire project from one framework to another!
Find Co-Founders, Advisers and Investors with Teresa Jackson
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The League of Entrepreneurs in Glasgow is hosting a free event tonight in Glasgow: "Find Co-Founders, Advisers and Investors with Teresa Jackson"
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Come along for an exciting, dynamic and inspiring entrepreneurial event with an exclusive Fireside Chat with Entrepreneur and Founder of Collabor8te, Teresa Jackson on Tuesday 24th September 2019.
Hangout with like-minded, ambitious Entrepreneurs and Startup Founders from around the world and meet people to help build your startup or even find a startup to join as a CoFounder, Investor, Mentor or Adviser.
NOTE: Please join our local meetup group of awesome Entrepreneurs and Investors here https://www.meetup.com/League-of-Entrepreneurs-Glasgow/
ALSO:
Share startup war stories
Gain information on funding opportunities
Discover ways to increase your chances of success
GET UP AND PITCH!
- Practice your pitch in a safe environment and get positive feedback before you have your one big chance to impress.
- Tell the group what your idea is and ask for help in finding cofounders, funding or support.
- Ask a tough question you would like the Entrepreneurs, Advisors and Investors in the room to solve for you.
AGENDA
18:30 Check-In and Networking
19:00 Fireside chat and discussion with Teresa Jackson
19:30 'Get Up And Pitch' for CoFounders, Advice or Funding
20:00 Meetup Melee (talk to potential cofounders, advisors, investors and people you can help)
21:30 End of Meetup
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ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER
Teresa has been supporting Entrepreneurs and business professionals in Scotland for over ten years. She was President of Scottish Women in Business 2017 - 2018 and is now the Founder and Director of Collabor8te.
Teresa believes in the power of small businesses working together and inspired by the relationships formed, trusted established, more opportunity and success she witnesses amongst the community of entrepreneurs who use Collabor8te.
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WHO IS THIS EVENT FOR?
Aspiring Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurial students
Founders who want to find a CoFounder
Entrepreneurs who want to raise investment
Angel Investors who want to find startups to support
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Check out our most recent Fireside Chats here:
Entrepreneur and Angel Investor Jim Laidlaw 2 July 2019 https://youtu.be/bo8W5VFefOk
Entrepreneur Gavin Neate 4 June 2019 https://youtu.be/ZpZYdTS67WE
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ABOUT THE VENUE
The Piper Whisky Bar address is 57 Cochrane Street, George Square, Glasgow, G1 1HL
We will be in the first floor party room at the Piper Whisky Bar
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About the organisers of The League of Entrepreneurs Glasgow
James Shoemark James is on a mission to find and support people who can make a difference in the world via entrepreneurship - this includes entrepreneurs, investors and advisors who are driving innovation.
Michael Clouser is a Serial Entrepreneur as well. A former venture capitalist in the US, Mike was also with the Edinburgh-Stanford Link and co-founded the Edinburgh Entrepreneurship Club (E-Club). He also organized and coordinated the Scotland-Silicon Valley Link.
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• Pitch your services to all the Entrepreneurs in the room
Doors open at 6pm for our talk to start at 6:30pm.
This talk is suitable for relative beginners on WordPress.
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Page Builders allow non-developers to create unique and attractive layouts for most WordPress websites.
Claudia Kirkwood of SuperSimpleWebsites has been using Page Builders for several years, particularly BeaverBuilder and will illustrate the pros and cons of using them. She will also compare their functionality with the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg) and how they will fare in the future.
If you are using (or thinking of using) Page Builders for your website, then this is the talk for you.
We look forward to seeing you here.
Lean Agile Glasgow - Amazing talks and lots of variety happe
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Calum Shepherd: @calumshepherd
Avoiding ’banana skins’
Using some simple methods, it's possible to avoid those painful moments where everyone is on the same page - until they're not. Avoiding 'banana skins' is a short talk to help with creating clear direction for, and alignment across, your digital products.
Calum is a Strategist and Product manager and has been inspiring me for years.
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Martin Bate: @MR10BB
Agile, punk, community and rebellion.
After Lean Agile Scotland 2017 Mike Hill tweeted, “The agile movement is skilled at rebellion and community”. It was at that moment I realised why I felt at home here.
As someone who played music in the Do-It-Yourself Punk scene of the 1990’s I could see many of the same structures, behaviours and philosophies mirrored in our Agile community. The question in common is, “how do we create something, ethically, with the minimum amount of waste?”
So, if the approaches and human behaviours of a collective that spanned continents can be seen mirrored in our community today, are there more cautionary lessons to be learned from what happened next?
Martin is a candid scrum master who was crazy enough to give me a job once. Then he quit 2 weeks later....
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Brendan Forbes: @BrendanForbes7
Army to agile.
Background, organisational structures, transferable skills, and planning tools. How one Platoon Sergeant used his combat skills to navigate organization agility.
Brendan's story is really amazing. He won me over in an interview drawing his parallels between the army and agility. I'm really looking forward to this talk.
We often use User Stories to break down our big ideas into reasonable, valuable chunks. What many people don't know is how to then manage these stories. What order do we tackle them in? How do we know where we are?
Enter User Story Mapping.
In this workshop, you'll learn how to collaboratively create a User Story Map that'll help you navigate through even the toughest pieces of work.
We have a Code of Conduct. To attend our events, you must accept the ideas and actions within it: https://www.meetup.com/Lean-Agile-Glasgow/about/
Queer Code Scotland is a new meetup bringing together LGBTQ+ people who work in the technology industry, or who are studying to get there.
Data Engineering (and indeed the role of Data Engineer) can mean a lot of different things to many different people. In this meetup, we will share a few varying perspectives on our experiences in data engineering across several different industries. The speakers:
- Ali King, Data Engineer
- Andy Herd, Data Engineer at FanDuel
- Kate Ho, Former Head of Product (Data Platform) at Sainsburys Bank
Code of conduct: https://queer-code.org/coc
Food and drink will be provided, and there will be a chance to chat and network before and after the talk. Thanks to FanDuel for hosting us and providing the refreshments!
Skyscanner is based on 155 St Vincent Street. It is a Glass / Steel building with big copper square round the entrances. There are two entrances but Skyscanner is only in 155, the one further up the hill of St Vincent Street.
#Registration
When registering on the day you will need to provide your full name & email address.
#Food & drink
Food & drink will be provided!
# How the event works
After we have decided on some challenges for the evening, we break into small groups (2-4 people) and see how far we can get. After about 90 minutes we get together and share what we have learnt, showing code and demo's of it in action.
# Requirements
If you have a laptop with a working Clojure environment please bring it along. As we arrange ourselves into small groups, if you don't have a laptop you can still join in.
We are collecting all our kata solutions here, take a peek at what we've done so far (https://github.com/glasgow-clj/dojofun)
# Discussions
We’ll be discussing the meetup on the london-clojurians mailing list (http://groups.google.com/group/glasgow-clojurians-group/)
If you want to know how to run your own dojo or get an idea of what dojos are like you can read more at http://otfrom.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/faq-how-much-do-i-need-to-know-before-i-come-to-the-dojo/
# Background
Clojure is a JVM language that has syntactically similarities to Lisp, full integration with Java and its libraries and focuses on providing a solution to the issue of single machine concurrency.
Its small core makes it surprisingly easy for Java developers to pick up and it provides a powerful set of concurrency strategies and data structures designed to make immutable data easy to work with. If you went to Rich Hickey’s LJC talk about creating Clojure you’ll already know this, if not it’s well worth watching the Rich Hickey “Clojure for Java Programmers” (http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/clojure-for-java-programmers) video or Stuart Halloway “Radical Simplicity” (http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/radical-simplicity) video.
‘Durable DevOps’ is all about building scalable IT systems that cannot be broken. If they face stress or change, they don’t break or fail - they flex and get stronger by learning, adapting, and improving. Our Durable DevOps Scotland event brings this theme to life as senior tech experts from Morgan Stanley, MThree and Armakuni discuss the latest trends and the ways you can harness the true power of DevOps. Whether you’re new to the DevOps methodology, or you’re already working in a DevOps environment, you can expect to take away practical advice from experts who are at the forefront of transformations.
Delighted to post the final agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 28th August 2019.
We will have two speakers on the night, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:45 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:45 – 19:30 : Michael Roddy, Skyscanner
“Michael” will share Skyscanner’s learnings on the hidden challenge of API Rate Limiting and the pain and problems it can cause.
Overview: In this talk, Michael discusses Skyscanner’s exploration of a poorly documented area of AWS – API Rate Limiting. An increasing problem for the company, it requires care to avoid and diagnose production incidents. Michael will talk about how diagnosing these issues happens at Skyscanner currently, and how it’s pushing them to a multi-account approach to AWS.
19:30 – 19:45 : Craig Muir, AWS User Group Glasgow
Group discussion on the upcoming AWS Glasgow User Group Certification approach workshop scheduled for October…
19:45 – 20:00 : Break
20:00 – 20:45 : Guy Templeton, Skyscanner
“Guy’ will share an overview of the challenges of running large workloads on AWS Spot instances, but also the benefits it can bring them.
Overview: In this talk, Guy will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 15,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
20:45 - 21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
Doors open at 6pm for our talk to start at 6:30pm.
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An introduction to several different Page Builders and how they are adapting to the WordPress world now that the Block Editor is in place.
Claudia Kirkwood of SuperSimpleWebsites will take us through some working examples. More details to follow
Doors open at 6pm for our talk to start at 6:30pm.
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Having postponed our July MeetUp we expect you have lots of questions lined up for our workshop/helpdesk session.
Bring your laptop and your WordPress questions... someone will either have the answer for you or know someone else who does.
And you may have a solution for somebody else! We're all learning so don't think that everyone else knows more. You may have just the expertise that someone is looking for.
New Verve presents Atlassian in Scotland is back and it promises to be bigger and better than our previous event!
Now in its second year, Atlassian in Scotland 2020 is the only full-day event in Scotland that brings together fellow Alassians to collaborate, discover and have fun! The conference will once again celebrate effective teamworking by showcasing Atlassian products and partner tools, sharing customer success stories and providing plenty of opportunities to network and knowledge share. Gain new insights directly from Atlassian experts, partners, sponsors and like-minded peers.
Next year's focus will be on IT Service Management (ITSM). Hosted by New Verve Consulting, Scotland's only Atlassian Gold Solution Partner, this event is for anyone who is interested in Atlassian products and tools, and how they can help transform your IT and business teams.
Delighted to post the final agenda for the next AWS User Group Glasgow Meet Up on Wednesday 28th August 2019.
We will have two speakers on the night, please RSVP if you intend to come along to help make sure we have food and drinks for everyone.
Agenda:
18:15 – 18:45 : Door Opens, Food, Refreshments and Networking
18:45 – 19:15 : Michael Roddy, Skyscanner
“Michael” will share Skyscanner’s learnings on the hidden challenge of API Rate Limiting and the pain and problems it can cause.
Overview: In this talk, Michael discusses Skyscanner’s exploration of a poorly documented area of AWS – API Rate Limiting. An increasing problem for the company, it requires care to avoid and diagnose production incidents. Michael will talk about how diagnosing these issues happens at Skyscanner currently, and how it’s pushing them to a multi-account approach to AWS.
19:45 – 20:00 : Break
20:00 – 20:30 : Guy Templeton, Skyscanner
“Guy’ will share an overview of the challenges of running large workloads on AWS Spot instances, but also the benefits it can bring them.
Overview: In this talk, Guy will discuss Skyscanner's experiences of running Kubernetes production workloads on spot instances at scale. This has brought them savings of over 70% on compute cost whilst running more than 15,000 pods and serving more than 3 million requests per minute across multiple clusters. He will reveal the benefits this brings to the company, the challenges for cluster operators, and areas for improvement in how the Kubernetes ecosystem handles these challenges.
20:30 – 20:45 : Craig Muir, AWS User Group Glasgow
Group discussion on the upcoming AWS Glasgow User Group Certification approach workshop scheduled for October…
21:00 : AOB, Next Meet Up Agenda, Good Night, Pub.
Sponsors:
Thanks to Skyscanner for letting us use their office, supplying refreshments and help on the night.
