Storm ID Are Hiring .NET Developers!

Our Edinburgh venue host and full service digital agency, Storm ID, is looking for 2 talented .NET developers and a SharePoint developer.

Storm have a few key vacancies we are looking to fill.

If you are smart and love the web then you are 80% of the way there. Add in a bit of the right experience and some ambition and you’re in…

…have a look and get in touch 🙂

Senior Web Developer (£30k – £40k)

This role would suit someone from an agency background with solid experience of creating public facing web applications.

Your work focus will range across a number of tasks including building out areas of existing applications; helping define solutions and creating prototypes; and taking the lead on full bespoke projects. This work will offer you contact with the full technology stack and will challenge you to work with others and build complimentary skills. Our core tools and technologies come from Microsoft but we are completely agnostic when it comes to creating the right technical solution.

Web Developer – Support Team (£25k – £35k)

This role would suit someone from an agency background with some solid coding experience and wanting to learn fast.

Your work will focus on a key account, supporting and extending a range of projects built on the latest technology stack.

There is scope in this role for you to stay in the support team and broaden your exposure to other projects, or move further into bespoke development in the web team.

This work will offer you contact with the full technology stack and will challenge you to work with others and build complimentary skills. Our core tools and technologies come from Microsoft but we are completely agnostic when it comes to creating the right technical solution.

SharePoint Developer (£30k-£45k)

This role is ideal for an experienced SharePoint developer. You’ll be working closely with a team of experienced technical developers, user experience designers, consultants and project managers for clients such as: Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, RBS, NHS, Glasgow Life and The Scottish Government. The work is varied, interesting and challenging and you’ll be working on the latest Microsoft technology stack.

You will have a strong interest in SharePoint , and will be a developer who has moved to SharePoint because they like the platform, rather than a SharePoint admin who wants to do development.

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About Storm ID

At Storm ID you will be working in the company of talented programmers, designers, account and project managers.

You will get support from management to let you focus on what you do best, access to a wide variety of high profile projects and the chance to develop your skills from the moment you step inside the building.

Some facts

We build some of the most ambitious web solutions, mobile apps and social media campaigns for the Government, private and public sector.

Millions of pounds flow through our eCommerce solutions.

We send more than 4 million emails a month from our marketing solutions.

We tweet from our Twibbon Twitter account with 1.2 million engaged followers.

Our comic viewer, augmented reality, face-in-the hole, news and daily deal mobile apps running on iOS and Android phones and tablets have more than 10,000 sessions a day.

We work with some incredible clients: Disney, Mars, LiveStrong, ITV, RBS, Microsoft, Lloyds, M&S, NHS Scotland, Scottish Government, Trinity Mirror, DC Thomson, Scottish and Southern Energy to name but a few.

What you get

At Storm ID we strive to create the best working environment possible – industry leading tools to help you do your job, paid training, great coffee, fresh fruit, massages, in office PlayStation 3, the best table tennis in Edinburgh and excellent work mates. You’ll also receive:

• 33 days holiday
• A salary commensurate with experience

After 3 months

• Virgin Pension (employer non-contributory)
• Eyecare Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers

After a year

• PRP (Profit Related Pay)
• BUPA
• Cycle to Work Scheme

If you’re interested in any of these positions check out http://blog.stormid.com/2012/10/working-at-storm/ for details on how to apply.

Event: Edinburgh 09/10/2012: Single Page Application Development with backbone.js and Simple.Web

Scottish Developers are pleased to announce that Chris Canal will be speaking at Microsoft’s Edinburgh office on the 9th of October 2012!

With the rise of smarter browser, single page applications are becoming more popular. In this session we will look at creating a full client side application with and without backbone.js, and use Simple.Web to run the server-side part of the application.

Simple.Web
A lightweight, object-oriented (Model-View-Handler) framework for modern web development in .NET

Simple.Web Design Goals

• Keep it simple;
• It should be ridiculously easy to do TDD and/or BDD;
• Support asynchronous, non-blocking handling of requests;
• Make it easy to build a proper RESTful, hypermedia-driven application and services, including supporting content-type negotiation for all requests, including HTML;
• Be really open and extensible, because if people can write plug-ins and add-ons easily, I don’t have to build all that stuff in.

Backbone.js
Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

Please register for this free event here.

About the speaker
Chris has worked at a Web Developer for the past 7 years. Starting with procedural languages like ASP and PHP, he quickly moved onto the .NET Platform when first released. A great believer is continual–improvement, Chris is constantly looking for new technologies, tools and methodologies that will help in creating robust and maintainable software applications.

Chris currently works at StormId as a Senior Developer and Mentor, as well as trying to keep his manager from doing something crazy.

Gill Cleeren on Windows Runtime & Metro Apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone App Development

Scottish Developers are pleased to present two talks by Gill Cleeren on Wednesday 23rd November 2011 in Edinburgh.

The event is free to attend, however for health and safety reasons, we request that you register via this page.

Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director (www.theregion.com), MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider. He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Passionate about .NET, he’s always playing with the newest bits. In his role as Regional Director, Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF. He also leads VISUG (www.visug.be), the largest .NET user group in Belgium. He’s the author of the upcoming book called Silverlight Data Access Cookbook. You can find his blog at www.snowball.be

Building a Windows Phone 7 app from start to finish

Have you been dreaming about browsing through the Windows Phone Marketplace and seeing your application at the top-selling list but don’t know where to start? In this session, we’ll take a look at how to build an entire Windows Phone 7 application from the very start to deployment in the marketplace. You’ll be creating your own apps minutes after you leave the room.

Windows Runtime and Metro Apps for Windows 8

At BUILD 2011, Microsoft announced Windows 8. This upcoming version of Windows is probably the biggest change the OS ever went through. Windows 8 focuses on web, apps, touch and the tablet form factor. For developers, things will change as well. They need to be ready to build applications, called Metro applications, tailored for Windows 8 or adapt their existing applications for the new OS. Together with Windows 8, Microsoft announced Windows Runtime (WinRT), a new way of working with Windows.

As you can see, that’s a lot of new stuff to get your head around! To help you, Gill Cleeren, Microsoft Regional Director and Silverlight MVP will explain you the new strategy that Microsoft is taking. In this talk, we’ll see what WinRT really is, how we can use it to build Metro applications with and how we can leverage C# and Silverlight knowledge to build Metro applications. We’ll take a look at a fully working application as well to give you a clear picture of all the knowledge you’ll gather during this hour.

By joining this session, the developer story for Windows 8 will have less secrets for you!

Location

 The Corn Exchange,
35 Constitution Street,
Edinburgh,
EH6 7BS

Agenda

18.30 – Doors open
18.55 – Welcome
19.00 – Building a Windows Phone 7 app from start to finish
19.55 – Break
20.05 – Windows Runtime and Metro Apps for Windows 8
21.00 – Close

Register to attend here: http://gillcleeren2011.eventbrite.com/