Bamdad Dashtban

Software developer

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I'm mostly posting at Twitter these days. Please follow me at @bamdad 

if I write an article or blog post it probably is going to be on https://www.thoughtworks.com

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TicTacToe project

Hi,

I'm currently working on implementing and deploying a facebook application. 

Its a simple TicTacToe game. However I'm trying to implement it as a multiplayer game and publish it in facebook. Potentially having lots of players playing it online.

Important bits for me on this projects are :

- Event sourcing

- Message Queuing

- Multiplayer game

- Facebook app

- NodeJS and Socket.io

- Deployment scripts to AWS

So I'm going to learn a lot and hopefully ship a real application soon.

Check this project out at : https://github.com/bamdadd/tictactoe

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#twuknorth #thoughtworks #manchester office #foosball

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin

Bamdad Dashtban

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#TWUKNorth #Thoughtworks

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My Talk at Manchester Geek Night about Bitcoins

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Manchester Geek Night

Bamdad Dashtban Presenting Bitcoin

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Introduction to BitCoin, Open source P2P digital currency with Bamdad Dashtban

Tomorrow I'm speaking about Bitcoin at Manchester office, its gonna be streamed live.

Please feel free to join me in the office or online.

About the talk:

Bitcoin is a fairly new distributed open-source digital currency which has got a lot of attentions recently. Since it is a digital currency a lot of developer and geeks have started to trade, develop applications or provide services based on Bitcoin.

During this talk Bamdad is going to share his experience working with Bitcoin and services base on Bitcoin and cover an introduction about :

What Bitcoin is?

What is the difference between the current digital currencies and Bitcoin?

Where you can use Bitcoin?

How you can buy or sell Bitcoins?

What developers can do with Bitcoins?

How you can Mine Bitcoins?

...

About the speaker:

Bamdad is a Developer in Thoughtworks. He has been with Thoughtworks for about a year. He is based on Manchester office and he is very interested in Bitcoin and developing for it.

LiveStream

This event is being streamed online at :

https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1960766/Manchester-Geek-Nights-Bitcoin-Bamdad-Dashtban/

Please note: The office doors are locked at 7.00pm, so don't be late!

Please feel free to contact me if you have problem getting into the building

Twitter : @bamdad

Sponsor:

Manchester Geek Nights is sponsored by ThoughtWorks. Pizza and beers will be provided before the talk and we will be heading to KRO bar in Piccadilly Gardens for networking after the talk.

  #TWUKNorth , #Thoughtworks

Register here: 

http://www.meetup.com/manchester-geek-nights/events/122848562/

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Manchester Geek Night Update: Integration testing between multiple test suites with Ketan Soni

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

6:45 PM

ThoughtWorks Manchester

18th Floor City Tower Piccadilly Plaza, Manchester (edit map)

http://www.meetup.com/manchester-geek-nights/events/113264202/

About the talk:

Typically in organizations, there are multiple projects / products. Many organisations like to have a common Test Automation solution across these products in an effort to standardize the framework.  However, this is not a good idea! Each product should be tested using thetools and technologies that are “right” for it. Yet - these different products talk with each other and you need to test the integration between them in an automated way.

“TaaS - Test-as-a-Service” is an open-source product that allows you do achieve the “correct” way of doing integration testing across a variety of products via Test Automation.  Ketan will talk about: * Why it is not a good idea to have a common test automation framework * A way to automate the integration testing between different products, which use different tools and technologies as development and testing stack.

About the speaker:

Ketan is a QA in Thoughtworks. He has been with Thoughtworks for about 4 years. He is based on Pune office in India however he has been with us in Manchester office for about 4 Months. He has lots of interest in technology specifically testing.

LiveStream

This event is being streamed online at :

https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1960766/events/2013297?help=true

Please note: The office doors are locked at 7.00pm, so don't be late!

Please feel free to contact me if you have problem getting into the building

Twitter : @bamdad  Cellphone: 07429 242826

  #TWUKNorth , #Thoughtworks

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Happy #easter #my #first #easter #chocolate thanks to Tim (at ThoughtWorks North)

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Manchester Geek Night Feb 2013 : Hardware trends for developers and multicore programming with GPU

About the talk:

The talk will touch upon hardware trends and why developers need to know and care about this. Ian will also share some Scala and OpenCL to show that running code on a GPU is much easier than many people think. It will be prettygeeky!

About the speaker:

Ian is a Principal Technical Consultant and Architect with ThoughtWorks. He consults with companies on enterprise and software architecture, in particular around integration and SOA solutions. He is especially interested in the challenges of asynchronous concurrent software, the alignment of business and IT and the use of cloud and grid solutions. Ian is a member of the ThoughtWorks Technology Advisory Board.

LiveStream

This event is being streamed online at :

https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1960766/events/1862395?help=true

Please note: The office doors are locked at 7.00pm, so don't be late!

Please feel free to contact me if you have problem getting into the building

Register : http://www.meetup.com/manchester-geek-nights/events/103485642/

Twitter : @Bamdad

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Manchester Geek Nights with @diptanu #mcollective #twuknorth (at ThoughtWorks Manchester )

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Remembering #Aaron #swartz at #ThoughtWorks #TWUKNorth #Manchester (at ThoughtWorks Manchester )

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Thank you Aaron I did not know Aaron, but tonight, iPhone in hand, I cannot help but read the eulogies and realize the impact this young man had made. I mourn with your friends and family tonight, Aaron. Thank you for being an advocate for what we believe in and I am sorry to learn of your life and loss. Peace be with your immediate family and friends.

http://rememberaaronsw.tumblr.com/

http://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D8%B2

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Manchester Geek Nights: Automated Deployment Pipeline using Jenkins, Puppet, Mcollective and AWS

Manchester Geek Nights: Automated Deployment Pipeline using Jenkins, Puppet, Mcollective and AWS

With Diptanu Choudhury Continuous delivery is a software development strategy that optimizes your delivery process to get high-quality, valuable software delivered as quickly as possible. Different technologies and tools have been used in order to improve the delivery. Puppet is one of the famous technologies being used in configuration management and Diptanu is sharing his new approach in the usage of it with us.

About the Talk : In this talk Diptanu is going to talk about creating an automated Deployment Pipeline using Jenkins, Puppet, Mcollective and AWS. The talk is going to introduce the idea of masterless and nodeless puppet to scale puppet on distributed systems, and Diptanu is going to talk about how to use Package repositories to build asynchronous deployment pipelines and introduce Seli, his new open source package management project.

About The Speaker : Diptanu is a DevOps consultant at ThoughtWorks. He has an uncanny(?) interest in Distributed Systems, Big Data and Functional Programming and infrastructure automation.

This event is being broadcasted live at :

https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1960766/events/1796273

Please note: The office doors are locked at 7.00pm, so don't be late!

Register : http://www.meetup.com/manchester-geek-nights/events/98979092/

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Next Manchester Geek Nights : Behavior Driven Testing for Multichannel Enterprise Applications with Sudeep Somani

I'm hosting the next Manchester Geek Nights with following details. It will be also broadcasted on LiveStream please follow the channel if you are going to stream it live.

Behavior Driven Testing for Multichannel Enterprise Applications with Sudeep Somani

These days all the enterprises are trying to reach out to end consumers through multiple channels so that they can reach out masses. By multiple channels we mean mobile, tablets, web etc. Though irrespective of the channel used by the consumer, the user behavior remains the same in each case. For example a user can buy grocery from a retailer website, S/he can do the same by mobile web, iphone or an android app of the retailer through his phone, but in all cases user behavior remains the same i.e. S/he buys grocery.

In this talk we will discuss about how behavior driven tools comes handy when we test such multichannel enterprise applications. How they can be used to define user behaviors at a single place and can be reused across multiple channels. We will also give a live demo to support our talk. In the live demo we will showcase how we can run same user behavior (defined in cucumber) across multiple channels (iphone, andriod, web apps).

About the speaker:

Sudeep Somani is a Lead Quality Consultant at ThoughtWorks Europe.

Since joining ThoughWorks in 2008 Sudeep has worked on different domains like investment banking, retail, social networking for variety of customers. During his experience he has played different roles like QA, BA, IM, Trainer, Agile consultant.

Sudeep is very passionate about Test Automation and Behaviour driven development (BDD). He is practicing BDD for quite some time now and feels it has lot to offer and industry has just started on it.

Sudeep also carries lot of functional test automation experience and worked on large variety of proprietary and open source tools. He believes quality and coverage of functional test can suggest how robust and clean the software code is. He feels behavior of software should be defined by live and running functional test rather than documented test cases.

Sudeep loves adventure sports and already done many of them and still has lot of items in his to do list.

Please note: The office doors are locked at 7.00pm, so don't be late!

Please Register Here:

http://www.meetup.com/manchester-geek-nights/events/93160872/

Live Stream Link :

https://new.livestream.com/accounts/1960766/events/1705006

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