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• Cooking on gas - endjin helps one of Britain’s best restaurants reshape its online presence

  

• Win a copy of the endjineers' latest book: Programming C# 4.0

  

• endjin partners with JetBrains to deliver Training & Consulting

  

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• Endjineer speaks at 30th "Getting Started"
  

  Last week endjineer Howard van Rooijen was asked to speak at the 30th "Getting Started" - The Goldsmiths' Company annual week-long programme for recent UK graduates of precious metal courses. It has helped to launch the career of many of the industry's stars over its 30 year history. Delivered as a series of seminars and workshops, the programme focuses on the next steps for those wishing to pursue a career within the industry.

  Howard was asked to talk about the importance of The Web and Social Media: "When it comes to building a business, technology levels the playing field. For less money than you spend on your monthly mobile phone rental you can enable your company to sell online, directly to your customers. You can use free social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter to promote your brand, engage directly with your customers and you can also use social networks like LinkedIn to help grow your professional reputation and network. These are very powerful tools for business, but have to be used wisely." said Howard, "I’m very excited to be speaking at Getting Started - having seen, first hand, the huge positive effect Getting Started had on my sister’s career, it’s wonderful to have an opportunity to give something back."

• Endjineers release new book: Programming C# 4.0
  

  Endjineers Matthew Adams and Ian Griffiths have just released "Programming C# 4.0", published by O'Reilly Media.

  This bestselling tutorial shows you how to build web, desktop, and rich Internet applications using C# 4.0 with .NET's database capabilities, UI framework (WPF), extensive communication services (WCF), and more. The sixth edition covers the latest enhancements to C#, as well as the fundamentals of both the language and framework. You'll learn concurrent programming with C# 4.0, and how to use .NET tools such as the Entity Framework for easier data access, and the Silverlight platform for browser-based RIA development.

  "C# has evolved considerably, which means that the way to get the best from the language has also changed," says author Ian Griffiths. "Our goal is to furnish readers with a deep understanding of the language, not only in the traditional worlds of web server development and desktop software, but also in new areas such as client-side web development and mobile software. They will know what C# can do and, perhaps more importantly, why."

• Endjin partners with JetBrains to deliver Training and Consulting
  

  For over ten years, JetBrains has been creating tools for software developers that help them be more efficient at their job.

  They have a passion for making people more productive through smart software solutions that help them focus more on what they really want to accomplish, and less on mundane, repetitive "computer busy work".

  "At endjin, we are committed to the principle of working smarter not harder, and JetBrains' tools have long been an important part of that for us," said endjineer Howard van Rooijen. Commenting on the partnership he added, "We are delighted to be able to announce that endjin is working with JetBrains to provide training and consulting services for their customers. As part of a broad engagement, endjin can help you make the best use of JetBrains' best-in-class products like Resharper, YouTrack and TeamCity to improve your software delivery process."

  "A company is made up of individuals and when it comes to consultancies, this is a vital factor," says Hadi Hariri, Technical Evangelist at JetBrains. "Endjin is great in that it is made up of a group of people that share a common thing: passion, commitment and knowledge. I know a few of the members of Endjin personally and I've always found them to be very professional in what they do. I wish them the best success in their new venture."

• Endjin appoints Steve Garnett as Non-Executive Director
  

  Endjin is delighted to announce the appointment of Steve Garnett to the board of directors in the capacity of Non-Executive Director (NxD).  

  Steve brings a wealth of experience across multiple verticals having held positions as Head of Software Development, Head of E-commerce & Technology and Director of Agile Consulting. Graduating from Henley Business School with an MBA in 2004, Steve is also considered an expert in agile software development having trained with Ken Schwaber and pioneered its adoption at Conchango.  

  Upon his appointment to the board Steve said he "was excited and energised about the prospect of working with such an innovative and forward-thinking executive team. Endjin is part of a new breed of 21st Century companies who are breaking down traditional mindsets, and thinking about how businesses should work by creating novel, sustainable, and ethical business models."

• Endjin partners with Sleek Networks
  

  Sleek Networks provide specialist hosting and IP services to organisations that require highly performing, highly available and highly secure Internet. It was formed by a group of like-minded professionals who are responsible for the design, implementation and support of some of the largest hosting platforms in the UK today. These Internet hosting solutions underpin the critical web operations of many FTSE 100 Companies and handle millions of pounds worth of transactions every day.

  Endjin is today announcing a partnership with Sleek Networks, reciprocally offering Sleek's high-quality hosting services and endjin's web creative and consulting expertise.

  "If you want to deliver a rich, immersive and engaging user experience to your customers, then you need to know that your host has the ability to ensure that it is always available, scalable and secure," said endjin's creative director and co-founder, Lloyd Hardwick.

  "Today we can announce that Sleek Networks are our preferred partner for hosting in the UK. We trust our own mission-critical infrastructure to Sleek, and there's no better recommendation than that," added endjin co-founder, Matthew Adams.