Looking to join a young, dynamic company with plenty of ambition? Not keen on the idea of a stuffy corporate IT environment? Fancy the idea of working in vibrant East London? Want to work with the latest technologies and have big say in the direction of your company? Do you take pride in the work that you do? If this sounds like your cup of tea then we may have a role just for you.

Concurrent Development is an IT consultancy based in Bethnal Green specialising in building high quality web applications for a wide variety of companies from the music industry to green energy. Focusing on Microsoft .NET we like to offer our clients the latest, best of breed products and as such you will be working with cutting edge technologies, such as MVC, NHibernate and jQuery.

You will be joining a young, relaxed environment where we prize initiative and lateral-thinking above CVs full of worthy extra-curricular activities. We expect you to quickly become a key member of our team and you will rapidly gain exposure to all our clients and technologies as we drop you in at the deep end – we can guarantee you’ll learn more with us than anywhere else.

For more information please call us on 020 3487 0708 or email jobs@concurrentdevelopment.co.uk.

We are very pleased to announce our new partnership with Mediachase, a US based eCommerce solution provider with whom we have an already strong relationship off the back of our successful Faber Music projects. Read more about our new partnership on the Mediachase site.

Today sees the launch of another ePartner sheet music download store.  This one is for the band Muse and can be found here: http://musesheetmusicdownloads.epartnershub.com/

It is very exciting to see our hard work paying off for our client Faber Music – our custom built management systems allowing them to launch new ePartner sites almost as soon as a design is finalised.

Are you a graduate looking for a job?  Do you want a career in IT?  If so, we are interested in hearing from you.  Check out the advert on our jobs / careers page.

After spending a long time working on an NHibernate project where SchemaUpdate was not working against a MySQL database I spent some time looking into the issue.  No errors were being spat out, I wasn’t even attempting to execute against the DB, just generate the script.  It just looked like my DB was in synch with my mappings.  It wasn’t.

With much scratching of head and several hours of trial and error I finally discovered this one irritating fact:  If you have a table in your MySQL database that contains a mapped column of type LONGTEXT, don’t expect SchemaUpdate to work.  TEXT works fine, so does MEDIUMTEXT (thank the maker – as TEXT is not long enough for this project), but not LONGTEXT.

Grrrr!

As of this week, we now work out of our new offices in the East End of London. Our new address is:

15 – 20 The Oval
London
E2 9DX

2 minute walk from Cambridge Heath rail
5 minute walk from Bethnal Green underground