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The Art of Readable Code: Rethink Your Approach to Coding
Presented by: Steve Green
Time: Thursday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AMWe all have a lofty goal: programming style as documentation. Inspired by Steve McConnel’s “Code Complete,” Uncle Bob’s “Clean Code,” and Andrew Hunt’s “The Pragmatic Programmer,” this session will: • Review some best practices for writing code in a style that’s easy to...
Room: Salon A/HTrack: Programming PrinciplesFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewEnd the Stigma: Become a Mental Health Ally
Presented by: Matt Williams
Time: Thursday 9:15 AM - 10:15 AMIt is estimated that in the US, approximately one in five will experience mental illness each year. The incidence among IT professionals is likely higher -- a Japanese study of Software Engineers found that 32% of the participants suffered from depression or other mental illness. And yet......
Room: Sagewood / ZebrawoodTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewLet's Talk Bluetooth
Presented by: Leah Vogel
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMBluetooth has its own lingo. Don't know much about it? Want to learn to speak it? You’ve come to the right place! In this talk, you will hear a high-level overview of Bluetooth Low Energy and explain how it differs from Bluetooth Classic (BR / EDR). You will become familiar with the terminology...
Room: Aloeswood / LeopardwoodTrack: HardwareFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewCommon Accessibility Pitfalls: Climbing out, when you fall in.
Presented by: Chris DeMars
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMYou, your users, and Alice from Wonderland have something in common. At one point, everyone has fallen into a hole of perplexity, confusion, and sometimes hysterical madness. Unlike Alice, we can navigate ourselves and our users around the chaotic abyss that we call the web. Shipping inaccessible...
Room: CypressTrack: Web/Front-EndFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewDungeons, Dragons, and Graph Databases
Presented by: Guy Royse
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PMAre you an adventurer? Do you want gold? Experience? Levels? Of course you do! And where do you get these things? The dungeon, where else? That wonderful container of all things adventurous! But, unfortunately, dungeons aren't setup for the convenience of adventurers who wish to extract these fine...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewSabotage Productivity the CIA Way
Presented by: Matt Williams
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PMIn 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the CIA, published the Simple Sabotage Field Manual -- a guide for resistance forces to characterize simple sabotage, outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it. Ironically, many of the...
Room: Salon A/HTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFailing Successfully
Presented by: Cassandra Faris
Time: Thursday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PMFailure is normal. It’s so normal that many software development teams encourage people to fail and fail fast. Failure is also scary. It makes us feel vulnerable. We may even worry that our jobs, relationships, or goals are on the line. Yet we hear countless stories of people turning failure into...
Room: Nile/OrangeTrack: Teams/Leadership/The Future of WorkFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFriday
Understanding Probabilistic Data Structures with 112,092 UFO Sightings
Presented by: Guy Royse
Time: Friday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMThere are three reactions to the title of this talk: - What the heck’s a probabilistic data structure? - UFO Sightings… wha? - 112,092 is an oddly specific number. This is a talk about the first bullet point with the second thrown in just for fun. I like weird stuff—UFOs, Bigfoot, peanut...
Room: Salon E/DTrack: Programming PrinciplesFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFinding Bigfoot with Redis + RediSearch
Presented by: Guy Royse
Time: Friday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PMBigfoot has been a staple of American folklore since the 19th century. Many are convinced that Bigfoot is real. Others suggest he’s merely a cultural phenomenon. And some just want to believe. There is even a group, the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, that tracks Bigfoot sightings and...
Room: Salon A/HTrack: DataFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview