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Thursday
Make More 💰 Money with Less 🛠Effort: 🧪 Experimentation Before Implementation
Presented by: Scott Showalter
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AMDeveloping apps is time consuming, with little guarantee of success. The Web, App Store, Google Play and beyond are littered with apps making low or no revenue because they don't solve problems people actually care about. Before you build your “killer” ap, how can you truly know beyond the...
Room: Portia/WisteriaTrack: MobileFormat: General SessionLevel: IntermediateFriday
The Creative Process of Coding
Presented by: Charlie Sweet
Time: Friday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AMThe process of writing software is often misunderstood. When you write business software you are not doing science, but rather art. Your job is not to build, but rather to design. Designing good software is about more than writing code. Knowing what code to write requires empathy and good...
Room: Portia/WisteriaTrack: Programming PrinciplesFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewWalking A Mile In Your Users' Shoes
Presented by: Jameson Hampton
Time: Friday 2:45 PM - 3:45 PMDeveloping apps for users in different demographics is inherently differently than developing apps just for ourselves and for other programmers. Understanding the needs of our users and learning to foster empathy for them is just as much of a skill as learning Rails or ActiveRecord — and it’s a...
Room: Portia/WisteriaTrack: UI/DesignFormat: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overview