The Art of Readable Code: Rethink Your Approach to Coding
Presented by: Steve Green
We 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: ...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewEnd the Stigma: Become a Mental Health Ally
Presented by: Matt Williams
It is estimated that in the US, approximately one in five will ...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewImplementing Ethics in Emerging Technologies
Presented by: Carol Smith
Ethics discussions abound, but translating “do no harm” into our work is frustrating at best, and obfuscatory at worst. We can agree that keeping humans safe and in control is important, but implementing ethics is intimidating work. Learn how to wield your preferred technology ethics code to...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateCommon Accessibility Pitfalls: Climbing out, when you fall in.
Presented by: Chris DeMars
You, 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...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewLet's Talk Bluetooth
Presented by: Leah Vogel
Bluetooth has its own lingo. Don't know much about it? Want to learn to speak it? You’ve come to the right place! ...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewThe definitive deep dive into the .git folder
Presented by: Rob Richardson
What's in the .git folder? How are commits stored? How do branches work? We'll dive deep into the objects folder, unpack commits, look at the types of DAG nodes, examine object content, and build a complete visualization of the stored content. We'll also quickly look through Git hooks, Git config,...
Format: General SessionLevel: AdvancedWhat a global pandemic can tell you about better DevOps practices
Presented by: Jeremy Meiss
In early 2020 a global pandemic set in motion events which none of us could predict. With anonymous data collected from 900k+ devs, 25K orgs, and 30m+ builds/mo we found some interesting insights into better DevOps practices. Since then, we've seen even more interesting activities happen, which shed...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateDungeons, Dragons, and Graph Databases
Presented by: Guy Royse
Are 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...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewFailing Successfully
Presented by: Cassandra Faris
Failure 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...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewTinyML - AI in the Palm of your Hand
Presented by: Don Ward
Machine Learning has taken over the world. Decisions using data are being made in our daily lives every day in apps we use, to what ads we see in our social media. ...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewPutting the FUN back in Fundamentals: Data Structures, Algorithms, and More!
Presented by: Matt Williams
In this session, we will bring FUN back to Fundamentals as we: ...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateCrafting an interpreted programming language in 60 minutes
Presented by: Granville Schmidt
Are you curious how programming languages are designed and implemented? Do you have nightmares about the “magic” that happens when you run/compile your code? Have you ever wanted to create your own programming language from scratch? ...
Format: General SessionLevel: AdvancedVisualizing Code
Presented by: Matt Eland
What happens if we combine the fields of software architecture and data visualization? In this talk, we'll explore what the source code and work item management systems we work with every day can tell us about the evolving nature of software and how we communicate it. ...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateDesign Patterns for Loosely Coupled Applications in .NET
Presented by: Barry Stahl
Building loosely coupled applications is critical to creating solutions that follow good object oriented principles. These principles help make sure our applications are testable, maintainable and extensible. In this session we will explore several design patterns that are key to building...
Format: General SessionLevel: IntermediateBinary Analysis for noobs - An Intro to Reverse Engineering
Presented by: Jason Slagle
Do you often find yourself wondering how security researchers discover bugs in systems? How do they earn bug bounties by examining existing software? Are you struggling in CTF challenges whenever you are fed a binary? If so this session is for you! ...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewDocker for .NET Developers
Presented by: David Merk
Seamless CI/CD and releases, if that’s the Docker dream… why is it such a nightmare for .NET developers? If you’ve seen Docker done well using .NET Core, you’ll agree Docker empowers a CI/CD pipeline so simple you could trust an intern to trigger the release. In this session, you’ll...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewUnderstanding Probabilistic Data Structures with 112,092 UFO Sightings
Presented by: Guy Royse
There are three reactions to the title of this talk: ...
Format: General SessionLevel: Introductory and overviewBuild and Ship It!
Presented by: Joseph Guadagno
If you are like me, you have many libraries, helpers, utilities that you have built over time that you use for multiple projects. You've thought about publishing them to NuGet so you can share them with other projects or your team but didn't because they contain secrets, intellectual property, or...
Format: General SessionLevel: Intermediate