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Resistance is Futile: You Will be Glass-imilated
Gabbie Gibson introduces Google Glass, how to use voice commands, touch gestures and its interface, and how to write Glassware apps that run on the device.
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Sweet Elixir! A Gentle Introduction to Erlang’s Cute Younger Brother Elixir
Ryan Cromwell introduces Elixir, a , functional distributed meta programming language inspired by Ruby and compiling to Erlang VM, covering pattern matching, pipelines and tail-call recursion.
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The Secrets of LINQ: The Modern Day Houdini
Brian Korzynski unveils the secrets on LINQ, how it works and the constructs it uses, covering Funcs, Actions, lambdas, and expressions.
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Estimation for the Real World
Chris Trevarthen discusses how to reduce the amount of time spent estimating, providing more meaningful estimates, and building trust with the business.
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TDD: Why We Don't Party Like It's 1999
Jason Felice introduces TDD, how it came about, the two schools of TDD thought, the differences and contradictions between them.
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Getting Sassy with CSS
Julie Cameron introduces Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets, a CSS meta-language and precompiler, covering nesting, variables, mixins, inheritance, directives, gotchas, tools, extensions, and tips.
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Hello Ansible: A Story about Infrastructure Agility
Baraa Basata introduces Ansible, comparing it with Chef and Capistrano and exploring automation principles: disposable servers, package management, and applying design principles to infrastructure.
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Understanding Objective-C Inside and Out
Jeff Kelley discusses Objective-C basics – properties, categories – and more advanced features – linking, ARC, creating classes at runtime, memory management and tagged pointers.
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Introduction to TypeScript
Bill Wagner introduces TypeScript presenting its basic features such as its syntax and using JavaScript libraries.
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Careful with Those People Skills: You'll Poke Somebody's Eye Out!
Angela Harms keynotes on the importance of improving relationship and communication through empathetic listening, authentic connection and compassion rather than applying practices blindly.