what i learned at that conference
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WHAT I LEARNED AT THAT CONFERENCE
kpd T4 8/22/13
BROAD STROKES
New Concepts
Technical Stuff Web Frameworks
Mobile
DevOps
Presentation skills
Interesting Quotes
NEW CONCEPTS
Open Allocation - Leveraging the wisdom of your crowd of developers
Tiny Habits – The little things you do aggregate to something big
Dunbar’s Number – ~150 stable human relationships
=> 3,375,000 people in your immediate network
TECH STUFF: WEB FRAMEWORKS
Backbone vs. Knockout. Better yet, Knockback.
Angular.js
Ember
React
Sammy
Derby
ColtJS
Spine
Bacon
BaconBacon
BBBJS
CanJS
Agility
TECH STUFF: MOBILE IS HOT HOT
As you might imagine, there were lots of ways to skin the mobile cat (native, PhoneGap, Xamarin), but the one consistent message is that mobile is young, we don’t know what we’re doing as a field, and you can’t afford the good mobile developers.
i.e., it’s a good skill to develop, if it’s at all interesting.
TECH STUFF: DEVOPS
It’s a culture and a process
Development and Infrastructure work together as a team
No party until Ops is thrilled
3 Ways: Systems Thinking
Amplify Feedback loops
Culture of Continual Experimentation and Learning
PRESENTATION STUFF
I’ve used SlideShare a lot – great for hosting PPT, like this
Prezi – Prezi.com
Impress.js
Niemeyer’s Knockout vs. Backbone talk – based on a cool project
Apple products are popular
Powerpoint 2013 is pretty nice, too, as a reasonable fallback
MOST QUOTABLE
"A ship is safe in the harbor, but that's not what ships are for"
William G.T. Shedd via Dave Thomas
MOST QUOTABLE
“Don’t put energy in the things you
don’t want more of”
MOST QUOTABLE
"Don't focus on your weaknesses"
MOST QUOTABLE
"As tech people, you have no excuse to be doing something
you don't like. Feed your spark; don't kill it.” – Denise
Jacobs
MOST QUOTABLE
“Code that's not maintainable can not
be changed... Can not be improved.”
MOST QUOTABLE
“Deploying software is often what ruins
developing software” –Rich Campbell
A STORY
“Do painful things more frequently, so you can make it less painful” – Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix Architect
Netflix: 30% of all evening internet traffic. Even beats spam.
Amazon is their service provider. When Amazon went down, Netflix didn’t. Do you know why?
They use ChaosMonkey
THE WEE ONES
Family conference
~200 spouses, 400 kids
6 geekling-specific sessions
One open space led by a 10 year old
Why? Because this.
FOLLOW UP – GO BE GREAT
Next year, That Conference August 11-13, 2014
Check out Meetups
OpenHack Naperville nights
CNUG – Downers Grove
Teach the little ones. We need them.