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Cory House's Talks
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Why I Left Angular and Knockout for React
January 7, 2016 3:30 PMReact with Flux offers a variety of novel ideas that will completely change the way you look at client-side development. Virtual DOM, Isomorphic rendering, unidirectional data flows, and JSX are just a few of the unique features we’ll explore. In this session we’ll learn the core concepts by…
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Writing Code for Humans
August 5, 2015 10:00 AMAnyone can write code a computer can understand, but professional developers write code humans can understand. This session discusses best practices for writing code in a style that’s easy to create, maintain and understand. We have a lofty goal: programming style as documentation. We’ll dis…
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Technology Selection Bootcamp: Owning the Adoption Curve
June 26, 2015 10:10 AMToday, more than ever, we’re overwhelmed with a seemingly endless list of technologies to consider. Frameworks, libraries, and even languages come and go at such a furious pace that no individual can possibly keep up. So how do you determine if a technology is worth learning? What should you…
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React with Flux: Dissecting Innovation
June 25, 2015 2:30 PMAre you building apps in Angular, Backbone, Knockout, or Ember today? Well come hang out with the new kid on the block! React with Flux offers a variety of novel ideas that will completely change the way you look at client-side development. Virtual DOM, Isomorphic rendering, unidirectional d…
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HTML5 Web Components: The Dawn of the Reusable Web
April 21, 2015 3:00 PMModern web developers are drowning in a sea of div tags and JavaScript libraries. Our markup isn’t semantic. And there’s no standard for creating components that can be shared across projects. But there’s great news: Web components are coming to the rescue, and will dramatically redefine the…
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Diving Into HTML5 Web Components
March 20, 2015 1:00 AMModern web developers are drowning in a sea of div tags and JavaScript libraries. Our markup isn’t semantic. And there’s no standard for creating components that can be shared across projects. But there’s great news: Web components are coming to the rescue, and will dramatically redefine the…
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Confessions of a Technical Speaker
March 14, 2015 9:25 AMConfessions of a Technical Speaker
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Dawn of Reusable Web: Diving into Web Components
March 3, 2015 10:30 AMModern web developers face some big problems. We’re drowning in a sea of div tags and JavaScript libraries. Our markup isn’t semantic. And there’s no standard for creating reusable components that can be shared across projects. But there’s great news: Web components are coming to the rescue,…
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Pragmatic Software Development: Curing the Archtecture Astronaut
March 3, 2015 8:00 AMAn architect’s job is to manage complexity, not increase it. Yet the developer life is filled with jargon, acronyms, and seemingly infinite choices. So how do we know when complexity makes sense? Let's discuss when abstractions are justified and determine how to structure applications so the…
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Clean Code: Writing Code for Humans
January 8, 2015 10:30 AMAnyone can write code a computer can understand, but professional developers write code humans can understand. This session discusses best practices for writing code in a style that’s easy to create, maintain and understand. We have a lofty goal: programming style as documentation. We’ll dis…
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The Dawn of the Reusable Web: Diving into Web Components
January 8, 2015 10:30 AMModern web developers are drowning in a sea of div tags and JavaScript libraries. Our markup isn’t semantic. And there’s no standard for creating components that can be shared across projects. But there’s great news: Web components are coming to the rescue, and will dramatically redefine the…
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Web Components: The Dawn of the Reusable Web
December 4, 2014 10:20 AMModern web developers are drowning in a sea of div tags and JavaScript libraries. Our markup isn’t semantic. And there’s no standard for creating components that can be shared across projects. But there’s great news: Web components are coming to the rescue, and will dramatically redefine the…
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Self-documenting Code: A Mob Powered Vocabulary Lesson
December 4, 2014 9:00 AMWriting code for the computer is easy. Writing code your co-workers can maintain and understand is hard. So in this live, interactive refactoring session, you’ll learn how to write code with readability in mind by discussing an ugly chunk of code together. We’ll transform a sloppy class into…
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Pragmatic Software Development: Curing the Architecture Astronaut
September 4, 2014 9:15 PMAn architect’s job is to manage complexity, not increase it. Yet the developer life is filled with jargon, acronyms, and seemingly infinite choices. So how do we know when complexity makes sense? Let's discuss when abstractions are justified and determine how to structure applications so the…
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Pragmatic Software Development: Curing the Architecture Astronaut
August 28, 2014 12:00 PMAn architect’s job is to manage complexity, not increase it. Yet the developer life is filled with jargon, acronyms, and seemingly infinite choices. So how do we know when complexity makes sense? Let's discuss when abstractions are justified and determine how to structure applications so the…
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Real World SPA: A Knockout Case Study
August 28, 2014 10:30 AMTypical technology sessions walk through a trivial example application to give you a taste of the technology. So hey, let’s do the opposite! In this session we’ll dissect the largest single page application of my career. This is an HTML5 application that our Silverlight guys said couldn’t be…
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Become an Outlier - Reprogramming the Developer Mind
August 28, 2014 5:30 AMAs a developer, your image and your mind are your product. We’ll discuss the concrete activities and skills that transform average developers into outliers. You’ll learn why developers can’t afford cable, ways to improve your “luck surface area”, and techniques to compress your career throug…
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Clean Code - Writing Code For Humans
August 27, 2014 6:15 AMAnyone can write code a computer can understand, but professional developers write code humans can understand. This session discusses best practices for writing code in a style that’s easy to create, maintain and understand. We have a lofty goal: programming style as documentation. We’ll dis…