Moving to a distributed system will solve all your problems and you will be in developer heaven. Right? Not exactly, having hundreds of services doing different things means it’s increasingly difficult knowing where exactly production issues are hiding. In this talk Sam Elamin will relate his real life experience working …
This talk traces back the steps of the programmer profession to its beginnings over 70 years ago, and reflects on how those beginnings might have shaped our image of programmers. The “programmer brand” in society today is still the omnipresent stereotype of a socially-awkward, white man.
The physical world is just another binary machine. Data creation, analysis, and corruption combined with JavaScript can make new and unexpected things. Can you programmatically extract joy from the subjectivity it exists in? Can it be translated into intentional forms to hook others in? This session will gently take you …
The history of software development is rich with extraordinary individuals whose knowledge of their systems was unrivalled. But in 2016, where distributed systems and machine learning are ubiquitous and the average web app uses two frameworks, four languages and six caching layers, does it make any sense to talk about …
Code lines are added at high speed? Too many developers? How do you see the big picture? What processes are going on with your large code base? This presentation shows how to leverage existing code analysis tools (Gource, D3, Git and others) to make at least some sense out of …
Some definitions of psychology, philosophy and programming. Philosophy: ancient Greek for “love of wisdom”, philosophy is the study of the general and fundamental nature of reality, existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language. Psychology: the study of mind and behavior. Programming: ancient Latin for “please God let it compile this …
