I’m Lazy So I Write Tests

Does your team deal with bugs that could have been caught earlier in the development cycle? Wish you could get the benefits of Test-driven development (TDD) but are worried that your dev team might revolt or that stakeholders will think that you're being unproductive? In this talk, we'll discuss an approach I've taken to balance the concerns of developers and stakeholders while simultaneously increasing developer productivity, increasing knowledge sharing, and reducing software defects. I've named this approach "TBD", or "Test-backed development".

This is the video of the talk when I presented at The Lead Developer in Austin, TX in March 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAXjfYi-KyM

What’s My Age Again?

Have you ever been at a carnival and had your age guessed in one of those quiz games? The carnival barkers usually struggle to determine my age. What’s my age again? In this talk, we’ll build a microservice in Swift that will use IBM Watson’s Visual Recognition API to figure out my age (and the ages of some celebrities)!

This is the video of when I presented this talk at We RISE Tech in Atlanta, GA in June 2018: https://www.recallact.com/presentation/whats-my-age-again

Designers + Developers = Best Friends Forever?

How is the relationship between your design team and your development team? Is it highly functional? Or ‘just professional’? Maybe it has seen better days? In this talk, we’ll discuss some tips, based on my experience, for how to achieve that highly-coveted ‘Best Friends Forever (BFF)’ status between the Design and Development teams!

How Model-View-Presenter Can Be Your MVP

Does it feel as if Model-View-Controller (MVC) stands for ‘Massive ViewController’? When adding ‘just one more delegate’, do you think there might be a better way to declutter your code? We’ll discuss the Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern, which can clean up your code and make it more testable!

Helping Developers By Podcasting

Many developers are by nature quiet introverts, but there’s so much to gain from having more conversations — from rubber duck debugging, to arguing about spaces vs tabs, to speaking at conferences, and podcasting to the entire world!

In this session, More Than Just Code host Jaime will talk about his experience with a tech podcast and helping developers in their technical careers. Wherever you are on the scale from hermit to world-class famous person tech blogger, how can talking about development and code make the developer community better?

Web Components: 10 Things to Know

Web Components are an exciting, standards-based way to build web apps. However, not everyone knows much about them! We’ll discuss 10 things to know about Web Components including the main technologies involved in the standards and how LitElement and open-wc can help when building Web Components.