Inaugural FullStack / STL Meetup
Details
Doors open at 6:00 PM and talks will begin promptly at 6:30 PM and last 15 minutes each with 5 minutes for questions. Refreshments and snacks will be provided. Lively technical and non-technical discussions to follow. No recruiters please.
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First Talk: Catching up on ES6 (ES 2015) presented by Mark Volkmann
ES6, the latest version of JavaScript, added many great features. This talk explains many of them including block scope, default parameters, rest and spread operators, destructuring, arrow functions, enhanced object literals, class syntax, and template literals.
Mark Volkmann is a partner at Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) in St. Louis where he has provided software consulting and training since 1996. As a consultant, Mark has assisted many companies with JavaScript, Node.js, AngularJS, React, jQuery, Java, and XML application development.
Mark is a frequent presenter at St. Louis area user groups. He has written for XML Journal and the No Fluff Just Stuff magazine. He has presented at the XML DevCon, No Fluff Just Stuff, Strange Loop, MidwestJS, and Jfokus conferences.
Mark frequently writes articles on various software development topics. These can be found at http://ociweb.com/sett .
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Second Talk: Rails in the Stack presented by Chris Oliver
Where does Rails fit in the modern Web application development stack and what makes it such a great tool for rapid development in team environments? Chris will answer these and other strategic and technical questions related to one of his favorite tools.
Chris Oliver is the founder of the popular on-line tutorial and Rails screencasting site, GoRails.com (https://gorails.com/). He is also a co-founder of Launch Code (https://www.launchcode.org/), the St. Louis-based apprenticeship and training program that places individuals with non-traditional skill sets into technical jobs.
Chris has spent most of his career as software engineer and architect working in Linux, Python, Ruby, and Rails on cross-platform software development, web applications, and web application security. He is also an animated gif magician (http://animatedgif.me/).
You can read more about Chris on his site: http://excid3.com/
Feel free to contact Josh Peck with any questions at josh@ikayzo.com or 314-583-5674.