Lightning Talks

Sponsors: HMH (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Hey all,

for our April meetup we are doing another Lightning Talks session. These are talks of ~5 min in length about anything and everything web development related. We have 13 talks lined up:

• Thomas Horvath - Getting started with Webpack
• Pat O'Callaghan - Glimmer
• James Coll - Angular + Play Framework
• Nikita Chong - Angular $scope
• Artur Daschevici - Reactive Programming
• Adam Markon - JSX Syntax
• Cormac McGuire - Being an Engineering Manager
• Andres Grams - SSR with Vue.js
• David McMullin - Abstraction Vertigo
• Jerome Etienne - How to emulate a daydream controller with your phone!
• Chris Manson - Ember Data
• Alan Quigley - Redux / Reselect - Normalized states and derived properties
• Dennis Kenny - ReactVR

If you would like to talk about something else just let us know.

Thanks to our sponsors, HMH (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), http://www.hmhco.com/ (http://www.hmhco.com/,) who will be providing pizza and beer on the night. Here’s a bit about them:
Changing People's Lives by Fostering Passionate, Curious LearnersIt's not just our mission; it's our passion. As a global learning company, HMH specializes in pre-K–12 (school children’s) education content, services and cutting edge technology solutions for today’s changing landscape.

HMH creates engaging, dynamic and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to K-12 and beyond the classroom, serving more than 50 million students in more than 150 countries. Available through multiple media, our content meets the needs of students, teachers, parents and lifelong learners, no matter where and how they learn.

Software Engineering @ HMH
Software Engineering at HMH is focused on building fantastic software to meet the challenges facing teachers and learners. Enabling and supporting a wide range of next generation learning experiences. We design, and build custom applications and services used by millions.

We are creating teams full of innovative, eager software professionals to build the products that will transform our industry. We have already built a modern cloud platform to power our next generation services, and are building in a variety of new technologies like Scala, graph databases, Mesos frameworks and more.
We are looking for people who have experience with Java, Node, as well as front-end (HTML/JS) but place the highest value on ability to be productive in a wide range of environments, and learn to be productive quickly, even with unfamiliar tools.

HMH Engineering operates from central locations in Dublin, above Pearse Street DART Station, easily accessible from most parts of Dublin city & county and any regions that are well serviced by train routes to Dublin.

Join us in transforming the educational experience!

Approximate Running Times (subject to change)
6.30 - 7.00 - Grab a seat, have a chat and get comfortable
7.00 - 7.05 - Introduction
7.10 - 7.45 - First batch of talks
7.45 - 8.00 - Break
8.00 - 8.30 - Second batch of talks

Thanks to Dogpatch Labs (http://dogpatchlabs.com/) we'll be running the meetup in The Vaults of Dogpatch.

Doors will open at 6.30pm

See you then,
Chris, Cormac, David & Pat