Front End Sheffield: January 2020

Join us on the last Thursday of January for Front End Sheffield at Sheffield Technology Parks. This month: Beth North and one more speaker to be confirmed.

Our event is free and inclusive; we welcome people of all backgrounds and experience levels to join. We will be checking in people at the door so be sure to sign up online.

Before you attend, please read our code of conduct: http://bit.ly/fes-coc

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This month we'll be welcoming:

Beth North (@EccentricTester) - Nought to Tester

The world of testing is huge and often we have no idea where to start in a new area. I want to walkthrough what are considered the basics of exploratory testing and some of my thought processes when tackling a task. This include: tips to get started, what risks are considered and how developers directly impact exploratory testing

James Seconde (@secondej) - The Politics of Tool Shaming

Most of us have heard it at some point. “WHAT? You use X framework/tool/OS/language?! So… you’re a bad developer then?”

I did not come from a Software Development background into this industry. I was an outsider, but it’s what I wanted to do my whole life. This is my story: how I refocused and retrained in my career to be confronted with a nightmare of gatekeeping, elistism and aggression. I saw what I thought was a problem, and I’d like to propose a solution.

What we do is hard. We’re in a young industry full of contradictions and opinions, and sometimes it excludes people, it shapes new developers’ attitudes poorly and it causes people to walk away. In this talk I’ll focus on what I’ve experienced, what others have experienced, what is harmful to your business with this culture and what can be done about it.

PS. I don’t care about emacs or vim. Can you ship it?

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Post-meetup social
After the talks we'll head to socialise at a nearby venue, Birdhouse Tea Bar & Kitchen

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Running order
6:15pm - Doors open (please sign in at reception)
6:30pm - Welcome
6:40pm - Talk 1
7:10pm - Break
7:20pm - Talk 2
7:40pm – Open mic
7:45pm – Social at Birdhouse Tea Bar & Kitchen