Two talks: Node + IoT, Debugging
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Talk 1 (20 minutes):
Node.js: The cause of and solution to all of life's problems - Craig Freeman
While speaking at a Node.js conference in October of last year, an unexpected cold snap froze pipes in my yard and resulted in water flooding into my finished basement. In an effort to prevent a repeat episode, I used a Raspberry Pi, Node, and Twilio to create an IoT device that would notify me if the temperature drops below a set threshold. This talk walks through the steps I took to piece it together.
Craig Freeman is a Senior Software Engineer at Twilio, specializing in scalable and well-tested UI development for anything from small marketing sites to enterprise web applications. He's been developing for the web in various capacities since 1998 and has an interest in development best practices and organization, continuing education and mentoring, remote culture, Agile workflows, and application architecture. He's a former paramedic and firefighter, current bassist and off-road enthusiast, and aspiring handyman.
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Talk 2 (20 minutes):
Strengthen Your Coding Immune System: How to Debug Smarter - Marlena Baker
Our immune systems can be amazing. They are adaptive, resilient, and ready to fight off all kinds of bugs for us. You might be worried that I’m about to send you back to middle school biology, but I promise I’m not. Wouldn’t it be great to have a debugging tool that could do all of that and so much more? It could learn about bugs and adapt to recognize the signs, so that it’s always ready to implement a fix. Once it does, it knows how to tackle that bug more effectively in the future. The good news is that you already have such a tool in your toolbox! (It’s you) In this talk we’ll go over why you should be treating your debugging skills like your immune system and training them every chance you get. We’ll cover how how to use errors to your advantage, how to build up a bug catalogue, and what to do when your immune system needs some help. This talk is for anyone who writes code.
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Schedule:
6:30pm: Pizza, beer, networking
7:00pm: Talk
7:45pm: Questions
Hope you all can make it out to this great talk. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach out.