Building fool-proof UIs with Elm & Keeping your head cool with a serverless fan

Hopefully you had a relaxed holiday. Now it's team to put your brain to work again. We would like to inspire you.

In this meetup OpenValue offers two talks. First Mats Stijlaart will show you how to build fool-proof UI's using ELM. Next Paco van Beckhoven will take the stage with his talk about his very cool DIY project with Firebase, Google Home, RPi.

The meetup will be at the OpenValue office in Amersfoort (https://goo.gl/maps/JY7xxaGbHy62), enough free parking spaces are available.

Agenda

17:30 Walk in
18:00 Pizza
18:30 Talk 1 (see below)
19:30 Break
19:45 Talk 2 (see below)
20:45 Drinks

Talk 1: Building fool-proof UIs with Elm

Building UIs is a hard problem, and maybe JavaScript makes it even harder.
We have been trying to tackle the challenges with frameworks and patterns like React, Backbone, MVVM, Angular, MVC and many more.

In this session we dive in to Elm, a purely functional programming language, which compiles to JavaScript.
Elm is nice to you (yes, it tries to be supportive in many ways), it will help you prevent bugs rather than detect them, and most important of all it is fun to use.

In the time of an hour, we will explore the language. We’ll cover the syntax, the programming patterns that it brings, create a small application and see the parts where it excels in comparison to ‘plain JS’.

Speaker: Mats Stijlaart
Software engineer at OpenValue. Maintainer of Stil4M, an Elm code analyzer.

Talk 2 Keeping your head cool with a serverless voice controlled fan

Do you also wake up sweating during those hot summer nights, but you are too lazy to get out of bed to turn a fan on?

Using serverless with Firebase Cloud Functions, Google Assistant, a Raspberry Pi and a bit of wiring I turned my old fan in a state of the art fan with voice control and automatic temperature regulation.
Now I enjoy the luxury of no longer having to get up to turn it on/off when it's too hot, cold or noisy.

In this talk I will show you how easy it is to give your fan a second life while you are living a more luxurious life.

Speaker: Paco van Beckhoven
Perfectionist. Full stack Java developer. Likes to make things move using code and some electronics. Challenges the world around him.