CocoaHeads April

As all of you know, we’re stuck at home due to Corona Virus 🦠.

About that, we hope you’re all safe and healthy, as well as your family and friends!

To keep you all distracted and to be able to talk about our favorite nerd topics, we’re not going to give up on our monthly meetup! 💪🏼

We planned to host the meeting on zoom this time and have so called “Breakout Rooms” to make even the socializing and networking part of the event possible. This is the first time for us organizing something like this, so bare with us!

Also, advices and tips from you are very welcome! 🙏🏼

Please find the Zoom link in the "location" sidebar.

Also see our note on Zoom below.

⏰ Our schedule ⏰

19:00 - Virtual "doors" open
Let's gather in Slack!
Click here 👉🏼 https://slack.cocoaheads.hamburg
to join our workspace 'cocoaheadshamburg.slack.com' to enable an easier communication.

19:30 - Meeting starts 🎉
Everyone joins the Zoom session.

19:45 - 1️⃣ Talk: SwiftUI and Firebase - Peter Friese
Firebase is Google's mobile development platform for Android, iOS, and the web. SwiftUI is Apple's user interface toolkit that lets developers design apps in a declarative way. In this session, we will bring the two together and take a look at how easy it is to develop a new application from scratch.
Peter is a Developer Advocate on the Firebase team at Google, helping developers worldwide to build better apps using Firebase and other technologies.

20:30 - Short Break

20:40 - 2️⃣ Talk: Things I wish I knew before I started working Remote! - Mario Stallone
With the advancements in video conferencing solutions and jobs that do not need constant in-person communication, remote work has seen a rise in recent years. I've been working remotely for the last 2.5 years at Yelp, and I do this for a team that works across 9 time zones behind me. In this talk, I'll walk through my journey, while providing a balanced view of the good and the bad sides of working remotely, and how to overcome some of these issues. In short, these are things I wish I knew before starting to work remote 🙂
Given the current wfh situation we all are under, I hope that my experience might help you in this situation.

21:10 - Virtual get together

Note on Zoom:
Zoom has a history of privacy violations and generally shady behavior. However, it is also currently the most easy-to-setup tool for a group of our size. We'll look for alternatives for future meetups, but until then, we advise you not to install Zoom on your Mac. We believe the iOS client to be sufficiently safe due to sandboxing. You can also use Zoom just from the browser (requires Chrome, audio doesn't work with Firefox + Safari).