The first Futurice Munich Beer & Tech

Welcome to the very first Futurice Munich Beer & Tech meetup! In the first event, we will present some modern web development topics and serve also some beverages and food. More info on the topics below.

Elm in production in practice

by Ossi Hanhinen

Functional programming, immutability and strong types have been making their way into the frontend mainstream for a few years now. This talk will give you an idea of what it is like to build web services for customers in Elm, a beautiful little language incorporating all of these concepts. Elm is a language that compiles to JavaScript, but doesn’t carry over much of the semantics. It is well suited for certain kinds of applications, but by no means is it a silver bullet. In this talk, Ossi will also share his personal views on where Elm excels and which cases might call for something else.

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Ossi Hanhinen (https://twitter.com/ohanhi)

Frontend expert, speaker and active Elm community figure.

Ossi is building apps for browsers to run and users to enjoy at Futurice. He likes to constantly challenge his views on user interface programming, and lately has gravitated towards functional programming and strong typing with the Elm language. Ossi has started two separate customer projects (both of them ongoing) using the language, making Futurice one of the first commercial users of Elm.

Building a maintainable Reactiflux application: reflections after 1.5 years

by Jarno Rantanen

In this talk Jarno will go over some of the design decisions which went into the development of a moderately complex React+Flux application, and the pros and cons of each.

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Jarno Rantanen (https://twitter.com/jareware)

Frontend wizard, React specialist

You will learn RxJS

by André Medeiros

Reactive programming with Observables can seem like a hard skill to learn. In this talk you will see Andre live code and explain the basics of RxJS Observables in a way that will demystify the concepts. We will build our own Observable from scratch, as well as our own basic operators, then see why RxJS can easily solve your async events problems.

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André Medeiros (https://twitter.com/andrestaltz)

Lead Frontend and Mobile Programmer, worldwide known expert in Reactive Programming (RxJS, RxJava), speaker and instructor.

My passion is to build creative solutions to new and relevant problems in society. These challenges are often enough fuel for my motivation to tackle whatever technical obstacles are in the way.

Strings are hard, let’s go shopping!

by Ali Rantakari

The basic idea of a string data structure feels trivial, but the actual implementation details can be fairly complex, which leads to a lot of developers glossing over fundamental issues when handling them. In this talk I will try to give you a useful frame of reference that can help you “know what you don’t know” when the time comes to validate some string manipulation code you might write in the future.

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Ali Rantakari (https://twitter.com/alirantakari)

iOS hacker, author of fauxpasapp.com