Terraform to Manage Github & Figma for Devs

Please join us on Tuesday 12 September at 2U's office in Salt River for two talks, a lot of networking and a ton of swag \o/

This event was postponed due to the taxi strike but is back on -- book your spot, spaces are limited!

Agenda

18:30 Arrive, eat and meet someone new

19:00 Welcome

19:10 Talk 1: Managing GitHub with Terraform by Sinjin Swanepoel

19:40 Q&A

19:50 Break

20:00 Talk 2: Figma for Developers by Justin Slack

20:30 Q&A

20:40 Raffles

20:55 Closing

21:00 End

Where 2U, 358 Victoria Rd, Salt River

When Tuesday 12 September, 18:30 for 19:00 – 21:00

Managing GitHub with Terraform: A practical guide to the GitHub provider

From creating and configuring repositories to managing teams & members, with a little Enterprise integration with Active Directory and SCIM.

In this talk I’ll cover the essential concepts and some practical techniques.

Suitable for beginner to intermediate level attendees, this talk will provide valuable insights, and code examples to help you along the path of IaC. I’ll cover:

• Managing members and members in teams
• Creating repositories
• Assigning teams to repositories
• Integrating with Active Directory (AD)

Sinjin Swanepoel is a seasoned DevOps engineer with over 10 years of experience ranging from System Administration to Software Development. As a DevOps Engineer at 2U, Sinjin plays a crucial role in designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Figma for developers

During the opening keynote at the yearly Config conference, Figma announced many new tools and features geared towards its mission of “making design accessible to all”. Chief among them is a brand new developer mode intended to finally bridge the gap between designers and developers. “Dev Mode” is a new feature that empowers developers to navigate design files and convert them into code quickly.

By empowering developers with the new Dev Mode and its associated tools and features, Figma is revolutionising the collaboration between designers and developers, promoting a harmonious design-to-code workflow. These advancements aim to make design accessible to all stakeholders and enhance digital product development’s overall efficiency and quality.

In this talk, we will discover the new features introduced for developers, including:

• Variables
• Quick prototype view
• New code inspector
• Dev plugins
• VS code integration
• Better asset management

Justin Slack (justinslack.com) is a user interface designer, front-end developer and team leader with over twenty years of experience designing and building web and mobile applications and sites.

He has worked as a designer and front-end developer on large-scale financial services web applications and award-winning mobile applications. He is equally comfortable creating small-scale community sites. He profoundly understands UI, front-end technologies, and the web as a platform and is particularly interested in design systems, style guides and component-based UI libraries.

Currently head of design and front-end at NML (nml.co.za), he relishes the opportunity to build effective teams, workflows and toolsets and to lead and support organisations in designing simple, accessible, cohesive and impactful user experiences.

Sponsors

Food, drinks and venue from 2U

Paper notebooks and mousepads from DrakkenTech

High quality coffee mug hampers from Decode Dev

Vouchers for freshly roasted coffee from Quaffee

IDE licences worth hundreds of dollars from JetBrains