Jon Skeet - Integration integration integration! Face-2-Face at Virgin Media O2

Before our Face-2-Face event with Steve Sanderson on May 3rd, we are very excited to release details of what will be our first Face-2-Face event since the pandemic began!

Kick off from 6pm with pizzas and refreshments, with the talk starting at 7pm. Held at the Virgin Media O2 office in Reading, 500 Brook Dr, Reading RG2 6UU.

Plenty of parking (400 spaces!) available on-site and no pre-parking registration required. Also accessible directly from Reading station via bus or taxi.

Jon Skeet will be joining us for a session on Integration integration integration!

Jon Skeet is a Staff Developer Platform Engineer at Google, working on Google Cloud Platform client libraries for .NET, based in the London office. (That's the theory, anyway. Most of the time he works from his shed instead.) He's best known for contributions to Stack Overflow as well as his book, C# in Depth. Additionally he is the primary maintainer of the Noda Time date/time library for .NET.

Outside of software, Jon is a committed Christian, and enjoys theatre (particularly musical theatre), playing board games, and spending time with his amazing family.

The session:
Some code is mostly self-contained, working purely with computations. Full applications tend to have to integrate with other systems, however - and some applications do very little other than gluing together multiple systems. Sometimes that's been seen in a negative light within the development community, and unfairly so - these integrations provide huge amounts of value.

Pre-pandemic, Jon spent a huge amount of time writing code to interact with his drum kit - and then other instruments, providing a rich configuration editing experience. Within the pandemic, he found opportunities to help his local church to reduce some of the friction introduced in remote worship services, and then explore post-pandemic possibilities. In this talk, Jon will explore some of the lessons he's learned interacting with a diverse array of hardware devices, as well his experiences of building user interfaces as someone who really doesn't have UI design skills, for relatively non-technical users. Hopefully some of the joy and fun of integration will rub off too, and you'll be encouraged to find opportunities to make a big difference with a small amount of integration.

If you have any questions let us know, we're looking forward to seeing familiar faces from the community again as well as welcoming new ones!

Thanks,
Stella, Deepak & the iO team