November "Build Stuff Encore"

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GO HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-stuff-encore-with-altnet-kyivep-hackraft-tickets-19398749181)

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Some time ago, we reached out to the Build Stuff (http://buildstuff.com.ua/) conference, asking to borrow some of their foreign speakers for our November meetup. However, we weren't the only ones who did this, and as a result, the organizers of Kyiv English Programmers, Hackraft, and the ALT.NET meetup have joined forces with Build Stuff to bring you Build Stuff Encore!

This is a free event, which will be held on November 25th at 18:45 in the Congress Hall of Premier Hotel Rus (12 Hospitalnaya Street).

Registration for this event is on Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-stuff-encore-with-altnet-kyivep-hackraft-tickets-19398749181) (not our meetup page). Make sure you go there to register (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-stuff-encore-with-altnet-kyivep-hackraft-tickets-19398749181), as seats are limited and we don't want you to miss out!

We really hope you enjoy this event, learn a lot, and make some new friends :) We'll be back to our normal events in December.

Program:

18:45 - 19:25 - James Nugent - Abandon the software-consumer mentality

When faced with a software problem, many in our industry ask the question "What tool can I install to make this go away?". Often, a much more useful question is "How can I change the situation such that this problem doesn't exist in the first place?".

In this talk, we'll look at several case studies of the software consumer mentality combined with toxic marketing from tool vendors result in accidental complexity from operating system to web framework, and at what to focus on in order to avoid falling into such traps in our own work.

19:25 - 19:35 - Break

19:35 - 20:15 - Oren Eini - What does it take to be a good developer?

In this talk, Oren will speak about the difference between professional developers, good developers and mere people who understand the syntax of a programming language.

Based on all too much time spent trying to hire good people, this talk is going to focus on what qualities are missing from most of the candidates, and what can be done to improve that.

20:15 - 20:25 - Break

20:25 - 21:05 - Richard Minerich - Manipulating F# Data Trees in Fungible

Fungible is a new open source project from Bayard Rock for manipulating data in immutable fixed type F# trees by run time function injection into expression trees. In this talk you'll learn about how to use it, how it works, and some of the neat F# expression tree tricks I learned along the way.

21:05 - 22:00 - Beer & Pizza time

Speakers:

James Nugent

James is a developer and consultant from Bath, England. He works on the open-source Event Store database and is a connoisseur of cider and old guitars. He has spent several years coming to the conclusion that designing software for operations is more important than designing for developer experience!

Oren Eini (Ayende Rahien)
Oren Eini has over 15 years of experience in the development world with a strong focus on architecture and best practices that promote quality software and zero-friction development. An internationally known presenter, Oren has spoken at conferences such as DevTeach, JAOO and Oredev, and is the author of the book “Building Domain Specific Languages with Boo”, soon to be published by Manning. Oren, using his pseudonym as Ayende Rahien, is a frequent blogger at http://www.ayende.com/Blog/ . His hobbies include reading fantasy novels, reviewing code, and writing about himself in the third person. Oren is also a Microsoft MVP, a fact that he tends to forget when writing a bio. Oren has been primarily involved in projects that are part of the Microsoft and .NET ecosystem and has been awarded the Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional since 2007. Oren is the author of Rhino Mocks, one of the most popular mocking frameworks on the .NET platform, and is also a leading figure in other well known open source projects including RavenDB and NHibernate. A popular international expert, blogger and speaker at many international conferences including Skills Matter’s NOSQL eXchange and The Progressive.NET Tutorials as well as at other conferences like DevTeach, JAOO, QCon, Oredev, NDC, Yow!, Oren regularly shares his skills, expertise and experience with the developer community.Oren is the author of the book “DSLs in Boo: Domain Specific Languages in .NET” (Manning).Oren, using his pseudonym as Ayende Rahien and is a fervent blogger on http://www.ayende.com/Blog/ .

Richard Minerich
Richard Minerich is Bayard Rock’s Director of Research and Development. He is a an avid user of F# and has many years of .NET expertise. His work at Bayard Rock is largely in the areas of Entity Resolution and Machine Learning. He runs the NYC F# User Group and is co-founder of the NYC Haskell Meetup.