Conference: March 4-6, 2015
Track: HTML and JS Today
Location:
- Whittle, 3rd flr.
Day of week:
- Thursday
The state of the art in web technologies. What is important to know and why?
by Rachel Andrew
Web developer and Director of web development consultancy edgeofmyseat.com
I often have to make decisions about the front-end methods and technologies we use on sites for my business. I’ve a long history as a front-end developer and as a web standards advocate, and I can be very opinionated about how things should be done. However as a business owner I also know that sometimes things need to be done quickly. In particular where I have hired another developer to do the work I need to step back and let them do it their way.
In this talk I’ll take...
by Richard Kasperowski
QCon Open Space Facilitator
Open Space
Join Horia Dragomir, our speakers, and other attendees for the HTML and JS Open Space
What is Open Space?
Every day at QCon London, we’ll open space five times, once for each track. Open Space is a kind of unconference, a simple way to run productive meetings for 5 to 2000 or more people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization in everyday practice and extraordinary change.
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by Andrea Giammarchi
Senior Software Engineer (former Twitter, Facebook)
JavaScript is everywhere these days, we got it, but we also need to choose the right pattern accordingly with the environment we are dealing with.
This talk is a walk through different asynchronous patterns and best practices accordingly with the Web, the Server, and the limited IoT platforms.
(IoT = Internet of Things)
by Sara Vieira
Front-End Developer
The workflow of Front-End developers has changed a lot in the last couple of years with the rise of more and more applications, command line tools and frameworks that make our life's easier and get us to write better websites and apps faster.
In this talk, I will guide you through these new tools so that you can have a clear picture of what is out there and how it can help become a better and faster Front-End Developer.
Tracks
Covering innovative topics
Wednesday, 4 March
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Architecture Improvements
Next gen architecture, Arch over the full lifecycle, Bleeding edge tech in legacy, Cognitive biases in architecture, Evolving Architecture.
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Big Data Frameworks, Architectures, and Data Science
As big data tools and architectures continue to evolve, how do you architect and select technologies that work now but are also future-proof?
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DevOps and Continuous Delivery: Code Beyond the Dev Team
As infrastructure becomes as malleable as code, a unified approach from reqs to ops is needed to deliver promised breakthroughs.
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Engineering Culture
The best teams and companies talk about how to create amazing engineering cultures.
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Java - Not Dead Yet
Java is evolving to meet developer and business needs, from lambdas in Java 8 to built-in support for money types rumoured for Java 9.
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Mind Matters at Work
How theories from neuroscience and psychology can help us better understand IT professionals and discover what really motivates them.
Thursday, 5 March
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Docker, containers and application portability
People building stuff for and with containers showing why application portability is important, and what can be done with expanding ecosystems.
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Evolving agile
Reflecting on and learning from successes and failures in applying agile approaches since the creation of the Agile Manifesto and exploring ways of applying agile practices to increase business value.
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HTML and JS Today
The state of the art in web technologies. What is important to know and why?
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Internet of Things
What software devs need to know to design and build for instrumented environments and reactive things, what new issues and questions it raises.
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Modern CS in the Real World
How modern CS helps you tackle today's problems.
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Reactive Architecture
How to create reactive systems is more than simply learning a framework. Thinking in a reactive way helps you to design responsive architectures.
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The Go Language
The Go Language - Concurrency, Performance, Systems Programming.
Friday, 6 March
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Architectures You've Always Wondered About
Get a rare look behind the scenes and get to see the architectures of the most well-known sites with the least known architectures.
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Low latency trading
The 'race to zero' continues. Join us to learn about the latest tecniques being deployed to optimise order routing and execution.
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Open source in finance
Financial services have changed from OS as cost-saving to a competitive weapon. See open source projects that are disrupting the finance industry.
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Product Mastery
Come have fun with fellow PMs and BAs as you learn about Value Management. We'll even tell you dark tales of Snarks, Hippos and other obstacles.
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Taming Microservices
Tackling the challenges of microservices in practice.
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Taming Mobile
Mobile is no longer the Next Big Thing but a requirement for your business. Hear from those who have implemented successful mobile systems.
