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Giving my enemies a voice
Featuring Shen Sat
I’m remaking a classic boxing video game, with a twist: the narrative is defined through the hopes, dreams and desires of the player’s opponents, not the player themselves. I’ll be talking about flipping enemy design in games on its head, as well as demoing a key part of my boxing game: the...
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Improve confidence in your code with mutation testing
Featuring Rafal Szalanski
In this talk I'm going to explain mutation testing and how it helped me be more confident about my Ruby code, and also how to write better Ruby in the future.
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Open Banking - From Scraping to APIs
Featuring Toby Pinder
Banking is changing, and so is the way we interact with financial services. In the talk we’ll be touching on what Open Banking is and why it’s interesting to software developers. Then we'll launch ourselves into some of the APIs from a rubyist perspective and the real world experiences and...
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Interface incantations
Featuring Jo Hanna Pearce
According to the witches of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, most magic is simply headology. This talk will mix literary references and outline the headology of interface design, from basic charms and illusions that fool and entice us to the unforgivable curses that can shape our thinking and...
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The Fast and The Furriest - Performance refactoring with bunnies
Featuring Sroop Sunar
I’ve been a developer for several years and throughout my career I’ve learned how to write clean, well-tested code. I’ve also discovered that sometimes writing the most beautiful poetic code can be horrendously slow when working with lots of data. What I really want is fast code. I know the topic...
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Building a product with Clojure: Lessons Learned
Featuring Łukasz Korecki
During this talk, Łukasz Korecki will be taking us through his teams journey with Clojure.
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Increase Your Quality of Life: An RSpec Primer
Featuring Elena Tanasoiu
If you can’t be arsed to read a book about RSpec, this talk is for you.
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Splitting Strings
Featuring Chris Zetter
Have you ever discovered a bug that's taken you on a software adventure? Chris Zetter will be sharing such an adventure with us, don't miss it!
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A Trip Back to Where I Grew Up
Featuring Andrew McDonough
Andrew recently revisited a place he left long ago. He was happy to find that things had changed for the better, and wants to share his story.
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Hindsight: Creating the Perfect Project History
Featuring Ben Griffiths
A demonstration of a new proof-of-concept ruby tool for automatically creating a perfect project history using git, tests and coverage tools. How would you have built your app if you knew from the start everything you know now.
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Pushing Jekyll to breaking point
Featuring James Smith
Jekyll is a static web development tool, used by GitHub Pages. Most uses are pretty simple, but you can do a lot more complex things with it too. This talk will explain how I’ve used git submodules, deeply nested JSON, CSV data, and other techniques to produce complex data-driven sites with rich...
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This Code Sucks — A Story About Nonviolent Programming
Featuring Nadia Odunayo
Think about something that happened at work recently. How did it make you feel? Why did it make you feel that way? Chances are you answered those two questions poorly. Our inability to answer such questions effectively leads us to communicate in ways that are negative and unhelpful. Let’s explore...
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5 Things I wish my grandfather told me about ActiveRecord and Postgres
Featuring Ken Fassone
Common gotchas, how to measure and improve performances when the database is the bottleneck.
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Mobile Journey at FreeAgent
Featuring Ioan Serban
Talk description: A few years ago we decided that having a presence in the mobile space is essential for our users. This talk will present some of the approaches we have taken during the past few years and the lessons we have learned while building our mobile app.
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A developers misadventures in business
Featuring Najaf Ali
I am developer who started a web application development consultancy. This talk is about the story of the business so far, some business basics I had to learn for the business to survive, and things you can do to better understand business, whether or not you intend to start one yourself.
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Software architecture analysis with runtime type detection in ruby
Featuring Mark Burns
The six lesser-known SOLID (packaging) principles, Connascence, and tooling for runtime type analysis in ruby.
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Where does my code go?
Featuring Michael Lennox
While Rails provides us a great platform for rapid application development it doesn't give us much guidance on where to start placing common abstractions once our domain complexity grows. This talk isn't about the 'architecture astronaut' or fighting rails to implement...
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The invisible cost of code
Featuring Luke Morton
Every line of code has cost associated with it. The cost of writing it. The cost of testing it. Deploying it. Reading it. Changing it later. I'd like to identify some of the costs and suggest ways of reducing them. Hint: write less code in the first place.
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Joining the mob: Top 12 mob programming tips and thoughts
Featuring Emma Beynon
What happens when you get 5 developers to work on the same problem on the same computer at the same time? Emma's team at GDS took collaboration to the next level by trying out mob programming. Find out what they learned from their mobbing experience, and take away a few tips to try it in your...
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A month of I18n in 10 minutes
Featuring Chris Radford
Translating websites has been A Thing(tm) since the earliest days of the web, so how does it take over a month to translate a website with less than a dozen pages? In this talk Chris walks us through the minefield of internationalisation and some of the common pitfalls of translating a website.
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