Real-time insights powered by reactive programming
In this talk Jay Phelps, an engineer at Netflix, explains how Netflix using reactive programming to visualise a large stream of events.
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Breaking conventions with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
A few days before Breath of the Wild was released Nintendo's Hidemaro Fujibayashi, Satoru Takizawa, and Takuhiro Dohta (who all three working on various Zelda games in the past) gave at talk at the Game Developers Conference. They provide a unique look behind the scenes of this fantastic game.
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Using our superpowers for good
An excellent talk by Eryn O’Neil that underlines the fact that the code we write should be as humane, warm, emphatic and thoughtful as we ourselves need to be in real-life.
How we talk about tech
Ross Tuck gave a one of kind closing keynote at this year's (excellent) Dutch PHP Conference. Clear your schedule for the coming hour and watch the video of the talk with full attention. It's really great.
At the conference there were a lot of talks on events sourcing. The two talks with that subject that stood out for me were Shawn McCool's (where he applied event sourcing to the board game Quantum), and Greg Young's opening keynote. Watch the latter one here:
How to make your code sustainable
A fun talk by Christin Gorman.
Join me for some ranting about how best practices from open source development and project management school is making your sustaining team miserable.https://vimeo.com/138774243
All the little things
A really great talk by Sandi Metz in which she refactors a nasty block of conditional code to a few small, understandable objects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE
Voodoo PHP
If you're interested in some dark magic you should watch this talk by Marco Pivetta on Voodoo PHP. I really like these show-me-the-code type of talks.
We've often seen "magic" code, but how does it even work? Let's explore some arguably bad PHP coding techniques that are actually used in real world libraries to solve problems that would otherwise be a huge burden for all of us.
Are conference talks getting too soft?
I’m not saying that all talks should be highly technical, or that soft talks do not carry value. Instead what I’m concerned about is whether talks in certain topics are covered too soft or abstract, or perhaps are a bit shallow to allow more broad coverage, and do not carrying their weight on a conference schedule.http://www.geekyboy.com/archives/1076