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Apostrophe: Philly's own node.js CMS ✏️

Your name and twitter handle:

Tom Boutell, @boutell

Your talk idea, described briefly:

A lightning introduction to Apostrophe, an open-source CMS built entirely on node.js and JavaScript here in Philly. Learn how to create sites with contextual editing, custom widgets and custom content times with a minimum of code... and when there is code, it's all JavaScript.

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:

15 minutes

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):

Technical (at an accessible level)

Isomorphic Clojure Web Apps 🔥

Brian Hurlow @bhurlow

I'd like to talk about techniques for developing websites using isomorphic Clojure code – so Clojure(script) that runs on the jvm and in the browser sharing as much generic code as possible. This opens up areas lots of interesting possibilities for web applications – server-side rendering of React components, lots more code reuse, hot-reloading, this kind of 🔥. Many people have explored these techniques in js, but less so in the Clojure world.

15 Minutes

This would be a technical talk, hopefully practical though :)

A Better Technical Interview 💚

Your name and twitter handle:
Sam Jones @samjonester

Your talk idea, described briefly:

Technical interviews are scary! They often involve pairing, but not the way we do it in real life. Let's discuss a better way to handle technical interviews than playing buzzword bingo and solving algorithms as fast as we can!

This talk presents a better approach to technical interviewing:

• Focus on how to break down problems.
• Prioritize workflow rather than completion.
• Treat it as a chance to see how a candidate learns and teaches in an unfamiliar setting.
• Give positive feedback about what to learn for the next time. Candidates should either be hired or not yet hired.
• Make sure the candidate leaves having learned something from the interview! Don't waste their time even if they're a "not yet".

Approx length - must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:
10-15 min

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):
Passion / Softtalk / Noob-love

Yeoman Generators: How Hard It Could Be? 🎩

Your name and twitter handle:
Mickael Tardy, @m1ketardy

Your talk idea, described briefly:
I would like to talk about yeoman generators and their potential complexity. I would introduce the topic, share my experience with yeoman and allocate some time with audience to learn how others deal with it

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:
15min

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):
passion/tech

A brief overview of lexing, parsing, and DSL's

Your name and twitter handle:
Dillon Shook @DillonShook

Your talk idea, described briefly:
A brief overview of lexing and parsing and how and why you might create your own language.

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:
Emphasis on brief above, got it.

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):
Technical/Passion

Abraham Walters 🎸

Guitar performance from Abraham Walters!

Realtime Data Visualizations with EON.js 🏀

Your name and twitter handle:
Lizzie Siegle, @lizziepika

Your talk idea, described briefly:

Project EON is an open-sourced, web-based real-time chart/graph data visualization framework that lets you easily customize your visualization with a variety of chart types, themes, markers, and more. The chart builder tool makes it so you may not even have to write a line of code, unless you wanted to really customize your visualization! Realtime data could include weather, stocks, geolocation, or tweets...

My project is a realtime data visualization of tweets about the Warriors during the NBA Finals.

A quick overview of an iOS app that uses a webview to display heart rate from the Apple Watch. Though EON is a web-based framework, it is easy to use this web-based framework across platforms.

Live coding demo on building an NYC sports team data visualization from tweets.

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:
12 mins

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):

Creative, technical

A Tool for Scalable Local Development 🔨

From email

Your name and twitter handle:

Name: Abraham Walters

Your talk idea, described briefly:

For the past two years I have setup client-side build systems for 2 large development teams using tools like bash, node, python, gulp, browserify, and webpack. I have tackled issues like what's the best way to bundle code? What's the best workflow that'll keep developers happy? How do I scale as the application grows? How do I use the best tools for the job? How do I enforce best practices such as git hooks, linting, and testing?

I found the current ecosystem not up to the task of what I wanted to do with a large development team, so I built my own tool called Forge, and I would like to present it.

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:

Erm. I guess all 15.

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):

technical

Linting your CSS with StyleLint 👾

Your name and twitter handle:
belcherj

Your talk idea, described briefly:
why you should lint your css and how to set it up

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:
15 minutes

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):
passion, technical

Code Tests as Living Documentation 💯

Your name and twitter handle:

Logan Crossan
@logan_crossan

Your talk idea, described briefly:

I'd like to talk about code testing and how, even if you're not TDDing your code, how important it is to write unit tests. The importance comes two ways -- one, verification that your code works, and two, living documentation that is verifiably true.

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:

Around 10 or 15, as long as you'd like!

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):

Passion, probably, with a dash of technical.

Unleashing JavaScript with NodeJS and Electron 🎢

This talk was submitted via email.

Your name and twitter handle:
Mike @m1ketardy

Your talk idea, described briefly:
In this talk I'll introduce Electron and how it can be served with NodeJS. I’ll share my own experience with Electron and show some really cool applications.

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):
technical

What is "serverless" even? 👻

Your name and twitter handle:
Pam Selle
@pamasaur

Your talk idea, described briefly:
The "cloud" is a mere construct in our minds, but those wild kids are taking things further with "serverless" apps. Now you don't even have an imaginary server – you can run "serverless"!

Serverless is the possible solution to the monolith => microservices => how do we run all of these things problem. Using on-demand computation (ex. AWS Lambda), your code no longer lives on a box somewhere, but instead ... lives on a box somewhere but you only pay for the time it takes to execute. It's pretty neat!

In this talk, you'll learn what is serverless even, what various systems and terms people are talking about, and we'll deploy on on-demand function together, in Node.js bien sûr.

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:
10mins

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):
technical

A Transformative Pipeline w/ Highland Streams + Lodash FP 💚

Your name and twitter handle:
Sam Jones @samjonester

Your talk idea, described briefly:
A Transformative Pipeline w/ Highland Streams + Lodash FP

This talk will spark curiosity into functional programming. It will use Highland Streams to define a pipeline of transformations to some JSON files. The specific transformations will be designed with Lodash FP. Then this pipeline will be executed on some files in the file system.

This talk will have code on slides, but in small tolerable doses. I like to present code in units that can be digested without a lot of reading, and without the need to hold the entire system in one's head. I also love colors! I use color and contrast to call attention to the important bits in the code.

Approx length - Must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:
10-15 min

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):
Technical

Performance tuning your modules

Your name and twitter handle:

Erica Windisch @ewindisch

Your talk idea, described briefly:

For use uses, the time to load modules, the performance of the module itself matters greatly. I will describe how we performance-tested our code running on AWS Lambda and improved both load and execution times.

Approx length, must be less than 15 minutes to be considered:

15 minutes

Type of talk (creative, passion, technical):

Technical