GitHub / CodeConf 2015

Becoming a better programmer means more than just learning new technologies.

In this talk, Peter Goodliffe will describe that it means more than practising techniques and idioms. It's about more than passion and attitude. It's the combination of all these things.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Argument cultures and critical feedback are rampant on engineering teams, but social science research shows that both are ineffective in achieving their goals. Arguments create oppositional cultures that reward people for asserting dominance over others instead of finding the best solutions. Critical feedback can worsen performance and engender resentment in those who receive it, making employees both unhappy and less effective.

Kate Heddleston's talk will focus on the research around arguments and criticism and talk about the ways that people and teams can effectively address these problems.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Ariel Waldman is the chief organizer of Science Hack Day, a globally distributed two-day-all-night event where anyone excited about making weird, silly or serious things with science comes together in the same physical space to see what they can prototype within 24 consecutive hours.

In this talk, Ariel describes the often surprising and interesting ways that all of us can interact with the science of space exploration.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Dr. Kortney Ziegler, the founder of Trans*H4CK, discusses his newest endeavour, Black Star Media, a startup company to extend the accessibility of online learning for everyone.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Jennifer Marsman, a software developer and technical evangelist, discusses how Microsoft supports the Hadoop community and their deployment as part of Azure Data Lake.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

What do martial arts have to do with moderating a message board? Martial arts follow differing philosophies and styles. So do poster’s conversational styles. Is someone on your forum spreading the peace of the “Shaolin Temple”? Or are they wielding the “Fist of Fear, Touch of Death”? Worse yet are you part of the problem? Perhaps you need to learn some new kung fu?

Lee's talk will present some of the things he has learned from moderating Atom’s discussion forum for the past year. They are intended to be useful for moderators and forum goers as well as folks who are interested in building an online community.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

With over 250 open source projects in our portfolio, Facebook faces some unique challenges in shepherding these projects and making sure they’re actively serving the community. In this talk, Christine will share how Facebook goes about doing that by describing those challenges, how they’ve attempted to solve them, and lessons learned.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

This talk will show you how to use Electron to take Single Page Applications and turn them into desktop-integrated, quick updating Desktop applications that get the benefits of both worlds - super fast updates, and the ability to call native OS X and Windows APIs.

We’ll see this in practice by taking a look at the Electron-based Slack application and see some of how the internals of the app work, as well as the security and reliability considerations developers should watch out for.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Elliott Sprehn describes Web Components, a set of new technologies that will enable developers to extend the web platform in new and exciting ways. Have you ever wanted to use templates and not use a ＜script type=thing＞hack? What about making your own ? Maybe you’ve wanted to make a reusable ＜tab-strip＞ widget that you could use with any framework by including it in your project with just one line? That’s what Web Components are all about!

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Join Daniel, Chris, and Ben as they talk about the Atom editor's history & future as it reaches 1.0.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

The lack of women in technology is most pronounced within the open source community. In this talk, Corinne Warnshuis will share lessons learned as a leader in the community. She’ll share her experience and lessons encouraging women to make open source contributions and to become more involved in the open source community, using concrete methods that can be replicated in other communities.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

In this talk, Steve Kinney will talk a little bit about the Web Audio API. He’ll explore the browser as a vehicle for creative expression. He’ll fire up some audio contexts and connect some nodes. He’ll also leverage the getUserMedia Web API, WebSockets, and others to build unique musical instruments that could only be possible in the web browser. He’ll not only talk about the API itself, but also some of the fundamental concepts for working with audio and making music.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Casey Rosenthal, of Netflix, describes their approach to Chaos Engineering. Chaos Engineering is a best practice for building confidence in distributed systems that run at scale. It is a logical consequence of loosely coupled, reactive, and microservice architectures. Netflix handles about a third of the Internet’s bits at peak, all controlled by a microservice architecture. They use tools like Chaos Monkey and Chaos Kong to induce failures in their production system, but breaking things is just a small part of what Chaos can and will be. Casey surveys the current state of Chaos best practices, and provides a preview of the future of Chaos.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

In this presentation, Eric Levine will demonstrate how Airbnb’s Trust and Safety team has built machine learning infrastructure from the ground up to catch and defuse fraudsters on the platform. His talk will briefly go through the history of the machine learning platform from its very basic roots, to the advanced system that is in place today.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

In this talk, Ryan and Una tell the story of a designer and developer working collaboratively through GitHub, and bridging the gap between their mediums. Stemming out of respect for each other’s skill sets, they decided to try something new – to bring design into a space traditionally reserved for only developers – and it worked really well.

They then took that workflow to the rest of their team, and they now have visual designers, user researchers, UX designers, and front end developers all working together through GitHub.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

The Guardian, a newspaper founded almost 200 years ago, now has a Digital Development department with a handful of small teams, deploying dozens of times a day and developing in the open on GitHub.

Roberto Tyley, a developer at the Guardian, describes their interesting journey down this road. His talk will cover the development of membership.theguardian.com as an example, and talk about some of the nice GitHub integrations they’ve created to help their work, gu:who & Prout.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Despite the media attention given to the diversity in tech problem, many technology practitioners don’t see how a lack of diversity affects their daily life. So, it is not surprising that they neither understand the magnitude of the problem nor how they can fix it.

In this talk, Anjuan Simmons employs the principles and language of debugging, something technology practitioners understand well, to help them understand diversity and their role in solving the problem.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Mislav Marohnić of GitHub digs into the data of open source license usage on GitHub.com

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

In this talk, Josh Kalderimis discusses the opportunities and challenges inherent in building TravisCI around an ecosystem of open source.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/

Microsoft’s involvement with open source has received a lot of attention recently with announcements around .NET and C#. In this presentation, Kasey Uhlenhuth will walk you through Microsoft’s journey into open source and explain how .NET -- Microsoft’s popular developer platform -- is leading the open source effort at the company. She will also cover how development teams are adjusting to working in a new way and how the community has become an integral part of the .NET open ecosystem.

About CodeConf
CodeConf improves the software community by providing a forum for thought-provoking talks and forging social connections. The third installment of the CodeConf series took place in Nashville in 2015. Attendees came together to discuss open source, best practices, documentation, and community.

For more information on this year's CodeConf, go to:
https://codeconf.com/