3. NEW CONCEPTS
Open Allocation - Leveraging the wisdom of your crowd of developers
Tiny Habits – The little things you do aggregate to something big
Dunbar’s Number – ~150 stable human relationships
=> 3,375,000 people in your immediate network
4. TECH STUFF: WEB
FRAMEWORKS
Backbone vs. Knockout. Better yet, Knockback.
Angular.js
Ember
React
Sammy
Derby
ColtJS
Spine
Bacon
BaconBacon
BBBJS
CanJS
Agility
5. TECH STUFF: MOBILE IS HOT
HOT
As you might imagine, there were lots of ways to skin the mobile cat (native,
PhoneGap, Xamarin), but the one consistent message is that mobile is
young, we don’t know what we’re doing as a field, and you can’t afford the
good mobile developers.
i.e., it’s a good skill to develop, if it’s at all interesting.
6. TECH STUFF: DEVOPS
It’s a culture and a process
Development and Infrastructure work together as a team
No party until Ops is thrilled
3 Ways:
Systems Thinking
Amplify Feedback loops
Culture of Continual Experimentation and Learning
7. PRESENTATION STUFF
I’ve used SlideShare a lot – great for hosting PPT, like this
Prezi – Prezi.com
Impress.js
Niemeyer’s Knockout vs. Backbone talk – based on a cool project
Apple products are popular
Powerpoint 2013 is pretty nice, too, as a reasonable fallback
8. MOST QUOTABLE
"A ship is safe in the
harbor, but that's not
what ships are for"
William G.T. Shedd via
Dave Thomas
14. A STORY
“Do painful things more frequently, so you can make it less
painful” – Adrian Cockcroft, Netflix Architect
Netflix: 30% of all evening internet traffic. Even beats spam.
Amazon is their service provider. When Amazon went
down, Netflix didn’t. Do you know why?
They use ChaosMonkey
15. THE WEE ONES
Family conference
~200 spouses, 400 kids
6 geekling-specific sessions
One open space led by a 10 year old
Why? Because this.
16. FOLLOW UP – GO BE GREAT
Next year, That Conference August 11-13, 2014
Check out Meetups
OpenHack Naperville nights
CNUG – Downers Grove
Teach the little ones. We need them.
