July 12, 2016Taking a look at the current state of Android development, I hope to get you started building apps on the platform with powerful but sometimes unconventional techniques including:- UI components- Dependency Injection- Reactive Extensions- UI Libraries (ButterKnife / Databinding)Read more →about Android Development
June 7, 2016A lot of the languages we use are extremely flexible and powerful. C# and Java allow you to write complex code that does a lot of things. They let you get stuff done, but they can also get you into a lot of trouble.
A few new languages have appeared in the last few years that are recognizing the …Read more →about Writing Safer Code with Swift – Gage Herrmann
May 3, 2016MWOP and Seth Larson are putting together a patchwork inspired git workshop(bring your own device). Whether you’re new to git or quite experienced hopefully you can come learn something. The workshop centers around content produced by github is designed to be hands-on and self paced, but …Read more →about Git Workshop
January 19, 2016Abel Wang and Valerie Vogt (from Microsoft) will be presenting on Rapid Application Development (RAD) using cloud services - see how you can quickly build functionality by connecting multiple applications, such as Office 365, Dynamics CRM, Facebook, and Twitter using Azure PaaS and C#. Then manage …Read more →about Rapid Application Development using Cloud Services
December 8, 2015Are you using Git but are worried you aren’t leveraging it as much as you could? Why do I care about merge vs. rebase? I pulled some bad code from a coworker that broke everything! How do I use reflog to time jump back to the good state I was in before? What’s an interactive rebase and …Read more →about Making Git work for you
September 15, 2015Dependency injection. Inversion of control. Containers. Let’s cut through the confusion and hyperbole and talk about what this really is. We’ll cover dependencies - why you should care, what they are, how you identify them, and when they provide value. We’ll also cover containers …Read more →about Dependencies Demystified
July 28, 2015If you use OS X or ever interact with Linux or BSD, learning a few things about the shell (Terminal) can give you a big boost in productivity. Jackson Murtha will be giving a brief practical introduction to bash-like shells and basic unix command line paradigms like GNU utilities and piping. The …Read more →about Cozy Up To Your (Bash) Shell
June 29, 2015MWOP and I are putting together a patchwork inspired git workshop(bring your own device). Whether you’re new to git or quite experienced hopefully you can come learn something. The workshop centers around content produced by github is designed to be hands-on and self paced, but we’ll …Read more →about Git Workshop
March 3, 2015Talk Repo
What are promises and how can they be managed? Bob Davidson from Blend Interactive will introduce this new fascination of the Javascript community. He’ll also discuss some functional programming techniques to help get you out of code “nesting hell”, and explain why the …Read more →about Taming Asynchronicity with Promises
January 20, 2015Starting off the new year with another NodeSchool workshop. This one is all about working with streams. Streams are introduced in the initial Learn You Node and continued in considerably more depth here.
If you’re interested in a more advanced workshop or one of introductory ones there will be …Read more →about NodeJS Workshop - Streams (don't cross them. It would be bad)