Lean Coffee is a format for a self-organized discussion. Topics are proposed, selected, and moderated by all who choose to participate. Because of the self-organized structure, the conversation will be beneficial and engaging to everyone. It is a fun way to learn and to teach. Come join us for the discussion.
We have all seen countless numbers of companies that have reams and reams of BCP (business continuity planning) that is so burdensome and filled with vague but accepted legal and industry terminology and jargon that no one ever reads it, implements it, or gets any real value from it. When a disruption occurs the BCP lies dusty in the BCP Director’s or incident manager’s office while the IT staff scrambles to get the systems operational. Most organizations will be a lot better off if they create a simple plain-English BCP that contains processes and procedures they can realistically implement and use, rather than tomes full of lofty terms and steps from which their under-staffed, over-utilized, and under-funded team will never truly benefit. In this session we will look at the key principles of BCP, and how to use them to create a BCP that brings real value and benefit. This session is a must for anyone in operations, infrastructure, or consulting!
If you’ve ever suspected that “all programming languages are pretty much the same; they just have different syntax,” well, you will never suspect that again! Covering languages from the unusually powerful (Idris) to the illuminated (قلب) to the profoundly limited (BlooP), and all points in between, these languages will help you think differently about approaches to software problems you face in your day job. Of course we’ll have a lot of fun, but these languages are no joke. The practical benefit of an impractical language is the power to find new approaches to common problems.
Since its inception, CSS has not handled combined vertical and horizontal layouts in an efficient manner. As developers, we started with tables, then graduated to floats and positioning, and then to grid systems. The mobile internet introduced even more complexity in our layout world, adding in media queries, polyfills, etc. In 2011, the W3C CSS committee introduced the flexbox specification, meant to allow for fully flexible horizontal and vertical layout management that works logically in multiple resolutions, without media queries. 4 years later, flexbox is finally becoming a mainstream solution. However, it isn’t simple to use-there are undocumented ‘quirks’ that will frustrate even the most experienced CSS expert. Mike Earley has been using CSS Flexbox in a variety commercial applications for over 4 years. He has successfully implemented it in applications that were already using alternative layout systems, and has also built an application’s layout structure using flexbox from the start. The session will cover the basics of the various flexbox properties, and then delve into detailed layouts involving flexbox-i.e. a full administration application’s layout. The session will touch on some of the hidden concepts in flexbox, like the flex ‘line’, which is an undocumented ‘feature’ of flexbox.
Event driven UI programming using WebSockets is great! The problem is that every demo app is a chat app or a game. This session focuses on real-world examples using socket.io to demonstrate how event-driven user interfaces can dramatically improve a user experience. Attendees will leave able to design practical event-driven applications that provide a richer level of interaction with a lower level of programming effort.
Lean Coffee is a format for a self-organized discussion. Topics are proposed, selected, and moderated by all who choose to participate. Because of the self-organized structure, the conversation will be beneficial and engaging to everyone. It is a fun way to learn and to teach. Come join us for the discussion.
Inspired by traditional print design, Asset Template Guides are a solution to predict reflow of content in a responsive environment, while giving visual designers more creative freedom when designing for responsive sites, and improving communication between developer and designers. Through discussion and a demo, this presentation provides an introduction to Asset Template Guides and the process for teams to utilize them. Presented by Kevin Mack and Tim Vonderloh.
When it comes to storage systems today, there are many options. Specifically to Microsoft Windows Server environments, the ReFS file system is an opportunity to do more of what you need to do in the data center. Join Rick Vanover from Veeam to see the benefits of this new file system and how it can be implemented in one particular great example!
Creating a component library is not a new piece of the development and design process but with the growth of responsive and contextual factors it has become a requirement for complex systems. Digital Style Guides bring alignment of teams and solve complexities by providing quality tested code that is fully reusable across all projects. Within this presentation, we will discuss the variations of different style guides, toolkits, and frameworks that exist today and identify the right solution for your team to create a successful component library.