DeveloperWeek 2017

Learn how to read sensor data from an Intel Edison device, and visualize the connected sensors via a Sencha Ext JS dashboard that’s constructed with components including grids, charts and widgets.

Building deep learning systems at present is part science, part art, and a whole lot of arcana. Rather than focusing on the concepts you want the system to learn and how those can be taught, you often find yourself dealing with low-level details like network topology and hyperparameters. 

Databases solved this problem for data by allowing users to program at a higher level of abstraction. Databases eschew low-level implementation details and instead build a model of the information (the schema) using a high-level declarative programming language (such as SQL). The database server actualizes this model and manages its usage with real data. Similarly, for artificial intelligence, one can build a model for conceptual understanding (the mental model) using a high-level declarative programming language (such as Inkling). A runtime server can then be used to actualize this model and manage its usage with real data.

Keen Browne explains how Bonsai’s platform enables every developer to add intelligence to their software or hardware, regardless of AI expertise. Bonsai’s suite of tools—a new programming language, AI engine, and cloud service—abstracts away the lowest-level details of programming AI, allowing developers to focus on concepts they want a system to learn and how those concepts can be taught. Keen explores the underpinnings of this technique, details the Inkling programming language, and demonstrates how to build, debug, and iteratively refine models. To make things concrete and fun, Keen demonstrates how to create a system to play the video game Breakout using deep learning (but requiring codifying only the high-level concepts relevant for intelligent play) and offers a curriculum for how to teach this system.

Traditional Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) have focused on the tasks of software development: writing, testing, and shipping code. Coding for data science, machine learning, AI, and deep learning require a different set of tools.

This talk will discuss the data science development cycle and demo how RStudio Server and R Notebooks can increase productivity and reproducibility. We’ll also discuss how elements of traditional software tools (project structure, version control, documentation) still play an important role in interactive languages like R.

It's all about the data.  See how JSON centric applications can be built and scaled in real world environments with node-oracledb and Oracle Database.  High performance, but simple to use, node-oracledb and database features make connection management and data processing fast and efficient.  Whether you use the Oracle Database JSON data type or traditional data types this session drills into node-oracledb features that are building blocks for development.  Learn best-practices about installation, deployment, security and scalability.

Mobile and web app teams need to move fast and focus on creating awesome features, not fixing bugs. Injecting fast and complete feedback over code changes before check-in and during build verification helps you minimize defects, improve team velocity, and increase release confidence. But what does that really take?

Join Paul Bruce, Developer Evangelist at Perfecto, to see how you can quickly test web, Android and iOS apps on multiple screen sizes, orientations, platforms and under real user conditions to prove that your users will be double-rainbow happy before release.

We will cover:

1. How to debug and troubleshoot platform-specific issues in your Android and iOS apps

2. Using React.js samples, how to continuously deploy new web features in a safe and reliable manner

3. Automated testing strategy: unit, integration, UI test flakiness, automation candidates, and execution schedules

4. Conditions that increase build, test lab, and deployment reliability

Have you ever built something so completely sophisticated and cutting edge but then realized that you just committed yourself to maintaining that code long term?  You try to hire developers to maintain your project only to find that their rate is significantly higher because of the skill set required for your project.  That's the reality for far too many developers who try to push their project to the absolute cutting edge.

Taking a step back and looking at the project as a whole, most internal applications for business are little more than a simple web database with some system integrations.  A lot of time can be spent simply gathering requirements for the next project.  With QuickBase, you can get a lot more done by delegating most of the application development to business.  On the surface, the UI is simple and intuitive.  Common functions are easily found and support documentation is clear and readily abundant.  All of the of the prerequisites are in place for a low code self-service model for development.  Leaving you with more time to focus on the custom parts, not common to every web database.  And the freedom to move on from your past accomplishments.

The citizen developer model requires governance and advisement.  A few central players can advise tens or even hundreds of developers on design decisions and corporate standards.  This is orders of magnitude more productive than sourcing all internal web development to traditional web developers.  The citizen developer knows their own problem domain better than anyone.  This requires less meetings and less communication to see a project to completion.

Low code platforms can be a life saver, but sometimes a project has requirements beyond the native functionality of the platform.  My presentation covers a variety of techniques used to overcome these limits.

I hope you find my presentation stimulating.  If you end up with more questions than you did before you started, then I'll know that this was true.  I hope to have enough time towards the end to answer all your questions, otherwise come find me afterwards for an intriguing conversation.

Sincerely,
David Maskasky
Software Developer at Tesla 

Button allows you to add features and services from the biggest apps in the industry (Uber, Jet.com, Hotels.com, etc.) with just a couple lines of code to your iOS, Android, or mobile website in the form of you, you guessed it, a tappable button. In this live demo, we’ll deep dive into how to use a user’s GPS location to book an Uber from an iOS application using Button’s SDK by coding an app from scratch.

DevOps emphasizes Quality of Life improvements at all stages of the software delivery process, not just through Continuous Integration/Deployment. Learn more about our approach into implementing Continuous DevOps.

Bots are simply apps with a new interface - conversation. Determining what the user said, how they said it, and how best to break it down, can be challenging at best. Let's take a look at how we can use existing services to answer user questions and perform actions on their behalf.

Portable Document Format (PDF) files are ubiquitous. It's taken 20 plus years but now PDF creation is integrated into all of the most common desktop operating systems and many mobile applications are capable of exporting PDF files. On the other side, PDF consumers are everywhere, your operating system has a PDF viewer, your browser has one, your hosted applications have their own, and if you're reading this description, you probably have a preferred tool for working with PDF. The problem is that all of these viewers provide a different PDF experience. Most of them do a pretty good job of showing you the page content, but that's where the consistency ends. If the PDF file you've opened in your browser is a form, you may not know that there are fields that you can type into... or if some of those fields are used to calculate values in other fields. You might not know that the PDF file you're looking at in your favorite tool has comments or redaction annotations that should show up as black boxes but are invisible to your PDF viewer.

In short, by becoming too popular, PDF has become unreliable; it's promises broken. They're no longer "Portable". But it doesn't have to be this way. Even though some PDF developer tools have been around for almost as long as PDF, too many of them cut corners under the assumption that Adobe Reader and Acrobat are the only viewers in use. They rely on the fact that the Adobe tools "fix" improperly formatted PDF and ignore the dictionaries that, according to the spec, are optional but in practice are required.

This talk will focus on PDF developer tools and discuss why it's critical to go the extra mile to make your PDF files work consistently across browsers, operating systems, and viewers, and show developers how to put the "Portable" back in PDF.

Dont' build your own infrastructure. Let the network handle both the data delivery and computation for you. Josh will show you how to combine 3rd party services into a powerful chatbot, all with very little code and absolutely no server administration.

When creating an Internet of Things (IoT) application, many developers start thinking about connectivity, sensors, or even the user interface first. But what about the Data Model, i.e. the basic structure of your information and how you store, manipulate, and interact with it? Often, this is left to later stages with the hopes that it grows organically out of the application’s needs. ThingWorx believes that this approach is backwards. Start with the Data Model. Decide who needs to interact with the data and what specific requirements they’ll have. Think about reusability. Think about updating it in the future. How will it scale? How will it interact with future features which you haven’t even thought about yet? We’ll talk about these items and more in ThingWorx’s Data Modeling for the Internet of Things. 

If you would like to attend this event you must pre-register, please register here. 

Developer-owned QA testing is becoming more common as many organizations shift to leaner development processes and eschew traditional QA strategies.

In this session, Rainforest QA CTO and co-founder Russell Smith will discuss how crowdsourced testing can help teams offload repetitive testing work and streamline Agile testing processes. Russ will explain how Rainforest DevX allows developers to increase productivity and minimize testing time with workflow-native crowdsourced testing.

Virtual Reality is a new technology used for building realistic experiences for games, environments, content display as well as marketing.  In this session we will talk about Web Virtual Reality and the present state of it. We will talk about different use cases and the state WebVR is at present. The session will start with present state of affairs of WebVR, it's support in different browsers and then will roll into different use cases of WebVR and its applicability. We will then introduce aframe,a declarative entity-component-system framework. In this talk we would understand the building blocks of creating a virtual reality applications in web. We will see the possibilities and how we can create a multi user immersive virtual reality application where poople from different geography can take part in real time! What happens wehn we mash up different web API's and create your own butler in virtual reality to which you can just say "Sherlock, play this song for me" and it plays the song! We will delve into how interactions look like in WebVR, how you can start bulding immersive interactions. And of course at the end we will show how dreamers and conte t producers can hop into virtual reality world by just talking about their dream world and our tool will create a virtual reality scene for them.
All this happening in your browser, can be seen in Google Cradboard, HTC Vive, Oculus rift or VR headsets. And of course all this, shareable!

Using location in your apps means much more than mapping directions or adding a pin to a map. Learn how companies like Uber, Snapchat, Twitter and 100,000 developers utilize Foursquare's API & location intelligence to build highly accurate location-based services and create more delightful user experiences from deeper insights into where their users are going on the real world. 

Are you a newbie breaking into the wide world of Virtual Reality? No fear, I was too. In this beginner friendly discussion, you'll learn how to go from a web developer with little or no knowledge of game development, math, or physics to creating full VR experiences for the Vive, Oculus, and Gear. We'll cover how I made the leap, what resources exist to rapidly learn and start building, and chat about all of the mistakes I made. If you're a web developer looking to get into VR using Unity, this session has your name written all over it.

** You MUST be pre-registered. Lunches will be given on a first come, first served bases. They will be boxed lunches from the Town Kitchen. 

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Lunch and Learn w/ Veracode: Getting to DevSecOps

DevSecOps is an organizational framework that allows development, security and operations to identify and address vulnerabilities faster by introducing security earlier in the product lifecycle. The benefits of a DevSecOps approach are clear: risk reduction at the same time as continuous deployment.

Join Colin Domoney, Veracode senior product innovation manager, for an invitation-only Lunch and Learn session at DeveloperWeek 2017. As a former head of application security at one of the world’s largest banks, Colin will share his knowledge and insights into DevSecOps, including:

• How to address gaps between security, development and operations teams

• What technologies and environments you need for automation and integration

• Practical steps teams can take when transitioning to DevSecOps

In the Era of Digital Disruption there is a lot of potential for technologies to make a big impact with a disruptive product, but what we want to avoid is service disruptions and outages. With the ever increasing competitive landscape, there is a greater need to build with speed and resiliency from the perspective of the user. In this session, you will learn how and why you must test and validate your web applications (as it pertains to user perceptions and timings) to consistently deliver high performing products.

We're going to do a quick Crime Scene Investigation of an event and then we'll see how AI can help us make it easier.
 

A host of global issues such as the growth of artificial intelligence and automation are causing workers in every industry to ask the same question: "Will my job existtomorrow?" Workers today need to be equipped with a broad set of skills so they can adapt to an ever-evolving landscape. This session will explore Agile’s broad applicability to the world of work and the increasingly influential role it will play across the business spectrum, as well as how practitioners can set themselves apart by embarking on an Agile journey that equips them with the mindset and tools they need to succeed.

Have you always wondered what it takes to transition into media technology? Are you fascinated by cinematic VR and storytelling? Today’s feature films and cinematic VR represent a fusion of creativity and technology. It’s the thrill of combining artistic expression with the cutting-edge tech that drives innovation forward. The number of technologists and artists involved on a feature film runs into the hundreds, each playing their own little part in turning the filmmaker’s vision into reality.

In this session we will explore some of the core technology that goes into feature film post production and its application into cinematic VR. How do the frontend and backend stacks look like in a VR studio? What are the tools and technologies that are a “must know” in a production environment? Join us for this behind the scenes look at the exciting world of media technology.

Come learn how HelloSign leveraged the battle-tested Erlang VM and emerging technologies like Phoenix and ES6 generators to build a massively concurrent, fault-tolerant, real-time, and real world modern web application at scale.

If you would like to attend this talk please register here for free: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hellosign-coffee-talk-the-new-web-massive-concurrency-with-elixir-phoenix-channels-and-redux-tickets-31558834323 

Bots are gaining momentum, and with so many bot platforms, frameworks, and services out there it’s hard to know where to start. If you're interested in building your own bot chances are you already have most of the skills required to do so. In this talk I’ll walk through a series of bots built on different bot platforms, like Slack and Twilio. We’ll talk about simple request/response based bots as well as conversational bots that use natural language processing and other techniques to engage your users. Throughout the talk I’ll discuss the different architecture and design challenges we faced and the strategies and architectures we employed to solve them.