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14 01, 2017

Fiery Reactions: A Mobile ReactJS Ecosystem with Firebase

By |2017-01-14T09:12:01-05:00January 14th, 2017|

Facebook has given us React Native, a javascript platform for building native applications with native look and feel. Google has given us Firebase, a backend system that provides authentication, data storage, hosting, analytics, notifications, and more. And, of course, Apple gave us the iPhone. In this talk, we'll use these technologies from these tech giants together to rapidly build a robust mobile application and deploy it to a device. We'll see how much faster it is to avoid building out a backend entirely, and we'll see the advantages of a multi-platform tool over native code in mobile development.

14 01, 2017

How to Build the Virtual DOM

By |2017-01-14T09:12:01-05:00January 14th, 2017|

For years front-end developers have bemoaned having to use the DOM; it's slow, inconsistent, and difficult to use. While libraries of the past provided better ways to interface with the DOM, recent libraries like React and Vue have instead implemented an entirely new DOM: the virtual DOM. Implementations of the virtual DOM allow developers to create and maintain UI components using entirely declarative interfaces that completely abstract away the real DOM. In this session, attendees will unlock the power of the virtual DOM through a step-by-step tutorial on the creation of a virtual DOM implementation in under 200 lines of [...]

14 01, 2017

Upgrading A Robotic Exoskeleton – Iron Man Suit Mark 2

By |2017-01-14T09:11:58-05:00January 14th, 2017|

Last year I brought version 1 of my Iron Man suit, The Mark 1. It was steel & aluminum weighing over 200lb. It was powered by an air compressor and 4 air cylinders. It even had an arc reactor light. But despite how awesome it was it was hard to walk, didn’t have built-in biometric sensors and it required 3 people to assist me in and out of the suit. Needless to say it was time for an upgrade. This years talk will feature a new suit, The Mark 2. It will be powered differently, will be more maneuverable, have [...]