Lyndsey Padget
Solutions Architect at VMLY&R Kansas City
Lyndsey is a technology leader with nearly 20 years of software and web development experience at both mega-corporations and startups. She enjoys sharing in-depth knowledge on topics such as Git & release management, MERN stack development, microservices & REST, test-driven development, agile & kanban, healthy teams, diversity & inclusion, public speaking, and more. Lyndsey is involved in local organizations that encourage women, young and old, to explore careers in math and science. She believes that the difference between a good software engineer and a great one often has little to do with code.Presentations
Master Git in a Day
9:00 AM MDT
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Git is the most popular source control management in development shops today. And for good reason; its power overshadows tools you may have used in the past, such as Subversion or Team Foundations. While most developers and companies know this, making the switch can be painful. It’s all too common to lose code or introduce bugs because of difficulties merging or resolving conflicts. But fear not - it is possible to get comfortable with Git.
After a brief overview of concepts and capabilities, we’ll walk through exercises to simulate realistic scenarios. We’ll resolve conflicts, squash commits, stomp on other people’s code, fix mistakes, tag our commits, and more. All exercises will be performed on the command line, so you’ll truly understand what’s happening without the aid of GUI-based tools.
What’s New in Angular (Archived)
2:45 PM MDT
Angular 7 is a big jump for the entire platform, but what does it mean for you? (We'll also cover what's new in Angular 8!)
In this session we’ll explore the things you couldn’t do before by diving into changes in the core framework, Angular Material, and the CLI. We’ll discuss other improvements to the framework and why they might matter to you. We’ll upgrade an Angular 6 application and add some new features to it. And if you’ve stepped away from Angular for a while, you might be surprised at how easy it is to pick it back up.
Angular Reactive Forms
4:30 PM MDT
If you’re using Angular 2+ and building forms the way you’ve always built them, you’re missing out on an amazingly powerful feature of the framework. Reactive forms (aka model-driven forms) allow you to build forms in the Typescript file, making complex validation and error-handling a breeze.
In this talk, we’ll walk through the steps to build a standard-but-tricky form, using the Reactive Forms approach, from scratch. Examples shown are in Angular 7. If you're not using Angular today but you need to build form-heavy applications, come see why people choose Angular's robust form features and quick scaffolding.
Badassary 101
8:30 PM MDT
Would Chuck Norris ask you to come hear him speak at a conference? No, he wouldn't. He would TELL you that you're coming, and then roundhouse kick you in the face if you gave him any more lip.
“What would Chuck Norris do?” is a philosophy this session will cover in depth. Other topics include: badass vs a-hole, human duck typing, the art of [not] caring, instrumentality, and what your facial hair says about you. You won't learn any new code in this session, but you might unleash a Pandora's box of awesomeness that will change the way you interact with your coworkers forever.
(Archived) Micro Frontends FTW
1:30 PM MDT
Microservices have helped us break apart back end services, but large front ends often remain problematic monoliths.
In this session you’ll learn how to apply the same concepts to large front-end applications, slicing them into end-to-end verticals. These verticals can then be owned by different teams and even written in different frameworks. Can Angular, React, and Vue all live together in harmony? How about AngularJS and Angular2+? With micro frontends, the answer is yes!
(Archived - rebooted) Git: Concepts & Strategies
5:00 PM MDT
Git. It can be intimidating if you're accustomed to other kinds of source control management. Even if you're already using it and comfortable with the basics, situations can arise where you wish you understood it better. Developers often just want to write code and tell everyone else to take a hike, but the reality is that most of us work on teams where the feature-based code we write must be integrated, tested, and ultimately released.
This session will cover the most critical git concepts, basic and advanced, in a completely visualized way. At the same time, you’ll pick up git terminal commands to help you understand (or even eliminate) a git GUI you already use. Go beyond the basics to learn how to get yourself out of a git pickle, practical release management strategies, and more.