January Monthly 🎈
Mon, 28th January | 18:30 GMT (GMT+00:00)
Agenda
Please join us for the January edition of codebar Monthlies (the first one of the year)!
We'll have food and drinks as you turn up. There are breaks between talks. We aim to finish around 20:30.
Long talks 🗣
Taz Singh (he/him) : "Navigating the Seven C's"
Taz is a serial entrepreneur, technical management consultant, and was recently endorsed by the Home Office for Exceptional Talent in the field of digital technology. However, it didn't start that way and in this talk he will outline the lessons learnt from his journey as an 11-year-old kid trying to make a video game by learning JavaScript to supporting Toronto's software community & mentoring developers to progressing through the industry & scaling up software teams.
Hugo Di Francesco (he/him) : "Async JavaScript: history, patterns and gotchas"
"A look at the history, patterns and gotchas of async operations in JavaScript.
We'll go through the pros and cons of callbacks, Promises and async/await. Present some pitfalls to bear in mind as well as introducing how you would deal with certain situations.
Live-coding section touching on both Node and client-side JS situations."
Short talks ⚡️
Oliver Turner (he/him) : "When Houdini met Goldblum"
A brief look at what Houdini is and what it can do, illustrated by recreating http://jeffsum.com with native APIs.
Emanuil Tolev (he/him) : "Community Participation in Tech"
Emanuil will talk about the great benefits of participating in tech communities, how to find new ones to join, as well as some things to keep in mind when engaging with that world.
