Code Chats and Lightning Talks
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Code chats occur on a semi-regular monthly basis within the group at ISIS. Although they were originally intended to be presentations focused on a specific part of the IBEX GUI they often cover other subjects that may be considered part of the backend, or talk about general coding practices.
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Basics of Epic DBs | TBD | TBD |
- Peopleware
- Clean code
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- The Effective Engineer
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- Refactoring
- The Agile Manifesto
- Fluent Python
- Effective Python
| Idea | Proposed Speaker |
|---|---|
| IBEX Project Management | Kathryn |
| LUA | ? |
| BDD/DDD | ? |
| Software design techniques in our processes | Aaron |
| The HIFI Cryomag | Lilith/Kathryn |
| Design Patterns in IBEX | ? |
| Datastreaming | Dolica/Jack/Matt |
| LVDCOM | Freddie |
| IBEX UI Design | Thomas Löhnert |
| Jenkins, testing and our build processes | ? |
| asyncio and asynchronous programming in Python 3 | ? |
| Script Server and Nicos | ? |
| CAEN v895 Discriminator | Freddie |
| MuSR conversion retrospective | Jack/Tom |
| BCC Cryogenics Course 2021 | ? |
| Java 17 LTS | TBC |
| Idea | Proposed Speaker |
|---|---|
| Observables and Writables in IBEX | ? |
| Dynamic Layouts in SWT | Thomas Löhnert |
| Databinding | ? |
| Mocking in Python and Java | ? |
| Checkstyle Quiz | ? |
| Maven, Tycho and Surefire | Tom Willemsen? |
| IOC Testing Framework & Emulators | Tom Willemsen? |
The presentation slides for previous code chats are available here.
Previous code chats
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Data Binding (two parts) (Contains info on MVVM) | Matt Clarke | Sept 2015 |
| Mockito | Ian Bush | Sept 2015 |
| Java Classes | Matt Clarke | Sept 2015 |
| Eclipse RCP (two parts) | Matt Clarke | Oct 2015 |
| Java Collections, Iterators and Streams | David Keymer | Nov 2015 |
| Design Patterns in IBEX | Dominic Oram | Dec 2015 |
| Eclipse Extensions | Dominic Oram | Dec 2015 |
| Observables and Writables in IBEX (two parts) | Ian Bush | Dec 2015 |
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Final | Matt Clarke | Jan 2016 |
| Java Quiz | Matt Clarke | Jan 2016 |
| Checkstyle Quiz | Dominic Oram | Jan 2016 |
| The SNS Scan Server | Dominic Oram | Jan 2016 |
| Testing with RCPTT (the basics) | Ian Bush | April 2016 |
| Maven and Tycho (two parts) | Matt Clarke | April 2016 |
| Javadoc | Kathryn Baker | Aug 2016 |
| Synchronized & Volatile | Thomas Lohnert | Aug 2016 |
| RCPTT - Tips and Tricks | Dominic Oram | Aug 2016 |
| User Interface Heuristics | Thomas Lohnert | Nov 2016 |
| How to Read ISIS LabVIEW Drivers | Kathryn Baker | Nov 2016 |
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|---|---|
| MVVM Pattern | Dominic Oram | Feb 2017 |
| Collision Detection | Jon Elmer | Feb 2017 |
| IOC Testing Framework & Emulators | Tom Willemsen | Jul 2017 |
| Motion Control Axis Testing | Dominic Oram | Jul 2017 |
| Pythonic vs Non-Pythonic | Matt Clarke | Sep 2017 |
| Python Style Checking & Flake8 | Samuel Jackson | Sep 2017 |
| Eclipse 4 Migration | Adrian Potter | Sep 2017 |
| Alignment Automation on ALF | Thomas Löhnert | Sep 2017 |
| Code Reviews | Matt Clarke | Oct 2017 |
| Dynamic Layouts in SWT | Thomas Löhnert | Oct 2017 |
| The DAE | Freddie Akeroyd | Nov 2017 |
| The HIFI Cryomag | Eilidh Southren | Nov 2017 |
| Python 2 vs. Python 3 | David Keymer | Dec 2017 |
| The RB Numbering System | Matt Clarke | Dec 2017 |
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|---|---|
| System Testing with Squish | Adrian Potter | Jan 2018 |
| Threading | Tom Willemsen | Jan 2018 |
| Galil Motors | Kathryn Baker | Feb 2018 |
| Grafana | Aidan McComb | Feb 2018 |
| AutoIt | Chris Moreton-Smith | Apr 2018 |
| Nicos | Dominic Oram | Apr 2018 |
| SScanSS | Stephen Nneji | Aug 2018 |
| Reflectometry | John Holt | Aug 2018 |
| Java 8 | Tom Willemsen | Sep 2018 |
| Introduction to Beckhoff Motors (Layers, Onions and Ogres) | Simon Cooper | Oct 2018 |
| Experience as a new starter | Aaron Long | Nov 2018 |
| Christmas Special: Bell ringing | Debbie Greenfield | Dec 2018 |
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Convert Record Changes | Liam Panchaud | Mar 2019 |
| Technical debt: Configurations | Thomas Löhnert | Mar 2019 |
| ACCU Conference Recap | Michal / Jack | April 2019 |
| Queued State Machine | Kathryn | April 2019 |
| Cryogenics | Tom | May 2019 |
| Beckhoff Code Camp Recap | Dom | May 2019 |
| EPICS Spring Meeting 2019 Recap | Aaron & David | June 2019 |
| Graduate Placement Retrospective | Sophie Kirkham | June 2019 |
| Controls at the ESS | Michael Hart | July 2019 |
| Datastreaming | Jack Harper | July 2019 |
| How data moves at ISIS | Chris | Sep 2019 |
| Migration to Python 3 | James | Sep 2019 |
| Java 11 | Tom | Oct 2019 |
| EPICS 7 | Freddie | Nov 2019 |
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|---|---|
| The IBEX Script Generator | James | Jan '20 |
| NeXus | Freddie | 11th March '20 |
| System Testing With Squish | Dom | May '20 |
| How to Read ISIS LabVIEW Drivers | Kathryn Baker | 6th August '20 |
| Review techniques | Tom, Dom, James | 3rd September '20 |
| DAQMx and Moxa DIO devices | Alistair | 28th September '20 |
| Deploying EPICS with Ansible | CLF Controls team | 19th October '20 |
| Helium Level Monitoring | Kathryn/Mihai | 19th November '20 |
| Handover: Client Build System | Tom | 10th December '20 |
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Cryogenics handover | Tom Willemsen | 2nd February '21 |
| RIKEN refurbishment | Kevin | 8th of March 21 |
| Topic | Presenter | Date | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Github Universe | Jack Allen | 14/01/22 | Not Recorded |
| ISISICP/DAE | Freddie | 31/03/22 | Recorded here. |
| Motion in Ibex | Jack Harper | 27/04/22 | Not Recorded |
| Docusaurus | Jack Allen | 24/06/22 | Recorded here. |
| SANS/TRANS Instrument Scripts | Thomas Cottee Meldrum | 21/07/22 | Recorded here. |
| IOC Testing Framework & Emulators | Tom Willemsen | 23/08/22 | Recorded here. |
| Ibex Gui Build System (Maven) | Tom Willemsen | 22/11/22 | Recorded here. |
| Topic | Presenter | Date | Recording |
|---|---|---|---|
| Java Debug Option & the GUI Singleton | Sudeepta Chakraborty | 08/03/24 | Part 1. Part 2. |
| How Virtual Machines and VHDs can speed up IBEX deployment | Chris | 29/04/24 | Recorded here. |
Lightning talks are a chance to share smaller bits of interesting information after standup at the end of a sprint.
| Topic | Presenter | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Rust | Jack Harper | 23/03/2022 |
| Git Interactive Staging | Lowri Jenkins | 10/08/2022 |
| Speeduino | Jack Harper | 10/08/2022 |
All presentations should be uploaded to the SharePoint site here (There is a subfolder for lightning talks) and/or converted to a wiki page if more appropriate. It should also be reasonably assumed that the people who gave these presentations should know something about these subjects.