Call for Speakers: February

[billyroh]

We're looking for speakers for our meetup!

How do I submit a talk?
You can either comment on this issue or [send us an email](mailto:talks@wafflejs.com?subject=Talk Submission).

When and where will it be?
When: Wednesday, February 1 from 7 to 10 PM.
Where: Soma StrEat Food Park

What should I talk about?
We don’t have a strict formula, but this is the balance we try to strike every month:

• 2x Creative Talks: Creative applications of programming. Past examples are generating lego murals out of static images, and building an in-browser RPG.
• 1x Passion Talk: Something you’re excited about outside of work. Past examples are starting and maintaining an open source project, and using meditation and programming side by side.
• 1x Technical Talk: A deep dive on a technical topic. Past examples are optimizing your code for the V8 JavaScript engine, and using functional programming for developing UI.

Do I need to be an expert to talk?
Nope. This meetup is supposed to be fun and casual, so we want everyone to participate. We especially encourage people of underrepresented groups to apply.

How long should my talk be?
Ten minutes. There won't be any formal Q&A.

What should be in my talk submission?
Just a few sentences describing what you want to talk about would be great.

What's the A/V situation?
We'll have a projector and a mic for you to use. Let us know if you need any fancy adapters (we'll have some Apple ones).

[dawsbot]

Composing Terminal Aliases with JavaScript

About

Writing your own aliases is critical for developer productivity. They allow us to quickly execute commands we know we'll need often. Example:

alias ni='npm install '

alias nis='npm install --save '
alias nid='npm install --save-dev '
alias nig='npm install --global '

Yet creating these commands is not only wordy, but it's repetitive. In order to reach maximum productivity, aliases should be composable like a tree. This is where JavaScript saves the day 👊 💥

JavaScript allows for far more brevity than what was previously possible with POTA (plain ole' terminal aliases).

Who

This is a talk for anyone and everyone who has either:

1. Written terminal aliases
2. Used JavaScript

How

Using Javascript's first-class support for JSON object's, we'll delve into the details of how you write your own JSON aliases. After this, the audience will receive an explanation of the architecture from reading the JSON file to composing the final built shell file. The node-generic portions of this talk (reading and writing to a file) are all fairly simple. By the end, everyone will be prepared to create their very own Node file-system tools!

🙏 Thank you for your time. 🙏

You can find more of my work here

[sxywu]

✨ a visualization a month ✨

Datasketch|es is a monthly collaboration between Shirley Wu and Nadieh Bremer. Each month, we choose a topic and build a data visualization by the end of the month. We document our process and struggles as we gather data, sketch ideas, and implement.

This is a talk about what we've built, and what we've learned.

[macmania]

Automate UI tests using Selenium and Jenkins

About:
Talk on how to get started using selenium to do UI testing and how to integrate to jenkins.

[billyroh]

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