Build Stuff'15 Ukraine

In an extremely short time interactive information appliances such as mobile devices, computers, and interactive kiosks such as ATMs have exploded into common use all over the globe. An understanding of how these appliances work must now join arithmetic and the calendar in the migration toward universally accessible simplicity. This migration will require a radical simplification of the conceptual model for the internal workings of interactive appliances that is more intuitive than algorithms for the mass of people. 

The talk presents a hybrid unidirectional-flow/message model of the internal operation of interactive information appliances that is intuitive, generally applicable, and largely algorithm-free. It also presents design principles that formalize what-you-see-is-what-you-get construction-tool behavior. Finally, the talk demonstrates a proof-of-concept application builder that conforms to these design principles and that builds small applications that work according to the new conceptual model.

Every software developer uses APIs and most of us make them. The design of a "good" API is a black art. You know one when you see one. And yet how many of us could explain why some APIs are complex and hard to learn, while others are clean, simple, and a joy to use. It's a question I'll answer in this talk, and provide ten rules for good API design.

In this talk we will sleuth into what is privateeye. We will turn our
detective skills on how your application actually work and we will do
it using nothing but a REPL. You know how to code, let's code through
a murder mystery together.

The internet of things is built around sensors, without sensors we don’t know what goes on and we can’t tell our software to make rational choices based on the analytics of this data, but building our own sensors are not always practical or cost efficient when there are numerous of the shelf solution that could do the same thing if we could only access their data! This talk demonstrates how to reverse engineer standard sensor wireless protocols​ from weather stations, movement sensors and more to use for your own designs!” 
Title:Twinkle Twinkle little LED.Abstract:When you bought your first hardware platform you read about the General purpose input output or GPIO for short and maybe you even played around with it, made a LED blink and then things got complicated and you moved on to ready made spi/i2c or bluetooth modules. Well I don't blame you. Building stuff with the GPIO requires some knowledge of electronics such as LEDs, Resistors, Transistors and basic electronics. So let's get that sorted! Join Karl-Henrik Nilsson into the wonderful worlds of electronic geekyness and learn to use the GPIO for more than just leds! 

Now that ASP.NET is fully supported on Linux, you can package and deploy your MVC 6 applications using Docker. In this talk, I'll show you: how to use Docker with ASP.NET 5; how to deploy Docker-packaged solutions to cloud or private platforms; and a variety of Docker-related tools that help in development, testing and production.

Neuroevolution is a technique where we use algorithms inspired by nature to evolve neural networks. We will go on a journey on which we first explore the basics of a neural network, followed by looking at the beauty of evolutionary computation and ultimately go down the rabbit hole and combine the two to create a platform for evolving neural networks that can be used to tackle a wide variety of problems from cleaning robots to financial oracles.

The pace with which we introduce, replace, remove, reinvent, copy, modify and fork technologies has become insane. Even 10 years ago, a developer was focusing on one language, one framework, one database, one area. Today, we eventually have to write code in multiple languages on one single project, mixing multiple databases and going through the whole technology stack of the modern IT. There isn't even time to hold on and ask yourself: why are we doing tech the way we're doing tech today? I'll explain why, and eventually help turning from passive passenger into a co-driver.

In production things are different. In this talk we will look through
lots of ideas and differences between what developers tend to see and
what happens in production. We will also cover things like improving
quality in our software.

Many programming languages strive to be expressive, succinct, elegant and performant.

Many others don't.

Guess which ones this talk is about.