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- 15 minutes to present
When proposing one, include the following next to your item
- your GitHub username
- which Friday you want to present
- link to slides or list-o-links with descriptions and link-to-recording-afterwards so someone else can listen in later.
- Mar ???: ??? by Amanda Shih
- Feb ???: Concurrency 2 by @philschatz
- Jan ??: Tango with Django by Michael Harrison
- Jan 19: Something about concurrency by Dantemss (please fill in, see fodder area below)
- Dec 8: knockout.js by RoyEJohnson (Slides)
(if you want to give a talk but want some ideas on what to show)
- favorite libraries
- ampersandjs.com
- github.com/avajs
- knockoutjs.com
- github.com/maxogden/yo-yo
- How to use Browser Performance tools (repaints)
- Performance collection: (repaints, image/XHR requests). How to add it to integration tests & production
- Accessibility: how to get into normal ux/dev/qa process
- HSTS preloading
history.state- dak's sprint demo but more techy and less-interrupty
- When to use, when to skip? coverage, integration, unit tests
- when should something be a unit test, integration test, dev performance test
- when is coverage useful and how should it be collected (ie QA would like it to be collected during the manual tests)
- SASS vs LESS (organizing code for styling books)
- Parallel computing basics/refresher (AKA how to use more of the hardware you already paid for):
- Multiple processes vs Multiple threads vs Hyperthreads (what are the differences, purposes, pros and cons)
- Native threads and processes (what makes them so hard to use)
- How web servers (like Rails) try to make multithreading work
- Some higher level abstractions (Actors and Reactors)