Presentation Tips and Code of Conduct

Summary/Abstract/Outline

As a self taught developer who eventually joined a bootcamp, I was surprised how the essential lessons were not only on code, but working on code together with other people. From having people around me to getting to lead small teams working together, the impact we can have makes a significant difference.

In this talk, we walk through my lessons from self-taught to a Lambda school student to a team lead, to help you avoid the pitfalls I experienced. We’ll look at how one of the most underrated skills is having experience working in a team environment, and how the experiences of repeated situations helps us navigate through difficult situations. Avoid lack of communication, not having a clear leader and not planning effectively as good teams have pretty much done all those things very well.

You are probably wondering, Cam how can I accomplish these things. First, play some sort of icebreaker to get to know each other and find out why they got into the industry. Second, find out what everyone’s strengths and weaknesses are and have defined roles in mind. Third and this is probably as important as the others is planning planning planning. If you don’t plan you plan to fail. Let’s plan to lead effectively and work well together.

Twitter https://twitter.com/camperry21
Github https://github.com/cpscott1
Between Two Divs podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/4tk1o7eoYGpuVoGxBc8Jhi

Group Chat with Makers on efforts to 3D print protective gear

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-OSH/events/269875156/

Come join us online in a round table style discussion from Oklahoma Makers and 3D printer enthusiasts who are making Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for hospitals, health professionals and the public!

PPE, 3D Printing, COVID, covid19, maker

clifford.bristow@gmail.com

My Fishing and Golf game is like my coding experience “Good and Terrible”.

I’m a self-taught programmer that’s still learning the ropes of the coding game.

This presentation is about my overall experience in learning to code from the begging to where I currently am in this process.

Freecodecamp, Python, C#,

Will be doing a live stream presentation so will need to do a test run.

Britt Flaming and Matt Woods

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/268242580/

Matt Woods, Julie Hausen

World IA Day – Design Panel

jack.brown.255@gmail.com

Beyond the JVM: Using Native Code in Java Apps

https://www.meetup.com/okcjug/events/268590803/

JJ Brown is a software engineer striving to make fast, powerful code easy to use.
They have been developing software for the better part of 6 years, working in both industry and research.
JJ currently works at Power Costs, Inc. in Norman, Oklahoma.
When not at their laptop, JJ spends their time playing Dungeons and Dragons, backpacking, and meeting new dogs.

Java is popular for its portability and ease-of-use, gaining ground early in its life with its slogan "write once, run anywhere". The Java Virtual Machine abstracts hardware so anyone can comfortably target any machine, but it comes with a tradeoff: losing control of the real machine. "Native" apps can control hardware, directly access the GPU and other modules, and be highly optimized into fast, efficient compiled code; these features are missing in basic Java. How can we bring those capabilities in?

Join us as we explore Java's escape hatch to the native world, the Java Native Interface. In this talk we explore the techniques and pitfalls of building Java code on top of native libraries, including:
- Managing ABIs and APIs through a Foreign Function Interface
- Memory ownership and manual vs. garbage-collected management
- Building on the Java Native Access framework to simplify the JNI
- Error management across FFI boundaries
- Composing build systems into one
- Demo: exposing ripgrep's native Rust API as a Java library

https://github.com/brownian-motion/java-ripgrep/

freeCodeCamp OKC, OKC Design Tech, OKC Indie Hackers, OKC Python, SheCodesOKC

World IA Day: Design Panel

Matt Woods is a growth marketer, software developer and shameless book addict. Currently, he runs Growth at Tailwind, an OKC software startup that makes marketing easy for small businesses. He also co-founded OKC Indie Hackers to help scrappy creators build software that makes the world better.

https://www.meetup.com/Tulsa-Web-Devs/events/dgbwgrybccbbc/

seth@clevyr.com | seth-hartman

Designing for Augmented Reality

Seth Hartman, Creative Director at Clevyr

He’ll be talking to us about Designing for Augmented Reality (AR). Come see his process for building out the Clevyr AR Business Cards and experience it yourself.

Augmented Reality, AR, Clevyr, Design, Business Cards, Tech, Projects, Adobe Illustrator, AI, Vuforia, Unity, Collaboration, Development, Contrast, Clevyr Stories, Marketing, Customers, Clients, Mobile App, App, Oklahoma City, OKC, Oklahoma, Techlahoma, Meetup, Design Meetup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U5LLCkA0h8
clevyr.com

My presentation is in Powerpoint if that's helpful.

Minimal Docker Nestjs CRUD example

https://www.meetup.com/FreeCodeCampOKC/events/266739653/

This project is a minimal example of how to get a server, database, and admin tool talking to each other using docker and docker-compose.

docker,nestjs,docker-compose,crud,tutorial,postgres,docker networks

Lightning Talk - My Coding Journey

https://www.meetup.com/FreeCodeCampOKC/events/266739653/

• Andre Butler (Linked: Andre Butler, email: abutler6588@gmail.com)

Andre is a new self-taught coder with experience in HTML, CSS, and Java. Started developing a project portfolio after listening to the FCC podcasts and studying tutorials on FCC, Sololearn, and Udemy. Seeking to make land first web developer job within the next year! Andre joined FCC in August and started attending the MeetUps around the same time; giving first speak at fccOKC the fcc podcasts, my coding journey, and learning HTML and CSS thus far.

The fcc podcasts, my coding journey, and learning HTML and CSS thus far.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-butler-62aa387b/detail/recent-activity/

How Any Developer Can Build a Career-Making Audience

https://www.meetup.com/FreeCodeCampOKC/events/266739653/

Matt Woods is a growth marketer, software developer and shameless book addict. Currently, he runs Growth at Tailwind, an OKC software startup that makes marketing easy for small businesses. He also co-founded OKC Indie Hackers to help scrappy creators build software that makes the world better.

I'm boiling down a bunch of practical tips to build a career-making audience as a developer. We'll explore examples of inspiring technical creators who attracted massive audiences by building value-packed software and gave their best projects and expertise away for free (and why you should too.)

Build an Audience, Software Career Advice, Open Source

What are UDF’s, USP’s and Views?

A brief introduction to UDF's, USP's and Views in SQL Server. Where to find and how to restore the AdventureWorks2016 database from a .bak file and execute basic commands in SSMS.

SQL, programming, databases, User Defined Functions, Views, User defined Stored Procedures

www.github.com/alex-code4okc,@AlexAyon12

https://www.meetup.com/OKCSQL/events/266386156/

After joining the department in January 1999, Captain Stewart spent the early part of his career in patrol and served as a field training officer, firearms instructor, and control and defensive tactics instructor. He spent several years in Recruiting before being promoted to the rank of lieutenant in 2009. He spent four years in Operations before being assigned to the Planning and Research Unit. He was promoted to the rank of Captain in 2015. As Captain, he spent time in Operations as a Shift Commander and in Investigations as the Property Crimes Commander. Currently Captain Stewart is assigned to the Administration Bureau where he oversees Planning and Research, Fleet Management, Staff Inspections and CALEA Accreditation.

Big Data and Data Science in Oklahoma City, OKC Analytics, OKC Python, OKC SQL

Intro to Columnstore Indexes

https://www.meetup.com/OKCSQL/events/266386156/

Overview of Columnstore indexes. What they are, how they work, and when they might be useful.

mlookabaugh@powercosts.com

Clean Code : Agile Software Craftsmanship

Mark Lookabaugh is a test-driven development advocate and code quality evangelist. He is passionate about software and the techniques to make it the best it can be. Mark earned his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma. He works for Power Costs as a principal developer in the Energy Market Systems division. In his spare time, he enjoys gaming, playing guitar, and reading.

Even bad code can function. But if code isn't clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Based on the book "Clean Code : A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship" by Robert C. Martin, this presentation will examine best practices for cleaning code "on the fly". You will be challenged to think about what's right and what's wrong with code, and how to transform a code base that has problems into one that is sound and efficient.

We will explore specific techniques for improving code bases and managing complexity in order to maximize the benefits of agile development and long-term project stability and maintainability.

Learning new technology and coming up with new project ideas is where my passion exists. I love the outdoors, chasing my dog, woodworking, and sipping on freshly roasted coffee.

freeCodeCamp OKC, OKC.js

Pro Tips - Crushing the Technical Resume

IT Recruiter, specialize in helping highly skilled IT Professionals find full-time opportunities in OKC.

Pro Tips - First installment of a currently unknown number talks, discussing candidate tips from the recruiter world.

It's time to dust off the old resume and crush that first impression!

Resume, Technical Resume, Tech Resume Writing, Tech Jobs

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-chitty/

mandi.howell@gmail.com

Changing Careers at (Insert Your Age Here)

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Sharp/events/264425480/

I work with .NET (C# mostly, but some VB), but I love trying new languages and technologies.

After being at a company for over 18 years, I share some lessons learned when I decided to change careers and do the thing I really wanted to do for a living: develop software. I hope that these lessons will help anyone, no matter where they are in life.

career change, software development, experience, plan

chriswongsickhong@gmail.com

Set Operations in Lodash: Intro to Functional Programming in JavaScript

christian.allen@epicgames.com

Indies Guide to Unreal Ecosystem

Why I Develop Physical Games: and why you should too.

What came first? The ART or the Plan?

Tulsa Game Developers :)

Develop for 13, Support 12.

Adding OData to an ASP.NET Core WebAPI

This talk will show how to add OData to an existing .NET Core WebAPI allow for more control over the data returned from your APIs

OData .NET Core ASP.NET C# WebAPI

dodzidenu.dzakuma@nexocentric.com

Competitive Analysis: A UX Perspective

Dodzi is a Full-Stack Developer and UX designer. He is a Techlahoma volunteer and co-organizes the OKC Design+Tech user group and is also the Local Leader for the Interaction Design Foundation in OKC.

He believes that taking pride and agency in ones professional development is the best way to grow in your career.

Designing a product isn't easy. There are forces from all sides preventing you from realizing the goals of this shiny new item. However there are methods that can be used to find the competitive value of your product and position it for success.

Dodzi Dzakuma is going to walk you through an analysis of some popular web apps, some techniques and deliverables he creates during his competitive research phase, and conduct a live competitive analysis on a website for practice.

This will not be a bystanders event as the audience will be asked to actively participate.

Come and see how we can apply UX research methods to developing our product.

competitive analysis,ux,user experience design,uxd,ux research

https://dodzidenudzakuma.com/

I will need both mics. The second mic will be used to have the audience participate.

Why You Should Make All Of Your React Projects PWAs And How

Bring the UX: Introducing Design into Business

Gaia Boyd is a Senior UX Designer with Oracle Corporation. With a background in natural sciences and ethnographic research, she's a leading voice for integrating data into enterprise design practices.

Gaia will be interviewing Brandie Moore, Senior Usability Analyst with American Fidelity Assurance Company. Her background in insurance, business and design provides invaluable insight into balancing business and user goals. She leads UX processes and strategies with a focus on user empathy. She's a Certified Usability Analyst (CUA) with Human Factors International, and has a Master Certification in UX with the Nielsen Norman Group.

What does it take to get your company's support for UX? A lengthened timeline and the tough conversations involved in the Design process can be a hard sell for companies in the habit of going to market fast. Years of building and releasing someone's best guess of what users want means challenging the status quo of profit over experience.
We already know a key ingredient is time: time educating, illustrating, convincing, and circling back to do it all again. So why not learn from experience and avoid wasting time? How can you focus on strategies and tactics the bring the most bang for that time?
This month, we'll interview Brandi Moore, Senior Usability Analyst at American Fidelity, on just this topic. She's been leading the charge for user-centered thinking in her company for over a decade. Brandi ready to share her best tricks for getting buy-in to try new things, which strategies to use first, and how to present what you learn. You won't want to miss learning from one of OKC's true UX pioneers!

UX, Design, Product Design, Usability, UX Research

Living on the Edge: Running Kubernetes and Istio in the Cloud

https://www.meetup.com/DevopsOKC/events/pvfghryzmbbc/

Born and raised in OKC, I spent 8 years working as a software engineer and architect, before moving into a site reliability engineer role several years ago. I currently work remotely for Lumin Digital, a company building a white label end user banking platform for credit unions where I've spent the last year migrating our product to EKS.

During this talk, I'll give an overview of the benefits, challenges, and lessons learned from migrating our product to AWS's EKS and istio.

Kubernetes, DevOps, Istio, AWS, Cloud, SRE

https://github.com/aaronmell

dodzidenu.dzakuma@nexocentric.com

Design Patterns and Business Goals

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/263638088/

Dodzidenu Dzakuma is a UX Designer, DevOps engineer, speaker, and Techlahoma volunteer that co-organizes the OKC Design+Tech user group. He also runs The Interaction Design Foundation in OKC which is an international organization promoting and providing UX design education in a format accessible to individuals of all types.

Design patterns are everywhere. They are an essential shortcut to ideation, prototyping, and communicating during the development of digital experiences, physical products.

Design patterns are ways to do quick evaluations on interaction methods that have already be developed as a starting point for customizing your solution, and your implementation of these patterns can have great benefits to your business.

But... what happens when design patterns meet business goals?

user experience design, UXD, design thinking, design patterns,

https://dodzidenudzakuma.com

DevopsOKC, freeCodeCamp OKC, OKC#, ProductTank OKC, SheCodesOKC

jacob.a.mcswain@gmail.com

Coroutines and Asyncio -- A beginners guide

https://www.meetup.com/okcpython/events/gphndryzlbsb/

Jacob McSwain is a DevOps and Software Engineer at Clevyr, Inc.

A beginners guide to working with Asyncio and Coroutines in Python

python,async,coroutines,tutorial,beginners,howto

https://jacob.mcswain.dev/

If I have to... I am down either way honestly.

jimmyjameslawlz@gmail.com

jack.w.kinsey@gmail.com

Writing and Deploying a .NET Core API

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Sharp/events/261899112/

A full stack web and game developer from the OKC area

.NET Core is the future of the .NET framework! This talk will cover the basics of creating an API using .NET Core and deploying it for use in the wild.

devon.mobley@gmail.com

Intro to Design Patterns in TypeScript

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-js/events/263038419/

I am the Director of Product and Technology at SendaRide, a concierge ride-share platform helping patients find transportation to their medical appointments. I am a self-taught software developer by trade, specializing in JavaScript. I've used TypeScript with several libraries including API frameworks like Loopback 4, which heavily incorporates proven design principles using the tools of TypeScript.

JavaScript has allowed many to jump into the world of programming and utilize their expertise at multiple layers of the stack, reducing the amount of time to produce useful code toward an application.

But what happens when you need to scale that code or maintain already scaled code? The first tools for a scalable code base toolbox are proven design principles and patterns that simplify our code and make it much easier to jump into, for a new developer.

This is why some libraries such as Angular and Loopback have changed entirely to TypeScript. This presentation gives brief introduction to TypeScript, how to set it up in a project, and it's basic features, as well as demonstrating how these features can help you make your codebase easier to maintain and scale.

Loopback, Angular, React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Domain-Driven Design, DDD, SOLID, Scale, Architecture

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/typescript-in-5-minutes.html
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/typescript/typescript_overview.htm
https://khalilstemmler.com/articles/domain-driven-design-intro/
https://khalilstemmler.com/articles/enterprise-typescript-nodejs/clean-nodejs-architecture/

DevopsOKC, freeCodeCamp OKC, OKC Indie Hackers, OKC.js, ProductTank OKC

Web UI Testing Automation using Java

http://meetu.ps/e/GX2qF/HsgFQ/a

Andres Barbaro a software engineer with 20 years of professional programming experience. He's currently the Engineering Lead at Tailwind, responsible for the development of their visual marketing products. Formerly, he was VP for Software Development at PowerCosts Inc (PCI) where he was responsible for a large team developing enterprise software for the power industry.

In this session, we'll introduce concepts and tools for creating and running Web UI (browser) tests using Java. This is a critical skill for developers to go beyond unit / API / Integration tests in order to assure the software we create works as expected in real-life scenarios.

UI testing automation Java

HashiCorp Nomad - A different approach to application deployment

https://www.meetup.com/DevopsOKC/events/blskdryzkbzb/

Jacob McSwain is a DevOps engineer at Clevyr, Inc.

hashicorp, nomad, vault, vagrant, terraform, packer, consul

Different technologies that I used to get a project started using python and Django. Web scraping, regular expressions, models, and api’s (Django Rest Framework)

Python, Django, web scraping, models, sqlite3, api, Django Rest Framework, regular expressions

https://github.com/alex-code4okc/OSCN, @AlexAyon12

OKC Analytics, OKC.js, OKC Python, OKC#

Email: marylicanin@gmail.com Slack: Mary Licanin

Interview Tips with Mary Licanin

https://www.meetup.com/FreeCodeCampOKC/events/262485482/

Mary began working in the technology industry about 15 years ago. She is self-taught, and transitioned to technology after having previous careers in banking and then teaching. Currently she is a full stack engineer working remotely for a mature Silicon Valley startup. As part of a team, Mary conducts interviews for engineering as well as UX/UI roles at her company. She also manages and mentors incoming junior developers.

New to programming and looking to land your first job as a developer? Are you a self-taught programmer? Unsure how to prepare for, or what to expect at your first interview? Join me for some interview tips that may help you land your first job. I'll talk about my process as an interviewer, and give you some tips for your first tech interview.

freecodecamp interview tips, interview tips, junior dev interview tips, self-taught programmers, tech interview prep

website: https://marylicanin.com/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marylicanin/

gb@bakoindustries.com or Slack @Grant Baker

Transitioning into UX: Perspectives From Designers + Recruiters

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/262675358/

Grant Baker is a skilled user experience design professional with experience in the entire design process. Examples of his work include interaction design lead for MutualofOmaha.com, co-creating one of the first Medicare Supplement online applications, and his role in creating and teaching Mutual of Omaha’s design process. He now works for Paycom as a UX Designer showing the value of a user-centric design process.

Panel interview about how I moved from graphic design to UX design

UX, design, goal-directed design, graphics, web

https://www.twitter.com/bakoind

kkinnair@teksystems.com / @kenzykinnaird

Transitioning into UX: Perspectives From Designers + Recruiters

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/262675358/?isFirstPublish=true

I am a Digital & Creative Recruiter for TEKsystems, the nation’s leading technology staffing and services company. We believe that innovation lives at the intersection of marketing and technology including UX, Design, UI, Mobility, Content, E-commerce, SEO and Social media. I have a passion for helping others learn about market trends, new technologies, opportunities, and any other information relevant to our market.

http://meetu.ps/e/GJ3SH/w7DF8/a

The Oklahoma City Metropolitan library offers free Lynda course access with your library card. I will go over available courses and how to maximize learning on the Lynda platform

C#, free resources, learning, programming, continuing education

GitHub.com/Alex-code4okc, @AlexAyon12

freeCodeCamp OKC, OKC Python, OKC#, OKC SQL

Designing for Enterprise Software

Ryan is a software development consultant at MY Consulting Group. There, he creates data-driven applications using a wide array of technologies, such as C#, Angular, SQL, WPF and many more. As both a graphic designer and a software developer, Ryan has a unique outlook on enterprise software development.

FaaS: Function as a Service

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-FP/events/262198220/

Jordan is a software engineering manager at Oseberg. He is a functional programming advocate with a strong focus on distributed data processing.

In this talk we will explore FaaS (Function-as-a-Service) and Serverless architectures. We'll introduce the concepts of running a function as a service and how it differs from PaaS, CaaS, and IaaS.

Why would you use FaaS? What is needed? How does this integrate with the rest of your system?

In our exploration, we'll consider FaaS providers such as AWS Lambda.

faas, serverless, function-as-a-service

Semantic Versioning is Meaningless

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Sharp/events/261119544/

Rainer works on large legacy systems at Microsoft and has strong opinions about build infrastructure and versioning strategies.

Lots of people love SemVer, with its clear descriptions of what each part of a version means. I'll explain why I think that's horribly misguided.

semver, rant, semantic versioning

http://twitter.com/tashkant

sgilbert@myconsultinggroup.com

Software developer with Microsoft tools for over 20 years

Brief agnostic discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of using an ORM.

ORM SQL Entity Framework

Lightsey (brent@firstlightanalytics.com)

Brent is an Analytics Consultant. He prepares people to do more with data, and makes data more useful to organizations.

Getting started with Power BI for non-technical analysts. Focuses on tools within the Power BI toolset that may be applied when transforming data, and gives an introduction to the technologies at the core of Power BI: PowerQuery and Vertipaq.

Power BI, PowerQuery, M, DAX, Vertipaq, Tabular Model, Excel, PowerPivot

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/power-query-m-reference

Intro to SQL and Relational Databases

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Analytics/events/261601643/

Kimberly Collins is a software consultant with 13 years of experience developing in C#.NET and SQL Server.

Kimberly reviews the basics of relational database design and normalization, and the types of SQL joins.

relational databases, database design, normalization, sql joins, cross join, inner join, left join, left outer join, outer join, right join, right outer join, full join, full outer join, okc sql

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14wqMfFssNw97FNnhvYPQvMSYUecRMaPeVqKC4Rxl-B0/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/collins-kimberly/

Building a great product development team

sourav.pati09@gmail.com

Apache Kafka for Microservices

Sourav Pati loves two things: technology and learning. His 12 years of development experience with companies like Goldman Sachs, AT&T, MBO Partners, and Devon, give him a wealth of knowledge that he loves to share. Sourav earned his Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, where he published research and has a patent on cloud computing and SCADA system security. He now works for Echo Energy as a Sr. Software Development Engineer. When he's not at work, he loves studying cutting-edge technologies at Coffee Slingers with his wife, Lauren.

Apache Kafka has boomed in recent times and is continuing to gain popularity. As organizations move forward with microservice architecture, they face a new challenge - communication among microservices. Many argue Kafka is the most elegant solution. And what about Enterprise Data Integration? It's an enormous challenge for companies. While there are many solutions, this is also solved by Kafka's impeccable data steaming pipeline capabilities.


Join us as we dive into the world of Kafka. In this talk, you can expect to gain skills like:
-Using Apache Kafka in a microservice architecture
-Building event sourcing and CQRS design patterns
-Utilizing the Spring framework to build a communication channel among microservices
-Creating a real-time data streaming pipeline
All while leveraging the Kafka Producer API, Consumer API, Kafka Connect API, Kafka Stream API, Schema Registry, and KSQL. We'll see this all come together in a demo data streaming pipeline that feeds into elasticsearch.

kafka , spring boot , elasticsearch , microservices

jacob.a.mcswain@gmail.com

Reverse Engineering Compiled Python

http://meetu.ps/e/GvmLB/FW0M2/d

Jacob McSwain will be talking to us about using tools such as Uncompyle6, python-exe-extractor, xdis, and xasm to reverse engineer and examine compiled Python

Python, reverse engineering, pyinstaller, pyc, re, py2exe, uncompyle6, xdis, xasm

https://jacob.mcswain.dev, https://github.com/USA-RedDragon

Blazor - Build client web apps with C#

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Sharp/events/261451584

Developer, Architect, Leader in all things Tech. I love to solve problems and work on challenging tasks.

Blazor https://blazor.net is now in Preview with .NET 3.0 SDK. Do you want to do C# in the frontend instead of JavaScript? Blazor allows you to build frontend code with Razor pages that run in the browser.

Blazor .NET C# Web Assembly Browser Client

https://github.com/jeff-maxwell/game-of-thrones-411-blazor

Intro to FCC JavaScript Algorithms

https://www.meetup.com/FreeCodeCampOKC/events/260900686/

Web Developer at LandTrafficControl

JavaScript, JS, algorithms, freeCodeCamp, intro, beginner

https://github.com/BryceJech, https://brycejech.com

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/260454485/

Aaron is a senior software engineer at Clevyr in Oklahoma City where he builds data-driven applications in Ruby, Javascript, Python, C#, and anything else awesome. He also just got married!

Get ready for another deep dive on a topic-- We'll be talking about designing accessibility for the web - from a developer's perspective! Despite what we envision, not every user is 100% flawless as far as mental and physical capabilities go - and there's no excuse for ignoring that. Building an accessible product almost always leads to a much more well-architected product - so it's a win-win.

In this talk, we'll discuss the tools and strategies you can use to aid users with visual, auditory, cognitive, and motor impairments. We'll discuss contrast, colors, content, keyboard flows, screen readers, section 508 - as well as some development concepts such as skip menus, the accessibility tree, hover and focus indicators, ARIA properties, and more.

There's a lot that developers and designers can do to aid users with impairments - so let's do it!

web, accessibility, section 508, mobile, a11y, front-end

Website: https://thecodeboss.dev
Twitter: @thecodeboss

* Entire Presentation: https://github.com/alkrauss48/talks/tree/master/accessibility-talk

* Section 508: https://www.epa.gov/accessibility/what-section-508
* ChromeVox Plugin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromevox/kgejglhpjiefppelpmljglcjbhoiplfn?hl=en
* Developing for Accessibility: https://thecodeboss.dev/2014/07/developing-for-accessibility/
* ARIA Roles and Attributes: https://thecodeboss.dev/2016/09/aria-roles-and-attributes-how-to-actually-use-them/
* NoCoffee Chrome Plugin: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nocoffee/jjeeggmbnhckmgdhmgdckeigabjfbddl?hl=en-US
* Open Graph: https://thecodeboss.dev/2016/12/what-meta-tags-your-site-should-be-using/
* Contrast Test: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/
* Z-Scan: https://uxplanet.org/z-shaped-pattern-for-reading-web-content-ce1135f92f1c
* Meta Tags: https://thecodeboss.dev/2016/12/what-meta-tags-your-site-should-be-using/
* Skip Menu Code: https://gist.github.com/alkrauss48/dc8e010a59d5e2df1666

abe.newton@fourthstripesolutions.com

Billion Row Dashboard – Working with Direct Query vs Import

https://www.meetup.com/OKCSQL/events/260944906/

Abe Newton - Owner / BI Consultant - Fourth Stripe Solutions

We’ll explore some of the different techniques for creating dashboards based off of billion row source tables. In doing so we’ll explore the 3 different techniques PowerBI offers for retrieving source system data; Import, Direct Query and Dual mode. We’ll explore the queries that are sent to the source system (SQL Server in our case) when using Direct Query. We’ll also look at how both SQL Server and PowerBI store the data.

PowerBI, T-SQL, SQL Server, Direct Query, Dashboards

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fourth-stripe-solutions/about/?viewAsMember=true

https://www.linkedin.com/in/abenewton/

Big Data and Data Science in Oklahoma City

scottmurphy09@gmail.com

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-FP/events/261460192/

Dhall is a configuration language made with FP principles.

dhall,fp,config,functional programing

brian.abston@sonicdrivein.com

Ship with confidence: using Feature Flags with Java

https://www.meetup.com/okcjug/events/261219954/

Brian is a senior software developer born and raised in Oklahoma. His career has spanned across several industries including biometrics, law enforcement, finance, power, and quick service restaurants. Currently he is working as a cloud platform architect for Sonic Drive In.

Feature flags give a software organization the power to reduce risk, iterate quicker, and gain more control. Feature flags allow you to decouple feature rollout from code deployment. This separation allows you unprecedented control of who sees what when, independent of release. In this presentation, we'll discuss the different feature flag options available and see how to get started using feature flags in Java.

Java, feature flags, trunk development, continuous deployment

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-abston-0067664/

Off The Hook - React Hooks

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-js/events/261288136/

Logan Huskins is a software engineer at LiveAuctioneers. Working out of OKC, he writes Node, Go, and React to build full stack web applications. Follow him on Twitter at @logan_huskins

Hooks are a new set of APIs in React v16.8 that change how you write components. Join us to explore what they are, why they exists, adoption strategies, and to refactor a small application using them.

JS, Javascript, React, React Hooks

https://twitter.com/logan_huskins

3D Modelling the World Around You

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-OSH/events/260946485/

Victor Gramm is a newly minted 3D Printer enthusiast interested in meeting regularly with other 3D Printer enthusiasts. Victor is an IT Professional of 18+ years, a former working musician/audio engineer, and dedicated family man. Feel free to follow him on his 3D Printing journey at www.3DPrintingStepDad.com.

Victor will be talking about what he's learned in an effort to learn and understand 3D scanning, photogrammetry, and 3D modelling for 3D Print applications.

3D Printing, 3D Scanning, Photogrammetry, 3D Modelling

www.3DPrintingStepDad.com

30 minutes + Demo Structure Sensor and Kinect Sensor

I will be demonstrating the XBox 360 Kinect 3D Scanning capabilities on a different laptop than that which I'm giving the presentation presently.

Snippets in Jupyter Notebooks

Blaine Mooers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at OUHSC. He a protein crystallographer that works on problems in molecular parasitology and cancer. He uses Python in data processing and analysis.

Jupyter notebooks are a popular platform for the interactive exploring and testing of code fragments, for instruction, and for self-directed learning. There are several ways of recycling code fragments in the form of libraries of snippets. These snippets are accessible from pulldown menus. Several extensive collections of snippets for several Python modules are available via notebook extensions. I will also demonstrate libraries of snippets of both code and equations in LaTeX that I have assembled.

Jupyter notebooks, custom snippets, equations snppets, code snippets

Big Data and Data Science in Oklahoma City, OKC Analytics, OKC Python

https://www.meetup.com/Oklahoma-Game-Developers/events/260830196/

Founder and CEO of Hexbit Studios

Unity's world building tools for 2D games have come a long way since version 2017. This talk goes into detail on how to leverage the power of Unity's tilemap features, specifically creating custom brushes and tiles using scriptable brushes and tiles.

Unity, Game Development, 2D, ScriptableBrushes, ScriptableTiles

https://www.hexbitstudios.com/

Presentation will consist of Power Point slides and code examples

https://www.meetup.com/SheCodesOKC/events/260419457/

Web developer at Rural Sourcing

This talk will cover...
- Creating a new project and components with Angular CLI
- Styling with Angular Material components
- Routing in Angular
- Connecting with an API to get usable data

Project example - https://github.com/amyegan/madlibs

An Introduction to Categories with Haskell and Databases

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-FP/events/260380610

Ryan teaches in the math department at UCO. He has long been interested in everything AI, cognition, language, and mathematics. Lately, he's been learning about applied category theory and numerical optimization.

Category theory is the language of structure and composition. It is the language of composable and coherent systems. It has been applied to neural networks and chemical networks, classical mechanics and quantum. It is pervasive in functional programming. If you've ever used a functor or a monad or a parametric type, you have used category theory. Recently, it's been applied to database design as well. This talk will be an introduction to category theory through Haskell and database programming. We will look at how similarities between the two can be expressed in categories, and how the benefits of safety and abstraction that functional programmers enjoy can be had by database users, too.

categories haskell databases

Slides: https://mathformachines.com/files/okcfp.pdf
Blog: https://mathformachines.com/
GitHub: https://github.com/ryanholbrook/

Big Data and Data Science in Oklahoma City

Reactive Programming Applying Duality: The Lost Art of Denotational Semantics

https://www.meetup.com/okcjug/events/260243783/

Justin is an awesome, funny Math guy who's became a Java prodigy in the last 5 years - switching from academia to the software industry. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from Northwestern University, and works at PCI as a Senior Principal Developer. He's got a passion for system architecture and super-clean well-structured code.

The phrase Denotational Semantics is an academic term for mapping programs to mathematical objects as a way to define their meanings. This phrase is not well-known in industry but we use it here to make it clear that this presentation is a shamelss rip off of a talk by Erik Meijer of a similar title. Erik Meijer, the founder of Applied Duality, is often cited as the inventor of 'reactive', a group of frameworks which have shown up in almost every programming language. The universal applicability of Meijer's initial reactive framework is attributed by Meijer to long-established mathematical principles such as currying, duality, and coproducts. With these few simple constructions we can understand a wide variety of interfaces in a deeper way. As a practical example, we will cover Meijer's derivation of Observable/Observer interfaces as duals of Iterable/Iterator interfaces. The takeaway is that every developer can apply denotational semantics to better design and implement common programs.

Erik Meijer Denotational Semantics Math in programming Duality Observable Reactive Design

Search Erik Meijer on YouTube to see talks which inspired this one.

bailey.lewis@truematter.com

Content Isn't Something You Read, It's Something You Do

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/260122459

As director of content strategy at user experience consulting firm truematter, Bailey oversees the content and writing initiatives for all UX projects. Her work is informed by researching and testing digital products with real users. She works with regional, national, and Fortune 500 clients on UX and content strategy projects, from definition through implementation.

A writer her entire career, Bailey advocates for straightforward, user-centric web content with the right words in the right place doing the right job. She regularly writes, speaks, and teaches about content strategy, writing for the web, usability, user experience strategy, user research, and user testing.

You’ve heard people don’t read online. And while that’s true, it’s an incomplete thought. Unless you run an online publication of some kind, your users aren’t reading your site or app like they would an essay or book. Instead, they’re trying to use those words to do something. As quickly and easily as possible.

Why, then, do our sites and apps continually contain walls of text that stretch from here to the moon? Why do we force users to toil through mounds of unnecessary, gratuitous, irrelevant words online?

Because we still think about words as something you read. Online, words are something you do.

We need to revolutionize the way we think about web content. We need the right words in the right place doing the right job. It’s not easy to do, but we’ll walk through getting started together.

content strategy, content, user experience, ux, ux writing, web writing

Content and User Experience Articles by Bailey http://blog.truematter.com/author/bailey/

brickbeard.io@gmail.com

Flask: Introduction & Project Structure

Junior Software Engineer at TBS Factoring Services LLC.

Introduction to python's Flask Microframework including: development tips, project layout, and implementing the Blueprints feature.

python, flask, api, website, postgres

https://github.com/BrickBeard/flask_introduction.git

Thanks for everything you do!

Secrets Management Simplified, Vault and Consul

sql.jimmy.ewald@gmail.com

SQL Server Sandboxes: Best Options and Implementations

https://www.meetup.com/OKCSQL/events/259395952/

Jimmy Ewald is a former DBA and current Data Engineer who enjoys tinkering around with databases and helping others.

We will be doing an "Intro to SQL Sandboxes" in preparation for next months SQL workshop. If you are interested in the best methods in creating a SQL Sandbox, or want to be prepared for next months workshop, please join us in person or online at twitch.tv/techlahoma!

Creating a Calendar using HTML, CSS and JavaScript

http://meetu.ps/c/31nVB/w7DF8/a

Biotechnology professional learning everything I can about the web and its underlying technologies and avid Pythonista

Making a calendar website using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Break down of what the main elements of a calendar are, how to use momentjs to obtain date information, and how to use JavaScript to dynamically render html elements to represent aspects of a the calendar

JavaScript, HTML, CSS, freecodecamp, calendar, webapp

freeCodeCamp OKC, OKC Analytics, OKC.js, OKC Python, OKC#, OKC SQL

https://www.meetup.com/FreeCodeCampOKC/events/259440207/

Frontend Developer at NextThought

How to use trello to manage your learning

learning, trello, productivity

https://trello.com/b/bvKoOLWv/learning-fcc-okc

Introduction to Rails Testing

We'll be laying a foundation for basic Rails testing.

The case for user interviews

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/258671600/

Product Designer at LegalShield living in Oklahoma City. I love to create meaningful experiences, and to solve complicated problems through design thinking. Love rock climbing, pies, and sunny days. Hate chocolate, long elevator rides, and the eternal winter.

Give a case for the importance to interviewing users.

UX, User Experience, Design, Design thinking, product, product design

30-45 plus questions after.

Got Milk? Modeling a Dairy Allergy: Oral Immunotherapy and the Immune Response

https://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-in-Oklahoma-City/events/258171315/

Kelley France is an Oklahoma native with an amazing family and a love of hiking and all things math. She began her career in the insurance industry where she gained an appreciation for detail, and subsequently spent 6 years in a fast paced office where she ran all aspects of the business independently. Kelley recently completed a B.S. in Mathematics and is the Data Technologist on the Enterprise Data & Innovation team at American Fidelity. In addition to her work with American Fidelity, Kelley is involved in research in the area of Biomathematics, focusing on HIV remission in young children and oral immunotherapy treatments for food allergies. Kelley has presented her research at the 2018 and 2019 Joint Mathematics Meetings and Mathfest 2018, along with several other regional conferences.

Big Data and Data Science in Oklahoma City

Kelley will discuss "why" of her research, She will explore the Biomatjematics and history of math models along with how she built her model and how she tested it. A review of the R Package she's used, assumption and how this relates to bigger topics in this space.

differential equations, biomathematics

@USA-RedDragon, jacob.a.mcswain@gmail.com

https://www.meetup.com/okcpython/events/vtdhfpyzfbrb/

Jacob McSwain is a DevOps engineer at Clevyr, Inc.

A talk based around the concepts of the popular "Linux Sucks" conference talks. This talk will take ideas and concepts in Python that from the outside might seem "sucky," and show how when you're in the ecosystem, these things are what make Python amazing.

https://mcswain.dev
https://github.com/USA-RedDragon/python-sucks

Catching the MicroService Unicorn

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Sharp/events/259201682

Steven started WebFletch in 2006, incorporated in 2007, with the goal to further businesses and dev communities in the ways of Service-Oriented Everything, now sub-categorized as MicroServices.

There are innumerable conceptual talks about MicroServices, including their challenges and principles. Let's actually walk through some real C# that addresses those principles and challenges. On the other side, we'll have a real Unicorn, the stuff people talk about.

SOA, MicroServices, WebFletch

Cognitive Strategies for Data Presentation: Make your data easier to digest by understanding how our brains process data

Dan Lovejoy is an enterprise architect at OGE Energy Corp with strategic responsiblity for user experience. Dan has worked as a UX Architect, a front-end developer, and in various marketing and technical roles.

The human brain processes certain visual cues well and certain very poorly. This talk demonstrates the importance of effective visual communication of data and provides some tips on techniques to embrace and avoid.

data visualization; data science; analytics; data design

I read everything, but curious if you would have an adapter for a MacBook Pro USB-C. I can also email a PDF of the presentation if that's easier. Thanks, Grant

gb@bakoindustries.com, Grant Baker

Branching Out: Test Your Navigation Tree

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/258534979/

Grant Baker is a skilled user experience design professional with experience in the entire design process. He was the interaction design lead for MutualofOmaha.com, co-created one of the first Medicare Supplement online applications, and helped create and teach Mutual of Omaha’s design process. Now in Oklahoma City, Grant continues to advance the Goal-Directed Design approach to problem solving in his role as UX Designer for Paycom.

Let's face it, the information architecture of your website or app isn't always top priority during design. But it doesn't have to be hard and you can get some actionable insights with just a little bit of effort. Begin testing your website today with a tree test, here is how to start.

Information Architecture, Tree Testing, IA testing

https://twitter.com/BakoInd

USB-C (the newer MacBook Pro one), can also email a PDF

Should be your basic slides and talk. And thank you!

victoria.schwaner@gmail.com

Information Architecture Basics

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/258534979/

Information Architecture, IA, UX, UXD, UXdesign, WIAD19, Design for Difference

http://www.victoriaschwaner.com/

Designing Brand Identities With a Social Impact

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Design-Tech/events/258534979/

J.D. Reeves is an Art Director at Ghost and a freelance brand identity designer from Norman, Oklahoma.

Diving deep into brand identity design and looking at the ways that brand elements (logos, typography, colors) can make them more effective for the social good.

design, brand identity, social, logo design, typography

www.jdreeves.com, www.dribbble.com/jdreeves, www.instagram.com/jdreeves

Augmented Reality, Gimmick or The Next Big Thing?

https://www.meetup.com/CocoaHeads-OKC/events/258796429/

Kern Jackson is a mobile software developer. Kern’s been hacking away on Apple products since the mid 80's. Currently he spends most of his free time on Apple Watch, SceneKit and triathlon.

Is augmented reality a gimmick, or is it the next big thing? What’s on the market now, and what’s around the corner?

Together we’ll cover what it takes to get started with Apple’s ARKit framework. When we’re done you will walk away with a solid understand of the fundamentals, and lot’s of crazy ideas for future apps.

AR, Augmented Reality, ARKit, SceneKit, SpriteKit, Xcode, Swift, iOS

Only one slide. It the sound doesn't work it's not a big deal.

Approximately 20 minutes

I'm open to speaking at any of these groups, but the technical aspects are very specific to the Apple ecosystem.

Request, Response, Repeat

Bioengineer interested in web development, databases and programming

How to use the python Requests module to consume public APIs

Python, Web Development, APIs, Web Scraping

https://twitter.com/AlexAyon12, https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-ayon-6509a156/

Cocoaheads OKC, OKC Analytics, OKC.js, OKC OSH, OKC Python, OKC SQL

The Importance of Side Projects and Why You Need One

https://www.meetup.com/FreeCodeCampOKC/events/257865201/

Side projects are an important aspect of your own personal career development. This is especially true when you are new and still learning. A good side project can provide motivation for you to keep learning and keep pushing further in ways that textbooks and other basic examples for you to follow cannot. I will share my own story of how I got into programming at a young age, the side projects that kept me motivated, the mistakes I made, and the things I learned along the way.

side projects, motivation, programming

Yes - Mac MiniDisplay Port to HDMI (my HDMI out has 2 bent pins)

dodzidenu.dzakuma@nexocentric.com

The Four Stages of DevOps Within an Organization

https://www.meetup.com/DevopsOKC/events/258466474/

Dodzidenu Dzakuma is a DevOps Engineer / Full-Stack Developer who has worked in a number of different companies doing development supporting production factories, working with telecommunications vendors, and helping intelligent farming methods.

DevOps is an extremely trendy word in tech right now. A lot of organizations are adopting or trying to adopt DevOps to help their organization succeed in today's fast paced market.

If you've been in the trenches as a Full-Stack developer or DevOps engineer you understand the importance of separating features of an application, creating internal company APIs, and communicating across silos. But what if you're in the operation side of this transformation? You'll have lots of questions about DevOps and what it can do for your company.

Dodzi Dzakuma, will be giving an overview of the different stages of DevOps transformation in a company, signs that you can use to see what stage your organization is in, a strategic view of a DevOps transformation and its value proposition, key places operations should be focusing on, and the goal that every company should set as a measure for finding success in this hard and trying paradigm shift.

devops, automation, development, monolith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rdiSi3iZ5s

bspens@powercosts.com

Essential Tools for Performance Metrics and Troubleshooting in Java

https://www.meetup.com/okcjug/events/258628656/

JMC Java Mission Control Performance

davidmarkluna@gmail.com

The relationship between Product and Design

https://www.meetup.com/ProductTank-OKC/events/258343516/

Dave Luna is a seasoned veteran of UX design. He's helped companies like OU and Paycom take their design game to the next level. He currently leads the product design at LegalShield. Dave is going to talk about the relationship between product and design.

Open Source .NET at Microsoft

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Sharp/events/257864644

Rainer is a developer in Microsoft’s Developer Division where he maintains the MSBuild engine and related tools. In his 10 years at Microsoft, he’s also worked on Windows, SQL Server, and other build and engineering-productivity infrastructure. In his spare time, he watches too many comic-book based TV shows.

Microsoft has open sourced a huge amount of .NET-related code. We'll take a quick look at (parts of) what's out there, and then focus on the processes and tools Microsoft (and community!) devs use to manage development.

We'll also take a quick diversion into describing the relationship between C#, Visual Basic, and .NET, for those coming from other ecosystems.

Microsoft, .NET, OSS, open source, tools

james@goldfirestudios.com

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-js/events/258498269/

pytest - checking your work

I'm into finding things that are broken

When you want to write unit tests, but you've never done it before.

pytest, unit-testing, testing, automation, python, tdd, red-gree-refactor

OKC Analytics - Demystified

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-Analytics/events/258256811/

OKC Analytics Demystified

Tech Behind Shift and Beyond

https://www.meetup.com/OKC-OSH/events/258275616/

Lawrence Kincheloe is an amateur inventor, professional tinkerer, and Artist at Factory Obscura. Bringing both a practical and creative take on problems and possibilities, Lawrence works with wires, sensors, computers, and lights to bring to life the various interactive elements of the artist's creations. Active in the DIY/Maker movement, as a founder of CoLaboratory and OK-OSH, as well as a past volunteer, organizer, event coordinator, and class teacher, Lawrence works towards a vibrant tech savvy Oklahoma with a focus on community.

Lawrence, (A Factory Obscura artist and co-host of OKC-OSH) will be presenting and demoing some of the tech behind the interactive experience Beyond and Shift.

Factory Obscura is an Oklahoma City-based art collective creating immersive experiences, challenging the participant to physically explore full-sensory environments.

https://www.factoryobscura.com/experiences/

Factory Obscura, Interactive Art, raspberry pi, LEDs

Dealing with SQL Triggers through SESSION_CONTEXT

https://www.meetup.com/OKCSQL/events/255780583/

Ryan is the software team lead @ 180 Medical with a background in government contracting. He has a passion for fast, maintainable business applications. Outside of code, he likes to learn about being a better leader, parent, and person.

This talk will focus on triggers, when to use them, some alternatives, and ways to refactor code to reduce overhead while ensuring needed business rules are enforced.