DevClub is excited to bring another great speaker to Estonia. Venkat Subramaniam, who is doing TDD training on May 6-7th agreed to give a talk at DevClub as well. We will meet on Wednesday May 6th, 19:00 @ Hotel Tallink SPA & Conference Hotel, Galaxy2 room.
AGENDA
1. Being Lazy—Lazy Evaluations and how it impacts Efficiency. (90 min talk)
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat is a (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. His latest book is Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions. What will Venkat talk about? “When we hear about functional programming, we hear about immutability and higher order functions. It turns out, one of the real charms of functional programming is lazy evaluation Lazy evaluation is all about postponing execution until the last responsible moment. This can lead to quite a bit of efficiency in the execution of code. In this presentation we will learn about what lazy evaluation is, look at example of lazy evaluation, discuss the benefits of laziness, and how it leads to better performance and efficiency of code.”
2. How to Make Remote Teams Work? (30 min talk)
Evelin Andrespok is the Office Manager at Toggl, responsible for overseeing the human resources processes and making sure the team works smoothly and happily from day to day. What will Evelin talk about? “When most of your work is done on the computer, there’s no need to sit at the office every day. You could get your work done from anywhere in the world, whether it be at a cafe near a beach in Florida, or at a quiet village near Tartu. Remote work is a growing trend globally, yet still rare among Estonian companies. Evelin will explain why Toggl has completely embraced this new trend. She will share the values and tricks that help keep together a team living in 7 countries spanning 3 continents.”
See you on 6th of May, 19:00 @ Tallink SPA & Conference Hotel.
