Tech Talk Brown Bags Series

IET Application Development is hosting a monthly Tech Talk brown bag series. Initially talks are focused on application development tools, tips and tricks. Come join this informal gathering and tell us what you've been working on and discuss new approaches to designing, building and maintaining applications.

Want to share something at the next tech talk? Email clbray at ucdavis.edu. I'm always looking for speakers!

 

2014 Series

Topic:Firebase: A powerful API to store and sync data in realtime
Summary:Firebase can function as the complete backend for your mobile or web app, and makes building realtime, collaborative apps easy. Ossama and Sara from Firebase will give an overview on how to build an app with Firebase as well as the move to no backend solutions with a focus on Android and web development. They will also risk it all by doing a live coding demo!
Speakers:Sara Robinson, Ossama Alami
Date/Time:June 12, 2014, Noon - 1:30pm
Location:PSL, Redwood conference room
Presentation: 

Topic:

Drupal for Application Developers

Summary:

  • How can Drupal be used as a rapid application development platform?

Speakers:

 Shawn DeArmond, Carson Black and Mark Miller

Date/Time:

February 19th, 2014, Noon-1:00pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:

 

Introduction to AWS

Topic:

Introduction to AWS

Summary:

  • Introduction to Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Aggie Feed Deployment on AWS
  • Aggie Feed Deployment Automation

Speaker:

Thomas Amsler

Date/Time:

January 22nd, 2014, Noon-1:00pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:

Presentation

2013 Series

Topic:

IAM Data Views via RESTful Web Services

Summary:

Get an overview of what the new IAM Data Views will provide to your application and see how you can access the views via RESTful web services. A live demo will be provided.

Speaker:

Brian Donnelly & Gary Sharpe

Date/Time:

January 23rd, 2013, Noon-1:00pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:

TBD

2012 Series

Git Tech Talk

Topic:

A Git Crash course

Summary:

What's all this 'Git' stuff about? Come get an overview of the future of source control management - DVCS (Distributed version control systems). Also, learn how IET's development tools will support Git going forward.

Speaker:

Brian Donnelly

Date/Time:

October 17th, 2012, Noon-1:00pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:

TBD

Topic:

Testing with Selenium

Summary:

Come see how the IAM and MIV projects have been using the Selenium automated testing tool. We'll see how to drive a browser via scripts or via unit test frameworks.

Speaker:

Gary Sharpe & Derek Wolcott

Date/Time:

August 29, 2012, Noon-1:00pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:

TBD

Topic:

Cloud Computing Overview

Summary:

When you hear about the "cloud" you often hear terms like SaaS, PasS, IaaS. What's with this alphabet soup? Come hear an overview and see some demos of some cloud providers like Atlassian, SalesForce, AWS and Heroku.

Speaker:

Curtis Bray

Date/Time:

July 18, 2012, Noon-1:00pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:

Presentation

Node.js

Topic:

Node.js

Summary:


Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Speaker:

Thomas Amsler

Date/Time:

June 13, 2012, Noon-1:00pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:

Node.js

An Overview of Scrum

Topic:

An Overview of Scrum

Summary:

Introduction to the agile processes of Scrum.

Presentation followed by open discussion on others experiences.

Speaker:

Curtis Bray, IET Application Development Manager

Date/Time:

May 16, 2012, Noon-1:15pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:

IntroToScrum - IET Tech Talk-May 16, 2012.pdf

MongoDB

Topic:

MongoDB

Summary:

Introduction to MongoDB

Speaker:

10gen
* Kevin Hanson - MongoDB Solutions Architect
* Jarek Ostapowicz

Date/Time:

April 12, 2012, Noon-1:30pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:


mongoDB Overview.pdf

 

Other public presentations: On 10Gen website
Free DOC: The Little MongoDB Book

Topic: 

Intro to mobile development

Summary:

Giving an overview of mobile development strategies, and frameworks.

Speaker:

Thomas Amsler

Date/Time:

Feb 15, 2012, Noon-1pm

Location:

PSL, Redwood conference room

Presentation:

Presentation