The Hands on Kubernetes Workshop is a practical introducion to the Kubernetes contianer platform. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications bult upon Google's experience running containers on a large scale. Through the workshop the participant will become familiar with creating, running, managing, and updating applications on Kubernetes. Experience with Docker is not required to benefit the workshop.

The workshop starts with deploying a typical monolith application, then we'll add a SSL on top of it before we expose the application. We'll then break down the monolith in it's basic components and deploy, and update, them as individual services. This brings out the true power of the Kubernetes platform.

TLS (Transport Layer Security) has been around for a long time, but is still only used by a small fraction of internet domains, and only a small percentage of them are implementing it correctly. Old, vulnerable protocols are still widely used, and barely one percent use modern security headers.

This workshop is for everyone who wishes to provide their users with a secure service, both you who think "enable SSL" is enough, but also for the perfectionist hunting for A+ at SSL Labs. The workshop walks through configuring your servers to be good Internet citizens. We will also look into security headers that let you cooperate with the users browser to mitigate entire categories of vulnerabilities.

This will be a hands-on workshop teaching you how to set up TLS, Content-Security-Policy and other security headers, as well as what pitfalls to avoid. Along the way we'll show how to abuse incorrectly configured sites, and how to secure them.

Participants should bring a laptop (preferably Windows, with Visual Studio), and register a free Azure account.

Do you struggle to read handwritten digits? Do you not understand what people are saying? Do you keep forgetting what your friends look like? Teach your laptop to solve such mundane tasks!

Through the workshop we get to know machine learning using Python, Tensorflow and neural networks. Familiarity with Python recommended. No prerequisites with respect to machine learning or TensorFlow.

We will cover the basics of machine learning, neural networks and TensorFlow first theoretically, then practically through two datasets.

The term Progressive Web App refers to a group of technologies, such as service workers, and push notifications, that can bring native-like performance and user experience to web apps. Progressive Web Apps are interesting because in some ways they represent a coming of age for the Web. Progressive Web Applications take advantage of new technologies to bring the best of mobile sites and native applications to users. Let's create our one!

During this 100% hands-on session we'll have a look on the modern JavaScript code and recent tools and guides to help us build Progressive Web Apps. We'll create and register Service Worker, build App Shell, generate Application Manifest, send Push Notifications. The result of our workshop: fast, installable, offline-capable, mobile-network-friendly, re-engageable app.

Agenda

• Introduction to PWA and Workshop Setup
• Service Workers for Instant and Offline Experiences
• App Shell Architecture
• Installability and App Manifest
• Sending Push Notifications
• Tooling for Progressive Web Apps: Lighthouse and More
• Questions and answers

Setting up the environment

Environment
- Git
- Node
- NPM
- Yarn - strongly recommended

Browsers
- Chrome 53 or above
- Firefox 51 or above
- Any simple web server (could be a browser extension). Recommended:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-server-for-chrome/ofhbbkphhbklhfoeikjpcbhemlocgigb/

Initial setup
- Backend (API) part. Please go through installation steps described in README.md: https://github.com/webmaxru/pwa-workshop-api
- Frontend part. In order to have the packages pre-installed, please go through installation steps described in README.md: https://github.com/webmaxru/pwa-workshop

If you’d like an alternative to typical, quarter-by-quarter, schedule oriented road mapping (and all the associated waste) then this session is for you. Matt Barcomb will introduce a Cadenced Flow approach to flow-based road mapping.

He will first cover how to layout and execute a road map based on models that better fit software planning as well as how to transform your existing plans. Next, using options thinking to frame work will be explored and how to use starting and stopping triggers for options, reducing the need of blind budgeting or project practices. Finally, Matt will wrap up by touching on a few key metrics that will let you monitor and evaluate your new road map.

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The Hands on Kubernetes Workshop is a practical introducion to the Kubernetes contianer platform. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications bult upon Google's experience running containers on a large scale. Through the workshop the participant will become familiar with creating, running, managing, and updating applications on Kubernetes. Experience with Docker is not required to benefit the workshop.

The workshop starts with deploying a typical monolith application, then we'll add a SSL on top of it before we expose the application. We'll then break down the monolith in it's basic components and deploy, and update, them as individual services. This brings out the true power of the Kubernetes platform.

TLS (Transport Layer Security) has been around for a long time, but is still only used by a small fraction of internet domains, and only a small percentage of them are implementing it correctly. Old, vulnerable protocols are still widely used, and barely one percent use modern security headers.

This workshop is for everyone who wishes to provide their users with a secure service, both you who think "enable SSL" is enough, but also for the perfectionist hunting for A+ at SSL Labs. The workshop walks through configuring your servers to be good Internet citizens. We will also look into security headers that let you cooperate with the users browser to mitigate entire categories of vulnerabilities.

This will be a hands-on workshop teaching you how to set up TLS, Content-Security-Policy and other security headers, as well as what pitfalls to avoid. Along the way we'll show how to abuse incorrectly configured sites, and how to secure them.

Participants should bring a laptop (preferably Windows, with Visual Studio), and register a free Azure account.

Do you struggle to read handwritten digits? Do you not understand what people are saying? Do you keep forgetting what your friends look like? Teach your laptop to solve such mundane tasks!

Through the workshop we get to know machine learning using Python, Tensorflow and neural networks. Familiarity with Python recommended. No prerequisites with respect to machine learning or TensorFlow.

We will cover the basics of machine learning, neural networks and TensorFlow first theoretically, then practically through two datasets.

The term Progressive Web App refers to a group of technologies, such as service workers, and push notifications, that can bring native-like performance and user experience to web apps. Progressive Web Apps are interesting because in some ways they represent a coming of age for the Web. Progressive Web Applications take advantage of new technologies to bring the best of mobile sites and native applications to users. Let's create our one!

During this 100% hands-on session we'll have a look on the modern JavaScript code and recent tools and guides to help us build Progressive Web Apps. We'll create and register Service Worker, build App Shell, generate Application Manifest, send Push Notifications. The result of our workshop: fast, installable, offline-capable, mobile-network-friendly, re-engageable app.

Agenda

• Introduction to PWA and Workshop Setup
• Service Workers for Instant and Offline Experiences
• App Shell Architecture
• Installability and App Manifest
• Sending Push Notifications
• Tooling for Progressive Web Apps: Lighthouse and More
• Questions and answers

Setting up the environment

Environment
- Git
- Node
- NPM
- Yarn - strongly recommended

Browsers
- Chrome 53 or above
- Firefox 51 or above
- Any simple web server (could be a browser extension). Recommended:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-server-for-chrome/ofhbbkphhbklhfoeikjpcbhemlocgigb/

Initial setup
- Backend (API) part. Please go through installation steps described in README.md: https://github.com/webmaxru/pwa-workshop-api
- Frontend part. In order to have the packages pre-installed, please go through installation steps described in README.md: https://github.com/webmaxru/pwa-workshop

Does prioritizing your development portfolio seem unclear or mired in politics? Ever feel like the decisions for what gets worked on when are somewhere between arbitrary and emotional? Ever get tired of providing cost estimates for work of uncertain value?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, this session is for you! Matt & Kelly will open with introductory concepts about shifting from a cost focus to a value focus for development work. Next, providing business value for user stories will be debunked. Then, a collaborative framework for prioritization, Benefit Mapping, will be discussed. Finally, they will end with ways to simplify the cost evaluation of work and risk.

Sketching is a crucial skill that spans all job titles. It helps with brainstorming ideas, iterating through concepts, and communicating our ideas to others. Whether working individually or in a group, our ability to sketch helps take the abstract ideas out of heads and into the real world.

Don’t worry—the confidence you need to put your pen to paper and start to sketch is close at hand! With the addition of a few simple approaches to your daily routine, you too can harness the power of sketching and become a sketching machine. Come prepared to do fun sketching activities so you can experience the power of sketching firsthand.

We will start of by discussing the role of server setup and automation in relation to cloud and SAAS services, and how to avoid lock in. With this a background, we will very practically run through settting up servers for a small self served web application, using Ansible, Packer and Terraform.

The workshop will target DigitalOcean as the cloud server provider, but the same principles can easily be used on AWS and others. The server OS used will be Debian.

The Rust programming language is a new systems programming language from Mozilla. It is intended to bring safer programming practices to low-level programing languages without giving up the control that is necessary on this level. But it requires a bit of patience to learn it.

If you never programmed in Rust before, this is the workshop for you. In a easy-to-follow tutorial you will learn the basics of Rust and a few of its core concepts. You will learn how Rust can help you to write safe and concurrent programs and how to use the type system efficiently.

This workshop assumes no prior knowledge of Rust, though programming experience in some other language would be helpful.

OpenID Connect and OAuth 2 are the two security protocols you should know for designing modern identity and security into your distributed applications. They support todays use cases like desktop, web and mobile clients talking to web APIs, micro-, macro- and cloud-based services.

In this half-day workshop, Dominick (the co-author of a certified OpenID Connect implementation) walks you through the various protocol and application use cases, discusses appropriate architecture approaches and gives you plenty of time to ask questions.

When working with HTML and CSS, it’s all too common to discover that your code has become an unmaintainable beast with little or no reuse value. In this workshop we’ll be talking about SCSS structure with BEM, and how this can help you create a cohesive library of modules. You will be working hands on with creating modules and learn about how these modules can be used as a design tool.

In the process you will get to know the latest version of the Inuitcss framework, version 6. It brings a whole bunch of improvements and makes it easier to get started with.

In this workshop you are going to learn:

• How to structure your SCSS so that you and your team have more control
• How to avoid the specificity-monster in CSS
• How to work with modules in your design and how this makes development and prototyping easier
• How to handle complex, responsive layouts in CSS
• Tools and techniques to support your workflow when working on responsive design projects

You should at least be familiar with some basics of responsive design, HTML5 and SCSS.

During this workshop participants will gain better and deeper understanding of the retrospective meeting. Participants shall explore different ways to facilitate a retrospective while understanding pro's and con's of the different styles and activities.

This will be achieved by plenty of exercises, simulations and role plays.
Throughout the workshop participants will be able to understand the power of retrospectives through a rolling exercise that will demonstrate the learning and improvement that can be achieved by having efficient retrospectives. Participants will also reflect on the pitfalls of not having frequent and effective retrospectives.

Topic that will be covered are:

• Understanding the framework of a retrospectives.
• Different techniques to gather data.
• Different techniques to analyze data and generate insights.
• Group facilitation skills and group decision making knowledge.
• Different ways of doing retrospectives.
• A toolbox for making the most out of retrospectives.
• Traps and pitfalls of retrospectives.
• Knowledge to "smell" problems in retrospectives.

We value working software over comprehensive documentation" is what the manifesto for agile software development says, with the typical misinterpretation of these few words being "don't write documentation". Of course, that's not what the manifesto says and "no documentation" certainly wasn't the intent. It seems that many software teams have lost the ability to communicate what it is they are building and it's no surprise that these same teams often seem to lack technical leadership, direction and consistency. In this hands-on workshop you'll learn why you should create software documentation, what content you should include and how to create it.

Material for this workshop is gathered in the GitHub organisation darwins-challenge: https://github.com/darwins-challenge.

47 years ago man landed on the moon for the first time. Today is your chance to recreate that historic event. Writing code is soooo 1969, so you will teach a computer to write the control code for the moon lander.

In this workshop you will learn the essentials of genetic programming, the trade-offs and pitfalls of this under appreciated machine learning strategy. You will exercise your newly learned skills on the problem of landing a spacecraft on the moon.

So hop into your command seat and fly me to the moon.

We will start of by discussing the role of server setup and automation in relation to cloud and SAAS services, and how to avoid lock in. With this a background, we will very practically run through settting up servers for a small self served web application, using Ansible, Packer and Terraform.

The workshop will target DigitalOcean as the cloud server provider, but the same principles can easily be used on AWS and others. The server OS used will be Debian.

The Rust programming language is a new systems programming language from Mozilla. It is intended to bring safer programming practices to low-level programing languages without giving up the control that is necessary on this level. But it requires a bit of patience to learn it.

If you never programmed in Rust before, this is the workshop for you. In a easy-to-follow tutorial you will learn the basics of Rust and a few of its core concepts. You will learn how Rust can help you to write safe and concurrent programs and how to use the type system efficiently.

This workshop assumes no prior knowledge of Rust, though programming experience in some other language would be helpful.

OpenID Connect and OAuth 2 are the two security protocols you should know for designing modern identity and security into your distributed applications. They support todays use cases like desktop, web and mobile clients talking to web APIs, micro-, macro- and cloud-based services.

In this half-day workshop, Dominick (the co-author of a certified OpenID Connect implementation) walks you through the various protocol and application use cases, discusses appropriate architecture approaches and gives you plenty of time to ask questions.

When working with HTML and CSS, it’s all too common to discover that your code has become an unmaintainable beast with little or no reuse value. In this workshop we’ll be talking about SCSS structure with BEM, and how this can help you create a cohesive library of modules. You will be working hands on with creating modules and learn about how these modules can be used as a design tool.

In the process you will get to know the latest version of the Inuitcss framework, version 6. It brings a whole bunch of improvements and makes it easier to get started with.

In this workshop you are going to learn:

• How to structure your SCSS so that you and your team have more control
• How to avoid the specificity-monster in CSS
• How to work with modules in your design and how this makes development and prototyping easier
• How to handle complex, responsive layouts in CSS
• Tools and techniques to support your workflow when working on responsive design projects

You should at least be familiar with some basics of responsive design, HTML5 and SCSS.

During this workshop participants will gain better and deeper understanding of the retrospective meeting. Participants shall explore different ways to facilitate a retrospective while understanding pro's and con's of the different styles and activities.

This will be achieved by plenty of exercises, simulations and role plays.
Throughout the workshop participants will be able to understand the power of retrospectives through a rolling exercise that will demonstrate the learning and improvement that can be achieved by having efficient retrospectives. Participants will also reflect on the pitfalls of not having frequent and effective retrospectives.

Topic that will be covered are:

• Understanding the framework of a retrospectives.
• Different techniques to gather data.
• Different techniques to analyze data and generate insights.
• Group facilitation skills and group decision making knowledge.
• Different ways of doing retrospectives.
• A toolbox for making the most out of retrospectives.
• Traps and pitfalls of retrospectives.
• Knowledge to "smell" problems in retrospectives.

We value working software over comprehensive documentation" is what the manifesto for agile software development says, with the typical misinterpretation of these few words being "don't write documentation". Of course, that's not what the manifesto says and "no documentation" certainly wasn't the intent. It seems that many software teams have lost the ability to communicate what it is they are building and it's no surprise that these same teams often seem to lack technical leadership, direction and consistency. In this hands-on workshop you'll learn why you should create software documentation, what content you should include and how to create it.

Material for this workshop is gathered in the GitHub organisation darwins-challenge: https://github.com/darwins-challenge.

47 years ago man landed on the moon for the first time. Today is your chance to recreate that historic event. Writing code is soooo 1969, so you will teach a computer to write the control code for the moon lander.

In this workshop you will learn the essentials of genetic programming, the trade-offs and pitfalls of this under appreciated machine learning strategy. You will exercise your newly learned skills on the problem of landing a spacecraft on the moon.

So hop into your command seat and fly me to the moon.

“It is the recognition that well-read is not a destination, there is nowhere to get to and if there was somewhere to get to, you would need a thousand years to even think about getting there.” -Linda Holmes

Many people strive to be “well-read” as developers or designers, they want to know & do it all. But why? All in the name of being “well-read”? All just to say “Yeah — I’ve done that”?

Why do we do what we do? Why do we try so hard? Why are we here, paying to be here, to listen to people talk? Maybe because we’re life long learners - we want to learn new things? Commune with our own kind? But why? Come examine our motives as developers, the pitfalls we fall into, and the cost of being great.

Technical debt is not primarily caused by incompetent developers, architecture astronauts, unrealistic UX people or even stupid project managers. Rather, it is a third-order effect of poor communication. It is a symptom of an underlying lack of appropriate abstractions, which in turn stems from insufficient modelling of the problem domain. In order to avoid technical bankrupcy, therefore, we must improve the way we build our understanding of the problem we are trying to solve.

Partikkel has quickly gone from being a start-up project to become one of the most sophisticated paywall solutions on the market. Yet most of the solution were created in the spare time. The people behind Partikkel tells the story of Partikkel from idea to the current solution.

How is it to start your own company when you already work full time?

What consequences did this limitation have for the product, the technical solution and cooperation with customers?

There will of course be a demo of the solution, and talk about future plans for the product.

The construction and maintenance of roads is expensive. Metrics such as traffic speeds, volumes, patterns and trends heavily influence how roads should be built and maintained. Improving the data quality of your metrics means you can plan and execute roadwork more efficiently.

We have built an infrastructure consisting of distributed sensors and signal processing devices, a data ingestion application, and a NoSQL database optimized for analytics. The system registers information about vehicles passing measurement stations located along major roads in Norway and provides continuously updated reports and low-latency traffic event information.

While building the system and integrating it with an increasing number of measurement stations, we have encountered a wide variety of architectural challenges. We believe the main reasons are: a very diverse technology stack, a need for continuously cost-effective scalability, and a desire to keep the architecture simple and agile.

The presentation will go through a selection of challenges we have met and provide our thoughts and reasoning behind the choices we made underway. Outcomes, both positive and negative, intended and unintended, will be discussed.

We designers have been told for ages to learn how to program because we needed to know the technology. On the other hand, very few developers bother doing the same with design. This usually leads to worse results than necessary, and robs us of the opportunity to play on the same team.

This presentation is meant to contribute to the much needed discussion about how developers and designers can work together to achieve excellence without losing their minds. Attendees should leave the room afterwards with a certain insight in how ignorance hinders best outcomes and how they personally can improve the situation.

Foredraget vil handle om hva som må(tte) til for å flytte Norges nest største nettsted, med 300 microservices og kontinuerlig leveranse ut i skyen. 

Xamarin is evolving and has been recently acquired by Microsoft. Cross-platform development has never been trendier. Number of users of Xamarin grows tremendously.

However, we are - FotMob, 11M-users app - jumping off this cross-platform train. In this talk, I want to share my insights about dark-side of Xamarin, something you probably don't think about when you start a brand new project.

All pros and cons we faced throughout last 4 years with Xamarin. I'm going to cover all pitfalls we have experienced, best practises we have found useful and try to explain why Xamarin, despite being a great product & technology is not a product for everyone.

I will bring a bunch of devices and give you some code to get started. We will put all that things together during the workshop. I will have Raspberry Pis, some sensors, controller, and peripheral devices that use Z-Wave for communication.

You are also welcome to bring your own devices, if you have any. And don’t forget your PC.

Machine Learning, cloud, data analysis, security, home automation (bingo!) – sky is the limit!

In agile development, we focus on building quality in, delivering value to customers, and preventing defects rather than finding them at the end. In this interactive session, Janet introduces some techniques that help teams obtain a shared understanding of each feature set and story using examples and business rules to guide development. You also learn how to explore to make sure they’re delivering the right value. She will give participants a chance to practice how guiding development with tests can help deliver a quality product.

In this workshop, we will explore the characteristics of Microservices. Often this architectural style is taken to mean only componentisation via services but there is much more to successfully adopting a microservices architecture than that. We will take a look at what the companies who successfully adopt them do, from the unicorns to your own implementations. We will also take a look at the four styles of microservices architecture commonly used and learn how to apply them in our own organisations.

Try gamestorming! Gamestorming is one part skill and one part brainstorming mixed together. The result is simple and fun techniques that you can use in workshops to solve problems and come up with new ideas. Everything is focused around various games, which helps participants out of established attitudes and social barriers. In this workshop you will be guided through some gamestorming techniques, while trying to solve a challenge.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) can be drawn up in graphics software or hand coded in an editor. In this workshop, we are going to do both! \o/ We’ll play around with basic shapes and paths in Inkscape, before we dive into <path> and <polygon> to bring stunning designs the browser.

Exploring the treasure trove of (Big) Data is essential for companies to survive the increasingly competitive landscape. By putting data at the forefront and focusing on data-centric architectures, one can establish a platform for building data-driven products, make decisions based on the data, and ultimately take control of the increasing amounts of generated data.

This workshop will be focused on learning the concepts and building a real-time data streaming architecture with Apache Kafka as the main Data Hub. We will start with a good overview on data-centric architectures, Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming, and the data modeling process. We will reserve a large chunk of time for hands-on deployment of the different components, and will be doing interactive data exploration using Jupyter Notebooks (in Python). The aim is to enable you to build applications that take advantage of the low latency, real-time aspect of the architecture.

The participants of the workshop will also use Ansible, AWS, and Docker to prepare the workshop environment, after a short introduction to the tools needed. This will not be the main focus of the workshop, but is needed to get started quickly.

Important topics / technologies covered:

• Apache Kafka
• Spark Streaming
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Ansible
• Docker

I will bring a bunch of devices and give you some code to get started. We will put all that things together during the workshop. I will have Raspberry Pis, some sensors, controller, and peripheral devices that use Z-Wave for communication.

You are also welcome to bring your own devices, if you have any. And don’t forget your PC.

Machine Learning, cloud, data analysis, security, home automation (bingo!) – sky is the limit!

Test early, test often. Those two phrases can be very daunting to teams new to agile projects. Janet shares her experiences in how testing activities change in an agile environment, and what skills testers need to enhance their team’s ability to deliver a quality product. If your team doesn’t have a tester, then this is an opportunity for you to learn the benefits of testing activities such as exploratory testing as part of the whole team approach to delivering quality.  Participants will have an opportunity to practice their skills at some of these testing activities.

In this workshop, we will explore the characteristics of Microservices. Often this architectural style is taken to mean only componentisation via services but there is much more to successfully adopting a microservices architecture than that. We will take a look at what the companies who successfully adopt them do, from the unicorns to your own implementations. We will also take a look at the four styles of microservices architecture commonly used and learn how to apply them in our own organisations.

Try gamestorming! Gamestorming is one part skill and one part brainstorming mixed together. The result is simple and fun techniques that you can use in workshops to solve problems and come up with new ideas. Everything is focused around various games, which helps participants out of established attitudes and social barriers. In this workshop you will be guided through some gamestorming techniques, while trying to solve a challenge.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) can be drawn up in graphics software or hand coded in an editor. In this workshop, we are going to do both! \o/ We’ll play around with basic shapes and paths in Inkscape, before we dive into <path> and <polygon> to bring stunning designs the browser.

Exploring the treasure trove of (Big) Data is essential for companies to survive the increasingly competitive landscape. By putting data at the forefront and focusing on data-centric architectures, one can establish a platform for building data-driven products, make decisions based on the data, and ultimately take control of the increasing amounts of generated data.

This workshop will be focused on learning the concepts and building a real-time data streaming architecture with Apache Kafka as the main Data Hub. We will start with a good overview on data-centric architectures, Apache Kafka, Spark Streaming, and the data modeling process. We will reserve a large chunk of time for hands-on deployment of the different components, and will be doing interactive data exploration using Jupyter Notebooks (in Python). The aim is to enable you to build applications that take advantage of the low latency, real-time aspect of the architecture.

The participants of the workshop will also use Ansible, AWS, and Docker to prepare the workshop environment, after a short introduction to the tools needed. This will not be the main focus of the workshop, but is needed to get started quickly.

Important topics / technologies covered:

• Apache Kafka
• Spark Streaming
• Jupyter Notebooks
• Ansible
• Docker

Learn about how to implement service discovery in your architecture with consul (https://www.consul.io/).

Applications that talk to eachother need to know about eachother. Up to a certain point this information does fine in simple configuration files. But as your architecture grows you might want some extra flexibility.

With service discovery you put this information about where applications can be found in a separate component. This way, you won't have to update a quadrillion config files just because one lousy hostname has changed.

Preparations: https://github.com/bekkopen/service-discovery-workshop#before-the-workshop

“There is no blame” is one of Peter Senge’s 11 Laws of the fifth discipline, by that Peter tries to tell us that in complex systems things don't have a simple “cause and effect” dynamic, and that whatever is currently happening is a result of multiple causes that impact each other. 

Do you find this description puzzling? Good! :)

In this hands-on workshop you will learn how to use causal loop diagrams to gain deeper understanding of your system, and generate experiments based on that understanding.

npm packages are a great way for sharing code between your projects or in a micro service based architecture. This workshop will cover the essentials to get you started writing and working with your own npm packages. We cover topics like:

• What is a npm package
• How to create packages with varying complexity
• How to effectively develop a package
• npm lifecycle methods
• SemVer
• The package.json demystified
• Different options for sharing the packages between your projects

Go, a language that has the feel of a dynamic language like Python or Ruby, but has the performance and safety of languages like C or Java - Ivo Balbaert.

Go, or Golang, is developed by Google and announced in 2009, it's used in many backends and is being continuously improved by the open source community.

In this workshop we'll cover the language basics and will build our very own web server that uses cool online APIs like IBM's Watson and Google Vision API.

You have (probably?) heard about accessibility ("universell utforming" in Norwegian), but do you know what it is? How to use it and how to design, develop and test for it? No? Then this is the workshop for you! And even if you are experienced and know what a11y stands for, you might pick up a trick or two.

At some point or another in life, we will all have some form of disability or limited functionality, whether our eyesight worsens, we break an arm or we loose mobililty when we get older. At that point accessibility, or universal design, is going to become very important for our ability to participate in society. And even if we luck out and escape such problems, we all benefit from accessible tools.

If that is not enough, universal design of all websites is enforced by law in Norway since July 1st 2014. For all of us working in the software development business, accessibility is among the most neccessary skills we have, and it is critical that we learn it.

This workshop will guide you through the different phases of software development: concept, design, implementation and testing. You will learn the basics for each phase and we will use hands-on experience and group discussions to learn some of the more important skills we need. You will not only learn what you need to do to create an accessible website, but you will experience what happens if you don't.

The workshop is open for people from all roles of software development, from UX to developers to testers. Even if you do not "know about the technical stuff", you will still learn a thing or two that you can bring back to work after the conference, and the tasks are set up so that you can follow them without being able to code. You will learn about WAI-ARIA, why #04e51e and #f5fc32 should never mingle and how to use a screen reader.