DevFest MN 2017
2017-02-04
Minneapolis, MN, United States
[DevFestMN 2016, DevFest MN 2017, DevFestMN 2018, DevFestMN 2019, DevFestMN 2025]
who it's for
mobile developers, Android developers, frontend developers, web developers, QA automation engineers, UX designers, developer advocates
topics
Google Assistant Actions; Firebase realtime database; Angular and Firebase games; Google Tag Manager analytics; TensorFlow in Docker; Android app lifecycle persistence; touch animation with ValueAnimator; beacon-based indoor location; IoT device security and testing; Appium with cucumber automation; server-side rendering with React+Redux
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 DevFestMN Bryan Herbst | Bryan Herbst | 43m |
Explains how to build Google Assistant Actions today with concrete demos: conversation actions only on Google Home, API dot AI agents, webhook fulfillment with… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Dan Baran | Dan Baran | 39m |
Live demos focus on practical plumbing: using Google Tag Manager to fire events (PDF downloads, Konami easter egg, JavaScript errors), a homemade Polymer… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN David Perez & Collin Flynn | David Perez, Collin Flynn | 49m |
Builds a tiny touch state struct that records down, last move, and distance and runs in a stateless view; implements springy settle and tension by animating… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Emmett Wilson | Emmett Wilson | 30m |
An app that gets killed and recreated leaves lost in‑memory models and flaky UI leading to crashes the claim is that this is common and testable. Methods… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Eric Brandes | Eric Brandes | 47m |
Claim: the JavaScript ecosystem ships huge complexity for trivial UI — an Angular quickstart pulls 108 megabytes of node_modules, with 13,740 files, makes 38… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Jennifer Bonine #1 | Jennifer Bonine | 01h 46m |
Claims a practical automation route: a cucumber executable specs workflow that makes requirements runnable, wired to Appium so one test can hit browsers and… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Jennifer Bonine #2 | Jennifer Bonine | 01h 33m |
Covers concrete IoT cases, risks and tooling: a Roku Ruby gem that automates tests, implanted pacemakers and diabetic patches that can be restarted or… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Luke Schlangen | Luke Schlangen | 47m |
Builds a minimal collaborative editor using Firebase: a real-time NoSQL database backing a textarea, sign in with Google authentication, local CLI serve and… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Martin Omander | Martin Omander | 01h 03m |
A multiplayer web game for family game night gets built with JavaScript, Angular + AngularFire and Firebase hosting and database, syncing game state as a… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Michelle Schulp | Michelle Schulp | 44m |
Argument: stop chasing mythical full-stack designers and instead speak unicorn by learning concrete designer signals. Offers specific rules: minimum 16px body… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Raghu Rajah | Raghu Rajah | 02h 06m |
A hands-on demo shows tensorflow code running from a Docker image gcr.io/tensorflow/tensorflow, authoring a Jupyter notebook, visualizing the execution graph… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Richard Banasiak | Richard Banasiak | 40m |
A holiday-party location tracker called nerd finder uses ~21 iBeacons (19 actually working after battery swaps and 3D-printed housings), AltBeacon on Android… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Sarah Olson | Sarah Olson | 41m |
Uses Meetup, Slack and Facebook for outreach, with Women Who Code holding a monthly schedule (third Wednesday) and venues sourced from partner companies that… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Stephen Fluin | Stephen Fluin | 53m |
Claims concrete wins: runtime performance improves around 10–20x compared to AngularJS and ahead-of-time compilation removes browser template work so… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Tim Salo | Tim Salo | 01h 30m |
Hands-on Bluetooth Low Energy beacon workshop that demos concrete results not theory: shows a Del Mar tide-alert built with Eddystone URL beacons, uses Chrome… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Bret McGowen | Bret McGowen | 01h 03m |
Demos show a working serverless pipeline: HTTP and event-driven cloud functions that resize images, call the Vision and Natural Language APIs, stream sentiment… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Chris Davis | Chris Davis | 50m |
A working Android app compares two NHL goalies by fetching stats from nhl.com (using the site’s exposed API) and demonstrates real techniques: Android data… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Dan Lew | Dan Lew | 38m |
Clear claim: functional reactive programming equals reactive streams combined with functional operators, demonstrated with rx Java and observables. Concrete… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Huyen Tue Dao | Huyen Tue Dao | 51m |
ConstraintLayout uses a linear-equation engine (the Cassowary solver) to compute positions, adds practical features like dimension ratio for aspect… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Keith Resar | Keith Resar | 01h 54m |
Hands-on workshop that actually wires Docker + Kubernetes into OpenShift: attendees use the oc CLI or a bastion host to deploy a prebuilt parksmap web app, run… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Mobile Design Panel | Leah Josiah | 01h 44m |
Compares iOS Human Interface Guidelines to Material Design and shows why material’s spec and animation examples speed Android work while HIG gives iOS… | ||
| 2017 DevFestMN Sara Robinson | Sara Robinson | 42m |
Analyzes 33 million trips using BigQuery + Cloud Storage, imports monthly CSVs via the REST API, and runs SQL to find 10,500 bikes in circulation, East… | ||
| Puppies or Muffins | Sara Robinson | 40m |
Shows actual API calls and JSON responses: Cloud Vision API returns label, face and landmark detections with confidence scores and an EM ID, and reports 15 of… | ||
| 2017 DevFest Dave Smith | Dave Smith | 45m |
Announces a concrete platform pair: Android Things (Developer Preview) and Weave with a cloud server and device SDK. Android Things runs on Intel Edison NXP… | ||
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