This month we will be moving fast and focusing on speed.
Super Mondays favourite Richard Powell returns and will be talking about front end development focusing on speed.
Graham Morley will cover the psychology of speed, how website load times have an impact on user experience and conversion, and how to design in an impatient world.
Paul Callaghan will briefly introduce Elixir, a relatively new language which combines the flexibility of Ruby syntax with the mature technology of Erlang, with the aim of making it easier to develop complex and massively scalable apps. This has clear relevance to speed via multi-core programming.
Oli Wood will pass on his experiences of performance tuning and talk about some of the speed optimisations Canddi have been making recently.
Stefan Dantchev will talk about new uses of randomness in algorithms to achieve a good balance between run-time costs and optimality of results. That is, whether we can get a reliably “good enough” result in a reasonable time rather than a very good result in an impractical or even infeasible time.
This month we will be focusing on presentations, how to deliver good presentations, and how not to deliver bad ones. Speakers include…
Simon Heal is a recent president of A1 speakers, the Newcastle club of Toastmasters International. He will inspire us on body language/gesture, planning a structure, vocal variety, using pause effectively, giving constructive feedback.
Cata Largacha is part of Conva who makes a presentation special and will share how to do this with Super Mondays.
Alistair MacDonald supports industry conferences and helps presenters refine their presentations and pitching. At Super Mondays he will give pointers on avoiding “PowerPoint Hell” and a few tips on making your presentations more slick and professional.
Nike Fuelband, Nest and Jawbone Up. What do these pieces of hardware have in common? They are connected to mobile apps to allow us to control them or view the data they are reporting. This months collaborative event between SuperMondays and AppyMondays will feature speakers who have created hardware products that attach directly to mobile devices or have connected apps. Please not that because of the bank holiday we will be meeting on Tuesday 28th May making both our names completely wrong.
