Why We Indian Developers Fail And What You Can Do About It - WordCamp Udaipur...Nirav Mehta
We are Indian Developers. For most people, what China is to manufacturing, India is to software development. Cheap, Bulk, Inferior Quality. And let’s face the truth, for a large part, that argument is not wrong. Consider other people you’ve worked with so far. Do you think they have great talent? Are they very good developers?
The sad thing is that we did not design ourselves for mediocrity and failures. It’s the way our brains are wired. In most cases, we don’t even know we are lousy. Let’s take this opportunity to look within and uncover the deepest sources of our biggest limitations. Let’s dig to the roots of our reality. Because awareness precedes change!
While we’ll look at some painful things about ourselves, I promise you will walk out with a lot more power.
No matter if you’re a junior developer just starting your career or a seasoned senior, you’ll run into moments when the software isn’t doing what you’re telling it to do. How you approach the situation when it happens will have a huge impact on your productivity, so in this talk I’ll walk you through both technical tools and solutions as well as some valuable non-technical approaches.
Learning Rust - experiences from a Python/Javascript developerJuha-Matti Santala
I started learning Rust in December last year by building a command-line tool to display NHL results on the terminal. My background before Rust has been mostly on Python and Javascript ecosystems so there's been quite a learning curve that has required activating new parts of my brain.
In this talk, I'll share my early learning journey with Rust. I'll talk openly about the things I struggled with and the things I fell in love with in Rust (like pattern matching).
Why We Indian Developers Fail And What You Can Do About It - WordCamp Udaipur...Nirav Mehta
We are Indian Developers. For most people, what China is to manufacturing, India is to software development. Cheap, Bulk, Inferior Quality. And let’s face the truth, for a large part, that argument is not wrong. Consider other people you’ve worked with so far. Do you think they have great talent? Are they very good developers?
The sad thing is that we did not design ourselves for mediocrity and failures. It’s the way our brains are wired. In most cases, we don’t even know we are lousy. Let’s take this opportunity to look within and uncover the deepest sources of our biggest limitations. Let’s dig to the roots of our reality. Because awareness precedes change!
While we’ll look at some painful things about ourselves, I promise you will walk out with a lot more power.
No matter if you’re a junior developer just starting your career or a seasoned senior, you’ll run into moments when the software isn’t doing what you’re telling it to do. How you approach the situation when it happens will have a huge impact on your productivity, so in this talk I’ll walk you through both technical tools and solutions as well as some valuable non-technical approaches.
Learning Rust - experiences from a Python/Javascript developerJuha-Matti Santala
I started learning Rust in December last year by building a command-line tool to display NHL results on the terminal. My background before Rust has been mostly on Python and Javascript ecosystems so there's been quite a learning curve that has required activating new parts of my brain.
In this talk, I'll share my early learning journey with Rust. I'll talk openly about the things I struggled with and the things I fell in love with in Rust (like pattern matching).
HelsinkiJS: 11ty + Ghost: Static Sites with Great Editor UXJuha-Matti Santala
Static Site Generators like 11ty (https://www.11ty.io/) are great for building websites and blogs but personally I didn't like writing posts in Markdown nor templating languages.
Ghost provides a great UX for writing posts and an API that combined with 11ty makes an enjoyable experience.
In this talk I'll walk you through how I integrated these two and how 11ty allows for nice pipeline building to gather data from different sources.
One of the critique most vocal opposition of code comments use online, is that code comments become outdated and thus harmful. Code comments are a great way to store very specific information of functions, hacks and decisions that gets lost over time.
We often talk about documentation in two forms: either code comments that live with the code or readmes, API docs and other more curated written documentation. But both of them suffer from lack of history. But there’s more!
We often look back at decisions without having the understanding and knowledge of that moment and criticize the code or decisions made hastily. But almost always, decisions are made using the best understanding and knowledge (and restrictions of reality) of that particular moment in time.
In this talk, I’ll explore how you can use issue tracker tickets, git commits and pull requests as a contemporary documentation: something that tells us about the world as it was when decisions were made and that doesn’t change as the project moves on.
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This version of the talk was given in HelsinkiJS on September 24th, 2019
One of the critique most vocal opposition of code comments use online, is that code comments become outdated and thus harmful. Code comments are a great way to store very specific information of functions, hacks and decisions that gets lost over time.
We often talk about documentation in two forms: either code comments that live with the code or readmes, API docs and other more curated written documentation. But both of them suffer from lack of history. But there’s more!
We often look back at decisions without having the understanding and knowledge of that moment and critize the code or decisions made hastily. But almost always, decisions are made using the best understanding and knowledge (and restrictions of reality) of that particular moment in time.
In this talk, I’ll explore how you can use issue tracker tickets, git commits and pull requests as a contemporary documentation: something that tells us about the world as it was when decisions were made and that doesn’t change as the project moves on.
--
This version of the talk was given in TampereJS on September 5th, 2019
Building side projects can be a great way to showcase your skills before you have work experience.
For experienced people, it can be a great way to experiment, learn new skills and to build something that matters
In this lightning talk, I went through how my experience of traveling 7 days from Helsinki to Ostrava for PyCon CZ was like a badly executed software project.
There are many ways to improve your skills as a developer. Teaching programming is an awesome but bit under-appreciated one. Becoming a senior developer is about so much more than just technical competency. It’s about helping others succeed, it’s about becoming a leader and it’s about being a good communicator with users, clients and teammates. In this talk, I will share how 6+ years of programming teaching has made me a better developer in the core understanding of topics, communication, and perspective as well as reveal all the additional perks of joy, diversity, and making friends.
These are the slides for my talk "Inspiration, Learning and Experimentation in Codepen" that I gave in HelsinkiJS meetup in November 21st 2018.
These slides won't contain video material that the original did but you can click the links to see individual pens in action.
You should have FOMO: What you're missing out if you're still using Python 2.7Juha-Matti Santala
My slides for a talk I gave in Futurice Tech Weekly on Friday, Oct 19th. I showcase some fantastic features and new things that have come to the language since 3.0 almost 10 years ago.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
HelsinkiJS: 11ty + Ghost: Static Sites with Great Editor UXJuha-Matti Santala
Static Site Generators like 11ty (https://www.11ty.io/) are great for building websites and blogs but personally I didn't like writing posts in Markdown nor templating languages.
Ghost provides a great UX for writing posts and an API that combined with 11ty makes an enjoyable experience.
In this talk I'll walk you through how I integrated these two and how 11ty allows for nice pipeline building to gather data from different sources.
One of the critique most vocal opposition of code comments use online, is that code comments become outdated and thus harmful. Code comments are a great way to store very specific information of functions, hacks and decisions that gets lost over time.
We often talk about documentation in two forms: either code comments that live with the code or readmes, API docs and other more curated written documentation. But both of them suffer from lack of history. But there’s more!
We often look back at decisions without having the understanding and knowledge of that moment and criticize the code or decisions made hastily. But almost always, decisions are made using the best understanding and knowledge (and restrictions of reality) of that particular moment in time.
In this talk, I’ll explore how you can use issue tracker tickets, git commits and pull requests as a contemporary documentation: something that tells us about the world as it was when decisions were made and that doesn’t change as the project moves on.
--
This version of the talk was given in HelsinkiJS on September 24th, 2019
One of the critique most vocal opposition of code comments use online, is that code comments become outdated and thus harmful. Code comments are a great way to store very specific information of functions, hacks and decisions that gets lost over time.
We often talk about documentation in two forms: either code comments that live with the code or readmes, API docs and other more curated written documentation. But both of them suffer from lack of history. But there’s more!
We often look back at decisions without having the understanding and knowledge of that moment and critize the code or decisions made hastily. But almost always, decisions are made using the best understanding and knowledge (and restrictions of reality) of that particular moment in time.
In this talk, I’ll explore how you can use issue tracker tickets, git commits and pull requests as a contemporary documentation: something that tells us about the world as it was when decisions were made and that doesn’t change as the project moves on.
--
This version of the talk was given in TampereJS on September 5th, 2019
Building side projects can be a great way to showcase your skills before you have work experience.
For experienced people, it can be a great way to experiment, learn new skills and to build something that matters
In this lightning talk, I went through how my experience of traveling 7 days from Helsinki to Ostrava for PyCon CZ was like a badly executed software project.
There are many ways to improve your skills as a developer. Teaching programming is an awesome but bit under-appreciated one. Becoming a senior developer is about so much more than just technical competency. It’s about helping others succeed, it’s about becoming a leader and it’s about being a good communicator with users, clients and teammates. In this talk, I will share how 6+ years of programming teaching has made me a better developer in the core understanding of topics, communication, and perspective as well as reveal all the additional perks of joy, diversity, and making friends.
These are the slides for my talk "Inspiration, Learning and Experimentation in Codepen" that I gave in HelsinkiJS meetup in November 21st 2018.
These slides won't contain video material that the original did but you can click the links to see individual pens in action.
You should have FOMO: What you're missing out if you're still using Python 2.7Juha-Matti Santala
My slides for a talk I gave in Futurice Tech Weekly on Friday, Oct 19th. I showcase some fantastic features and new things that have come to the language since 3.0 almost 10 years ago.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
http://sandymillin.wordpress.com/iateflwebinar2024
Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Model Attribute Check Company Auto PropertyCeline George
In Odoo, the multi-company feature allows you to manage multiple companies within a single Odoo database instance. Each company can have its own configurations while still sharing common resources such as products, customers, and suppliers.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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My superhero ability:
carrying chairs
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My spirit animal:
manatee
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My favorite beer:
Brewdog’s 5 am Saint