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Malin Sundberg, Australian Broadcasting CorporationPart of DW17

When using the MVC design pattern it is easy for us to, unintentionally, adopt the Massive View Controller pattern. The responsibility of a ViewController is often vaguely defined and ends up being the class where we place anything from a view’s layout logic, to view navigation, business logic, and network requests. Code that is neither belonging to the View nor to the Model ends up being placed in this one class.

This talk will go through alternative approaches of how to structure your project in a way that helps you avoid a large, messy, ViewController, and write code that is more readable, expandable and reusable.

Malin is working as an iOS developer at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney. She moved from Sweden to Perth, Australia in 2013 to complete a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree. In her final year, she started to work as an iOS Developer at a start-up company in Perth.

In her free time, in conjunction with learning new design patterns, Malin is designing and building apps on her own and is always focused on learning new things.

Adam Rice, Education AdvantagePart of DW17

In this talk Adam will discuss knowing when to choose web technologies for fast prototyping or to receive huge savings where cross-platform apps are required. This session won’t “sell” any particular framework but, instead, discuss the differences between the big options like Ionic, PhoneGap, and ReactNative and how each can allow you to share logic with a web application.

If there is one thing Adam has learned over the years it is that, even when you do extensive research before you build, the first version of your application won’t be perfect. Being lean and ready to pivot is the key to success and building with web technologies—when it’s appropriate to do so—will get you to market quicker and save budget.

Adam describes himself as a meta(programming)human and man of stern opinions on the perfect negroni.

His appetite for development progressed from dabbling with Filemaker and CDML to something more serious back in 2001 while building an eCommerce site with WebObjects. So began a journey of many platforms that has included projects of varying scales across diverse industries.

After a long career of learning from mistakes, Adam hopes to save others from a few of those pitfalls and take the time to debate the problems of the (first) world over coffee.

VM BrasseurPart of DW17

You know the code and the project. You’re doing lots of cool stuff. You have plenty of slides. So why is the audience all doing their email?

It doesn’t have to be that way! Great presenters are made, not born. The way to become a better speaker is through training, science, and practice. In this audience-participation tutorial, veteran conference presenter VM (Vicky) Brasseur will teach you the ten steps to great tech talks:

• Know Your Audience
• Have an Idea
• Tell a Story
• Craft Your Presentation
• Practice Your Talk
• Get Ready to Speak
• Present Yourself
• Deal with Demo Failure
• Interact with the Audience
• Continue the Conversation

If you have never attended a speaker training before, this workshop will show you how much better your talks could be. If you have, you might pick up a few tips and ideas. And if you’re presenting at /dev/world, this tutorial will give you some last-minute changes to tweak your talk.

In VM (aka Vicky)’s nearly 20 years in the tech industry she has been an analyst, programmer, product manager, software engineering manager, director of software engineering, and C-level technical business and open source strategy consultant. Vicky is the winner of the Perl White Camel Award (2014) and the O’Reilly Open Source Award (2016).

Vicky occasionally blogs at http://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com, often writes and is a community moderator for opensource.com, and frequently tweets at @vmbrasseur.

Mira Kim, ASBPart of DW17

Take your app to the next level with Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). BDD allows non-coders to write the tests and guides the communication between developers, testers and business analysts. In this session you will write simple BDD tests with Calabash and Cucumber and see it in action.

Mira is an experienced app developer on both iOS and Android platforms. She has a diverse set of skills from embedded systems to web development.

Mira is an active member of a local makerspace and maintains a keen interest in electronics and robotics. She is passionate about making technology more accessible and promoting diversity in the tech industry, and regularly attends tech meet ups, as well as speaking at conferences.