3 speakers: Creative Technology
The results of programming can be seen everywhere. In addition to experts on structure and language, we have also invited visual coders whose programs literally move before our very eyes.
Marco Pivetta
Marco works for the development company Roave, a group of PHP specialists. In his own words, he is a true workaholic, who prefers work over relaxation. This not only suits his ranking on GitHub, but also the number of consulting activities and personal projects he takes on.
When we asked Marco about current trends, we got this energetic reply: „People are finally letting go of the idea of building reusable code, and instead started focusing on just the domain of their business. That is a positive thing, but it also is coming with a lot of terrible code advertised as “solution” on the open-source scene.” When it comes to tools trying to go in the opposite direction, Marco recommends his own ProxyManager. He’s still proud of this project after many years since in his opinion, it solved a very specific situation which no one had considered before him. Furthermore, he is working on a code-review platform to share collected experiences, which will certainly be no small achievement.
Marco is also apparently very fond of the Mario game series (who wouldn’t be), and his talk will be an interesting point in the program for other PHP experts or anyone else wanting to learn how to make their own code stronger.
Tomasz Ducin
Tomasz says it’s fortunate that there is a still a lot of buzz around JavaScript, enabling him to keep pushing the boundaries. “Several years ago, we stopped seeing UI as a simple application of jQuery callbacks. We are building bigger and more complex applications. As a result, there are flexible and easily expandable tools like Reactive, Functional, Streams, Immutable, Async, Promises, etc. And since there are a lot of expectations when it comes to JavaScript, there is always something to discover.”
Tomasz works as a Senior Software Consultant at Cybercom Poland, covering international financial and analytical projects. However, if he were to have designed something that already exists, it would without a doubt be TypeScript: “I think that we’re going in a circle. First, we ran from Java and C# to dynamic languages like JavaScript, but it’s difficult to create large and sustainable applications in them without control over types. And so, we’re are going back.” JavaScript is a bit cumbersome to expand (it must support clients and all browsers), but according to Tomasz, ECMAScript 6 and TypeScript are delivering a completely new level of quality.
You might find the tool JSON Schema Faker, which helps supply mock servers and REST APIs, useful. You can use it on the server or client side, ad-hoc or even as part of an automated process. Tomasz has been a collaborator on this project since 2014.
Bruno Imbrizi
Bruno is the Head of Visual Development at the London studio UNIT9, which creates games, digital experiences, animation, movies, and content for virtual reality. He’s interested in coding nice things and hovers somewhere between design and programming. Hardware-accelerated graphics on the web have recently caught his attention: “Many people may still see WebGL as an experiment, but it’s already supported by all the main browsers and platforms. I think it be used more often.” Without a doubt, this will change and shake up websites as we know them.
From the studio’s showreel, it is clear that Bruno has participated in a wide range of projects — from websites and animation for movies and products to a visualization for London’s public transport. You can explore his interactive animations directly in your browser. He revealed to us that he uses the hugely popular Sublime Text editor to create these Javascript experiments. He also sent his latest project video, which is generated from 100% code, to the Punto y Raya Festival — so cross your fingers for him!
The conference takes place September 23–24 in Prague. We’ve got some big names joining us this year, including Harry Roberts, Michael Lopp, Peter Morville, and Mark Boulton.
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„ We are interested in truly progressive web development projects, which set the pace. An open and creative approach to software not only requires consistency, but the ability to solve problems together with others.“
