Talk Ideas

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Talk Ideas:

CRB 17-Feb-2014

When not to ruby

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A talk about when you might choose a langauge other than ruby.

Horse e-books-motron

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A talk about using golang's concurrency primitives to build up a complex chat room application that includes AI.

Developer Honypot

Refactoring code that your devops wrote.

This talk would be more of a performance-art piece. What I think is interesting here is that one simple text file can kill CMM productivity for an afternoon. Does that translate to talk-form?

It's your problem now.

How to take ownership of someone else's code base.

This idea is half baked, but I was just thinking about what I do when looking at someone's code.

1. Open VIM and :r !tree -f
2. Start at the top level test and then walk down through the routes -> controllers -> models
3. Run ctags

I've see you dig right into the unit tests. There might be something interesting here.

How to do code review

Basically a summary of what we've been doing for Ryan/Zach/Dr. Ryan. Would end up being a really similar talk to "It's your problem now".

VIM Pro-tips.

If we do this one, I want to challenge the audience. I bet we can promise them that every single person will learn something new. Also we would need to find a way to make it engaging, even if you're not a true believer. Perhaps we could make some kind of game out of it, or tell a story?

Vanilla VIM only. No plugins.

I know not everyone uses VIM at CRB, so this would need to have a slight 'why you should use VIM' slant. Just a touch.

1. VIM and the commandline, VIM's secret weapon

2. :r !tree

3. :w !pbcopy

4. git diff | vim -

5. Mapping leader keys

6. :map <leader>t !rspec %<cr>

7. :map <leader>r !touch tmp/restart<cr>

8. Going places

9. using ^Wgf to open files

10. The jump stack ^I and ^O

11. * and # and %

12. ^6

13. f and F and ;

14. ^O

15. ^[ in insert mode

16. Omnicomplete ^N, ^P

17. CTags Integration

18. ^T, ^[, ^[

19. The quickfix

20. filename:linenum:comment

21. cg quickfix.out cw

22. cex system('ack something)

23. Command mode and Searching

24. q: and ^F

25. q/

26. %, ^R%

27. ^R^W, ^R^A

28. Tab and Window Management

29. vsp, sp ^W

30. :map <leader>r :bel new \| setl bt=nofile \| r !bc your_file <cr>

31. Visual block mode

32. ^V I

33. Replacing text

34. s

35. r, R

36. xp

37. d

38. c

39. ~

40. Opening a document from the web

41. :e http://www.google.com

42. Trailing whitespace is shitty

43. set listchars=trail:💩