ChicagoWebConf 2012
ChicagoWebConf 2012 brings together 9 interviews from 2012. Recurring themes include conference speaking and presentation skills, developer education and learning, and open source and project maintenance. Featured interviewees include Aaron Kalin, Andy Lester, JC Grubbs, and Joe Hirn.
- Coverage: 9 interviews from 2012.
- Featured interviewees: Aaron Kalin, Andy Lester, JC Grubbs, Joe Hirn, and Jonathan Baltz.
- Common themes: conference speaking and presentation skills, developer education and learning, open source and project maintenance, web development and frontend practice, and moderating conference panels and discussions.
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- Andy Lester Interview
Interviewee: Kumar McMillan
Topic: web development and frontend practice
Video description: Kumar McMillan works for the Mozilla Foundation for the team working to create the Mozilla OS. Kumar talks a bit about working with large, distributed teams with many volunteers collaborating with paid engineers to create a potential competitor to the Android and iOS phone operating systems.
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Interviewee: Martin Atkins
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Martin Atkins at ChicagoWebConf 2012 on conference speaking and presentation skills. Themes include Ruby.
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Interviewee: Kumar McMillian
Topic: open source and project maintenance
Video description: Interview with Kumar McMillian at ChicagoWebConf 2012 on open source and project maintenance. Themes include open source, web development.
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Interviewee: Aaron Kalin
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Interview with Aaron Kalin at Chicago Web Conf on moderating technical panels, balancing moderator and panelist roles, and techniques for guiding productive audience discussion.
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Interviewee: Jonathan Baltz
Topic: developer education and learning
Video description: Jonathan Baltz runs the Chicago Heroku and Chicago Force.com Developers user-groups. We discuss the differences and similarities between the types of people who gravitate to the two different meetings.
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Interviewee: Joe Hirn
Topic: developer education and learning
Video description: Interview with Joe Hirn at ChicagoWebConf 2012 on developer education and learning. The conversation captures practical lessons shared at the event.
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Interviewee: JC Grubbs
Topic: web development and frontend practice
Video description: Interview with JC Grubbs at ChicagoWebConf 2012 on web development and frontend practice. Themes include JavaScript.
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Interviewee: Andy Lester
Topic: open source and project maintenance
Video description: Interview with Andy Lester at ChicagoWebConf 2012 on open source and project maintenance. Themes include open source, testing practice, web development.
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Interviewee: Melissa Castello
Topic: conference speaking and presentation skills
Video description: Melissa Castello is a trained, professional interviewer who’s worked interviewing people in the professional poker and horse racing circuits. She’s gotten a chance to travel all over and hone her interviewing skills in sometimes high-pressure situations.