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Techlahoma User Group Speakers & Topics

When a user group organizer is recruiting for a meetup presentation, they can use this file to see speakers who have ready-made presentations, so they can more quickly and easily find a presenter.

Please add your own topics and a speaker bio in the sections below.

To prevent you from getting speaking requests for old/stale presentations, please only add topics that are either timeless (e.g., algorithms), or topics for which you intend to keep up-to-date slide decks.

Topics, Speaker

  • Productive Programmer, Luke Crouch
  • Scary JavaScript (and other tech) that tracks you online, Luke Crouch
    • There are over 5,000 online trackers that use cookies, fingerprinting, and probablistic device matching to follow you across the web. Some methods are actively used for fraud, malware, and intrusive user tracking. Some are commonly used for legit purposes. We'll talk about how sites are able to follow users, tracking methods both fair and foul, and how users & developers can protect themselves from tracking.
  • Crypto: 500 BC - Present, Luke Crouch
    • A 60-minute overview of The Code Book by Simon Singh, covering secrecy from ancient Greece to quantum cryptography. This is a cursory, high-level, mostly-non-mathematical survey of centuries of crypto - good as an intro to crypto for developers and non-devs alike.
  • An Introduction to Microcontrollers, Jonathan Bartlett
    • An introduction to the world of microcontrollers, what they do, and why we should care, focusing on the world of Arduino. This is for groups who are generally unfamiliar with the embedded world and want to know more. Flexible time, and can do versions of this talk that include more or less technical information about programming microcontrollers and/or the basics of electronics.
  • Building Scalable Web Applications Using the Cloud, Jonathan Bartlett
    • A talk on the basics of making web architectures for scalability, including load balancers, caching, database replication, and programming in these environments. Focused on developers who can build web applications but have kept to single-machine implementations. Uses PHP, PostgreSQL, Linode, and AWS for its examples. Based on a book by the same name.
  • Getting the Most Out of PostgreSQL, Jonathan Bartlett
    • Many people only know a fraction of what the databases they use on a daily basis can do. This topic covers a variety of lesser-known topics in PostgreSQL including replication, full-text searching, fuzzy searching, tuning, strange indexes, and strange column types.
  • Computer Science and its Interrelationship with Philosophy and Theology, Jonathan Bartlett
    • Most people don't realize that the concept of computing was built to solve philosophical questions rather than business issues. This talk follows the work of Gödel, Turing, Chaitin, and others who have continued the conversation regarding the philosophical and theological insights that computer science has to offer.
  • Intro to Continuous Delivery, Ryan Hoegg
    • Continuous delivery is a central theme in the DevOps movement, and certainly a central component of the culture. It is the set of engineering techniques, practices, processes, and tools for releasing changes to software services frequently and reliably.
  • Microservices and Me, Ryan Hoegg
    • What are microservices, and why would we want to design things this way?
  • Designing RESTful web services, Ryan Hoegg
    • REST is the architectural style that makes the web what it is. We now use it to make our own software as resilient as the internet itself. This talk explains why REST is good for your software, and how to design RESTful services.
  • Messaging with AMQP, Ryan Hoegg
    • AMQP is a message queueing protocol that your applications can use to communicate. I cover the different messaging patterns available through AMQP, when you might use them, and explore some extensions available when using RabbitMQ
  • Reliable Software, Ryan Hoegg
    • Reliability is one aspect of software that everyone wants, some promise, and few achieve. We can confidently keep our reliability promises if we methodically plan for reliability in our software design. This talk explores the real meaning of reliability, andd methods to achieve it, through a story about a somewhat fictional project.
  • Test Driven Infrastructure, Ryan Hoegg
    • Our servers, networks, and complete production environments can be delivered using many of the same techniques we've been successful with in software development. This talk is a technical demonstration using Test Kitchen (http://kitchen-ci.org/) to build a production environment using automated tests.

Speaker, Bio

  • Luke Crouch (contact: luke dot crouch at gmail dot com)
    • Web Developer for @mozilla, co-founder of @codesyio, collaborator on @tulsawebdevs, @codefortulsa, and @techlahoma; husband, dad; crossfit, homebrew, soccer fan
  • Jonathan Bartlett
    • Chief Nerd in Charge at New Medio; author of several books on computer programming; coordinator for TulsaWebDevs; homeschool co-op instructor; director of The Blyth Institute; Masters in Theology from Phillips Theological Seminary
  • Carmen Long (twitter: @carmalou)
    • Carmen is a JavaScript developer with experience in Angular, Ionic, and Electron. By day she writes desktop apps with Electron, and by night she builds twitterbots and plays board games. Carmen is a frequent speaker at OKC.js and runs the Nerdy Girls codeClub.