Inspiration

It has become cliché in both video games and movies for our hero or heroes to walk into the ancient temple, space station, or tomb and discover that although it has been abandoned [...]

We are living in a society where we are praised for being smart. Smart people are the ones who get the best jobs, the best houses and the best cars. But what about [...]

Building applications for TVs, kiosks, and other remote-controlled devices isn’t the same as building for mobile. There’s no touch. No gestures. Just a handful of buttons—left, right, up and down. That constraint changes [...]

If an autopilot fails, or a weapon system malfunctions, lives can and will be lost. As a result, significant checks, practices and concepts go into designing the software for such systems. But the [...]

In this talk Bert showcases his parliamentary monitoring system https://opentk.nl to discuss the tradeoffs between running on a microstack, of a few cheap software components, and taking seven-league boots using cloud services to [...]

NOTE: This is the same talk as in room 2, live streamed from that room, in case too many people choose this session. In this talk Bert showcases his parliamentary monitoring system https://opentk.nl [...]

The road to becoming a modern Frontend developer is not easy. There's a lot to learn: the basics, the conventions, and the syntax. On top of that, it's a world where everything changes [...]

Coding is just the start. This session will explore how to grow as a senior developer by focusing on code quality, team dynamics, leadership, and technical and personal growth.
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Everyone knows this developer, who is super duper passionate about his job. You can easily recognize this developer because he/she spends hours coding, even outside of work; mastering tech watch like no one [...]

This talk delves into the complexities of creating apps for rural settings, focusing on areas like those encountered by me in Tanzania. Regions like these present distinct challenges for app developers, shaped by [...]

NOTE: This is the same talk as in room 2, live streamed from that room, in case too many people choose this session. We're in a world where the lines are blurred between [...]

We're in a world where the lines are blurred between human and machine intelligence, one where we need to build a harmonious relationship through experience. In his talk we'll explore how Humans and [...]

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The covid pandemic is over. But we are facing another from which we suffer daily. The pandemic of inactivity. However, there is a fun way to deal with it! As a team, with [...]

We all want to be better persons in a better world with better technology, but that means we have to become active. This is not easy, especially when our technology does not have [...]

Managing infrastructure at scale is difficult and costly. How are top teams solving this challenge today? What are the benefits of utilising a cloud provider for this, and how does Bitrise do it?

In this Podcast recording with live audience, David will interview Fabian Giger, Commercial Director of CoffeeIT about developing for startups and how to deal with gold diggers and how to find dream clients

Tests, monitoring, these help us assert the known knowns of our systems. But what about the known unknowns? Or, especially in complex distributed systems, the unknown unknowns? What can we learn from the [...]

Manuel's passion for software development is way older than his passion for the environment. Still, he realises one cannot be more important than the other over the last ten years. In this talk, [...]

In this live podcast recording, David van der Loo will interview Jeff Watkins about: How to actually become a Problem Solver

As the world of work is changing so rapidly, skills will become outdated even faster than they do today. Even if you don’t know exactly what or when, you will have to continuously [...]

As technologists we're always ready to fire up our IDE, Photoshop, or Illustrator and start something new, to build a better mouse trap, to connect dog-owners with dog-walkers. We build and build and [...]

Bummed that your favourite tutorial session is already fully booked, but still want to include the Thursday in your Appdevcon schedule? We've got the solution: come join us on a canal boat tour [...]

Bummed that your favourite Thursday tutorial session is fully booked? Still want to enjoy Appdevcon thursday? Join us for a walking tour in the city of Amsterdam, by a professional tour guide and [...]

"Very few of the best apps and services in the world were created by a single person. So if we want to be a part of the next great product, why wouldn't we [...]

The latest advances in developer tools and programming languages can make us much more efficient as software engineers. But more efficient at what? We need to know that what we're building is something [...]

With companies beginning to demand a return to the office, more and more folks are considering becoming independent remote contractors for hire. But independent contracting in the tech world has gotten a bit [...]

With agency work you quickly think of creative solutions that must be valuable and also have to look great. However, to actually make cool stuff you need a solid foundation with a solid [...]

Jordi is an indie developer building products for Apple platforms. He has launched more than 20 apps and side projects over the last two years, seven of which have been featured on the [...]

Go on an adventure to the African rainforest. You will learn how we help rangers protect endangered species using technology. I can already tell you one thing. Getting hardware and real-time communication to [...]

Are you living a healthy life? I certainly wasn’t. In 2017 I ended up in hospital diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. It scared me silly, and prompted me to change my life. In [...]

"We're looking for passionate programmers!" says the job ad. For a love-in or a development role? 'Passion' is used to evoke single-mindedness, drive and intensity, but it also has many other meanings, surely [...]

The era of brogramming is dead, and nothing of value was lost. In its place we're entering an era where developers must learn to accept ethical and moral responsibility for the software we [...]

At appdevcon Dave Verwer gave a very inspiring talk about getting healthy and losing weight. In this interview he looks back at his session and gives a bit more background about the talk.

In a world full of hustle and work harder, we at Buffer are trying to go at it in a different way. In this talk I would love cover what it means to [...]

It turns out there are a lot of things that are similar about learning a human language similar to one you already know and a computer language similar to one you already know. [...]

Whilst crafting products, it's common for developers to find difficult to ship products and fast whilst also creating a codebase that allows you to easily do so. Whilst at the beginning of a [...]

Sketching is a crucial skill that spans all job titles. It helps with brainstorming ideas, iterating through concepts, and communicating our ideas to others. Whether working individually or in a group, our ability [...]