Talks, talks, talks

sources in plain text w/ markdown formatting

2017

Tue July 4th, 2017 - Quik - The Missing Project Scaffolder for Ruby - Quick Start Your Ruby Gems, Your Sinatra Apps, Your Jekyll Sites 'n' More @ Ruby Linz Meetup

Thu June 8th, 2017 - Meet Jason Feed - The New Web Feed & Syndication Guy (Ruby Edition) @ Vienna.rb Meetup

Wed May 31st, 2017 - Meet Jason Feed - The New Web Feed & Syndication Guy (JavaScript Edition) @ Vienna.js Meetup

Wed May 17th, 2017 - Building Static Websites with Jigsaw 'n' Blade (in PHP) @ Laravel Vienna Meetup

Fri May 5th, 2017 - The World Factbook - Explore the World with Free Open Public Domain Datasets @ Linuxwochen Wien '17

Free Open Public Domain Data :: 250+ Country Profiles (Incl. Flags 'n' Maps)

Learn about the World Factbook. Shows how to make your own world almanac using the factbook.json datasets in twenty line of scripts. How to query the datasets in SQL using the single-file factbook.db SQLite Database or using big data gold mining with NoSQL queries in document collections with MongoDB (e.g. db.factbook.find( { "Geography.Natural resources.text": /gold/} )) and more. Yes, we will find gold and diamonds. Trivia Question: No. #1 country in the world with the largest proven crude oil reserves?

Wed April 19th, 2017 - Building Web Components with React.js - Past, Present, Future @ Inhouse (Private)

Thu April 6th, 2017 - New Horizons - Build Your Own (Static) Planet News Site with Pluto (and Ruby) @ Vienna.rb Meetup

The talk covers how to read web feeds in ruby w/ the standard rss module and 3rd party libraries such as the universal feedparser gem and than builds a feed reader in 20 lines of ruby before diving in the pluto feed reader gem familiy. Did you know? OpenStreetMap Blogs (blogs.openstreetmap.org) runs on ruby w/ planet pluto. Learn how to get started with your own planet and how to design your own templates using embedded ruby (ERB). Along the way we cover planet pluto trivia facts and wrap up discussing the future of planet ruby.

Wed March 29th, 2017 - factbook.json - How to model the world with JavaScript @ Vienna.js Meetup

Wed March 15th, 2017 - Jekyll vs Middleman - Build static websites with Ruby @ Ruby Linz Meetup

2016

Thu Nov 17th, 2016 - Part I) factbook.json - Turn the World Factbook into Open (Structured) Data
Part II) factbook.json - Using Git (and GitHub) for (Publishing) Data @ Vienna Open Data Meetup

Thu Sept 22nd, 2016 - Building Static Websites with Jigsaw 'n' Blade (in PHP) @ Vienna PHP Meetup

Wed Aug 31rd, 2016 - Building static websites with the Great Gatsby and React.js web components @ Vienna.js Meetup

Thu Aug 11th, 2016 - Part I) Building static websites with Metalsmith Part II) Building static websites with Gatsby @ Stahlstadt.js Linz Meetup

Wed July 20th, 2016 - The New New JavaScript / ECMAScript (ES6, ES7, ES8) @ Inhouse (Private)

Wed July 13rd, 2016 - Stay Static - Build Single-Page Websites with the Great Gatsby @ React Vienna Meetup

Thu June 9th, 2016 - Stay Static - Build Static Websites with Hugo and the Go Template Language @ Vienna Golang Meetup

Sat April 30th, 2016 @ Linuxwochen Wien '16

I) The New HTML - Markdown - Use Plain Text for Websites, Presentations and Books

A free plain text alternative to Word, Pages, LibreOffice, KeyNote, Powerpoint, LaTeX, etc.

Use the free plain text markup formatting conventions united under the markdown umbrella - offering an easy-to-write and easy-to-read format - to author and build web site, presentations, books and more. Markdown is the "new HTML" and offers a free alternative to Word, Pages, LibreOffice, KeyNote, Powerpoint, and more.

II) Building Websites, Single-Page Apps or Online Books w/ Static Site Builders / Generators

Metalsmith - Jekyll - Middleman - Hugo

In 2016 you can get pretty far with just HTML, JS and CSS. The talk shows how to use (free, open source) static site builders / generators (such as Metalmsith (JavaScript/Node.js), Jekyll, Middleman (Ruby) or Hugo (Go) to build static (web) sites or (single-page web) apps or books.

Tue March 8th, 2016 - Building Static Websites with Metalsmith (+Handelbars/Nunjucks) @ Node.js Vienna Meetup

Thu March 3rd, 2016 - Stay Static - Jekyll vs. Middleman - Build Static Websites with Ruby @ Vienna.rb Meetup

Wed March 2nd, 2016 - Docker for Java Enterprise Architects, Designerns 'n' Coders @ Inhouse (Private)

2015

Thu Oct 15, 2015 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: The Missing Theme Package Manager & Quick Start Script Wizard @ Vienna.rb Meetup

Wed Sept 30, 2015 - Add (Deep) Anchor Links to Your Website @ Vienna.js Meetup

Fri May 8th, 2015 @ Linuxwochen Wien '15

I) Building Websites, Blogs, Books w/ Static Site Generators

Static is the New Dynamic

Use static site generators (such as Github Pages w/ Jekyll, Middleman, etc.) and a wiki-style markup language that’s easy-to-write and easy-to-read - to author and build web sites, blogs, books and more. Learn about Markdown syntax and formatting and tools for websites (incl. blogs), and books. Examples will include websites such as the Open Football Project and others and books such as the The Free World Beer Books and others.

II) Open Austria, Open Beer, Open Football - The State of Open Data - Tools & Projects

The talk will cover the state of open football and beer data for Austria and beyond.

Join to learn more and discuss the state of open data with a focus on practical tools and open data projects you can use today.

The talk will cover the state of open data for Austrian localities? Where to get a list of all counties (Bezirke), municipalities (Gemeinden), cities (Orte), zipcodes, etc. for example? What about all Austrian breweries and beers? What open data about football? What open data offers the FIFA? Or the UEFA? Or the ÖFB?

What alternative sources if any are available? What about Wikipedia? Wikidata? DBPedia and friends?

Join to learn more and discuss the state of open data with a focus on practical tools and open data projects you can use today.

2014

Wed Aug 27th, 2014 - Building Your Own Web Components (Tags / Elements) @ Vienna.js Meetup

Sat May 10th, 2014 @ Linuxwochen Wien '14

I) Use Markdown for Websites, Presentations and Books

Markdown is a wiki-style markup language that’s easy-to-write and easy-to-read

Use Markdown - a wiki-style markup language that’s easy-to-write and easy-to-read - to author and build web site, presentations (slide shows) and books. Learn about Markdown syntax and formatting and tools for websites (incl. blogs), presentations and books. Examples will include websites such as the Open Beer Project and others and the books such as the The Free World Beer Books and others.

II) Open Football - The State of Open Data for the World Cup in Brazil

The world's biggest (sport) event happens in a couple of weeks in Brazil. What's the state of open data for the World Cup? And football in general? What open data offers the FIFA? What other sources are available? What about Wikipedia? Wikidata? DBPedia, etc. Join to learn more and discuss the state of open data.

Wed April 30th, 2014 - Using Open Football Data - Get Ready for the World Cup in Brazil w/ JavaScript @ Vienna.js Meetup

2013

Mon Oct 7th, 2013 - (J)Ruby in Action - Web Apps w/ Rails 'n' Jetty" @ JUG Austria

Fri May 3rd, 2013 @ Linuxwochen Wien '13

football.db - Using Open Football Data

Bundesliga, Champions League, World Cup

Introduction to football.db - a free open public domain football database & schema for use in any (programming) language. Tournaments include: World Cup, Confederations Cup, Champions League, Europa League, Bundesliga and many more.

Learn how to add more teams, tournaments, games, players and more or how to use football.db data in JavaScript or Ruby, for web apps or mobile apps for fun and profit, for example. All data, code and sample is public domain (free & open source).

Almost Sinatra in Six Lines of Ruby - A Breakdown

beer.db - Using Open Beer & Brewery Data in Ruby

CSS Next - CSS Preprocessors

Why Facebook Matters - Stats, Numbers, Web OS vs. Desktop OS, News

Facebook App Development with Ruby on Rails

football.db - Using Open Football Data in JavaScript

Adding Semantics to Your Web Site - RDF, RDFa, Microformats - Web 3.0 in Action

Building Web Services (HTTP APIs) with Go

Groovy - Java for the 21st Century - Do More With Less (Code)

Haskell, Haskell, Haskell

Java and the End of History - Learn Some New Languages and Concepts

(J)Ruby in Action: Generating PDF Documents from HTML Templates