Live Webinar September 8th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

 We know what makes people click,
But we don’t know as much about how they feel.

Feeling is as important as form and function, and yet emotion is not always part of the design process.

How do we design technology that prioritizes connection on an emotional level?

Pamela Pavliscak draws on the hallmarks of emotional intelligence—perceiving, understanding, communicating, and managing—to create a meaningful approach to emotional design that moves beyond delight.

Pamela explores the ways technology engages emotion and outlines a framework that supports designing for emotion.

You’ll leave armed with techniques to understand the emotional connection in design.

Presenter:  Pamela Pavliscak  (LinkedIn profile, @paminthelab) is founder of Change Sciences, a user experience research and strategy firm for Fortune 500s, and other smart companies. Over the past 15 years, she’s logged thousands of hours in the field trying to better understand how people use technology and run hundreds of UX studies on almost every type of site you could imagine. Connected to users and their user experiences, Pamela sifts through messy data for patterns, and writes/speaks about how to create better UX’s. Read her blog, People, Pixels & Percentages.

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Emotionally Intelligent Design

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Live Webinar September 1st, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

For the past 40 years, the relational database has been the dominant model for persisting data.

While SQL databases are not going away anytime soon, the NoSQL (“not only SQL”) movement challenges the relational database as the default persistence layer for modern applications.

Learn how you can leverage both relational and NoSQL databases, as well as managed services, to improve your apps and provide compelling systems of engagement.

• For example, use ElasticSearch to provide full text search, PostGIS in PostgreSQL for geospatial capabilities, Redis for improved performance, or a document database such as CouchDB or MongoDB for a flexible schema.

Applying principles from Domain-Driven Design such as strategic design and bounded contexts, this presentation will help you choose and apply the right data layer for your application’s model or models.

Bradley will explore relational databases, graph databases, document databases, full text search, caching with key/value stores, polyglot persistence, horizontal scaling, eventual consistency, CQRS, event sourcing, and data layers for microservices.

Learn the answers to these questions:

• What open source NoSQL databases are available to developers today?
• What type of database or databases should I choose for my application?
• What is Domain-Driven Design and how can I use it to think about the data layer for my application?

Presenter:  Bradley Holt (LinkedIn profile) is a Developer Advocate with IBM Cloud Data Services. Author of several publications including Scaling CouchDB & Writing and Querying MapReduce Views in CouchDB, Bradley is an in demand speaker at conferences worldwide including the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference. Bradley writes and speaks about topics such as CouchDB, PouchDB, offline-first applications, PHP, Node.js, and Domain-Driven Design.

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Designing Data Layers For Modern Web & Mobile Apps

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Live Webinar August 30th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  3 Hours  3 PDUs free
Provider: O’Reilly

 A 3 Hour Online Web Architecture Conference!

Taking time to plan your architecture before you begin the development work is like having a roadmap—or rather, a good GPS—before you begin your trip.

If you don’t know where you’re going, you’ll still end up somewhere, but it may not be exactly where you envisioned.

Your architectural plan needs to include design, performance, scalability, and availability, as well as many other considerations and trade-offs—all of which will position you to make smarter decisions as your website and applications take shape.

In this online conference, three experienced developers share some of the building blocks of web architecture: cross-platform development, webhooks, and APIs. Their experience will arm you with practical takeaways that you can use in devising your own web architectures.

Session 1

Confessions Of A Cross-Platform Developer

Cross-platform development is not only a challenging, technical line of work; it also changes the way you think, work, and interact with systems and software as a user and a developer.

New frameworks like Electron are making it easier for developers to create applications that can run on multiple platforms, but things are never as simple as they appear.

Building good cross-platform applications requires more than just the right tools.

In this session Andreia explores:

• Cross-platform development,
  • outlining the skills you need to get the job done.
• How cross-platform frameworks get built, what tools are used,
• How many platforms you can target as a cross-platform developer
  • (hint: it’s more than three), and …
• How to go about targeting them.

You’ll learn how a cross-platform development focus can change the way you build code and use software.

Presenter: Andreia Gaita  (LinkedIn profile) is a C#/C++ developer and longtime open source and Mono contributor, currently working at GitHub doing .NET and open source and building the GitHub extension for Visual Studio. For the past 16 years, Andreia has been involved in the development of cross-platform applications, services, and libraries, embedding browser engines, creating bindings, and making tools. Andreia hails from the sunny city of Lisbon, Portugal, and currently lives in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Session 2

The Wonderful World Of WebHooks

In an increasingly connected world, APIs are key to great tools and effective workflows.

But what’s better than an API?

A webhook, of course. Webhooks are a central building block of modern applications, allowing systems to exchange data in response to events.

In this session Lorna dives into examples of webhooks currently in use in the wild, examining when a webhook is useful and exploring the internal design and structuring of webhook payloads.

Lorna discusses how to work with webhooks in a scalable way regardless of your technology stack, how to receive and process incoming webhooks from an external system, and how to design and publish your own for use by partners or consumers.

Walk away with a better idea of how to make your applications play nicely with others.

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The Building Blocks Of Web Architecture

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Live Webinar August 25th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

A Look At ThingWorx Analytics Builder

Advanced analytics does not have to involve weeks or months of a data science effort to garner meaningful insights into your data.

In this webcast, Scott will show how developers can use the newly released ThingWorx Analytics Builder to quickly analyze data and build a predictive model.

A demonstration will use sensor data from a device to step through the process of creating and validating a model from scratch.

Presenter:  J. Scott Sperling (LinkedIn profile) Analytics Fellow, Technical Engineering – ThingWorx Analytics;  brings over a decade of experience in applied advanced analytics. With a background in economics, Scott has developed bespoke predictive models across multiple industry verticals including IT hardware, finance, travel & tourism, and marketing. In his current role, he works with partners and customers to develop effective, right-time analytics solutions for IoT.

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Developing Meaningful IoT Analytics

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Live Webinar August 25th 2016 – 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT or …
Live Webinar August 25th 2016 – 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 .5 Hrs  1.5 PDU free
Provider:  RBCS (REP #2986)

The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing:

1. Irrelevance/redundancy
2. Ignorance of relevant skills or facts
3. Obstructionism
4. Adversarialism
5. Nit-picking
6. Blindness to project/organizational priorities
7. Last-moment-ism

Are you your own worst enemy?

You might recognize your own behaviors, or behaviors of others on your test team. Rex will discuss these seven sins and more, helping you be more effective in Agile projects.

Rex gives examples of these behaviors through case studies, and tells you how to stop the behaviors and solve the problems those behaviors have created. For sinners and non-sinners alike, Rex offers ideas on how to become a testing saint.

Join Rex and discuss these seven deadly sins.

Presenter: Rex Black (Amazon profile) is President of RBCS, a leader in software, hardware, and systems testing. RBCS employs the industry’s most experienced and recognized consultants, RBCS conducts product testing, builds and improves testing groups and hires testing staff for hundreds of clients worldwide. As the leader of RBCS, Rex is the most prolific author practicing in the field of software testing today.

Check Out some of Rex Black’s Great Books:

1. Foundations of Software Testing ISTQB Certification
2. Managing the Testing Process: Practical Tools and Techniques for Managing Hardware and Software Testing
3. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 1: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst (Rockynook Computing)
4. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 2: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Manager
5. Advanced Software Testing – Vol. 3: Guide to the ISTQB Advanced Certification as an Advanced Technical Test Analyst
6. Critical Testing Processes: Plan, Prepare, Perform, Perfect
7. Pragmatic Software Testing: Becoming an Effective and Efficient Test Professional
8. ISTQB Foundation Exam Preparation Guide
9. ISTQB Advanced Test Manager Exam Preparation Guide 2nd edition

Click to register for the 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT presentation of:
The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

Click to register for the 9:30 pm – 11:00 pm EDT presentation of:
The Seven Deadly Sins of Testing

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Live Webinar August 18th, 2016 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU free
Provider: O’Reilly

Over half the world’s population is now online as consumers continue to embrace the Internet of Things (IoT), virtual reality, and other emerging technologies.

There are currently 2 billion smartphones in use around the globe; by 2020, it is estimated that there will be at least seven devices per person on the planet.

Meanwhile, companies continue to migrate business processes online at breakneck speed. In fact, 90 percent of all data was created within the last 12 months.

Knowing these things, we have to ask,
“What is the impact of our data?”

With electricity needs that rival a country the size of Germany, the Internet has a larger environmental footprint than that of the global airline industry and will continue to grow as more of the world’s population gets online.

What’s more, the materials used to create our devices are embroiled in conflict: slavery, smuggling, and massive environmental damage from mining conflict minerals perpetuate major problems around the globe.

Plus …. The “built-in obsolescence” of those devices produces staggering amounts of e-waste.

What can we do about this?

When it comes to the Internet, people-friendly is also typically planet-friendly. 560,000 agencies around the world make hosting, UX, and design decisions on behalf of their clients every day.

These decisions directly impact Internet sustainability. Tim Frick outlines a design framework for creating more sustainable digital products and services while still meeting business and marketing goals.

Tim explains why sustainable practices will be increasingly important as the Internet continues its rapid growth and explores how organizations large and small are already taking steps toward building a cleaner, greener Internet.

You’ll walk away with simple tactics you can use to make your own digital products and services more sustainable.

Presenter: Tim Frick (LinkedIn profile) is the founder of Mightybytes, an Illinois-based company that is committed to solving social and environmental problems with its work and is a leader in sustainable web design. Tim is the author of four books on media and marketing, including the forthcoming Designing for Sustainability: A Guide to Building Greener Digital Productsand Services, two editions of Return on Engagement: Content Strategy and Web Design Techniques for Digital Marketing, and Managing Interactive Media Projects. Tim’s books are used as texts in post secondary institutions and Tim is  board president of Climate Ride, a nonprofit offering charity endurance events to raise money for environmental causes that to date has raised over $3.2 million. Tim is also a well regarded keynote speaker at conferences and offers workshops on various aspects of marketing, design, sustainability, and entrepreneurship.

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Designing For Sustainability

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