Thursday's Matter
Join us for a weekly online meetup organised by Skills Matter.
What is Thursday's Matter?
Thursday's Matter is a virtual meetup on the topics that truly matter to today's developers.
Join us every Thursday when we'll be joined by an expert from around the globe. Each week we'll explore topics such as functional languages, mobile development, agile methodologies and machine learning.
THE FORMAT A 40-minute expert talk followed by a Q&A session.
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Accessibility Testing: Why and How to involve People with Disabilities
Organised by Thursday's Matter
In this talk, Samuel Proulx, Accessibility Evangelist at Fable, will make the case for why testing with people with disabilities is critical to any accessibility effort, and describe what you can do in order to make this testing quicker, easier, and more effective.
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Getting Geospatial Data on The Web
Organised by Thursday's Matter
In this talk, Joana Simoes, a software engineer with more than fifteen years experience, will make the case for how we can serve or consume geospatial data over the Internet, without reinventing the wheel.
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Personal SLAs: How to Maintain Balance at Work
Featuring Evgenii Ponomarev
In this talk Evgenii will show you how to use the concept of "Service-level Agreement" (SLA) to improve your work balance and help your team understand you better.
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Intersectional Communication
Featuring Dennie Declercq
In this talk Dennie will discuss the communication differences between social organizations and IT companies — and how to find middle ground and enjoy the best of both worlds.
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Continuous Delivery in VUE using GitLab Feature Flags
Featuring Kristian Muñoz
Join us as we welcome Kristian Moñoz who will share how the use of Feature flags supports continuous delivery.
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TPP: From Dumb, to Specific, to Generic
Featuring Javier Chacana
In this 40-minute hands-on workshop, Javier Chacana will introduce the Transformation Priority Premise (TPP) —a formal system to guide test-driven developers into choosing the best next test and the best possible implementation at that particular moment.
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Agile Product Development in Practice
Featuring Lucy Broomfield
What are the fundamentals you need to know in agile product development?
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JavaScript: The Grumpy Parts
Featuring Rob Richardson
No matter how much you love JavaScript, you've got to admit: it's weird. Why does
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Test Lead in an Agile Transformation
Featuring Mike Harris
In this "Testing Story", Mike Harris shares the lessons learned from a successful agile transition where he played an active role as Test Lead. As a result of the transition his team developed better quality software, and released software more quickly to their customers.
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Why An API Story?
Featuring Louise Woodhams
In this testing story, Louise explains how Swaggers helped her to understand REST APIs, the joys of being an "HTTP code geek", and led her to appreciate Postman and Beeceptor.
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Testing Stories Project
Featuring Melissa Fisher
Melissa Fisher shares the story of organising and managing the book "Testing Stories". Discover how this exciting project came to life through innovation, the power of communities and a collaborative leadership style.
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Transitioning from Being a Solo Tester to Being a Part of a Team
Featuring Andrea Jensen
Andrea Jensen shares the story of transitioning from being a solo tester to being a part of a testing couple —and the experiences, challenges and benefits that come along with pairing off.
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