Michael Nacos
Michael Nacos enjoys playing with computers but gets bored easily. He has worked as an IT trainer, web developer, linux sysadmin, database developer, email engineer, cloud architect and tech lead. These days he helps companies build products and teams, using open source tools to deliver progressive web and mobile experiences that hit the mark.
Talks I've Given
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How to stop worrying, love the SPA and appreciate Rails
Featuring Michael Nacos
Some people love them, some people hate them, but single page applications are here to stay, if not take over. Michael suggests there may be greater SPA platform potential to Rails than you think.
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DEVELOPING AND TESTING FACEBOOK APPS
Featuring Michael Nacos
This talk explores Michael's experience working on projects at an international social media agency.
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Just enough infrastructure for product development with cucumber
Featuring Michael Nacos
User-centric product features often span multiple subsystems of a service stack. For example, user state changed in a web app may affect routing of their emails, which is handled by a daemon.
Cucumber helps us concentrate on the user and decouple product features from their implementation. At the...
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Cucumber for startups
Featuring Michael Nacos
Early stage web startups need to get a lot done. How do you combine development hyper-drive with changing business requirements and evolving infrastructure without sacrificing quality? Enter cuke. It's got a light side, a dark side and it keeps the universe together. Our universe consists of...
cucumber bdd