Joel Chippindale
Joel Chippindale is the CTO at Unmade, a global fashion software company offering delightful customisation experiences that power Fashion Driven by Demand. He has been building effective software teams for over a decade and feels lucky to be in a role that mostly involves saying ‘yes’ to people when they inevitably think of better ways of doing things than he possibly could.
Talks I've Given
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Lightning Talk: Learning through Blameless Reviews
Featuring Joel Chippindale
Your jobs are interesting because you are continually trying to do things you have never done before. This gives you huge opportunities to learn but it also means that you will inevitably make mistakes.
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Simplify writing code with deliberate commits
Featuring Joel Chippindale
As developers, a key part of our work, is in breaking down large gnarly complex problems into smaller simpler ones. But this is hard and there are many distractions along the way. In this talk I will take you through 5 habits to adopt around commiting your code which will help you keep focussed...
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Simplifying writing code with deliberate commits
Featuring Joel Chippindale
Do you ever find yourself juggling an ever growing list of things to think about when you are working on a feature? Do you find yourself losing track of what needs to be done next to make progress? If you do (and, spoiler, we all do), then this is the talk for you.
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Learning through blameless reviews
Featuring Joel Chippindale
In this talk Joel will outline some of the ways that teams react to the mistakes they make and how blameless reviews can help teams learn from these mistakes.
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Telling stories through your commits
Featuring Joel Chippindale
In this talk we'll look at some of the ways that you can improve how you develop code and communicate with your team through your commits.
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My tests run faster than your tests
Featuring Joel Chippindale
An introduction to Zeus (https://github.com/burke/zeus) and the approach it takes for making rails tests run lightning fast.
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Show Off, a Ruby-Based HTML Presentation Software
Featuring Joel Chippindale
Joel will talk about Show Off, a ruby-based HTML presentation software. This talk might get a bit meta.
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Joel Chippindale is the CTO at Unmade, a software platform that powers fashion on demand. He feels lucky to be in a role that mostly involves saying ‘yes’ to people when they inevitably think of better ways of doing things than he possibly could.
My Work
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