Sky
Sky is a valued part of everyday life in over one in three homes throughout the country. As the boundaries between entertainment and communications disappear, we are helping our customers seize the exciting and inspiring new opportunities created by this technological revolution.
You name it, we work on it
Our set-top box is developed in embedded C on a Linux platform, and is an area in which we are always seeking to recruit the brightest minds. You might know the ins and outs of Java, Ruby, Angular, Scala, Ember, Groovy, Grails, Cassandra, or Node. Or you might be simply fantastic with JavaScript, Heroku or HTML5. If Agile is your thing, and you’re looking to be stretched, we’d love to hear from you.
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Using Redux Everyday
Featuring Chris Pearce
Redux has no doubt captured the hearts of the React community but many questions still remain - how do we actually structure Redux applications effectively? This talk explores the real world experiences of using Redux everyday within a rapidly scaling team and product.
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Designing React Components
Featuring Monika Koziol
At Red Badger we love React and use it on most of our projects. This is an unusual talk on React, which focuses on the workflow of building React components and how it led to a shared understanding and better collaboration in a cross disciplinary team.
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2 for the price 1: building multi platform components at an enterprise level
Featuring Christopher Cook
React is obviously built with components in mind, but for our latest project at Sky we had to take things a step further than usual. Our team is responsible for releasing an SDK of components that other clients across Sky can use. These clients look completely different, use different languages...
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Power optimization for Android apps
Featuring Xavier Hallade
Android devices running on battery need to be optimized for power. When taking a look at the CPU this optimization starts typically with the race to idle, meaning to go to finish the workload as fast as possible.
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“The experiment has just begun.” Building a real Reddit ‘button’ game with Android, IoT, and Firebase
Featuring Mike McDonald
The button was a game and social experiment run on Reddit from 1 Apr 2015 to 5 Jun 2015. The idea was simple: a 60 second countdown timer next to a reset button. When users pressed the button at a specific time, they would also be assigned a specific colour: purple if between 52 and 60 seconds,...
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All about ORM’s
Featuring Kevin Galligan
Android has matured to the point where there are several database access and management options, as well as some totally non-sqlite alternatives. You will discover some of the well known options, take a look at Realm, and demo an ORMLite port that uses annotation processing instead of reflection,...
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From clockwork to smartwatch
Featuring Daniele Bonaldo
The measurement of time has always had a big impact on our society. The way we tell the time greatly evolved especially in the last centuries, leading to the creation of always more accurate tools, up to the first wearable technological devices.
In this talk you will explore the evolution of...
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Give your users superpowers in the real world
Featuring Hoi Lam
People no longer need to sit at a desk to get the benefits of technology. You can now build experiences that work seamlessly between the virtual world and the real world. Superpowers that would not have been possible, too complex or prohibitively expensive are now possible.
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