4th edition

Aug 20 2015

Geek Night is a regular event to promote the sharing of technical knowledge and increase collaboration among the geeks in the National Capital Region (Delhi). It is organized by a passionate group of programmers and sponsored by Thoughtworks.

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Agenda

4:00 pm

About the Technology Radar

By: Avinash Chugh

4:15 pm

Developing cross-platform apps with Xamarin

Use the power of C# to create native apps across iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Learn how you can share code across mobile platforms and still deliver native user experience and native performance.

By: Sanchit Bahal & Bharti Nagpal

5:00 pm

Consul - A tool for service discovery and configuration

Consul is great way for services to register themselves, and then discover others via DNS or HTTP. Backed by a lightweight and efficient gossip protocol (serf), Consul can also detect unhealthy hosts or unavailable services. Find out how you can add this to your DevOps toolkit.

By: Arnav Kumar

5:30 pm

Break

6:00 pm

'Dashing'-ly beautiful dashboards

Learn how this handsome, Sinatra-based framework from Shopify can help create dashboards that look great on large monitors.

By: Sumedha Verma & Riya Kataria

6:30 pm

Isomorphic JavaScript — Workshop with Flux, React, and ES6

Experience the world of 'Isomorphic JavaScript' - JS apps that can run both client-side and server-side. Build a front-end app using React and Flux in EcmaScript 6 (ES6). See how React lets you build reusable view components over the unidirectional data-flow paradigm of the Flux architecture.

By: Harsha Ivaturi & Ashutosh Devbrat

8:00 pm

Networking & Dinner

(served at our premises)

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