57.5 - Devconf 2017

Live from DevConf 2017! Four conversations on the day.This episode is brought to you by OfferZen, a South African recruitment startup for developers. OfferZen inverts the normal recruitment process. Instead of applying for jobs, 350 tech companies in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, send developers interview requests with upfront salary info. For developers it’s completely free to signup and use. In fact, you get R5000 if you take a job through them. Visit offerzen.com to sign up.Kenneth & Len were invited to DevConf 2017 to cover the day. Kenneth got four recordings in for the show while Len worked the floors and collected stories we shared on the day via social media.We hope you enjoy these conversations!- On bad computers and other thingsThe first interview is with Rebecca Franks & Terri Burns about their presentations. It is rumoured Rebecca had people standing in the passages! Terri delivered a great keynote on algorithmic biases and what we should watch out for as developers.Resources:* https://twitter.com/riggaroo - Rebecca on Twitter* https://twitter.com/tcburns - Terri on Twitter* https://speakerdeck.com/riggaroo/android-things-the-iot-platform-for-everyone - Rebecca's slides* https://techspeak.email/ - Technically Speaking* https://developer.android.com/things/index.html - Android Things- Melting PI'sSecond is a chat with Gareth Stephenson about his Raspberry PI compute cluster, why and how he built it and how you too can get started with Raspberry PI's.Resources:* http://www.twitter.com/GarethStep - Gareth on Twitter* https://github.com/garethstephenson - Gareth on GitHub* http://netdev.co.za/blog/cluster-computing-using-apache-spark-on-raspberry-pis/ - Slides- In through the open windowMatt Cavanagh from RogueCode delivered a chilling talk on responsibly breaking into systems and working with the owners to plug the holes. If you got a message from Have I Been Pwned about the Ster-Kinekor breach, thank Matt.Resources:* http://www.twitter.com/roguecode - Matt on Twitter* http://blog.roguecode.co.za/sterkinekor-vulnerability-download-millions-accounts - Blog post on the Ster-Kinekor hack in detail* https://haveibeenpwned.com/ - ';--have i been pwned?- Meet the makersLast, and definitely not least, a longer chat with organisers Candice Mesk and Robert McLean on how they pulled it off and what DevConf means for them. As is tradition, there was an aircon failure too! They hint to the possibility of another location next year to broaden the reach, and you'll need to listen to find out where.* https://twitter.com/rmaclean - Robert on Twitter* https://twitter.com/candicemesk - Candice on TwitterFind and follow DevConf online:* https://twitter.com/devconfza* https://facebook.com/pg/devconf - Including 500 photos on the day* http://www.devconf.co.za* https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21ALSlbGe_qlfi-vs&id=84DD6CE2DA273835%21543757&cid=84DD6CE2DA273835 - Most of the slidesThanks to the DevConf team for hosting us and encouraging us to shove microphones into willing faces!Thanks for listening!Stay in touch:* Website & newsletter - https://zadevchat.io* Socialize - https://twitter.com/zadevchat & http://facebook.com/ZADevChat/* Suggestions and feedback - https://github.com/zadevchat/ping* Subscribe and rate in iTunes - http://bit.ly/zadevchat-itunes

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