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August Meetup at Rombit

Our August meetup will take place at the offices of Rombit. They're located downtown at the Meir. We're hosting exceptionally on a Tuesday this time.

The hungry ones will be taken care of: Rombit will provide drinks and tasty wraps!

We have two great talks lined up for you. Frederick will be talking about surviving legacy software and Marcel will teach us how to build a voice powered app.

We hope to see you soon!
Rias, Freek & Dries

SCHEDULE

19:00 - Doors
20:00 - Start

TALKS

How to survive the endless fun that is a legacy codebase by Frederick Vanbrabant

So you inherited a legacy code base, how bad can it be? After actually taking a look at the code you realise that it is actually kinda bad, very bad. Well no turning back now, let's make the best of this. You have a battle plan sorted out, but how will you actually keep going? This and more general tips will be answered. Cause you might not be working on a legacy project at the moment, but maybe tomorrow you will!

Speaker: Frederick is a less than 30 year old developer from Antwerp with a passion for API's and everything that surrounds them.

Length: 45min

Alexa, let's build a voice powered app by Marcel Pociot

With devices such as Amazon's Alexa or Google Home, voice assistants have gotten into our lives. It's undisputed that voice-powered applications can have a tremendous impact on your life and your business. Let's try and build a voice-powered application ourselves and even summon Alexa on stage.

Speaker: Marcel is a managing partner and developer at the Beyond Code GmbH in Germany, which builds custom Laravel web projects and focuses on Chatbot development. When he is not on his day job, you can find Marcel working on various open-source PHP projects and maintaining the most popular PHP chatbot framework "BotMan".

Length: 40min

Organizer: Developers

Event time: 28-08-2018 19:00:00 CEST

Address:
Meir 30
Antwerpen
Belgium