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I gave this presentation, “How to Node Chat”, at the 9/22 meetup of Dallas.Node. In it I cover a little bit of history and internals of Hubot chat bot open sourced by Github. Then I demonstrate how to make your own and connect it to Slack and Gitter and how to deploy it to Heroku.
A parenthetical on the article “What is Code” really made me smile:
The world of code is filled with acronyms. K is modeled on another language called APL, which stands for A Programming Language. Programmers are funny, like your uncle. They hold the self-referential and recursive in the highest regard. Another classic: GNU, which means GNU’s Not Unix. Programmer jokes make you laugh and sigh at once. Or just sigh.
Here’s a presentation I made recently (4/9/2015) for the Dallas Scala Enthusiasts meetup group. I attended Scala Days 2015 in San Francisco and presented the notes I took while there.
I wasn’t trying to be a substitute for going to the conference, but I realize most people aren’t able to attend and I could provide some guidance of which presentations are worth following up with. Since the presentation the videos have finally gone live and are available at Parleys
A note on my presentation style: This is the second presentation I’ve made using Remark.js and hosted on Github Pages and I plan to keep using this setup going forward. I’ve found this to be a quick way to put a presentation together and easily host and distribute it. I’m happy with the tradeoffs of making a decent looking presentation very fast with all of my content in markdown. Also, if there’s demo code (like there was last time), I can keep the code and the presentation in one location.
I fixed some issues with my Scala-Format package for the Atom editor. Please upgrade to 0.1.4.
Atom updated their API and removed some of the methods I was using, so I had to do some minor refactoring.