Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly - Issue 7
Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
5 Ways to Make Your Tech Talk Awesome - in which Eleanor Stribling uses the past 2.5 years, in which she became a bit of a tech talk connoisseur, and puts some thought into what made her picks for the best sessions effective and generally awesome. The article avoids the advice you’ve probably heard 100 times before (be confident! practice! don’t use filler sounds!) and sticks to things that are especially relevant to tech talks.
5 tips for developers who want to write​ - in which Julie Lambert shares the tips she uses at dailymotion to encourage their developers to write articles.
5 Tips for Writing Good Documentation - in which Casey Brooks used the journey to write documentation for his open source project to come to the realisation of "just how hard it is to write good documentation. [...] good documentation isn't a wall of text. It is a carefully-crafted journey through your project with a goal to get people comfortable with it".
Here are tips on public speaking from a failed comedian - in which Mark Schoones reckons the same tricks he used during his brief standup career are extremely effective when telling stories in a professional context. In his current non-comedy job he gives a lot of presentations to a lot of different types of audiences. And he discovered that being an average comedian basically makes you "Eddie Murphy (Raw Eddie; not Norbit Eddie) in the world of offices and Powerpoint".
One year a sourcerer​ - in which Francesc Campoy​ recaps the past year, in which he was a Xoogler (Google alumnus) and a sourcerer (source{d} employee).Â
📚 CFPs 📚
DevRelCon Tokyo - https://tokyo-2019.devrel.net/​
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/devrelcon-tokyo-2019​
Deadline: January 11, 2019
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Date:Â March 9, 2019
Travel & Accommodation:Â 2 nights hotel
Code of Conduct: https://tokyo-2018.devrel.net/code-of-conduct/​
JSConf.asia - https://2019.jsconf.asia/​
CFP: https://contribute.jsconf.asia/​
Deadline:Â March 1, 2019
Location:Â Singapore
Date:Â June 14 - 16, 2019
Travel & Accommodation:Â Yes
Code of Conduct:Â https://jsconf.com/codeofconduct.html
CityJSConf -Â http://cityjsconf.org/
CFP:Â https://www.papercall.io/cityjsconf2019
Deadline:Â January 31, 2019
Location:Â London, Uk
Date:Â May 3, 2019
Travel & Accommodation:Â Yes
Code of Conduct:Â https://jsconf.com/codeofconduct.html
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