thepghtechfest2015

Slides from the 1.5 talks I did at Pittsburgh TechFest 2015. Links mentioned in the slides are below.

Talk #1: "I don't know what the fuck that means!"

By Jenny Liu and Carol Nichols.

References

• How Spotify Builds Products by Henrik Kniberg
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Ward Cunningham on Technical Debt
• Doc Norton on Technical Debt
• Levent Gurses on Refactoring & ROI
• Manifesto for Agile Software Development
• Scaled Agile Framework
• Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development
• Beyond Agile: New Principles? by Ron Jeffries
• The GROWS Method™ by Andy Hunt

Talk #2: "Visual Explanation of Memory Management in Different Languages"

By Carol Nichols.

Homework

• Stack vs Heap
• memorymanagement.org
• Leak memory in Rust or Ruby
• Try implementing a garbage collector!

C

• Memory Management in C by David Evans (video)
• Secure Coding in C and C++ by Robert C. Seacord, CMU SEI (book)

Ruby

• Presentation on Ruby Garbage Collection by Joe Damato and Aman Gupta, 2010
• Object Management on Ruby 2.1 by Koichi Sasada, 2013
• Ruby GC: Still Not Ready for Production by Tim Robertson, 2014
• Ruby 2.1 GC: Ready for Production by Sam Saffron, 2014
• Incremental GC in Ruby 2.2 by Koichi Sasada, 2015

Rust

• The Rust Programming Language Book chapter on Ownership, mostly by Steve Klabnik
• Rust Ownership, The Hard Way by Chris Morgan
• Explore the Ownership System in Rust by Nercury
• Understanding Pointers, Ownership, and Lifetimes in Rust by Paul Körbitz
• Rust's Ownership model for JavaScript developers by Christoph Burgdorf