Prototyping With Heroku Talk At NorDevCon
I gave a talk at NorDevCon on Friday (28/02/2014). This is the second NorDevCon i’ve attended and I can safely say it’s growing into a great event. The Developer conference showcases local and national talent and covers topics ranging from apprenticeships and education to abusing C# and language composition.
I presented on the “Big Data & Cloud” track at the conference, presenting my talk: Prototyping With Heroku. Paul the organiser asked me to speak about Heroku and I didn’t think this would be too much of a problem given I use the service everyday. But, yet I proceeded to broaden the topic and talk about Heroku within the context of how I use it whilst prototyping here at Upstate.
During my talk I discussed the aim of a prototype, what is required to build a successful prototype and showed off some examples of things i’ve built. These examples were both good and bad with regards to prototyping. I explained in all cases what i’d done wrong and right with my builds. I discussed in further detail Akin.is, the prototype i’ve been working on recently, explaining the techniques we’ve used to ensure we successfully traverse the Build, Measure Learn #leanstartup cycle.
Slides
The slides to my talk, although quite meaningless and possibly confusing without the context of my talk, can be found over here: http://peteroome.com/nordevcon-prototyping-talk.
Slide Navigation
The slides can be navigated using the arrow keys on your keyboard. Up, down, left and right should all do something.
URL’s
Links to services and sites I mentioned during my talk: