Arduino, Computer Vision, DevOps and magic, on February 25 in a new edition of #4sessions

The comrades of [T]echdencias have prepared a new edition of the #4Sessions. They will be on Saturday, February 25 at the spectacular Mobile World Centre (Barcelona) and the poster is complete.

Toni Recio, Nacho Fanjul, Adrià Freixas and Ángel García have prepared the contents of these new #4Sessions, in which we will have the opportunity to update ourselves with the latest on Computer Vision, Arduino, DevOps and how to make your code “become siren songs”. Here is the complete program:

Register at #4Sessions on March 25.

TONI RECIO (@tonirecio)
First look at Computer Vision

The cognitive is fashionable, and in the Cloud companies like Microsoft and Google, with Cloud Vision and Cognitive Services, are responsible for attracting many developers so that the cameras of our devices begin to understand a little the world around them. But are we really talking about something new, or is it another excuse to get hooked on the cloud? In this session we will analyze the options that the market exposes us, beyond the large companies, we will see others with a lot of relevance and history behind them in the market such as OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library). What, with whom and how to make your developments see and understand the world.

NACHO FANJUL (@nfanjul)
The big ball of mud!

8.30am, you arrive at the office, make your coffee, turn on your computer, check your mail while the project you’ve been working on for the last few weeks opens. And at that precise moment when it has just been loaded, is when your next 8 hours can make you feel the most gratified person in the world, or on the contrary you get depressed to the point of wanting to be swallowed by a large ball of mud. Whether your state is one or the other will depend on what your code tells you, yes, yes, because your code can be siren songs or the words of the devil himself who has risen from hell. In this session I will give a series of guidelines that will make your code become siren songs, and that when you open your project, you feel that the next 8 hours will be the best of your life!

ADRIÀ FREIXAS (@adriafreixas)
Arduino for humans

“Arduino I’ve seen it. There are a lot of cool videos on the internet of how to make wonderful robots but I don’t dare, it’s all too abstract and complicated. You’re going to chop stone kid!” In this talk you will learn how with a few tips in the right direction, you can start making your hobby a reality. We will see from how to make your first prototype to how to organize your code in libraries so that your project is maintainable.

ANGEL GARCIA (@Angel_G_Santos)
DevOps – Beyond the Right > Button Publish

On any given day, you’ve finished solving a bug. You fetch changes in the central repository. There are changes. You pull out. Conflicts… shit. You solve and compile them. You pass the tests. 6 minutes and 332 tests later. Your QA colleagues have been waiting for you to deploy the changes in development for 2 hours. All right, you commit. You synchronize with the central repository. You deploy the project at destination. In QA they warn you that functionalities are missing. You despair: Someone has deployed before you, with code that is not protected. Chaos. Back to start.

Early detection of errors, automation of deployment processes, planned builds, smaller gap between development and quality, separation and automation of environments… Here are some of the tools used in DevOps. After the incredible talk of Carmen and Nacho on how to deploy our web projects in Azure with two simple steps, in this session we will see how to go one step further.

Mobile World Centre is a public-private initiative created by Mobile World Capital Barcelona (MWCB) and Telefónica with the aim of bringing citizens closer to the world of mobile telephony and the Internet. It is a space to discover how mobile transformation is revolutionizing communication channels, our day to day or the social and business environment. The Centre is a space open to citizens that hosts a permanent exhibition and offers an agenda of activities linked to current events and projects focused on the social, cultural, technological and economic transformation of mobility. Mobile World Centre is also a point of information and dissemination of the rest of MWCB’s initiatives.