Events

I have spoken at and reported on hundreds of events around the world.

Thursday, 5 May 2016

OpenTech Summit

We spend countless hours creating technically amazing projects built upon awesome, cutting edge code. We then promote our project through newsletters, events and social media and await certain success. But nothing happens. Why? Whoops, we forgot to tell anyone how to effectively use our project, all that time waisted. In this presentation I want to draw upon my experience in writing tutorials and technical documentation to help you write clear, concise and usable documentation for your own projects.
https://opentechsummit.net/programm/#OT2-10
Thursday, 21 April 2016

Central Hall Westminster, London
Back To The Future With Static Site Generators

DevWeek London

If you remember when web sites were all created with plain HTML pages, then you'll know that CMSs and dynamic web frameworks saved us and solved all our problems. Or did they? In fact, we instead spend a lot of time customising existing code to meet our requirements, grappling with deployments and then whacking caching on top of over-powered servers to get an ounce of speed. Static Site Generators aim to sit somewhere in the middle and are perfect for semi-dynamic sites and with a little learning, better for content creators. In this session, Chris will look at an overview of the principles and options for static site generators and deep dive into one or two to explain further how the work and can fit into your projects.
https://devweek.com/agenda#back-to-the-future-with-static-site-generators
Friday, 18 March 2016

Tuschinski Theater(near Rembrandt Plein), Reguliersbreestraat 26, Amsterdam.
The Past, present and Future of Swift

MDevCon

Whilst open sourcing a language is nothing new, there is no denying the popularity of Apple's new language and this has solidified with their recent move. In this presentation I would like to explore the new projects created by and with Swift and see where this may lead in the future. We will look at: - What can be accomplished with 'open' Swift - What's missing from 'open' Swift - Back end Swift - Swift on Linux - Swift on Windows - Will Swift on Android be possible - What's next for Swift?
https://mdevcon.com/posts/2016/02/01/chris-ward/
Monday, 29 February 2016

Cineplex, Wienerbergstraße 11, 1100, Vienna, Austria
Developer Health

Voxxed Days Vienna

We keep up to date with the latest developments in technologies and tools. We make sure to post pull requests to fix bugs we found in projects. We offer helpful advice in forums to people with coding questions. We propose talks for meetups and conferences to provide insight and inspiration. All this on top of our day job. When in the midst of all this activity do we stop to think about our mental or physical health? The mental stress of sustained periods of high intellectual activity is draining and exhausting. The Physical impact of having such a sedentary job is becoming increasingly recognised. And all those caffeinated and sugar filled drinks we consume to keep going? Yeah, they're not that good for us either. In this presentation I will look at quick tips to keep ourselves a little healthier whilst we do what we love. I'm not talking gruelling evenings huffing and puffing at the gym, but manageable and easy advice to whip you into shape.
https://voxxeddays.com/vienna/
Saturday, 20 February 2016

Poor & Literate, Kopenhagener Straße 77, 10437 Berlin

Poor and Literate Short Stories

I will be reading the intro from my '[One Day the World Ended](onedaytheworldended.com)' project at this cosy little bookshop.
https://www.facebook.com/events/498210087018059/
Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Game Science Center, Besselstrasse 14 Berlin, 10969
The Future of Cardboard

Talk and Play no. 17

How digital games are influencing board games and vice versa. I will discuss the numerous ways that board games are joining the digital era.
https://www.meetup.com/BerlinGameScene/events/227497230/
Saturday, 30 January 2016

H.2215 (Ferrer), Fosdem
Programing a Board Game

Fosdem 2016

Programming a Board game? Why would you want to do that? In this lightening talk I will take as few turns as possible to explain why and how I decided to program a board game. Yes, a physical, printed board game. We will look at wondrous technologies such as Markdown, Pandoc, LaTeX and chaining them all together to create a multi-format generating workflow and (hopefully) win.
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/board_game/
Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Saftladen, Waldemarstr. 37, 10999, Berlin

Art Game meetup

This is a meet-up group for people interested in games as audio/visual interactive art, with less focus on mechanics or gamer culture. I will be speaking about the ongoing design process of creating the Chip Shop Board game using a computer coding framework.
Thursday, 7 January 2016

Creating a plugin for Jekyll

Ruby User Group Berlin

Jekyll is an awesome static site generator written in Ruby. It's designed with simplicity in mind, but can be made more extensive and powerful by creating plugins and leveraging existing ruby gems. In this presentation I'd like to give a quick overview of how...
https://www.rug-b.de/events/january-meetup-2016
Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Why I decided to code a Boardgame

up.front Berlin

_(and how tools written in obscure programming languages helped)_ Just over a year ago I had a great idea for a boardgame where players get to run a computer company in 1980s America. As a programmer of over 15 years, it seemed obvious to me to code the game and this led me down a meandering path of obscure toolsets where I discovered some amazing gems. In this presentation I want to introduce you to the why and how I did this, what I discovered, how it can help you and the digital future of cardboard.
https://up.front.ug/2015/12/08/meetup/
Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Understanding Distributed Databases

Coding Serbia

The single node backend is dying or dead. A single instance of a database is no longer sufficiently available, resilient or elastic to cope with the quantities and changing requirements of data that modern applications demand. A single point of failure is no longer an option.
https://codingserbia.com/
Monday, 5 October 2015

Introducing Crate, the scalable SQL Database

Dublin NoSQL with Crate.io

Using Crate a distributed database (Crate has a NoSQL base but is queried in SQL) as an explicit example Chris will show the theory and practice behind their component architecture, along with some basic but extremely cool queries to show what's possible with it. He will demonstrate the basic practicals of querying and coding for Crate using the gitHub archive.
https://ti.to/tcube/dublin-nosql-crate-io
Monday, 5 October 2015

Understanding Distributed Databases

CloudOpen Europe

Modern applications store a lot data and demand high availability of access to it. To cope with this increasing need, developers have long struggled with scaling, sharding and synchronizing multiple instances of traditional databases.
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-europe/program/schedule
Saturday, 3 October 2015

Introducing Distributed Databases

WebCamp Zagreb

The single node backend is now dead or dying, let's look at the future.
https://2015.webcampzg.org/talks/view/introducing-distributed-databases/
Thursday, 1 October 2015

Introducing Distributed Databases

Voxxed Days Belgrade

In this presentation we will look the fact that in large scale and complex web applications the single node backend is now dead or dying. A single instance of a database is no longer sufficiently available, resilient or elastic to cope with the quantities and changing requirements of data that modern applications demand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLuRDv7Ad0Y
Wednesday, 30 September 2015

GitHub revisited - Analyzing 100s of Million of events in realtime

Code.Talks Hamburg

In this presentation we revisit an infamous talk from Strata conference in 2012. We will look at importing, querying and analyzing the millions of events generated from one of the internet's most popular tools, GitHub.
https://www.codetalks.de/2015/programm/github-revisited-analyzing-100s-of-million-of-events-in-realtime
Monday, 28 September 2015

Managing Distributed Databases with Apache Mesos

Apache Big Data Europe

Apache Mesos is a fantastic tool for abstracting CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual). Alongside these features is Mesos-DNS, which provides service discovery for all applications and services running in a Mesos cluster. These features combined lets you program against your datacenter like it's a single pool of resources, a useful tool when building highly scalable applications stacks.
https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/apache-big-data-europe/program/schedule
Thursday, 24 September 2015

Developer Health

Reject.JS - Berlin

In this presentation I will look at quick tips to keep ourselves a little healthier whilst we do what we love. I'm not talking gruelling evenings huffing and puffing at the gym, but manageable and easy advice to whip you into shape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AlmhhnfJ-E
Thursday, 17 September 2015

Understanding databases for distributed applications

Berlin Expert Days 2015

The single node backend is dead. A single instance of a database is no longer sufficiently available, resilient or elastic to cope with the quantities and changing requirements of data that modern applications demand.
https://bed-con.org/2015/talks/Understanding-databases-for-distributed-applications
Monday, 7 September 2015

Scale Your Database like Your Application

Docker Randstad

Crate is a distributed database that allows you to create a flexible and scalable backend suited to a wide variety of purposes. By deploying and managing your Crate Cluster using Docker, you benefit from simple scalable capacity, resilience and portability, no matter how complex or large your application becomes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdnpQAVI_cc&index=2&list=PLzSGDpUWtiotQ3QTnwA75ndJ3qpepp75V
Monday, 31 August 2015

Documenting your Story - Crafting a good presentation

Write the docs, Prague

Whilst not a part of the core documentation of projects, presentations and delivering them to the public are an essential part of spreading the word about what you do. In this presentation I will explore and explain my experiences as an advocate for several open source projects, audience reactions to those presentations and how I have iterated my presentations in sync with changes to product and branding.
https://writethedocs-www.readthedocs.org/conf/eu/2015/speakers/#speaker-cward
Wednesday, 8 July 2015

meetup

[Read more](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMonkXC4hyk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMonkXC4hyk
Sunday, 21 June 2015

Enthusiasticon

In this short presentation I gave an overview of what Developer Advocates are and what we do.
https://sourcecode.berlin/enthusiasticon/
Sunday, 21 June 2015

Enthusiasticon

In this short presentation I gave an overview of the development and build process behind the Chip Shop boardgame.
https://sourcecode.berlin/enthusiasticon/
Monday, 1 June 2015

Berlin Buzzwords

In this talk we'll focus on the use of Crate alongside Weave in Docker containers, the technical challenges, best practices learned, and getting a simple web application running alongside it. You'll learn about the reasons why Crate.IO is building "yet another NoSQL database" and why it's unique and important when running containerized applications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gILCPu6lGZo

Thursday, 5 May 2016

Thursday, 21 April 2016

Central Hall Westminster, London

Friday, 18 March 2016

Tuschinski Theater(near Rembrandt Plein), Reguliersbreestraat 26, Amsterdam.

Monday, 29 February 2016

Cineplex, Wienerbergstraße 11, 1100, Vienna, Austria

Saturday, 20 February 2016

Poor & Literate, Kopenhagener Straße 77, 10437 Berlin

Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Game Science Center, Besselstrasse 14 Berlin, 10969

Saturday, 30 January 2016

H.2215 (Ferrer), Fosdem

Tuesday, 19 January 2016

Saftladen, Waldemarstr. 37, 10999, Berlin

Thursday, 7 January 2016

Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Monday, 5 October 2015

Monday, 5 October 2015

Saturday, 3 October 2015

Thursday, 1 October 2015

Wednesday, 30 September 2015

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Thursday, 24 September 2015

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Monday, 31 August 2015

Wednesday, 8 July 2015

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Monday, 1 June 2015