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JASON SWETT

QUICKLY AND SAFELY REFACTORING LEGACY CODE

Refactoring can make code easier to understand and safer to work with, but
refactoring itself is often risky and time-consuming. In this talk Jason shares
techniques he’s used to refactor code speedily while minimizing the chances
anything breaks in the process.

ABOUT JASON SWETT

Jason Swett is a developer, speaker, trainer, author and host of The Rails with
Jason podcast. Since putting his first website online in 1996, Jason has worked
with organizations like AT&T, Lenovo, VMware, HP, Dow Jones, Deloitte, Kroger,
Liberty Mutual and the University of Chicago. He has given talks or taught
classes in several countries including the United States, India, The
Netherlands, Bulgaria and Nigeria. Jason lives in Sand Lake, Michigan with his
wife and two kids.

JEN LUKER

BUILDING ACCESSIBLE CAREERS

There has been a huge push for accessibility to be part of external websites,
but what about the internal tools we use every day? Jen will go over the reasons
internal accessibility is important, where to start, and how small improvements
can have a big impact on increasing diversity in our workplaces.

ABOUT JEN LUKER

Jen Luker is a Sr. Frontend Engineer, conference speaker, and BookBytes podcast
co-host. She has spent the majority of her career as a full-stack developer
using PHP, Javascript, and CSS, but has a particular fondness for frontend
technologies. She is an advocate for both accessibility, and processes that make
doing the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard. When she's not exploring
solutions, learning new technologies, or reading, Jen's spare time is spent
spinning yarn from raw wool and knitting; she's even been known to 3D print her
own tools for the job. She is also fascinated by all things space, and IoT.

ALESSANDRO DESANTIS

EXTENSIONS ARE DEAD, LONG LIVE EXTENSIONS!

Refactoring can make code easier to understand and safer to work with, but
refactoring itself is often risky and time-consuming. In this talk Jason shares
techniques he’s used to refactor code speedily while minimizing the chances
anything breaks in the process.

ABOUT ALESSANDRO DESANTIS

Alessandro Desantis has worked for and advised numerous startups on what makes
engineers happy and productive. More recently, he has been working for Nebulab,
helping the team scale their consulting efforts and ensure the success of
Solidus.

SEAN DENNY

COMMUNITY DRIVEN SOLIDUS

The management of Solidus has largely been nailed down since the dissolution of
Stembolt, but what does this new nonprofit, community-driven structure means for
the platform long-term? This talk aims to address that questions - and provide
an explanation as to why this will benefit the platform.

ABOUT SEAN DENNY

Sean Denny is CIO and lead developer at TubeDepot and serves as secretary for
the Solidus Stakeholders group. He got his start in web development at the age
of 11, learning HTML to build a Zelda fansite. His design skills have improved
slightly since then. After work, Sean spends his time playing guitar, video
games, and volunteering for various organizations such as Citizens Climate
Education and GiveCamp. He was the organizer for last years Southeast Solidus,
and is the lead organizer for this years SolidusConf 2019.

ERNESTO TAGWERKER

ESCAPING THE TAR PIT

Nobody wants to inherit a project that reeks but here we are. Stuck in the tar
pit. How can we get out? Could we have avoided it in the first place? In this
talk, you will learn how to use a few, great Ruby gems that will guide you out
of that sticky tar you are in.

ABOUT ERNESTO TAGWERKER

Ernesto is the Founder of Ombu Labs, a small software development company
dedicated to building lean code. When he is not obsessively playing table tennis
or chess, he likes to maintain a few Ruby gems including database_cleaner and
email-spec. He is passionate about writing less code, launching minimal
products, coaching entrepreneurs, contributing to open source, and eating
empanadas.

JOEL SAUPE

SOLIDUS API - FROM PWAS TO NATIVE AND BEYOND

In a world of JavaScript and native apps, how does Solidus fit in? We'll discuss
the highs and lows of using the Solidus API, and how we built an extensible
JavaScript SDK enabling us to develop Solidus backed PWAs, native apps, and
more.

ABOUT JOEL SAUPE

Lead Software Engineer of Frontend Development at Deseret Book and certified
pixel pusher. Otherwise found kickin' it with his family or running for extended
periods of time.

TAYLOR SCOTT

TAKING SOLIDUS FROM DEVELOPMENT TO PRODUCTION

This talk is focused on deploying a solidus application to a multi-container
environment on Elasticbeanstalk in AWS. The stack is a rails application running
beside an nginx web server. This will all be executed through GitLab CI but
other CI platforms will be similar.

ABOUT TAYLOR SCOTT

He is currently a Senior Software Engineer working for Deseret Book. His current
role involves working with Elasticsearch to provide logging, metrics, and
front-end search. This also extends to DevOps creating CI pipelines and ensuring
reliable testing and deployment. Last but not least, He works on creating many
features for Deseret Book which integrate with the Solidus platform. When he is
not "on the line" researching new technologies and solutions, he is making the
World of Warcraft a better place. He is also the very proud parent of an obese
cat named Fred who also happens to be his alarm clock in the morning.

PETER BERKENBOSCH

SOLIDUS INTERNALS, AN ADVENTURE THROUGH LESS KNOWN FEATURES

Exploring some of the less known features and configuration hooks in Solidus and
how you can use these to extend and customize your storefront while still
keeping Solidus as vanilla as possible.

ABOUT PETER BERKENBOSCH

Peter has a Bachelor’s degree in computer science and got his start in the
exciting world of ”Enterprise Java.” After discovering Ruby and Ruby on Rails in
2007, everything changed, he launched a Spree store, started actively
contributing to the Spree community, and eventually, became a core team member
at Spree. Since May 2015 Peter’s focus has shifted from Spree to Solidus.Peter
has a knack for producing high-quality code that is tried & tested, and can
often be heard asking “are there any specs?” He usually works remotely from a
small town in the Netherlands. Currently, Peter works as an independent
e-commerce developer and consultant for a number of different agencies and
stores, from troubleshooting (performance) challenges with large scale
storefronts to development of (opensource) extensions and Saas storefront
products and anything in between. In his spare time, Peter loves hanging out
with his children, fly-fishing, playing soccer, wine and dine, and cross-country
runs with his adorable English Stafford.

BRADEN DOUGLASS

BREAKING UP THE BAND MONOLITH WITH EQ

Emotional intelligence is sometimes missing from the software engineering realm.
However, how can we as engineers and managers utilize it when feeling the pain
of a monolithic application design? How do EQ markers equate to when and how a
monolith should be deconstructed? The talk will explore the fundamentals of
emotional intelligence in an engineering team and how to utilize tools from the
"emotional intelligence tool-belt" to read when a team is ready to deconstruct
their monolith.

ABOUT BRADEN DOUGLASS

Developer and community advocate and organizer. Half JavaScript, half Ruby
chameleon hailing from somewhere-yet-nowhere Maine. Remotely building enjoyable
products at Glossier.

THOMAS SAMPLE

101 SOLIDUS SEO TIPS: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE

A deep dive into the business value and practical application of SEO techniques
and principals for your Solidus store. We'll dig into actionable advise that
actually works, formatted into 101 ways to improve your rankings and increase
your sales.

ABOUT THOMAS SAMPLE

Focused on Spree and Solidus since 2013, Thomas founded Karma Creative in 2017,
a full-service custom digital agency focused on Solidus, eCommerce, and SEO.
There he continues to work passionately on the platform he loves, committed to
working with karma, and to providing real business value through close alignment
and long-lasting relationships. Thomas also loves to play guitar, go hiking, and
make hot sauce.

RYAN CROMWELL

MAKING THE LEAP TO TECH LEAD

You're a solid developer. You've built software people use, and it works well
for them. Now, you want that next step—to lead a team who builds software. Join
me to gain an understanding of the Tech Lead role and the trails, skills, and
experiences that shape a successful Tech Lead.

ABOUT RYAN CROMWELL

Ryan Cromwell is the Technical Director at Sparkbox with nearly 15 years of
experience delivering solutions ranging from real-time customer loyalty systems
and elegant user experiences to streamlined statistical process control
software. Having worked with passionate, high-performing teams, Ryan ventured
into the world of Scrum.org training and Agile coaching to replicate those
amazing experiences. Ryan's passion remains delivering software others enjoy
using. He is co-founder of Dayton Clean Coders, the Dayton Elixir virtual
Meetup, co-organizer of Southwest Ohio GiveCamp, and all around software
community ally. You can find Ryan at http://cromwellhaus.com and on Twitter as
@cromwellryan.


SOLIDUS
CONF 2019.

21-24 Oct 2019 Salt Lake City, Utah

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LEARN. SHARE. NETWORK.

An annual conference for Solidus experts, people new to Solidus ecommerce, and
stores considering the platform.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21 & TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22


CONFERENCE DAYS

A single track conference with talks from industry leaders. Plenty of time for
mingling between sessions.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 & THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24


HACK DAYS

Spend 2 days with the Solidus core team and a room full of Solidus experts
working on the platform or your own code.


SPEAKERS

Solidus Conf is a conference held for Solidus programmers, Rails users, Ruby
lovers, and eCommerce developers. At Solidus Conf 2019, we will be continuing
the tradition of sharing knowledge and goals for the Solidus community and
hearing from some external speakers about relevant eCommerce and engineering
challenges.

JASON SWETT

Developer, speaker, trainer, author and host of The Rails with Jason podcast

JEN LUKER

Sr. Frontend Engineer, conference speaker, and BookBytes podcast co-host

ALESSANDRO DESANTIS

Developer, founder and engineering manager based in Rome. Currently growth
advisor at Nebulab

SEAN DENNY

Developer & organizer, TubeDepot CIO, SolidusConf organizer, and Solidus
Stakeholders secretary

ERNESTO TAGWERKER

Founder of OmbuLabs, The Lean Software Boutique. He likes to build and maintain
software, products, and open-source projects

JOEL SAUPE

Lead Software Engineer of Frontend Development at Deseret Book and certified
pixel pusher

TAYLOR SCOTT

Senior Software Engineer working for Deseret Book

PETER BERKENBOSCH

Independent E-Commerce developer and consultant

BRADEN DOUGLASS

Developer, writer and community organizer at Glossier.

THOMAS SAMPLE

Founder of Karma Creative.

RYAN CROMWELL

Technical Director at Sparkbox.


VENUE

The conference will be held in the Salt Lake City Public Library, a stunning,
iconic structure, designed by internationally-acclaimed architect Moshe Safdie.
With its massive, multi-purpose space, the SLCPL serves to bring people together
to share ideas, network, hang out, or simply admire panoramic views of the city
skyline.


GIVING BACK A LITTLE

15% of the proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to Girls Who Code.
As an open-source-based community, we want to contribute to closing the gender
gap in tech and help girls who love coding pursue opportunities in the field and
succeed.

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