Matthew McCullough

Presentations

Information Alchemy and Technical Influence

Technical influence is highly desirable. It is the vehicle by which you can take what you've learned about at NFJS and be given the chance to implement it back at your organization. One way this can be accomplished is through delivery of excellent technical talks.

Developers are looking for venues to present at these days for the education of the community and betterment of their career. The goal may be to present at a conference, user group, or just a private company. Learn the techniques of the best presenters in the industry through a dissection of what it takes to efficiently construct an engaging talk that offers solid insights and is memorable for the audience.

This talk provides tips, techniques, examples, and references: In short, a complete boot camp for building presentations that will capture the hearts and minds of an audience. This talk is largely tool-agnostic and you can use these techniques in Apple Keynote, Microsoft PowerPoint, or OpenOffice Impress. Specific points covered include stock photos, mind maps, presentation techniques, topic selection and diagramming.

Git Advanced

Now that Git has been in the wild for several years, leading edge developers and projects are considering it their primary source code control tool of choice. Distributed version control systems have so much to offer, but are you using Git and its DVCS capabilities to their fullest? This talk assumes a working basic knowledge of Git and, quicly progressing from from there, explores some of the intermediate to advanced uses of this unique version control tool. We'll examine, in a hands on fashion, some of the workflows used by the Git masters in their daily coding routines.

We'll examine setting up tracking branches with the automatic options, as well as through manual editing of the .git/config file. Next, we'll add multiple remotes and perform a trial merge and rebase of a feature contribution by a team mate. Additionally, we 'll explore the ASCII-art visualizations for branch origins and merge status, repository maintenance, running automated test suites with bisect, submodules and searching for where a constant was introduced in history with git-grep. This talk will give you prowess in many of the more powerful commands Git has to offer and leave you with a greater mastery of the Git toolset.

Git Workshop (Bring A Laptop)

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Git is a version control system you may have been hearing a bit about lately. But simply hearing more about it may not be enough to convince you of its value. Getting hands on experience is what really counts. In this workshop, you'll bring your Windows, Mac or Linux laptop and walk through downloading, installing, and using Git in a collaborative fashion.

The workshop style of this class will allow you to observe and discover the value of this new version control tool first hand. You'll be cloning, creating, commiting, and pushing repositories by the conclusion of this session.

Applying Git: 10 Power Tips

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Git is a powerful content tracker and has gained acceptance by many forward leaning consultants and teams over the past several years. Those developers know that it offers the usual commit, branch, merge and tag in a distributed environment, and yet, only a few developers have explored the more powerful functions of Git. These range from searching months of history for a unit-test bug to undoing literally any mistake to splitting in-progress work into multiple commits within a single file.

This talk is targeted at developers who have dabbled with the basics of Git but are aiming to explore, gain productivity secrets, and push the very limits of this life-changing version control system.

Developer Productivity Power Ups on Mac OSX

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You're a talented coder and you apply many agile practices to your daily workflow. Still, you are looking for that next boost to better keep track of information, manage your open applications, make working with the terminal more productive, recall information quickly, manage files rapidly, and produce documentation in a portable and effective manner.

This presentation will show you how to apply DevonThink, Delicious bookmarks, RSS feeds, Pinboard.in, Pomodoro, Things, LaunchBar, Bash profiles, mind maps, markdown files and spotlight filters to become a more productive developer that has a world of information sorted and accessible at a moment's notice.

This presentation focuses on developers using the Mac platform (though a few tips are portable) since Matthew has significant experience in productivity research on this platform.

Git Bootcamp - An All-Day Workshop

Distributed version control is all the rage these days, but is it worth it? It has been transformative for the dozens of organizations and thousands of developers that I've mentored on the unique implementation called Git. But don't take my word for it. Discover the joy of a version control system that works for you, not against you, in a hands-on workshop. Bring a Windows, Mac, or Linux laptop and we'll install, set up, use and bend Git into workflows that weren't even possible with the version control systems of yesteryear. Be prepared to rethink how lightweight, fast, and refreshing source code control can be. After completing this workshop you'll be able to do practical work with Git for your day job or weekend OSS hobby

This full day workshop takes you from the ground up with Git. By the end of the day you'll be proficient enough to contribute to an open source project using Git or to leverage inside your corporate as the canonical version control system.