Chris Ward

Documentation is essential for potential users to understand your awesome coding efforts.

But I know that you'd rather get back to coding as soon as possible, so how about automating as much of your documentation as possible?

In this presentation I will show you how to automate some of the repetitive tasks involved in documentation and make your colleagues jealous.

• Testing docs
• Spell and grammar checking
• Generating screenshots
• Building different versions and formats
• Notifications
• Generating videos

I will show you how to build workflows and plugins for several popular documentation editors and CI tools and give you more free time to watch cat videos, complain about important issues, or get replaced by a robot.

Documentation is essential for potential users to understand your awesome coding efforts.

But I know that you'd rather get back to coding as soon as possible, so how about automating as much of your documentation as possible?

In this presentation I will show you how to automate some of the repetitive tasks involved in documentation and make your colleagues jealous.

• Testing docs
• Spell and grammar checking
• Generating screenshots
• Building different versions and formats
• Notifications
• Generating videos

I will show you how to build workflows and plugins for several popular documentation editors and CI tools and give you more free time to watch cat videos, complain about important issues, or get replaced by a robot.

Electron is a framework for building desktop applications using HTML5 technologies. It has enjoyed massive success with developers looking to create cross-platform applications. Can it deliver?

In this presentation I will look at the ever-present desire to create cross-platform applications with the same code base. I will look at frameworks that have come before and then look at Electron and how it allows you to create applications for Windows, Mac and Linux with HTML5 technologies.

How do you use it, how well does it work and what can you do with it? Let's investigate.

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.