18:20 – 18:25 : Opening talk (gr)
18:25 – 18:45 : JS Knowledge Quiz (gr) - Test your JavaScript skills for fame and glory. All you need is your smartphone – just make sure to be at the venue on time!
18:45 – 19:30 : TailwindCSS: Pros and cons of a «utility-first» CSS framework (gr) – Angelos Chaidas, Senior Front-End Developer at Adzuna
The TailwindCSS website (cheekily) suggests that «Most CSS frameworks do too much» and offers a different approach to styling your HTML: Hundreds of «utility classes» that can be combined to create any layout or visual representation. Does this work? What are the benefits and the problems?
Speaker bio
Angelos has been finding excuses for the last 2 years to use TailwindCSS in various small projects. He is a seasoned front-end developer and one of the founding members of GreeceJS.
19:50 – 20:00 : A word from our sponsor: Causaly (gr)
Causaly Inc. is developing the world’s biggest data platform for Cause and Effect evidence in Biomedicine using AI Machine-Reading technology.
For further info please visit https://www.causaly.com/
20:00 – 20:45 : How to thumbnail and serve images at the age of serverless and edge (gr) – Dimitris Zotos, Senior Front-End Engineer at Blueground
Media rich content has always been a challenge for software products, especially when it was user-generated. However, modern cloud solutions can lift the burden and make this somebody else’s problem :-) In this talk we will present the use case of AWS Lambda@Edge for on-demand image thumb-nailing, watermarking and content type switching.
Speaker Bio
Dimitris is a software engineer, passionate about all things web. Focused on frontend engineering using javascript frameworks and libraries in order to create engaging experiences across various platforms.