DDD Perth 2021 Agenda
Theatre
M6
M7
M8
8:00 am - 8:35 am
Registration
8:35 am - 8:50 am
Welcome and housekeeping
8:50 am - 9:00 am
Welcome to Country
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Changeover
9:10 am - 9:40 am
9:40 am - 9:50 am
Changeover
9:50 am - 10:35 am
10:35 am - 11:05 am
Morning Tea
11:05 am - 11:50 am
11:05 am - 11:50 am
Theatre
Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker
11:05 am - 11:50 am
M6
Michelle Sandford, Jiaranai Keatnuxsuo
11:50 am - 12:00 pm
Changeover
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Changeover
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
12:30 pm - 1:15 pm
M6
Joshua Boys
1:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Lunch
2:15 pm - 2:35 pm
2:35 pm - 2:45 pm
Changeover
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
M7
Eric Starling
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm
M8
Felicity Millman
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Afternoon Tea
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Prize Draw
4:30 pm - 5:00 pm
5:00 pm
Thank Yous and wrap up
Stringly-Typed to Strongly-Typed with TypeScript
🕓 9:50 am - 10:35 am📍 M6
Recording
Watch on YouTube (opens in a new tab)Stringly-typed code. It lurks inside quotation marks in source code, opaque to most to IDE tools, waiting for the unwary developer to rename or refactor something in their codebase. Everything builds and the app is deployed, only to throw runtime errors about references to non-existing HTTP endpoints, CSS classes, database tables, or asset files.
In this talk, we'll look at the dangers of stringly-typed code. We'll see how it saps confidence in code changes, making codebases brittle. We'll look for solutions to these issues, using TypeScript to turn opaque strings into well-checked values that can be refactored with confidence.
Speaker
Troy Gerwien
Senior Software Engineer at VGW
Troy is a software engineer with broad industry experience, currently developing games at VGW. He also maintains and contributes to several open-source projects, and is a mentor at CoderDojo. Troy is interested in what makes software great, not just for the user, but also for the team maintaining it.
