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Upcoming events
EuroRust
Visit Website for EuroRustEuroRust is a 2 day conference for the European Rust community, organized by Mainmatter. We cover all things Rust: from Rust patterns and idioms to systems programming and CLI tooling, servers WASM, and embedded systems.
Porto Tech Hub
Visit Website for Porto Tech HubPorto Tech Hub is the biggest tech conference in Porto, taking place on October 27th in Alfândega do Porto. Mainmatter Founder Marco Otte-Witte will discuss the state of the web development ecosystem for Rust, the challenges that come with adopting it, and share some real-world examples to show what’s possible in his talk "Get Ready to Rustle".
Svelte Summit Fall
Visit Website for Svelte Summit FallSvelte Summit is an online conference dedicated to Svelte and everything that is happening in the community. We are supporting the event as a Gold Sponsor.
RustLab
Visit Website for RustLabRustLab is an international Rust conference taking place annually over the course of two days: this year's event is hosted in Florence. Mainmatter's Principal Engineering Consultant Luca Palmieri will discuss the current state and shortcomings of pavex, a new Rust framework for building APIs, in his talk.
Schrödinger Session
Visit Website for Schrödinger SessionSchrodinger Session is a meetup series fully accessible and free for everyone, organized by Schrödinger Hat. Mainmatter's Principal Engineering Consultant Luca Palmieri will host the workshop "Learning Rust, one exercise at a time!", covering all core concepts of the Rust programming language.
IT-Tage
Visit Website for IT-TageLearn about the essential components of Continuous Deployment Workflows, their main advantages, and typical challenges along with the strategies to overcome them in Marco Otte-Witte's talk at IT-Tage. IT-Tage is a 4-day IT conference happening in Frankfurt.
Browse our past talks
Update on what's coming for animations in Ember
Ember Europe Q1 Meetup 2023
Animations in Ember are evolving! Nick Schot presented upcoming changes, covering different animation techniques with demos. He also shared the progress on a new framework he’s been working on that will make animations in Ember even better.
Misusing Cucumber
Ember Europe Q4 Meetup 2022
Andrey Mikhaylov explained how to test Ember apps with Cucumber at the Ember Europe Q4 2002 Meetup.
Properly flaky modifiers
Ember Europe Q4 Meetup 2022
Florian Pichler showed how to build a snowflake effect with modifiers and Ember components at the last Ember Europe Q4 2022 Meetup.
Bottled Ember - Batteries Included Web Framework, tiny tiny living space
EmberFest 2022
All Ember addons come with the concept of a “dummy app”. This has been super useful to test our addons and has even been part of the reason why we have been able to support so many different versions of Ember from a single addon using ember-try scenarios. This talk by Chris from EmberFest 2022, gives a bit of detail on how “classic” addons work and proposes an alternative to replacing the idea of the addon's dummy app with a monorepo in V2 addons.
Easy, Local, & Self-Signed; Certificates for Ember Serve
EmberFest 2022
From enabling secure cookies to working with crypto, there are many reasons why you might want to serve your Ember application over HTTPS locally.
Learn how in this talk by Florian from EmberFest 2022.
Panel: The Future of Ember
EmberFest 2022
EmberFest 2022 closed with a panel about the future of Ember, moderated by Marco Otte-Witte with panelists Melanie Sumner, Chris Manson, Ed Faulkner, and Chris Krycho. The panel discussed challenges and opportunities, how we market Ember and where it fits in in the wider ecosystem of frontend frameworks.
Lint your code into the future
EmberConf 2022
Adopting new linting rules in modestly sized apps can often leave you with several linting errors across hundreds of files.
Chris Manson explains how you can reduce the struggle and happily lint large apps all the way to modern Ember at your own pace in his talk from EmberConf 2022.
Data validation libraries in Ember
EmberFest 2021
Ember Octane’s tracking system makes it easier to integrate libraries from the wider JavaScript ecosystem in Ember apps. Bartłomiej Dudzik explained how to leverage other packages for validating data than ember-cp-validations or ember-changeset.
Making Mira: an Intro to Animating the Web
EmberFest 2021
Mira is a robot created by Pixar artist Alonso Martinez, capable of recreating a great number of emotions and interactions. In his talk, Nick Schot brings Mira to the web while explaining different animation techniques.
