Marcus Fihlon is an Agile Coach at the CSS Insurance in Lucerne and has been teaching at the TEKO Swiss Technical College in Olten for several years. Marcus has been developing software for more than three decades, and since the late 1990s, he has been mainly active in the Java ecosystem. He is a founding member and organizer of the monthly Hackergarten in Lucerne and is very involved in several open source projects. Since 2017 Marcus is a member of the board of the Java User Group Switzerland and is responsible for organizing lectures and workshops in Central Switzerland. Later this year his first book on "Kotlin Web Development" will be published.

Twitter: @McPringle

LOCATION: Luzern
KEYWORDS: Hands-On, Language, other Languages, Technology

SPEAKER: Marcus Fihlon   COMPANY: CSS Versicherung
SLIDES: https://medium.com/@ralf.stuckert/getting-started-with-kotlin-react-c5f3b079a8bf
SLIDES 2: https://medium.com/@ralf.stuckert/getting-started-with-kotlin-react-part-ii-9dda64c9b0c8
SLIDES 3: https://medium.com/@ralf.stuckert/getting-started-with-kotlin-react-part-iii-c316573e0abb

This event is neither a lecture nor a workshop, I will only moderate the evening. We will meet in a relaxed atmosphere and work through a three-part article by Ralf Stuckert on the subject of Kotlin and React. We help each other if we don't understand something or if we encounter a problem. The aim of the evening is to work together, to learn something new and to spend a nice evening together. Drinks and snacks are provided as usual!

Important: You need your own notebook or you come together with a friend and you share a notebook. Also remember to take a power supply with you!

Here is Ralf's introduction to his series of articles:
"One of the hot topics of the KotlinConf 2017 keynote in San Francisco was multiplatform development with Kotlin, Kotlin/Native and Kotlin/JS. The latter has been demonstrated using the Kotlin wrappers for React, which allows you to write React apps using Kotlin. This sounds promising since it allows you to write both (web-based) front- and backends using one language. You may even share code using multiplatform projects, but that is a topic on its own. In this three-part article, I’d like to give an introduction to Kotlin-React. I assume that you know React (if not, have a look at this tutorial: https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html) and Kotlin."

LEVEL OF TALK: Beginner
LANGUAGE: Talk: en / Slides: en

Marcus Fihlon is an Agile Coach at the CSS Insurance in Lucerne and has been teaching at the TEKO Swiss Technical College in Olten for several years. Marcus has been developing software for more than three decades, and since the late 1990s, he has been mainly active in the Java ecosystem. He is a founding member and organizer of the monthly Hackergarten in Lucerne and is very involved in several open source projects. Since 2017 Marcus is a member of the board of the Java User Group Switzerland and is responsible for organizing lectures and workshops in Central Switzerland. Later this year his first book on "Kotlin Web Development" will be published.

Twitter: @McPringle

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