Day two started with keynote speaker Dr. Cliff Clark talking about H20 and large data processing. He described H20 as a large open source data calculator and not a storage solution.
The first session of the day (session 6) was another good one by Mark Lasoff. It was called "The One Hour App Challenge". Here he walked step by step through creating a find local restaurant app and how to build it and release it using open source phonegap.
Session 7 was a tour of React Native with Adam Gerber. There was quite a bit of history in this session with how React Native came about, the competition, and how React Native is stronger than other cross platform options. There is also strong community support which has helped with its popularity and growth.
Session 8 was the Zen of Python with Jess Unrein. She talked about how the rules or Zen of Python are more easily applied to fresh code. Often when given existing complicated code some things are better off left alone if working. She did recommend updating unspecific variables or correcting code you are confident you can correct and improve.
The next session was "Cloud Native Batch Processing with Spring" by Michael Minella. This was a walk-through of setting up a cloud native batch process.
The final session was "Intro to Java 8 Lambdas and Streams." This was an overview of the new features in Java 8.
Overall there was a lot of information and learning at the Chicago Coder Conference. Some of the sessions were more like lectures and some were actual demonstrations of doing things with code. I really enjoyed the sessions where the leader was walking through doing an activity in code and will look for more of these in the future.
