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Code chats occur on a semi-regular monthly basis within the group at ISIS. Although they were originally intended to be presentations focused on a specific part of the IBEX GUI they often cover other subjects that may be considered part of the backend, or talk about general coding practices.

Topic	Presenter	Date
Nagios and Jenkins Checks	Freddie	01/10
Basics of Epic DBs	TBD	TBD

• Peopleware
• Clean code
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• The Effective Engineer
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Refactoring
• The Agile Manifesto
• Fluent Python
• Effective Python

Idea	Proposed Speaker
IBEX Project Management	Kathryn
LUA	?
BDD/DDD	?
Software design techniques in our processes	Aaron
The HIFI Cryomag	Lilith/Kathryn
Design Patterns in IBEX	?
Datastreaming	Dolica/Jack/Matt
LVDCOM	Freddie
IBEX UI Design	Thomas Löhnert
Jenkins, testing and our build processes	?
asyncio and asynchronous programming in Python 3	?
Script Server and Nicos	?
CAEN v895 Discriminator	Freddie
MuSR conversion retrospective	Jack/Tom
BCC Cryogenics Course 2021	?
Java 17 LTS	TBC

Idea	Proposed Speaker
Observables and Writables in IBEX	?
Dynamic Layouts in SWT	Thomas Löhnert
Databinding	?
Mocking in Python and Java	?
Checkstyle Quiz	?
Maven, Tycho and Surefire	Tom Willemsen?
IOC Testing Framework & Emulators	Tom Willemsen?

The presentation slides for previous code chats are available here.

Previous code chats

2015

Topic	Presenter	Date
Data Binding (two parts) (Contains info on MVVM)	Matt Clarke	Sept 2015
Mockito	Ian Bush	Sept 2015
Java Classes	Matt Clarke	Sept 2015
Eclipse RCP (two parts)	Matt Clarke	Oct 2015
Java Collections, Iterators and Streams	David Keymer	Nov 2015
Design Patterns in IBEX	Dominic Oram	Dec 2015
Eclipse Extensions	Dominic Oram	Dec 2015
Observables and Writables in IBEX (two parts)	Ian Bush	Dec 2015

2016

Topic	Presenter	Date
Final	Matt Clarke	Jan 2016
Java Quiz	Matt Clarke	Jan 2016
Checkstyle Quiz	Dominic Oram	Jan 2016
The SNS Scan Server	Dominic Oram	Jan 2016
Testing with RCPTT (the basics)	Ian Bush	April 2016
Maven and Tycho (two parts)	Matt Clarke	April 2016
Javadoc	Kathryn Baker	Aug 2016
Synchronized & Volatile	Thomas Lohnert	Aug 2016
RCPTT - Tips and Tricks	Dominic Oram	Aug 2016
User Interface Heuristics	Thomas Lohnert	Nov 2016
How to Read ISIS LabVIEW Drivers	Kathryn Baker	Nov 2016

2017

Topic	Presenter	Date
MVVM Pattern	Dominic Oram	Feb 2017
Collision Detection	Jon Elmer	Feb 2017
IOC Testing Framework & Emulators	Tom Willemsen	Jul 2017
Motion Control Axis Testing	Dominic Oram	Jul 2017
Pythonic vs Non-Pythonic	Matt Clarke	Sep 2017
Python Style Checking & Flake8	Samuel Jackson	Sep 2017
Eclipse 4 Migration	Adrian Potter	Sep 2017
Alignment Automation on ALF	Thomas Löhnert	Sep 2017
Code Reviews	Matt Clarke	Oct 2017
Dynamic Layouts in SWT	Thomas Löhnert	Oct 2017
The DAE	Freddie Akeroyd	Nov 2017
The HIFI Cryomag	Eilidh Southren	Nov 2017
Python 2 vs. Python 3	David Keymer	Dec 2017
The RB Numbering System	Matt Clarke	Dec 2017

2018

Topic	Presenter	Date
System Testing with Squish	Adrian Potter	Jan 2018
Threading	Tom Willemsen	Jan 2018
Galil Motors	Kathryn Baker	Feb 2018
Grafana	Aidan McComb	Feb 2018
AutoIt	Chris Moreton-Smith	Apr 2018
Nicos	Dominic Oram	Apr 2018
SScanSS	Stephen Nneji	Aug 2018
Reflectometry	John Holt	Aug 2018
Java 8	Tom Willemsen	Sep 2018
Introduction to Beckhoff Motors (Layers, Onions and Ogres)	Simon Cooper	Oct 2018
Experience as a new starter	Aaron Long	Nov 2018
Christmas Special: Bell ringing	Debbie Greenfield	Dec 2018

2019

Topic	Presenter	Date
Convert Record Changes	Liam Panchaud	Mar 2019
Technical debt: Configurations	Thomas Löhnert	Mar 2019
ACCU Conference Recap	Michal / Jack	April 2019
Queued State Machine	Kathryn	April 2019
Cryogenics	Tom	May 2019
Beckhoff Code Camp Recap	Dom	May 2019
EPICS Spring Meeting 2019 Recap	Aaron & David	June 2019
Graduate Placement Retrospective	Sophie Kirkham	June 2019
Controls at the ESS	Michael Hart	July 2019
Datastreaming	Jack Harper	July 2019
How data moves at ISIS	Chris	Sep 2019
Migration to Python 3	James	Sep 2019
Java 11	Tom	Oct 2019
EPICS 7	Freddie	Nov 2019

2020

Topic	Presenter	Date
The IBEX Script Generator	James	Jan '20
NeXus	Freddie	11th March '20
System Testing With Squish	Dom	May '20
How to Read ISIS LabVIEW Drivers	Kathryn Baker	6th August '20
Review techniques	Tom, Dom, James	3rd September '20
DAQMx and Moxa DIO devices	Alistair	28th September '20
Deploying EPICS with Ansible	CLF Controls team	19th October '20
Helium Level Monitoring	Kathryn/Mihai	19th November '20
Handover: Client Build System	Tom	10th December '20

2021

Topic	Presenter	Date
Cryogenics handover	Tom Willemsen	2nd February '21
RIKEN refurbishment	Kevin	8th of March 21

2022

Topic	Presenter	Date	Recording
Github Universe	Jack Allen	14/01/22	Not Recorded
ISISICP/DAE	Freddie	31/03/22	Recorded here.
Motion in Ibex	Jack Harper	27/04/22	Not Recorded
Docusaurus	Jack Allen	24/06/22	Recorded here.
SANS/TRANS Instrument Scripts	Thomas Cottee Meldrum	21/07/22	Recorded here.
IOC Testing Framework & Emulators	Tom Willemsen	23/08/22	Recorded here.
Ibex Gui Build System (Maven)	Tom Willemsen	22/11/22	Recorded here.

2024

Topic	Presenter	Date	Recording
Java Debug Option & the GUI Singleton	Sudeepta Chakraborty	08/03/24	Part 1. Part 2.
How Virtual Machines and VHDs can speed up IBEX deployment	Chris	29/04/24	Recorded here.
Bluesky	Tom Willemsen	21/08	Slides talk

Lightning talks are a chance to share smaller bits of interesting information after standup at the end of a sprint.

Topic	Presenter	Date
Rust	Jack Harper	23/03/2022
Git Interactive Staging	Lowri Jenkins	10/08/2022
Speeduino	Jack Harper	10/08/2022

All presentations should be uploaded to the SharePoint site here (There is a subfolder for lightning talks) and/or converted to a wiki page if more appropriate. It should also be reasonably assumed that the people who gave these presentations should know something about these subjects.