Most casual observers don't realize how hard it is to be a programmer or designer; your determination has to exceed the practicalities of life. With the odds against you, a Rabbiteer's will often win just because you have so much determination that they can power through all the adversity.
It's no secret that passion makes it much easier to get excited about something. Creating great solutions is incredibly rewarding but really hard. A Rabbiteer's passion is electric and, like moths to a flame, it attracts likeminded people to get on board with our vision.
This may seem obvious, but we are looking for intelligence in our teams; there is no substitute to exceptional expertise. Doing things faster, cheaper and better all stem from a Rabbiteer being 'smarter than the average bear.'
" Space, says the introduction to the guide, is big, really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind bogglingly big it is. And so on... "
Welcome to a rocket fueled journey into the deep dark realm of professional software development and UX/UI design.
The Rabbiteer sessions are series of workshops, presented by our experts, on the latest in technology and design, such as artificial intelligence, cloud magic, shiny mobile tech, continuous integration, experience design practices, and the list goes on. The workshops attempt to curb the knowledge gap between university and the workplace, or to upgrade an outdated dev house. The sessions will be run throughout the year, alternating between Johannesburg and Pretoria. in different locations around the country. Are you up for the ride?
Presented By : Jade Abbot
Thanks to the openness of the machine learning community, anyone with a serious interest in machine learning these days, can get up a model to recognise characters or generate Trump-like tweets in a couple of hours. But what happens when we need to train a model to do a customer facing task, that we trust enough to deploy to a production system? And how do we get that model into production and maintain it once it is there? My talk aims to share some of the struggles, trade-offs and strategies from the trenches of training and building the infrastructure for a complex deep learning model for production use.
What You MissedPresented By : Herman Barnardt
A backend dev's perspective on user experience. What is user experience and why oh why do I need to worry about it in my cave? How does a backend dev influence the user experience? What does my api have to do with the "pretty pictures" the designers make and the front end dev's implementation? What do you do when the moon is full and you hear howling? The answers to these questions and some rambling discussions on how to keep the user's happy are what await you in the talk.
RSVP linkPresented By : To be Confirmed
"The Rabbiteer Sessions was a lot of fun! I learnt a lot and definitely gained an edge on my peers. It also gave me perspective on the industry."
- Frikkie Snyman -
"The environment was warm and welcoming, allowing everyone to learn new things without the stigma or pressure of strict deadlines and judgement."
- Kale-ab Tessera -
"I learned a lot of useful skills which they never teach you at University but expect you to know in the industry."
- Janeen Bredenkamp -
"An upbeat program that was both informative and fun! Gained great insight into professional development. 10/10 would do it again."
- Hugo Meiring -
"I had an incredible time at the Rabbiteer sessions. We learnt about some cool new technologies which I am finding useful. I also got to meet with really awesome people."
- Vuyani Shabangu -
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