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Tips and tricks for creating a great onboarding experience with VS Code

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Stream: Becketts
Time: 12:15 - 13:00


Presentation

You have or are just about to set up VS Code with the standard mainframe tools like Zowe Explorer and language extensions for your developers, but what next? VS Code is a complex tool with quirks and setup that isn’t obvious, but should be explored to avoid future headaches. In this session, Joshua will speak from experience of what he learnt from his setup journey and Vit will share additional context from what he’s seen when working with other customers. Please join us to learn more about creating a seamless onboarding experience into VS Code and providing your developers with the best tooling experience yet!

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Speakers


  • Joshua Waters at Next Retail Ltd.
  • Joshua is an application developer at Next. Alongside working on batch & online applications, he gets to spend some of his time on side projects. This includes developing internal VS Code extensions, helping developers set up and use tools in the VS Code ecosystem, setting up mainframe devops pipelines, coming up with proof of concepts for tools, and having a laugh with the folks in the office. In his free time, he contributes to open source, travels the world, and plays games.


    Email: joshua_waters@next.co.uk

  • Vit Gottwald at Broadcom
  • Mathematical physicist by training, mainframer since 2006, regular industry speaker at SHARE, GSE and other events since 2009 and Code4z Architect since 2020. With his background in mainframes as well as a successful startup focused on enterprise modernisation Vit enjoys binging the best developer experience to mainframers. Do you miss anything you miss as an application developer on Z? Let's talk!


    Email: vit.gottwald@broadcom.com

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