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Daniel Golant
Daniel Golant

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Choosing Your Tools: A Values Driven Proposal

How do teams and individuals choose their tools? Is the approach systematic? What concerns should be top of mind and how do we balance them? How is our choice in tools influenced by personal philosophy? How can tool selection be turned into an opportunity to influence the industry and the future of developer culture? This talk will start with basic technical choice heuristics and then move on to higher level decision points.

Pre-Requisites
It may be beneficial to have been on a professional development team prior, but the contents should be fairly accessible to hobbyists, solo developers, and students as well.

This DEV Live Stream was recorded on July 12, 2018
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If you enjoyed this talk, you can follow Dan on dev.to, and on Twitter at @dangolant

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Ben Halpern

This was a really great workshop.

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