Nick Taylor
Nick is a Senior Software Engineer at OpenSauced. He is a big fan of Open Source and has a growing interest in serverless and edge computing.
Aside from programming, he enjoys hitting the gym, snowboarding, and rugby a long time ago.
Montreal 2025 sessions
Back to Basics: Why HTML Forms Still Rule the Web
English session - Intermediate
We've strayed too far from the simplicity and power of HTML forms. It’s time to undo the damage. Once relegated to basic data collection, forms offer a surprising depth of functionality that's being rediscovered by developers and embraced by modern frameworks like Astro, Fresh, Remix, and Next.js.
Let’s rediscover the power of HTML forms and how they should be leveraged in modern web application development.
Let’s create a GitHub Copilot Extension
English session - Intermediate
GitHub Copilot is everywhere. It’s on GitHub.com, in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, GitHub Codespaces and more. Did you know you can extend Copilot?
In this hands on talk, you’ll learn:
- the architecture of a Copilot extension
- how to leverage the Copilot extension preview SDK to build GitHub Copilot extensions
- how to build out your first Copilot extension
We’ll wrap things up by taking a peek at a real world example.
