Carolina J. Säll

Tech talks

Talking about technology and code

Tech talks is an innovation by Rene Brakus at 46elks. A series of talks surrounding the world of tech, sometimes we look at code together, sometimes we talk to a user, a collaboration partner, sometimes about steam deck or sometimes we just have a little chat. All of the tech talks can be found here on Youtube.

These are the Tech talks where I have been involved in:

  • Tech talk #50 – “What is IVR?”
    YouTube link: watch on YouTube
  • Tech talk #3 – ”SIP and it’s usage”
    Rupus, Carolina and Rene will discuss about the SIP and how it revolutionized the telecom industry. How open source is making voice calls safer and better? What is SIP exactly? How does it work?
    YouTube link: watch on YouTube
  • Tech talk #4 – ”Using API to make a call”
    Rupus, Carolina and Rene will discuss about the making and receiving phone calls through our API. We are going to do a demo and show easy it is to call someone from your server.
    YouTube link: watch on YouTube
  • Tech talk #5 – ”Setting up a live server”
    Setting up the right environment is crucial for our services work properly so we feel that this is a important step to cover. We will be using DigitalOcean service and build a LAMP server. YouTube link: watch on YouTube
    We will try to answer:

      • What is a Server / VPS?
      • What is exactly LAMP?
      • What security measures are needed before going public with any machine?
      • Are there any pay-free alternatives?

  • Tech talk #8 – ”Building a WordPress site”
    WordPress is one of the most popular content management and blog platforms in the world. YouTube link: watch on YouTube
    We will help you:

      • Set up a server (using DigitalOcean).
      • Install WordPress.
      • Set up a first post and a addon.

  • Tech talk #9 – ”Community as the backbone of 46elks”
    Keeping a relationship with the local IT community is in the heart of 46elks. We will cover our motivation and will on why we are so open to build and help IT communities grow. YouTube link: watch on YouTube

      • Why do we put in so much energy into Guides and tutorials?
      • What do we do in 46elks to be a part of the local IT community?
      • How do we nourish the relationship with local IT folk?
      • Why do we put so much emphasis on having excellent support?
      • Why do we have these tech talks?

  • Tech talk #27 – ”Panelista”
    It is always interesting to find out how our API is being used in different ways by our clients. This client tech talk is going to be with Panelista https://panelista.com/ Co-founders Jensa Bačik & Anders Palm. YouTube link: watch on YouTube
    Some of the questions we are going to cover:

      • What Panelista is all about?
      • What sparked the idea?
      • What are Panels and explain importance of having that direct channel with the customers
        Video as a format?
      • Importance of having multitude of channels of communication and having notifications that engage users in a right way.

  • Tech talk #33 – ”Tool to manage a database”
    We will cover the installation process and basic commands of using phpMyAdmin – https://www.phpmyadmin.net/ Want to fiddle around and test out things after this tutorial? Go to https://demo.phpmyadmin.net/master-co…
    YouTube link: watch on YouTube
  • Tech talk #34 – ”One click installation WordPress”
    We will cover the one-click/quick installation process of WordPress https://wordpress.org/ which is the most popular open source framework for web sites. YouTube link: watch on YouTube
  • Tech talk #36 – ”Step by Step WordPress Set up #part1”
    We start with the very basics on having your own WordPress site, knowledge requirement here is beginner. YouTube link: watch on YouTube
    We will cover in part1:

      • How to get your own public server and installing ubuntu (20.04 LTS)
      • Downloading and installing Apache web server

  • Tech talk #37 – ”Step by Step WordPress Set up #part2”
    YouTube link: watch on YouTube In part2 we will:

      • Go through lessons and learnings on part1 (RAM memory was not enough to run MySQL)
      • Download and Install MySQL and PHP
      • Download and install WordPress
      • Wizard and setting up the WordPress page

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