Chris Slack

Chris Slack

Bedford, MA

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Skills & Experience

  • Company

    SDL, Inc.

  • Job Title

    Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering

358 Achievements

  • Review Functional Programming Fundamentals
  • Reduction and Aggregation
  • Meet Streams
  • Machine Learning Vocabulary
  • Introduction to Machine Learning
  • Ruby Syntax
  • Java's Functional Toolset
  • Using Lists
  • Build an Application
  • Meet Lists
  • Functions and Looping
  • All Together Now
  • Meet Python
  • Types and Branching
  • Covering Your Bases
  • Be Assertive!
  • What is Big Data
  • What Is Testing?
  • Timezones
  • Math Quiz App
  • Dates and Times
  • Gettin' CRUD-y With It
  • Our Diary App
  • Meet Peewee
  • Python Regular Expressions
  • Buggy Logs
  • Cleaner Code
  • Dice Roller
  • Python: Advanced Objects
  • Python: Inheritance
  • Python: Instant Objects
  • Dungeon Game 2
  • Python Sets
  • Python Tuples
  • Python Dictionaries
  • Python Slices
  • Python Lists
  • Letter Game App
  • Number Game App
  • Shopping List App
  • Logic in Python
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Scrum Events
  • Introducing Scrum
  • What is Agile?
  • Python Data Types
  • Python For Beginners
  • Creating Spring Controllers and Thymeleaf Views
  • Spring Components and Configuring Our App
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Setting Up Your Local Environment for Spring Development
  • Writing Your Own Java Annotation
  • Using Java's Built-In Annotations
  • Bells and Whistles
  • Diving into Web Development
  • What to Test
  • How To Test
  • Why Test
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Efficiency!
  • Control Flow
  • Collections
  • Operators
  • Types
  • Variables and Constants
  • Exploring the Java Collections Framework
  • IDE Exploration
  • How it Works
  • Organizing Data
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Getting There
  • Delivering the MVP
  • Creating the MVP
  • Harnessing the Power of Objects
  • Meet Objects
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Ruby Control Structures
  • Ruby Operators
  • Local WordPress Development
  • The WordPress Codex
  • WordPress Plugin Best Practices
  • Widgets and Custom Menus
  • Custom Post Types and Fields
  • Customizing WordPress Themes
  • WordPress Themes
  • Installing Wordpress
  • Ins & Outs
  • Say Hello to Python
  • AngularJS MVC Frameworks
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • Paginating a List: Model and View
  • Paginating a List: Controller
  • Adding Search: Model
  • Adding Search: Controller & View
  • Refactoring the Codebase
  • Cleaning URLs with Rewrite Rules
  • The Box Model
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Basic Layout
  • Cleaning URLs with Subfolders
  • Integrating Validation Errors
  • PHP Inheritance & Interfaces
  • PHP Properties & Methods
  • PHP Objects and Classes
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Distributable OOP Packages
  • Autoloading and Composer
  • Databases and International Concerns
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Simple PHP Application: Wrapping Up The Project
  • Working with PHP Functions
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • The Production Server
  • The Staging Server
  • The Local Development Environment
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • The WordPress Loop
  • WordPress Header and Footer Templates
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • Building a Command Line Application
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Ruby Testing
  • Standard Library
  • Ruby Core
  • Ruby Modules
  • Ruby Procs & Lambdas
  • Ruby Blocks
  • Ruby Loops
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Hashes
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • How UXers Think
  • Ruby Arrays
  • Ruby Numbers
  • Installing a Ruby Development Environment
  • Ruby Methods
  • Ruby Numbers (Ruby Basics)
  • Ruby Strings (Ruby Basics)
  • How Ruby Works
  • Creating Home Page Assets
  • Applying Effects
  • How to Draw in Illustrator
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • Better SEO Through Tools
  • Better SEO Through Code
  • Better SEO Through Content
  • Introduction to SEO
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Creating a Simple Drawing Application
  • Creating a Password Confirmation Form
  • Creating a Mobile Drop Down Menu
  • Creating a Simple Lightbox
  • Creating a Spoiler Revealer
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Traversing and Manipulating the DOM with JavaScript
  • Selecting Elements and Adding Events with JavaScript
  • JavaScript and the DOM
  • JavaScript Objects
  • JavaScript Functions
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  •  Adding Color and Type
  • Workflow Basics
  • Slices & Save for Web
  • Vector Shapes
  • Type Tools
  • Spriting with Compass
  • Compass Helper Functions
  • Compass Layout and Typography
  • Getting Started with Compass
  • Advanced Sass Concepts
  • Speeding up Workflow With Sass
  • Variables, Mixins, and Extending Selectors
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Masks Basics
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • Layer Basics
  • Grid Layout
  • Flexbox Layout
  • Positioning Schemes
  • Float Layout
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Display Modes
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP Datatypes
  • PHP Data & Structure
  • PHP Getting Started
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Introduction to jQuery
  • Integrating With Paypal
  • Listing Inventory Items
  • Adding a Contact Form
  • Introduction Variables
  • Creating the Menu and Footer
  • Getting Started with PHP
  • Media Queries
  • Corporate Structure
  • Why Start a Business?
  • CSS Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Flexbox and Multi-Column Layout
  • Web Typography
  • Protecting and Sharing Your Work
  • Licensing
  • Fair Use and Public Domain
  • Getting Started with Copyright
  • Gradients
  • Backgrounds and Borders
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Strings
  • CSS Box Model
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • What is Usability?
  • Text, Fonts, and Lists
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Values and Units
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Selectors
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Customizing WordPress
  • Managing Comments
  • Color Theory
  • Principles
  • Elements
  • Introduction
  • Adding and Editing Content in WordPress
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Configuring WordPress
  • Creating an Icon
  • Introduction to Illustrator
  • Exterminator
  • Workspace Basics
  • Getting Started with WordPress
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Website Basics
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Advanced Techniques
  • Responsive Design
  • Adaptive Design
  • Fluid Foundation
  • Introduction
  • Introduction to Responsive Web Design
  • Rails Frontend Development
  • Getting Started With Rails
  • Securing and Maintaining a MySQL Database
  • SQL Calculating, Aggregating and Other Functions
  • Joining Relational Data Between Tables in SQL
  • Manipulating Schema with SQL
  • Creating Tables and Manipulating Data with SQL
  • Launching the Website
  • Styling Content
  • Creating a Website Structure
  • Text Editors and HTML
  • Website Basics
  • Reading Data from Databases with SQL
  • Ruby Strings
  • Graphic Basics
  • DNS Basics
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Installing MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench
  • Objects and Arrays
  • Control Structures
  • Basics
  • Functions
  • Introduction to Data, Databases and SQL
  • Objects, Classes, and Variables
  • Ruby Basics
  • Newbie