Of course you use the web, but have you ever built your own web page from scratch? That's what we'll be doing in this class. We'll start with the basics of the internet - where pages are served from and how they're rendered. Then we'll jump right into the hands - laying out a page with HTML, styling it with CSS, and adding some dynamic pizzazz with Javascript. This is a 6 week class geared for pretty much anyone. Some prior programming experience will be helpful, but not necessary.

Modernizing legacy applications is often intimidating—no one wants to be the developer who breaks code in production. But what if you could approach it incrementally, with low risk and high confidence? In this live coding session, Jorge Balderas, will demonstrate how GitHub Copilot Agent Mode and the GitHub Copilot App Modernization extension can help you safely and systematically modernize legacy code. Using a Java 8 and Spring Boot 2.4 application, we’ll walk through a prescriptive, repeatable approach based on Spec-Driven Development (SDD) for upgrading legacy code bases to modern versions.

Join this hands-on developer workshop where you'll build two AI agents from scratch, instrument them with real-time observability, and expose their tools through an MCP server. You'll learn how agents think, act, and plan — what makes them powerful, where they break, and how to make them shine. Expect fast coding, live demos, and hopefully some "aha!" moments as we turn theory into intelligent, inspectable, and reusable AI systems. We might even play with different models. (Includes free pizza from our neighbor, Rockaway Pizza!)