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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Functional Programming in Kotlin Part 1Resources Higher-Order Functions and Lambdas:https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html Introduction Welcome to Kotlin Thursda… Started by Amanda Hinchman-DominguezLatest Reply |
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Coroutine-First Android Architecture w/ Rick BusarowChicago Kotlin User Group x Android Listeners Hosted at GrubHub, July 17 Coroutines are the new hot stuff, and right now they’re being adde… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Coroutine-First Android Architecture w/ Rick BusarowChicago Kotlin User Group x Android Listeners Hosted at GrubHub, July 17 Coroutines are the new hot stuff, and right now they’re being adde… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Networking in Android and KotlinWe have an existing Android Avocado Facts application created in an older Kotlin Thursdays post, but for any Android application to be s… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Functional Programming Part 2Resources Higher-Order Functions and Lambdas:https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html FP in Kotlin Part 1: https://medium.com… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Functional Programming in Kotlin Part 1Resources Higher-Order Functions and Lambdas:https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html Introduction Welcome to Kotlin Thursda… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Kotlin Generics, Part 2Hi folks! Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays. Last week, we examined classes, types, generic functions & parameters as well as covariance &… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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KT presents: Tea Time - OSS, a Culture Shift with Joel VasalloThis Kotlin Thursday, Amanda, Matt and Joel Vasallo discuss the brief history of tech in Chicago and the OSS culture shift in the industry.… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Kotlin Generics, Part 1Hi folks! Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays. I’m really excited to kick off the first one of the year, and what better way to do it than tackling… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Cool TornadoFX Project of the Week: Textricator by Measures of JusticeA GUI for extracting text from PDFs & generating CSVs/JSONs used to collect thousands of pages of data to assess and compare performanc… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Kotlin Thursdays - Static Web with Kotlin DSLs with John BurnsKotlin Thursdays: Static Web with Kotlin DSLs With John Burns (@wakingrufus) The term "static web" refers to a style of web developm… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Dec 20, 2018 Reply by Michael Levin |
Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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