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"Whew! Fabulous post!"Michael Levin replied Dec 20, 2018 to Kotlin Thursdays - Static Web with Kotlin DSLs with John Burns |
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Dec 20, 2018 Reply by Michael Levin |
"Super! Can’t wait to work through it! "Michael Levin replied Nov 15, 2018 to Kotlin Thursdays - Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez Part 2 |
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"Wow, that’s exciting! Can’t wait to check them out this hurricane weekend! Thanks, A…"Michael Levin replied Oct 9, 2018 to KotlinConf 2018 Slides! |
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"Excellent! Thanks for sharing, Amanda!"Michael Levin replied Aug 23, 2018 to Chicago GDG Workshop on Kotlin and TornadoFX - recap! |
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Aug 23, 2018 Reply by Michael Levin |
Codetown is a social network. It's got blogs, forums, groups, personal pages and more! You might think of Codetown as a funky camper van with lots of compartments for your stuff and a great multimedia system, too! Best of all, Codetown has room for all of your friends.
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By Mark Silvester
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By Ben Linders
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By Lily Mara
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