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Kotlin Thursdays Presents: Tea Time - Bad Bosses with Brittney BraxtonThis week, Ben Rodriguez and Brittney Baxton discusses ways leaders and organizations help shape (or hinder) engineer development. Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Dec 6, 2018 |
Kotlin Thursdays - Image Processing in Kotlin Part 3 with Amanda Hinchman-DominguezKotlin Thursdays: Image Processing in Kotlin Part 3 Part 1: https://codetown.com/group/kotlin/forum/topics/kotlin-thursdays-image-processin… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Nov 16, 2018 |
Kotlin Thursdays - Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez Part 2Kotlin Thursdays: Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez @apichamion Part 1 here: https://codetown.com/group/kotlin/forum/topics/kotlin-thursda… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
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Nov 15, 2018 Reply by Michael Levin |
Kotlin Thursdays Presents: Tea Time - The Toxic Engineering Environment with JP FairfieldThis Kotlin Thursday, Amanda and JP Fairfield talk about working overtime in tech. Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Nov 8, 2018 |
Kotlin Thursdays - Image Processing in Kotlin Part 2 with Amanda Hinchman-DominguezKotlin Thursdays: Image Processing in Kotlin Part 2 Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays! Last week, we were able to render an image with TornadoFX… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Nov 8, 2018 |
Kotlin Thursdays - Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez Part 1Kotlin Thursdays: Kotlin Koans with Ben Rodriguez @apichamion Hey everyone! Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays. With some many languages out t… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Nov 8, 2018 |
Kotlin Thursdays - Image Processing in Kotlin Part 1 with Amanda Hinchman-DominguezKotlin Thursdays: Image Processing in Kotlin Part 1 Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays and Happy Halloween! This week, we will be exploring image… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Nov 1, 2018 |
Kotlin Thursdays - Collection Mechanics with Matt MooreKotlin Thursdays: Collection Mechanics Welcome to the first Kotlin Thursday of the season! We're glad to have you here. This week, we're go… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Oct 25, 2018 |
KT 2.0 TeaserStarted by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Oct 23, 2018 |
Kotlin Thursdays - Coming Back October 25thKotlin Thursdays is coming back with a new season - new friends, new content, and episodes!! Stay tuned :) Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez |
0 | Oct 10, 2018 |
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