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KotlinConf 2018 Slides! Links to all kotlinconf slides, for those eager to dive into the content this weekend! Conference had a lot of amazing talks on the hottes… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez	2	Oct 10, 2018 Reply by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez
Amanda's Giving a Talk at KotlinConf! Amanda is giving a talk at KotlinConf...tomorrow at 14:00 CEST - that's the time in Amsterdam. Here's the abstract https://kotlinconf.com/s… Started by Michael Levin	1	Oct 4, 2018 Reply by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez
KotlinConf 2018 - Conference Opening Keynote by Andrey Breslav THE HYPE Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez	0	Oct 4, 2018
KotlinConf 2017 - A View State Machine for Network Calls on Android by Amanda Hill Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez	0	Sep 15, 2018
KotlinConf 2017 Highlight of the Week - Bootiful Kotlin by Josh Long Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez	0	Sep 11, 2018
KotlinConf 2017 Highlight of the Week - Kotlin for Data Science by Thomas Nield "Data Science" is a broad buzzword encompassing the study and analysis of data, often using programming tools like R, Python, and Scala. Bu… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez	0	Aug 31, 2018
Chicago GDG Workshop on Kotlin and TornadoFX - recap! Hey friends - If you'd like to catch up with Chicago GDG on the TornadoFX workshop, here is a live stream as well as a link to the github… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez	1	Aug 23, 2018 Reply by Michael Levin
Kotlin Thursdays: Introduction to Android and Kotlin Kotlin Thursdays: Introduction to Android and Kotlin As I near the end of the first season of Kotlin Thursdays I wanted to introduce anothe… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez	0	Jul 6, 2018
Kotlin Thursdays: Kotlin and Spring Boot Kotlin and Spring Boot This week we examine Kotlin and Spring Boot. In the past, I've worked frontend for Spring JPA, but this is my first… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez	0	Jun 8, 2018
Kotlin Thursdays: Introduction to TornadoFX Part 2 Kotlin Thursdays: TornadoFX Part 2 Last week, we started our neighborhood cat scheduler application. I will be switching this series to occ… Started by Amanda Hinchman-Dominguez	0	Jun 1, 2018

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