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Coroutine-First Android Architecture w/ Rick Busarow
Chicago Kotlin User Group x Android ListenersHosted at GrubHub, July 17Coroutines are the new hot stuff, and right now they’re being added to lots of libraries. But what if you don’t want to use an alpha01 in production code? What can coroutines do on their own, right now? In this talk, we’ll…
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Coroutine-First Android Architecture w/ Rick Busarow
Chicago Kotlin User Group x Android ListenersHosted at GrubHub, July 17Coroutines are the new hot stuff, and right now they’re being added to lots of libraries. But what if you don’t want to use an alpha01 in production code? What can coroutines do on their own, right now? In this talk, we’ll…
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Kotlin Thursdays - Networking in Android and Kotlin
We have an existing Android Avocado Facts application created in an older Kotlin Thursdays post, but for any Android application to be seriously useful,…
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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Functional Programming Part 2
ResourcesHigher-Order Functions and Lambdas:https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.htmlFP in Kotlin Part 1: …
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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Functional Programming in Kotlin Part 1
ResourcesHigher-Order Functions and Lambdas:https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.htmlIntroductionWelcome to Kotlin Thursdays! This week I’m starting a series on functional programming…
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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Kotlin Generics, Part 2
Hi folks! Welcome to Kotlin Thursdays. Last week, we examined classes, types, generic functions & parameters as well as covariance & contravariance in Kotlin. Folks told me there weren’t enough sloth facts, and as such, I will do my best to rectify this!Let’s continue with our sloth and…
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KT presents: Tea Time - OSS, a Culture Shift with Joel Vasallo
This Kotlin Thursday, Amanda, Matt and Joel Vasallo discuss the brief history of tech in Chicago and the OSS culture shift in the industry.
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Kotlin Thursdays - Introduction to Kotlin Generics, Part 1
Hi 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 Generics in Kotlin? Generics in code can actually create stronger type-checking systems in your code, as this gives programmers the ability to fix issues at…
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Cool TornadoFX Project of the Week: Textricator by Measures of Justice
A GUI for extracting text from PDFs & generating CSVs/JSONs used to collect thousands of pages of data to assess and compare performance of the entire U.S. criminal justice system.…
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Kotlin Thursdays - Static Web with Kotlin DSLs with John Burns
Kotlin Thursdays: Static Web with Kotlin DSLsWith John Burns (@wakingrufus) The term "static web" refers to a style of web development that might seem out of place in today's modern scene of Javascript frameworks. Not only are social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc) and email (Gmail, Yahoo, etc)…
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