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Mitch Pronschinske04/26/13
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Android DevBytes: RequestDuringLayout

In Android, horrible things can result from calling requestLayout() during a layout pass. DON'T DO THIS.

Mitch Pronschinske04/25/13
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Future of Testing and Quality

This session will look at the added complexity of Cloud, Open Source and Software Complexity on testing professionals through the lens of 2 years worth of research.

Mitch Pronschinske04/25/13
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Modern Enterprise Application Configuration with Spring

The Spring family of projects have long been some of the most important tools in the enterprise Java developer's toolkit. Very often though, Spring is characterized as being too dependent on XML-based configuration.

Mitch Pronschinske04/24/13
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Links You Don't Want To Miss (4/25)

Ngnix gets a new major release while TechEmpower continues their epic web framework performance benchmarks. Plus, Google's mobile web performance checklist and a tool for rapid drag-and-drop prototyping with twitter bootstrap.

Mitch Pronschinske04/24/13
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Another API Mgmt Firm Cashes in: $4.2M for 3scale

Just yesterday, Christopher Taylor wrote that "API Companies Are Hot Right Now" . Today it seems that there's more evidence confirming his view.

Mitch Pronschinske04/24/13
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Android DevBytes: ListView Animations

Animating ListView items can lead to problems as views are recycled. Learn how to perform these types of animations correctly with new API added in Jellybean.

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/13
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Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API

In this presentation, Les Hazlewood - Stormpath CTO and Apache Shiro PMC Chair - will share all of the golden nuggets learned while designing, implementing and supporting JSON-based REST APIs, using examples from a clean real-world REST+JSON API built with Java technologies.

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/13
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spray: REST on Akka

In this talk Mathias will show you how spray makes it easy to supply your Scala applications with a high-performance, fully asynchronous REST/HTTP API, no matter whether Akka is already a key component in your application stack or not.

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/13
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Agile Architecture & Design

In this presentation from JAXConf 2012, ThoughtWorks software architect Neal Ford investigates agile architecture and design, specifically addressing how big up-front architecture and design fail because of the unknown unknowns of a project.

Mitch Pronschinske04/21/13
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DevBytes: KeyFrame Animations

Learn how to use AnimationDrawable to construct a keyframe animation where each frame is shown for a specified duration.

Mitch Pronschinske04/20/13
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Twitter's Finagle for the Asynchronous Programmer

Matt Ho, CTO at LOYAL3, gives us the who-what-when-where-why on Twitter's Finagle. According to Matt, Finagle is an expressive network library for JVM languages that's a lot like node.js for Scala.

Mitch Pronschinske04/20/13
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DDD is all About Solving Problems

Design is all about solving problems. Design Driven Development ensures that the first version of your app or service provides the target audience the solution (and experience) they need and not just a checklist of features.

Mitch Pronschinske04/20/13
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DevBytes: Bounce Animations

Learn the simple uses of ValueAnimator, ObjectAnimator, and interpolators to control how a shape is moved around on the screen.

Mitch Pronschinske04/19/13
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Brian Sletten on RESTful API Design

Brian Sletten, the author of the DZone REST Refcard dispels pre-conceived notions about REST API design while going over Representation Design, Versioning, and more...

Mitch Pronschinske04/19/13
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Functional Patterns for the Asynchronous Web

Asynchronous programming is the latest hype for web development. While Asynchronous programming can help improve total throughput on a multi-core machine, the current state of the art lacks common patterns for how to define asynchronous flow.