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s Client Server Technologies surged in the mid 90's, the mainframe was predicted to be dead at or near the turn of the century. The debate still carries on throughout the world of IT. That debate has two sides. On one side are those who believe that the mainframe is obsolete and enterprise organizations are running into massive handicaps and maintenance drag with their legacy systems. On the other hand, the supporters claim that enterprise companies and government organizations are so reliant on these systems that it will be a long time if ever before they'll stop using them. Who is right? Both, perhaps.

Bluetooth UUIDs can be a bit confusing at first, and there are some differences in how mobile platforms advertise these values that can lead to incompatibility problems in your application.

Learn how you can use the Firebase iOS SDK to build powerful apps without writing a single line of server code in this presentation fro the The Silicon Valley iOS Developers' Meetup.

In this talk, you'll learn through running Java code how the JVM decides to compile your code and see firsthand some situations where the JVM may get it wrong and have to deoptimize

In this tour from QCon SF, I'll show you Spark's ability to rapidly process Big Data. I'll demonstrate extracting information with RDDs, querying data using DataFrames, visualizing and plotting data, and show you how to create a machine-learning pipeline with Spark-ML and MLLib. We'll also discuss the internals which make Spark 10-100 times faster than Hadoop MapReduce and Hive.

32 presentations on advancing the web from the third Forward Web Summit in San Francisco.

Walkthrough of Google's Proximity Beacon API for beacon management and the Nearby Messages API for client-side discovery.

When it comes to software development, you know that the more experience you have and the better your skills are, the more efficiently you'll be able to execute changes, fix bugs and write new functionality and usable programs. An experienced developer can't afford to trial and error his or her code and getting to that point takes time and education..

Applying the Page Object Model (popular with Selenium testing framework) abstractions to your Android automated tests helps produce logic that is reusable and easier to maintain.

ProTech is pleased to announce our latest Android development course&mdsah;Android Testing. Android Testing is a three-day course focusing specifically on tools and techniques to effectively integrate automated testing into your application development workflow.

Vladyslav Millier provides a detailed walkthrough for finding, debugging, and fixing memory leaks in your Node.js applications.

Dan Bornstein fields live questions from the audience in this video recorded at a recent SF Android User Group event.

Sometimes even a well-practiced developer can experience inefficiencies. If you're starting to feel like a little bogged down with your backlog of work and you're getting in all the coding you can, it may be time to explore other things you can do to eliminate that backlog by becoming a power programmer.

Video covering Spark Streaming from my presentation at the Philly Area Scala Meetup.