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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.

After you've fed some data into the Proximity Beacon API, how do you retrieve that information client-side when the mobile device observes your beacons out in the wild? In this article, we'll discuss how the Nearby Messages API provides the missing link to make this easy.

When it comes to hot jobs for 2015, software development, programming and technology are at the top of the list. But did you know exactly how much opportunity and growth opportunity exists for developers in this field? Check out our infographic below and see exactly where the greatest opportunity lies.

Google's Proximity Beacon API provides an abstraction layer for managing beacon deployments in the field. In this article, you will learn the basics concepts related to the Beacon API, and how to get an API project set up with Google.

As you program in Python, there may be a scenario where you need to execute a block of code several different times. Generally, statements are executed sequentially. The first statement in a function is executed first, followed by the second and so on. In Python there are control structures that allow for more complicated execution paths. A loop statement allows us to execute a statement or group of statements multiple times.

Colt McAnlis presented at SF Android on using data compression to improve networking performance on mobile. He presents some practical methods that all application developers can use to make mobile data transfer easier on users.

You may be familiar with responsive web design for desktop, tablets, and phones - but what about Apple Watch? Which design principles can we carry over, and which principles do we need to rethink?

Many programmers have been doing what they do since they were in grade school. They're passionate about it and like creating things. It's not hard to motivate a really good developer, since he or she often spends plenty of time self-educating. It's also not hard to demotivate a really great developer. If you're starting to see a lack of productivity in your programmers or appear to be have an increasing employee turnover rate, it's very possible that you might be demotivating your development team.

Walkthrough of Google's Eddystone beacon formats, Proximity Beacon API, and the Physical Web from AnDevCon Boston 2015.

An introduction to eddy, an open source InelliJ plugin that translates broken or sloppy code into valid Java

Les Hazlewood talks about HTTP Authentication, Token Authentication and security best-practices for SPA's - all while keeping performance and scale in mind.

Video and slides from my full-day Apache Spark workshop training at Spark Summit 2015

Android 'M' includes a System UI Tuner developer option to control aspects of the status bar. We can also programmatically control this element from the shell or another application.

The Observer in Python works a bit differently than it does in other languages. This short tutorial will introduce you to how it works in Python and get you started on how to use it.