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This presentation contains demos of Java 8 technology running on embedded platforms. It is a fun showcase of the power of Java-based apps to support the internet-of-things. Ready to play?

With only a few weeks left in 2014, many are starting to look at education budgets and attempting to maximize their allotment for training in 2015. In the past, many enterprise organizations have used a somewhat reactive approach to education. This approach allows developers and IT engineers to identify the courses they want and opt for tuition reimbursement or pull from a budget. While this strategy might be serving you well now, it's easy to exhaust budgets before the end of the year.

Luke Daley's aim in this talk is to demonstrate how Gradle's flexibility, combined with its support for conventions, can solve automation challenges, both, effectively and in a centralized fashion.

The founder of Gradle, Hans Dockter, speaks on the open source software's momentum, where they stand at the moment, and what their roadmap for the future looks like.

One of the most difficult things about recruiting and managing an amazing team of developers is keeping them motivated and keeping their skills refined. You want to make sure that they have the right tools, the right people and the right knowledge to get the job done. You want to encourage them to be motivated without overloading them. It's a fine art and can become very overwhelming at times.

Blaze is an open source project from Continuum Analytics. It's a project under evolution, "an ambitious effort to provide uniform, Pythonic interface to modern datasets and computation platforms."

Bokeh is a data visualization library that lets Python programmers and data scientists create interactive, novel, plots for the web. This talk overviews its capabilities and demos its latest features.

Interaction design luminary Alan Cooper discusses the importance of using personas in designing interfaces that will help your users achieve their goals.

There's often a communication gap between Android developers and designers. This talk introduces basic UI concepts and reveals the simple patterns that exist within well designed user experiences.

Bob Wall makes scalable architectural designs in Ember and in this video demos “building context aware sidebar widgets, integrating apps with Zendesk, and providing realtime updates via firebase.”

In order to be a successful application developer and programmer you have to stay up to date on the cutting edge of technology and, in some cases, ahead of innovative technologies. As 2015 comes to a close we're seeing more and more predictions come out as to what to expect as far as innovation goes. It's important that programmers make sure that they are developing applications that will accommodate for these changing technologies. In order to do that, they must increase their knowledge base to allow them to continue developing in each space.

Deploying your Ember application can be tricky, and slow if it is tied into your backend, Feifan Wang talks tools and strategies for lean JavaScript app deployment in the context of Rails and Ember.

Building custom View components is a necessary part of embracing creative UI design. This tutorial walks you through the process of building custom Views and ViewGroups on Android.

Leith Abdulla talks about Internationalization (i18n) and how Coursera automates this on the front-end in this talk from Forward JS.

Diane Tate, Program Manager at Mozilla talks about how developers can use their skills to give back to the web in this talk from Forward JS.

Peter De Croos gives you a jumpstart on ECMAScript 6 generators, and lays the groundwork for you to actually start using them in his talk from Forward JS.

Guy Bedford talks about how the new spec changes how we optimize for performance, and how we can begin transitioning to multiplexing workflows today.

Volkan ÌÐz̤elik offers real-life best practices for making your mobile JavaScript application perform just as snappy as it's native counterpart in this talk from Forward JS.

Erin Swenson-Healey on how you can use generators in ECMAScript 6 to continue to leverage the power of the single-threaded event loop while writing expressive, simple code in a direct, top-down style.

Pete Hodgson talks about how can expand our programming minds by using JavaScript in unusual and experimental ways in his presentation from Forward JS.