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There have been a lot of updates to Ember in recent years. This talk includes an introduction to some of the cool new features, as well as advice on how to transition to Ember from another framework.

Take advantage of two great Android technologies, Deep Linking and App Indexing, that can significantly improve how your users experience your service on their Android phone.

Take an in-depth tour of the new Android build system, Gradle, by the two gentleman who play the most considerable role in its development.

From the AnDevCon 2014 session, where Dave explains how the updates to Bluetooth LE in Android 5.0 have brought new features and hopefully more stability.

This is a presentation on techniques for production debugging. Tal Weiss, CEO at Takipi, has spent years trying to understand when, where, and why code breaks. Here are some of things he has learned.

When it comes to Android, Dave Smith knows his stuff. In this interview, he provides an insightful look at the state of Android as we embrace the likes of Lollipop (5.0) and Android Studio.

Larry Schiefer sits down to talk about the latest in Android security, innovations in the language, Android Studio, Gradle, and the process he took to be vetted as a Google Developer Expert.

Have you ever blindly gone into a situation without a plan in place? Even if you happened to have a positive outcome, it was probably a stressful situation. Having an IT training plan for the upcoming year is a proactive way to prepare your team to meet their goals in 2015. To position your team for success, make sure that your approach is timely and that your training plans align well with your developer/company goals. This helps prevent the mistake of making a plan without all the required details and input on the business side.

Juan discusses App Indexing, libraries, new features in Android, the most exciting things to come out of Android this year, and where he'd like to see Android go in the future.

Twitter's Fabric is a set of modular SDK's, a new mobile platform, that intends to help you build better apps. Bear Douglas, Developer Advocate at Twitter, explains what it brings to the table.

A collection of interviews recorded on location at AnDevCon 2014 in San Francisco.

CSS is what got Philip Walton into web development, but he knows that it has its issues. When he found out about Web Components, he immediately started thinking about how the two might work together.

Pair programming is touted for the benefits of teamwork, the clean code that it produces, and the skills that it refines. It also helps to ensure that all code is...

A panel of industry experts discusses large scale Android projects. This is an in-depth, 90 minute discussion, on the latest Android best practices and perspectives.

Npm is many things. As Forrest L Norvell points out, it more than just a project to support the installation of packages. It is also a company, a team, a philosophy, an ethos, and a product family.

Edmond Meinfelder introduces how to receive and send HTTP requests, streams, clusters and flow control with promises and async. He covers the basics of NPM and this exciting JavaScript framework.

Join our three panelists &mdsah; Ward Bell, Matt Green, and Alicia Liu &mdsah; as they build a sample MEAN app, injected into a traditional web page, before your eyes.

Research can sound like a scary word, "it may sound like money you don't have, time you can't spare, and expertise you have to seek," But it really does matter and Erika Hall explains why.

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.