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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.

A presentation aimed at beginners who have heard about RxJava and want to see what all the fuss is about.

After a quick intro to the problem of bad quality code itself, we walk through 6 specific examples of broken applications from a performance, scalability and architectural perspective. Each example highlights the impact of quality, the root cause and the technical metric to look at before checking in code to avoid these problems.

Google introduced some new customization hooks for device OEMs and partners starting with the Lollipop release of Android. Is this something you can take advantage of in your device builds?

Users are pretty excited about Android's new "doze" feature. Developers may have more mixed feelings on the subject. Either way, it's good for us to take a deeper look at how this feature works.

Spring Boot is the new convention-over-configuration framework from the Spring team at Pivotal. In this video, Josh Long shows us what it can do.

Android has finally introduced a runtime-granted permissions model. It will be some time before most applications are updated to take advantage of the new system, so how will this new system affect your application on user's devices before you've had a chance to update it?