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Mobile Dev Test Intel® Curie™ Open Developer Kit (ODK): A Primer—Part 1
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Whether you are a maker enthusiast who is just getting started or a seasoned developer wanting to jump into embedded device development, this session is for you. Oliver Chen covers the Intel Curie ODK (CODK) and how it can help you rapidly prototype products by leveraging tools familiar...
Oliver Chen
Mobile Dev Test UI Framework Prototyping with Playgrounds for iOS Apps
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Frameworks are a powerful tool for sharing code between applications and extensions. Playgrounds are an awesome tool for quickly trying out code in Swift. Keeping a tight feedback loop with designers can be difficult. So, how can you combine the powerful and the awesome to help keep your...
Ellen Shapiro
Mobile Dev Test Ensuring the Happy Path: Automated Developer Testing for Mobile Apps
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Is there anything worse than trying to fix that one small bug, declaring it fixed, and then realizing “the fix” caused another bug somewhere else in your app? And there it is, one more bug and you are at it again. The small voice in your head says if only you had automated tests. We know...
Josiah Mory
Mobile Dev Test Connected Devices, Connected Code, and Connected Teams: The Challenges of IoT Software Delivery
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Developing software for the Internet of Things (IoT) comes with its own set of challenges and issues, including security, privacy, and unified standards. Each IoT product is comprised of (at least) three separate application components: the software embedded in the device, the backend...
Anders Wallgren
Mobile Dev Test Intel® Curie™ Open Developer Kit (ODK): A Primer—Part 2
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Whether you are a maker enthusiast who is just getting started or a seasoned developer wanting to jump into embedded device development, this session is for you. Oliver Chen covers the Intel Curie ODK (CODK) and how it can help you rapidly prototype products by leveraging tools familiar to...
Oliver Chen
Mobile Dev Test Threads, Queues, and More: Async Programming in iOS
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To keep your iOS app running butter-smooth at 60 frames per second, Apple recommends doing as many tasks as possible asynchronously or “off the main thread.” Joe Keeley introduces you to some basic concepts of asynchronous programming in iOS. He discusses what threads and queues are, how...
Joe Keeley
Mobile Dev Test Internet of Fun: Winning Ways for an IoT Hackathon
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The very first time Alexander Andelkovic and his team entered an IoT hackathon, they were awarded second place for their IoT app due in large part to the early and continuous QA testing. Their IoT solution was based on combining different public data sources—such as a Minecraft map of...
Alexander Andelkovic
Collocated East Logo Solve Everyday IT Problems with DevOps
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Some believe that DevOps is only applicable to Internet-based companies with a desire to disrupt existing businesses. On the contrary, DevOps practices can dramatically reduce many everyday IT problems—defects, incidents, waste, bottlenecks, downtime, and infrastructure fragility. 
Sherry Chang
Collocated East Logo Scaling Agile: Remembering Tolstoy’s Unhappy Family Analogy
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While Agile has become mainstream at the team level with much research and practical experience, scaling agile to the enterprise is a topic of increasing interest and practice—with some successes and some spectacular failures. As Tolstoy wrote, “Happy families are all alike; each unhappy...
Mariya Breyter
Collocated East Logo Make Your Continuous Deployment Pipeline as Fast as Possible
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Continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) have been key to increasing the pace at which development teams can deliver value to the business while keeping quality high. However, many teams are finding that their build pipelines are hard to manage, with builds taking so long...
Abraham Marin-Perez

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