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David Vavra

DevFest: We’re riding a wave with eMan

We really enjoyed DevFest as both partners and visitors. But why was the largest (not only) Google tech festival in Central Europe moved back to Prague? What were the main obstacles for organizers and what support did they get directly from Google? To get to the bottom of all of this, we talked with the main organizer, David Vávra.

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Vladimír Toman eMan Mobile Internet Forum

It’s time to get rid of pen and paper, my dear salesmen

We introduced our door-to-door solution during the Mobile Internet Forum 2017 and La Degustation Online conferences. A tablet equipped with our app helps dealers and protects clients.

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Kotlin – Introduction to Anko for Android  (3/4)

In the third article of the Anko library series we are going to improve the design of our demo application so it looks a bit better. We will also get to know other extension functions of Anko, e.g. how to set the app layout to portrait or landscape mode.

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Kotlin – Introduction to Anko for Android  (2/4)

We will show you a few tricks on how to make toasts and dialogs easier. We will also launch activities and get to other useful tips which can be found in the Anko library. This article builds on the first part where we have laid the foundation on which we will now build our demo application.

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TechHeaven: Silicon Valley in Plzeň

TechHeaven is an NGO created with an aim to develop the tech community in Plzeň. It was founded by two great guys who have experience with startups as well as organizing specialized events. We offered them support and took a moment to talk to them.

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history of iPhone, iPhone X

A Brief History of iPhone

Apple introduced the new iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and the jubilee iPhone X. How are these different from their predecessors? How many versions are there already? And how did Apple’s iPhone develop over time up to the present day? Here is a simple timeline of the iPhone’s past decade.

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Ruby on fire on (the) Rails!

The smell of grilled meat rises above the rails. More than 50 enthusiasts in the Ruby programming language meet at Zizkov Freight Station to learn something new. And to enjoy good food, of course.

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Come on in, the water’s fine!

22 eMans, 11 boats, 5 cars, 3 motorcycles, 2 camping sites and 1 barking happiness manager. This is not the beginning of a joke, but our canoeing trip on the Ohře river. Even though the thunderstorm tried to scare us off the first evening, we did not give up and enjoyed a great weekend!

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Kotlin – Introduction to Anko for Android  (1/4)

In this and future posts, I will be giving you a quick introduction to the Kotlin Anko DSL library. Anko is a library that Kotlin uses and provides a lot of extension functions to make our Android development easier. You will learn how you can define the UI in the code (by using Kotlin DSL) instead of writing it in XML. The Anko library is not only about UI definition, but it contains a lot of extension functions which can make your life easier during Android development.

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Kotlin – Top 10 Features You’ll Love

It is easy to fall in love with Kotlin. I would like to tell you about 10 Kotlin features I consider to be the best ones. I will also describe each of them in detail and explain why they made it to the top 10.

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