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#11: 12-factor in RoR development

• Application codebase
• Dependencies
• Configuration
• Backing services
• Deployment
• Processes
• Port binding
• Concurrency
• Disposability
• Dev/prod parity
• Logs
• Admin processes

#10: Wearable applications with watchOS 4

• The purpose of Apple Watch and watchOS Platform.
• New updates introduced in watchOS 4.
• How watchOS changed over past years?
• How a usual wearable application is architected?
• The WatchKit framework and its possibilities.
• UX-Responsible approach to creating wearable apps.
• Most common challenges in building watchOS apps.
• How watchOS interacts with other frameworks from Apple.

#09: UX-Responsible Frontend Development

• What is user-centered development?
• How to be a sensible frontend developer?
• Should developers empathise with users?
• Ways to improve perfomance and interactivity of your app
• Basic but important technics that improves ux of the app
• Most common ux challenges in web apps
• Universal patterns and solutions you should be familiar with

#08: Introduction to Kotlin for Android developers: An alternative to Java

• What is Kotlin and why to use is?
• Is it a good alternative to Java?
• Null safety: Avoiding the million dollar mistake
• Basic Syntax: fun, val, var - what is it?
• Only primary constructor? Default arguments and named arguments
• Data Classes: avoiding boilerplate code
• Hierarchies, delegation and the object keyword
• If , when, loop - when it's worth it
• Smart compiler: Smart cast and type inference
• Playing with functions: Extension functions, function expressions and high-order functions

#07:How to Avoid Sensitive Data Leaks in Android Applications

• What are the lesser-known ways of avoiding leaks of sensitive data?
• Why can logs and keyboards be dangerous?
• Where to keep encryption keys and why is it so important?
• How to increase the security of your app using your own (custom) permissions?
• How to properly implement an HTTPS connection in your app?
• How to secure your app's components?

#06: React Native from Android and iOS developers' perspective

• How does React Native really work?
• Why is a native dev still needed?
• What are the best practices?
• How to create native modules for Android & iOS?
• How to create native views for both Android & iOS?
• What are the pitfalls and performance issues in React Native bridge?

#05: Effective communication in a design team

• Why is teamworking the best way to achieve success?
• How can effective cooperation in a design team deliver extra value to your company?
• What are the tools that can increase your efficiency?
• What are the main secrets of effective communication in a design team?

#04: Ember.js - a safe bet for your web needs

• Why Ember is a good choice for complex projects
• How it can improve your workflow, increase your productivity and help you stay sane
• What makes the Ember community amazing
• How Ember provides you with build tools, testing, transpilers - the whole frontend infrastructure!

#03: Payments integration - Stripe & Taxamo

• The definitions of Stripe & Taxamo
• Stripe & Taxamo for subscriptions systems
• bunch of useful information about resources you may use
• example code snippets with explanation

#02: Recommendation systems in Ruby

• The definition of a recommendation system
• The definitions and examples of user-based and item-based systems
• How to create your own recommendation system
• How to obtain a data set and define similarity functions

#01: Modern declarative and reactive programming for iOS apps

• The definition of declarative programming
• The difference between declarative and imperative programming
• The role of promises in declarative programming
• The relations between declarative and functional programming