DroidCon Poland 2017 - Is your app really connected?

Yesterday, I gave a presentation about connectivity in the Android apps during the DroidCon Poland 2017 Conference in Kraków. Below, you can see slides from this presentation. View slides on SpeakerDeck There’s also tweet related to this presentation from DroidCon Kraków: Piotr Wittchen tells us about how we can we keep the track of network 🌎 or Internet connectivity changes in our app 📱🆘🙂 pic.twitter.com/7YGGzNJeb2 — droidcon Kraków (@droidconkr) December 2, 2017 I hope, you enjoyed it....

December 2, 2017 · 1 min · 103 words · Piotr Wittchen

Simple reactive HTTP client and server with RxJava, Vert.x and Android

During Hack Your Career event at the Silesian University of Technology, I’ve prepared a presentation titled Reactive Programming - Efficient Server Applications with a colleague from work. Arek told about theory of Reactive Programming, shown basic concepts, data types and a few examples in the code. During my part of the presentation, I’ve wrote a very simple server and client in Java (9 on the server, 7 on the client) with Vert....

November 9, 2017 · 3 min · 556 words · Piotr Wittchen

5 ways to attend expensive IT conferences for (almost) free

Introduction In the past months, I’ve attended a few conferences and meetups related to IT. I also plan to attend a few more in the last quarter of the year as a speaker. I’d like to show you a few tips, which can encourage you to attend such events, be more involved in them and spend some time away from your desk ;-). If you are working in a software company, in the most cases you could treat going for a conference as a non-customer facing business trip, so your regular days off will be safe and can be used for your personal plans and holidays :-)....

November 2, 2017 · 5 min · 1000 words · Piotr Wittchen

Meet and Code 2017 - "Git – tips & tricks" presentation

Recently, during Meet & Code event organized by Media 3.0 and SAP Hybris, I’ve gave a talk for university and high-school students about basics of Git. Presentation was titled Git - tips & tricks and was organized at the Silesian Univeristy of Technology in the AEI Department where I was studying a few years ago. Presentation covered quite essential usage of Git, which could be helpful for people who are planning to learn it from the scratch....

October 21, 2017 · 1 min · 117 words · Piotr Wittchen

JDD 2017 - Get ready for java.util.concurrent.Flow! - summary

Recently on the JDD 2017 conference, I gave a presentation regarding introduction to Reactive Streams standard in Java 9. I also talked about existing implementations of this standard with the strongest focus on RxJava2 and created simple Reactive Streams implementation in pure Java 9 during the presentation. Below, you can find slides from this talk. View presentation on SpeakerDeck Code snippets shown during this presentation are available at https://github.com/pwittchen/java-flow-experiments. I have done a tiny live coding session during this talk....

October 5, 2017 · 3 min · 441 words · Piotr Wittchen