Hey fellow kotliners! I have been published in Hackernoon again (how happy I am). This time it is a story about how helpful Kotlin’s

@Deprecated

annotation can be for colossal multi-step refactorings. It is much more useful than the equivalent in Java. Here is the article – https://hackernoon.com/how-kotlins-deprecated-relieves-pain-of-colossal-refactoring-8577545aaed If you like what you see, please leave some Medium claps and share it on social media! Feedback is welcome, as well. Thank you!

Hey. Just wrote another "for lazy kotliniers" blog post. https://jankotlin.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/volley-for-lazy-kotliniers/

I wrote about my experience using Kotlin with Jooby for backend development. It's more of an opinion piece and originated in an open-space session, where I was discussing this combination mainly compared to Java + Spring or Dropwizard and Scala + Play Framework development: https://medium.com/@Niklas_L/kotlin-and-jooby-in-the-backend-d85cda8b507f

i just released javalin 0.5.3 - https://javalin.io/news/2017/10/16/javalin-0.5.3-released.html not a terribly exciting change, added context-path support and

@NotNull

annotations to the java parts of the api

interesting

I've just released new part of Kotlin programmer dictionary: Statement vs Expression. Have a good reading 🙂 https://medium.com/kotlin-academy/kotlin-programmer-dictionary-statement-vs-expression-e6743ba1aaa0

i just released javalin 0.5.4 - https://javalin.io/news/2017/10/22/javalin-0.5.4-released.html added some convenience functions for session, improved request logging, and a function for getting the matched-path of a context

hi everyone, I made a video on how to implement Dagger on Android, it’s based on antonio leiva’s article that I liked, I’d love some feedback or just if it helps you in general, thanks for listening!

Another part of my Kotlin programmer dictionary: Function vs Method vs Procedure. Enjoy 😉

My new blogpost on "for lazy kotliniers" series https://jankotlin.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/list-asyncmap-for-lazy-kotliniers/

Hello everyone, I just published a library that simplifies working with time intervals in Kotlin. https://github.com/kizitonwose/Time

Just seen on HN: https://blog.simon-wirtz.de/kotlin-features-miss-java/

https://blog.frankel.ch/alternative-navigator-vaadin/ (all code snippets in kotlin)

Elvis Chidera [7:07 AM] I am starting a kotlin series called "Building Android Apps" where I will show how to build popular Android apps in Kotlin and some best practices while doing that. The first project is building a Shazam/SoundHound app. It's a multi-part post, here is a link to the first part: https://android.jlelse.eu/building-a-shazam-clone-part-1-building-android-apps-series-179c2580a094

Another part of Kotlin programmer dictionary: Field vs Property. Enjoy 😉 https://blog.kotlin-academy.com/kotlin-programmer-dictionary-field-vs-property-30ab7ef70531