Google Developers Study Jams is a free series of global, community-run, in-person study groups. The current Study Jams series is presented in partnership with Udacity and will follow their Android for Beginners curriculum.
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Women Techmakers România
Driven by the belief that a diversity of perspectives leads to better decision-making and more relevant products, Google began Women Techmakers in 2012, helmed by former Google[x] Vice President Megan Smith.
GDG Pitești Meetup: Polymer
First 2016 GDG Pitești Meetup: That’s a wrap!
Our event in a nutshell: 30 web developers and IT&C students, curious to learn new things, signed up for our first Meetup with Polymer on the agenda.
Artifacts in Scrum
As I promised in my previous articles, Roles in Scrum and Events in Scrum, I’m following up with a related article on Artifacts in Scrum.
In Scrum there are three tangible deliverables, called artifacts. These artifacts consist of the requirements for the overall project, the requirements for each piece of the project, and the project itself.
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Events in Scrum
As I promised in my previous article, Roles in Scrum, I’m following up with a related article on Events in Scrum.
The Scrum events are:
- Sprint
- Sprint Planning
- Daily Scrum
- Sprint Review
- Sprint Retrospective
DevFest Romania 2015
I’m happy to announce that DevFest Romania – the biggest Google tech conference from Romania happened in Cluj-Napoca on November 12-13, 2015, thanks to The HACK and Google Developer local communities: GDG Bucharest, GDG PiteČ™ti and GDG Cluj-Napoca.
Roles in Scrum
This article will focus on the Roles in Scrum and it will be followed by another two which will contain details about the Events in Scrum and Artifacts in Scrum.
Scrum is an Agile framework used to develop projects and is based on the concept of “KISS” (i.e. Keep it Simple Stupid). The first mention of this technique can be found in 1986, by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka and then it was used for commercial product development. The first official document defining Scrum was presented in 1995 and was written by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber.
The name “Scrum” is a term from rugby, and it’s used as a metaphor to reflect the degree of cooperation needed to succeed. So scrum is a Team pack in rugby where everyone in the pack acts together to move the ball down the field.
Android SQLite Database
Android provides several ways to store user and app data. SQLite is one way of storing the application data, locally, on the device. SQLite supports all the relational database features common on the Oracle databases or Microsoft SQL Server. In order to access this database it must be used the API provided by Android which is available in the android.database.sqlite package.
Native vs. Mobile web vs. Hybrid
Nowadays, at any corner people are using a smartphone. No doubt, over the past years these devices had a huge impact on our lives and still have. People enjoy using their smartphones because they can accomplish many things on the go such as reading e-mails, social networking, watching movies and plenty of other activities. If you are thinking of developing for the mobile application market, an important decision is to choose between developing a native application, an HTML5 one or a hybrid app. Mobile apps are no longer an option, they’re an imperative. You need a mobile app, but where do you start from? Which is the best way? 
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