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Clone WhatsApp Technology to Build a File Upload Android App

With more than one billion people using WhatsApp, the platform is becoming a go-to for reliable and secure instant messaging. Having so many users means that data transfer processes must be optimized and scalable across all platforms. WhatsApp technology is touted for its ability to achieve significant media quality preservation when traversing the network from sender to receiver, and this is no easy feat to achieve.

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Video tagging made easy: Google-powered add-on for automatic video tagging

Due to significant growth of the web and improvements in network bandwidth, video is now a major source of information and entertainment shared over the internet. If you are managing a library of corporate videos, user-uploaded videos, or even your own personal videos, you need a way to categorize them according to their content and make your video library searchable.

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iOS Developer Camp: The Dog House

By Shantini Vyas
iOS Developer Camp: The Dog House

Confession: I’m kind of addicted to hackathons. Ever since graduating from Coding Dojo earlier this year, I’ve been on the hunt for new places to expand my skills and meet new people in the tech space. iOS Developer Camp’s 10th Anniversary event bowled me over. Initially, because of its length. 48 hours? Yeesh. I had no idea that those 48 hours would change my life. But let’s first get a little backstory on my favorite topic: dogs.

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GDPR: Cloudinary's take on the What, When, Why, and How

GDPR is a new regulation that deals with the way individuals' private information is handled. This regulation is going to have a deep effect on the entire internet industry. The fact that GDPR is a European regulation doesn't mean it's relevant only for European organizations. It requires protecting the data of any individual whose data is processed or stored in any way within European boundaries. As the reach of many companies is global, the requirement is actually relevant to a lot of companies worldwide.

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Mastering the Pivot

By Dom Sagolla
Mastering the Pivot

For 48 hours, over a hundred strangers worked together to form over twenty great teams to demonstrate shared ideas in working form. Our theme for the event was The Pivot, as we approach an inflection point in the tech community from a so-called “broligarchy” to a more representative culture. This was Developer Camp’s 10th Anniversary event, and we brought together our most diverse group of participants ever:

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ReactNYC: Building Modern Media Experiences in React Apps

In this talk, the audience learns everything they will ever need to know about playback controls, offline media, image & video optimization and transformation, pre-loading, deep learning with Images, audio & improving web performance by using the right tools while dealing with media assets in their react apps.

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How the Right Tools and Training Drive SDR Success

“You never get a second chance to make a first impression,” Will Rogers famously said. This statement rings very true for sales development representatives (SDRs) in any industry, as these are the individuals who are on the front lines, and making the first contact with prospective customers.

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The JS Video Player That Developers Will Love

It doesn't take a genius (or a statistician) to know that video represents a significant proportion of web and mobile content these days. But did you realize that in 2017, video will account for about 75% of all internet traffic and that 55% of people watch videos online every day? In fact, 52% of marketing professionals worldwide believe that video is the content type with the best ROI, with people spending up to 2.6x more time on pages with video than on those without.

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 Beyond Drupal Media: Make Images and Video Fly with Cloudinary

Drupal is a very popular open source content management system (CMS) that has been deployed countless times by organizations and developers around the world. Drupal gained a reputation for being very flexible, powerful and robust in creating complex websites. With Drupal, you can create everything from plain websites, blogs and forums to ambitious enterprise systems.

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