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Community is a vital part of a successful software ecosystem, but what are the secrets to creating a successful meetup? In this post, we will explain how, through a mix...
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NI Dev Conference 2019 Reportage
The Beginnings The Northern Ireland Developer Conference, or more commonly known as NI Dev Conf, first started in 2017 as a platform to bring together the progressively expanding meetup scene...
ACCU For Your Attention
As every developer knows languages fade in and out of fashion. At time of writing Python is rocketing to stardom (as much for ML and Serverless as DevOps), F# has...
Inaugural Kotlin Belfast User Group Meetup
At Instil we absolutely love Kotlin. If you’re working on the JVM or Android, we see the move from Java to Kotlin as a complete no-brainer. Internally, we use it...
GDG Dublin: The Kotlin Edition
The Instil team have adopted Kotlin as our go to language for Android and server development. One of the unexpected side effects has been a significant boost in morale. It’s...
A Taste of Things to Come
As another busy year of training draws to a close it's traditional that I stick my head above the parapet and make some predictions for the New Year. For what...
Programming in English
As an industry, we promote an education in science, technology, engineering and maths as the basis of software development, but in doing so, we risk ignoring the most important skill...
Community Matters
Community is a vital part of a successful software ecosystem, but what are the secrets to creating a successful meetup? In this post, we will explain how, through a mix...
AIB Datahack
Prelude An overwhelming sense of anxiety woke me up at 3am. I was ill-prepared for the day ahead, it had been a couple of months since I last dabbled with...
Summary of KotlinConf 2018
The second ever KotlinConf took place in Amsterdam from 3rd-5th October 2018 and having missed last year’s event, the Instil team were looking forward to a thought-provoking conference over the...
Instil Autumn Outing: Golf Punks
Team Bonding Last week the Instil crew lined up some team ra-ra with the three elements of life: food, beer and sports. The plan was simple; destroy some pizzas, play...
Kotlin Contracts
The Kotlin type system is fairly flexible but there are a few corner cases where the compiler enforces rules which can be a little restrictive. In this article we explore...
Kotlin Inline Class
In the upcoming Kotlin version 1.3, an experimental feature called inline classes will be introduced to the language. This helps address common errors caused by a developer when they rely...
A personal review of why Instil switched to Kotlin
An overview of why all parts of Instil’s business has switched to Kotlin over the past three years. By an unrepentant Scala Fanboy. About us For those who don’t know...
Harry Intern Life @instil
What have you learned A whole lot more than I ever thought I would! I went into placement knowing it was going to be a challenge, and there were going...
Benn Intern Life @instil
Benn Henderson joined Instil as a fresh-faced intern from Queen’s University Belfast, currently studying the undergraduate computer science degree. He quickly became a key part of the Instil mobile development...