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DevNews #38 – The world is changing (a bit) and more

This week we catch up with all of the world’s news in what normally is a quiet August. Then we discuss some new releases in the Firefox world, the new Java Lambda decision, Java 7 features, and a warning about Java 7 and Lucene. Hosts:  Jason Gtitman and Ken Rimple Show Notes Lamba decision for Java (sort of?) Software’s Receding Hairline Balsamiq Heroku for Java New Firefox Beta with Enhanced Performance | Future Releases Robots Have Taken James Gosling Away…

TechCast #65 – Discussion with Puppet Labs’ Eric Shamow – Part 1

My discussion this week is with Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs.  He’ll be presenting at our upcoming DevOps Seminar on October 18th.  We took a little time to discuss DevOps in general, and Puppet in some specifics. Part two will be a deeper dive into Puppet itself.  Look for that podcast in early September. Resouces, per Eric: http://www.puppetlabs.com/ – the main site for Puppet Puppet Labs has recently put up a great getting started guide which should really help folks who…

ETE 2011 #1 – Polyglot Persistence with Chris Richardson

Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 – #1 Polyglot Persistence for Java Developers Speaker – Chris Richardson, VMware From the ETE Session Abstract Relational databases have long been considered the one true way to persist enterprise data. But today, NoSQL databases are emerging as a viable alternative for many applications. They can simplify the persistence of complex data models and offer significantly better scalability, and performance. But using NoSQL databases is very different than the ACID/SQL/JDBC/JPA world that we have become…

DevNews #37 – Heroku adds Clojure AND Mats, we talk LMAX, Grails 1.4 is now 2.0, design patterns in JS

Joining Ken Rimple this week are Jamie Allen (@jamie_allen) and Jason Gritman.  Topics discussed: Grails – user – Grails 1.4 is now Grails 2.0 Countdown to Grails 2.0: Static resources | SpringSource Team Blog Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners Google+ buttons in CSS Heroku | Clojure on Heroku Ruby Creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto Joins Heroku The LMAX Architecture productivity – Why doesn’t every company buy developers the best hardware? – Programmers – Stack Exchange The Ultimate Power Of Spring…

DevNews #36 – Kevin Griffin on iOS5, Java 7 RI is the Open JDK, Unity for Ubuntu, Listener Feedback, more

What a couple of weeks! The Philly Emerging Tech 2011 Conference really knocked me for a loop. What a great show, and so much to process from it too. We’ll have content coming in very soon, including screencasts of close to a dozen sessions. Look for announcements here and on our blog soon. The news this week So, we’re joined this week by @kgriffin – no, not Kathy Griffin, Kevin Griffin (one’s British, the other is on the B-List…) Kevin…

DevNews #35 – A slew of Google IO announcements, Scala forces join, and more

In this week’s episode, we’ve given Eric a lot of coffee and set him loose on the Google I/O announcements.  We also discuss the new Scala / Akka company, TypeSafe, Hudson being donated to the Eclipse foundation, 7 inch tablets, and Matt Riable’s foray into demonstrating Java EE 6 security. Raible Designs | Java Web Application Security – Part I: Java EE 6 Login Demo Google App Engine Blog: App Engine 1.5.0 Release No Market for 7-Inch Tablets? News Begs…

TechCast #64 – Pre-ETE Conversation with Josh Clark and Jonathan Stark on Mobile App Design and Development

Podcast Information This final pre-ETE podcast brings together Josh Clark, designer, developer and author of Tapworthy, a guide to designing great iPhone applications, and Jonathan Stark, VP of Application Architecture at Mobiquity and author of three books including “Building iPhone apps with HTML, CSS and Javascript”. Chariot’s Kevin Griffin and I sat down over the intertubes to get their take on mobile app design and development. Both authors are speaking at the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. Jonathan…

TechCast #63 – Davis Frank on Jasmine, the Javascript BDD testing framework

Davis Frank is an agile software engineer who created and contributes to the  open source Jasmine javascript testing framework.  He created the project to help him test applications for the former Palm, now HP webOS mobile application platform, which is written in native Javascript.   Pivotal has a number of projects related to jasmine on github, including the port of Jasmine to the HP WebOS framework, which he also created. He is speaking at the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the…

TechCast #62 – Brendan McAdams of 10Gen MongoDB on Mongo 1.8 and MongoPhilly 2011

Brendan McAdams, 10Gen, the company behind MongoDB Today’s guest is Brendan McAdams. He works for 10Gen, the company behind MongoDB, the document-oriented noSQL database. Brendan is a software engineer who wears many hats – he is a developer on the Java and Scala casbah drivers, works with and commits database driver contributions to frameworks like Akka and Lift, and does community outreach and training in MongoDB. Eric Snyder and I sat down to talk to Brendan about the 1.8 release…

TechCast #61 – Johanna Rothman on Managing Projects

Ken Rimple interviews Johanna Rothman My guest this time is Johanna Rothman, an esteemed project management consultant who runs Rothman Consulting Group, and writes/blogs/speaks/podcasts on a wide variety of topics including Agile, managing suites of projects, and more. Her website is jrothman.com. She is speaking at the 2011 Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference on April 27-28, 2011. Podcast Topics 90% done and inch pebbles – are you continually 90% done? What Lifecycle? Selecting the Right Model for Your…

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