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DevNews #34 – Google hires Gosling, closes Android Honeycomb, we talk productivity

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Hello there, and welcome to April 1st. Still working on those screenshot URLs from our episode on Friday, but we do have the links from articles we spoke about in the podcast below. I bought a Mac. So sue me. | ZDNet – Hee hee, couldn’t resist.  Yet another person who walked smack into becoming a mac convert.  Welcome to the club, sir! Google Android 3.0 “Honeycomb”: Open source no more | ZDNet – Wait, umm… Is Honeycomb closed only…

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DevNews #33 – The triumphant return of Eric, Node.js, Rails Metaprogramming, much more

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We start out this week looking at the career of superprogrammer Fabrice Bellard, and move on to topics as different as RSA seed files and potential compromise, Apple’s 10.6.7 update, graphing and data visualization, metaprogramming in Ruby, heck the list goes on and on… Brought to you by Chariot Solutions Education Services.  This Spring we have a Spring special – our Spring training courses are off-the-hook affordable for the months of April and May!  Save some money and learn how…

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DevNews #32 – No Eric today, it’s all about the Cukes, Couchbase for iOS, Wavemaker, DSLs and more

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Welcome to our Developer News, Episode #32. Eric is here in spirit and on assignment. He donated three articles – see if you can see which ones are his!. As usual, our dev news show notes are here, but can be accessed at delicious.com/developernews.32 Why and when you should use Cucumber Java for Mac OS X Update Breaks dev_appserver Couchbase Releases iOS Preview Why VMware’s WaveMaker Acquisition Is a Smart Buy – Application Development – News & Reviews – eWeek.com…

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DevNews #31 – Rails 3.1 rumors, Forking and Joining in Java 7, Google Patents and more

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The TechCast is brought to you this (and every) week by our employer / sponsor, Chariot Solutions.  We have lots of training in Spring and Maven coming up in March, and if you hurry you can enjoy an early bird special rate.  Visit our training calendar at chariotsolutions.com/education. Links (in no specific order – you can view them also at delicious.com/developernews/31 Java 7 Fork/Join Parallel Programming Google requests re-examination of Java patents – The H Open Source – news Bash…

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TechCast #60 – Ross Mason of Mulesoft on Mule 3

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Ross Mason is the founder of Mule, an open source enterprise service bus that implements the Gregor and Hohpe Enterprise Integration Patterns.  Easy to install and configure, Mule does not place heavy demands on developers – there is no required canonical form, services can be expressed in a number of ways, and it supports a wide range of scripting languages, from Groovy to JRuby and beyond. Chariot integration specialist Rod Biresch and I sat down to chat with Ross recently…

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DevNews #29 – WebM takes the ‘M’ out of HTML5, JRuby best release ever, more…

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This week’s Dev News is brought to you by the letter ‘M’, as in ‘WebM’.  Google has announced that future releases of the Chrome browser will no longer support H.264, instead moving to the new WebM and VP8 codec/format.  So we riff on that for a while.  If you want a really good analysis from people who know Google and video really well, check out the latest episode of This Week in Google from the TWIT network. We also discuss the…

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TechCast #59 – Eric Snyder on MongoDB, a NoSQL Database Engine

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Chariot’s own Eric Snyder discusses MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL database. Show Notes MongoDB is built and supported by 10gen Information on BSON, a Binary format similar to JSON: http://bsonspec.org/ Document oriented datastore. Documents are JSON-like. Storage is really BSON, a binary representation of JSON. Supports ad-hoc querying (like relational) Queries are expressed as BSON documents. You can reference deeply nested attributes and there are a robust collection of query operators. MongoDB query optimizer is not cost based. MongoDB tries all query…

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