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TechChat Tuesdays #48: Carson Gross and HTMX

The Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference (Philly ETE) is less than a month away, and in this episode, we’ve got an exclusive interview with one of our speakers: Carson Gross. Carson Gross runs Big Sky Software, which finds hot, new trends and then does the opposite of that. Big Sky Software has produced … Read More

TechChat Tuesdays #47: Dev News Ultra

This week, Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia drop in for some brief coverage of the last few weeks’ dev news! They also discuss helpful sites for developers, and the latest Apple event. Host Notes ETE is back for 2022! We’re virtual again this year, but don’t miss another great roster of speakers and content. Early … Read More

TechChat Tuesdays #46: Dev News and Kotlin Deep Dive

This week, Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia cover various stories from the world of Dev News – before dedicating the rest of the show to a deep dive on Kotlin. They also answer a few questions from viewers! Host Notes ETE is back for 2022! We’re virtual again this year, but don’t miss another great … Read More

TechChat Tuesdays #45: How do we learn new things?

As developers and engineers, how do we learn new things? On today’s livestream, hosts Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia delve into some of their personal processes around learning new tech, and offer techniques and tools for staying curious and relevant.

What do blockchain, IoT, and cookies have in common? …Chariot Day 2018!

Socrates once said “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing about blockchain” // Your programming language might hate the environment! // Alexa can be a real jerk!!! // Chariot Day is an opportunity for Charioteers to share the things that they are most passionate about with other members of the Chariot family.

ETE 2012 – Daniel Spiewak – Horrors of Static Typing

From the abstract: Of all of the controversial topics in the field of (serious) software development, static typing is probably the most divisive. While the topic leads to fewer homicides than the perennial Vim vs Emacs conflagration, it still arouses passions and anger usually reserved for Gungans and fans of Visual Basic. This talk dives … Read More

ETE 2012 – Yehuda Katz – Ember.js: Attacking Boilerplate Where it Lives

From the abstract: Ember.js is a new JavaScript framework that uses data bindings to strip away common boilerplate in web applications. By making it easy to bind objects together, all the way through to your HTML templates, you can think about your application in terms of the state of your model objects. You’ll never have … Read More

ETE 2012 – Chiu-Ki Chan – Caching Strategies for Mobile Apps

From the abstract: Unlimited bandwidth? Always connected? Yeah right! Truth is, wireless coverage is spotty, and sometimes the internet is simply not available. In this talk, I am going to discuss a few design patterns that make your app snappy when connected, fully-functional when not. Caching strategies: persistent vs temporary Progressive loading: use placeholders while … Read More

ETE 2012 – Tony Morris & Runar Bjarnason – Dependency Injection Without the Gymnastics – Functional Programming Applied

From the abstract: In this talk, we take a look at some specific Functional Programming patterns that regularly arise in everyday programming. These patterns are used to solve the same problems that DI attempts to by decoupling data types from their dependencies. We explore the algebraic properties of these techniques and discover how they give … Read More