Becca Refford

Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE) 2023

About Entering its 17th year, Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise (ETE) Conference has brought world-renowned speakers — plus some local favorites — to speak about leading-edge technologies being used today, and emerging technologies that will be crucial knowledge for our attendees in the near future. Though we have had to remain virtual during the … Read More

Chariot TechChat #55: Right to repair, BYO password manager, and Next.js 13

Host Notes We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more. We’re hiring! If you’re a senior software engineer interested in working with bright, curious colleagues who love to share what they learn, consider joining our team. Open positions, benefits, … Read More

Chariot TechChat #54: Virtual threads in Java, Steve Yegge, and the forgotten OS keeping NYC’s subway alive

From the Chariot Blog We’ve always got great content on the Chariot blog, written by our developers: it’s got over 20 years of tech reviews, tutorials, and more. We’re hiring! If you’re a senior software engineer interested in working with bright, curious colleagues who love to share what they learn, consider joining our team. Open … Read More

A 20th Anniversary Look Back in Technology: Tom Purcell

Tom Purcell, a consultant and founding member of the Chariot Solutions team, has seen technology come and go. On our 20th anniversary in business, Tom gives us a humorous look back to the tools and technologies that came, went, and stayed since Chariot became a company in 2002.

Philly ETE 2022 — A Tour of the Modern Java Platform — Bruce Eckel & James Ward

Abstract The Java Platform has seen a tremendous amount of evolution and improvements over the past five years in many different areas, including: language features in Java, Kotlin, and Scala; Functional Programming; dev environments; test workflows; Reactive; Stream processing; distributed data; containerization; serverless; and AoT compilation. This talk will give you a tour of the … Read More

Philly ETE 2022 — Why Rust? — Ashley Williams

Abstract For the sixth year in a row, Rust was declared the most loved programming language in the Stack Overflow 2021 developer survey, and there’s been an explosion of companies such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Huawei publicly discussing, contributing to, and investing in the language. In this talk, Rust core team member, Ashley, will … Read More