Technologies We're Watching in 2013
From cloud computing to Javascript, from micro services to repeatable environments, from Android and HTML5 to Big Data and concurrent programming, Chariot’s engineers are keeping watch.
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Top technologies we're watching in early 2013
From cloud computing to Javascript, from micro services to repeatable environments, from Android and HTML 5 to Big Data and concurrent programming, Chariot’s engineers are keeping watch. Here you’ll find a list of technologies to pay attention to in 2013.
TechCast #75 – Interview with Rod Johnson Part 2 – Focus on Scala
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Rod Johnson is well known for his work creating and leading SpringSource, and the Spring Framework. But did you know he recently started working with TypeSafe organization? He’s advising them on their board of directors, and he’s working on his own Scala hobby application. He has some views about the language, how to start using … Read More
TechCast #74 – Part 1 – An interview with Rod Johnson on the Spring Framework and Scala
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This interview is a walk through the lead up to and the creation of the Spring Framework with no founder Rod Johnson. Recently, Rod left the company sponsoring Spring, VMware Corporation, and joined up as a board member of TypeSafe to advise them on the future of Scala and other projects. The podcast, then, is … Read More
The Pivotal Initiative – VMware and EMC spin off a new organization to focus on big data in the cloud
The main focus of the Pivotal Initiative, which will involve more than 1,400 employees from both companies, will be cloud-based big-data software.
TechCast #73 – An interview with itext Founder Bruno Lowagie
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This techcast episode features the open source PDF API developer Bruno Lowagie. His iText library has been used by many Java developers. One of the earier open-source Java APIs, iText was originally written to provide PDF version 1.3-compliant output. This was not the first API that Bruno created to handle PDF, as we’ll hear in … Read More
ETE 2012 – Daniel Spiewak – Horrors of Static Typing
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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
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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 – Douglas Crockford – JavaScript, Programming Style, and Your Brain
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From the abstract: Computer programs are the most complicated things that humans make. They must be perfect, which is hard for us because we are not perfect. Programming is thought to be a “head” activity, but there is a lot of “gut” involved. Indeed, it may be the gut that gives us the insight necessary … Read More