Ken Rimple

Spring Roo 1.2 will be tipping point for RAD Java

I’m going to make a bold statement: Spring Roo is about to do for Spring developers what Ruby on Rails did for Ruby developers – make developer agility, and not mechanical, rigid architectural structures, the focus of daily developer productivity. There. I’ve said it. But I have to step back for a minute and disclaim … Read More

DevNews #39 – Steve Jobs RIP, MIT CS books, Roo updates

Welcome to Episode 39!  This week we discussed: Cleaning? ? Marco.org Roo (in the) Corner – new features in?trunk… – Rimple on Tech – Random Thoughts The Elements of Computing Systems / Nisan & Schocken / www.idc.ac.il/tecs Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 – Blog ? Stack Exchange Enjoy!

TechCast #67 – Ryan Campbell of CloudBees on Dev@Cloud and Run@Cloud

In this episode, Ryan Campbell joins Ken to talk about the CloudBees development platform, Dev@Cloud, and Java runtime platform, Run@Cloud.  Dev@Cloud can host private maven snapshot and release repositories, your GIT or SVN version control, and hosted Jenkins CI testing. For information about CloudBees or about the platforms, including hosted Hudson and open source CI … Read More

ETE 2011 #3 – How MongoDB Helps Visibiz Tackle Social CRM

Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 – #3 How MongoDB Helps Visibiz Tackle Social CRM Speaker – Mike Brocious – Lead Architect, Visibiz From the ETE Session Abstract So you’ve heard about MongoDB and it sounds really sweet (BTW, it is!). Now you’re thinking about using it in your application. We can’t tell you if it’s … Read More

ETE 2011 #2 – Doing the Mundane a Million Times a Minute with Mark Chadwick

Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 – #2 Doing the Mundane a Million Times a Minute Speaker – Mark Chadwick, Invite Media/Google From the ETE Session Abstract When dealing with high-volume distributed systems, even the most mundane tasks can be daunting challenges. This talk describes some of the steps, as well as missteps, made while building … Read More

TechCast #66 – Part two w/Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs

We continue our interview with Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs.  Show notes to follow soon, please refer to information from TechCast Episode 65 for now. Puppet Labs can be found at www.puppetlabs.com, and they are hosting PuppetConf, a conference on the west coast that is not only about Puppet. A word from our sponsor, Chariot Solutions: … Read More

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 … Read More

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, … Read More

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 … Read More