Ken Rimple

DevNews #37 – Heroku adds Clojure AND Mats, we talk LMAX, Grails 1.4 is now 2.0, design patterns in JS

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Joining Ken Rimple this week are Jamie Allen (@jamie_allen) and Jason Gritman.  Topics discussed: Grails – user – Grails 1.4 is now Grails 2.0 Countdown to Grails 2.0: Static resources | SpringSource Team Blog Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners Google+ buttons in CSS Heroku | Clojure on Heroku Ruby Creator Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto Joins … Read More

DevNews #36 – Kevin Griffin on iOS5, Java 7 RI is the Open JDK, Unity for Ubuntu, Listener Feedback, more

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What a couple of weeks! The Philly Emerging Tech 2011 Conference really knocked me for a loop. What a great show, and so much to process from it too. We’ll have content coming in very soon, including screencasts of close to a dozen sessions. Look for announcements here and on our blog soon. The news … Read More

DevNews #35 – A slew of Google IO announcements, Scala forces join, and more

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In this week’s episode, we’ve given Eric a lot of coffee and set him loose on the Google I/O announcements.  We also discuss the new Scala / Akka company, TypeSafe, Hudson being donated to the Eclipse foundation, 7 inch tablets, and Matt Riable’s foray into demonstrating Java EE 6 security. Raible Designs | Java Web … Read More

TechCast #64 – Pre-ETE Conversation with Josh Clark and Jonathan Stark on Mobile App Design and Development

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Podcast Information This final pre-ETE podcast brings together Josh Clark, designer, developer and author of Tapworthy, a guide to designing great iPhone applications, and Jonathan Stark, VP of Application Architecture at Mobiquity and author of three books including “Building iPhone apps with HTML, CSS and Javascript”. Chariot’s Kevin Griffin and I sat down over the … Read More

TechCast #63 – Davis Frank on Jasmine, the Javascript BDD testing framework

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Davis Frank is an agile software engineer who created and contributes to the  open source Jasmine javascript testing framework.  He created the project to help him test applications for the former Palm, now HP webOS mobile application platform, which is written in native Javascript.   Pivotal has a number of projects related to jasmine on … Read More

TechCast #62 – Brendan McAdams of 10Gen MongoDB on Mongo 1.8 and MongoPhilly 2011

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Brendan McAdams, 10Gen, the company behind MongoDB Today’s guest is Brendan McAdams. He works for 10Gen, the company behind MongoDB, the document-oriented noSQL database. Brendan is a software engineer who wears many hats – he is a developer on the Java and Scala casbah drivers, works with and commits database driver contributions to frameworks like … Read More

TechCast #61 – Johanna Rothman on Managing Projects

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Ken Rimple interviews Johanna Rothman My guest this time is Johanna Rothman, an esteemed project management consultant who runs Rothman Consulting Group, and writes/blogs/speaks/podcasts on a wide variety of topics including Agile, managing suites of projects, and more. Her website is jrothman.com. She is speaking at the 2011 Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More