Ken Rimple

DevNews #31 – Rails 3.1 rumors, Forking and Joining in Java 7, Google Patents and more

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The TechCast is brought to you this (and every) week by our employer / sponsor, Chariot Solutions.  We have lots of training in Spring and Maven coming up in March, and if you hurry you can enjoy an early bird special rate.  Visit our training calendar at chariotsolutions.com/education. Links (in no specific order – you … Read More

TechCast #60 – Ross Mason of Mulesoft on Mule 3

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Ross Mason is the founder of Mule, an open source enterprise service bus that implements the Gregor and Hohpe Enterprise Integration Patterns.  Easy to install and configure, Mule does not place heavy demands on developers – there is no required canonical form, services can be expressed in a number of ways, and it supports a … Read More

DevNews #29 – WebM takes the ‘M’ out of HTML5, JRuby best release ever, more…

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This week’s Dev News is brought to you by the letter ‘M’, as in ‘WebM’.  Google has announced that future releases of the Chrome browser will no longer support H.264, instead moving to the new WebM and VP8 codec/format.  So we riff on that for a while.  If you want a really good analysis from … Read More

TechCast #59 – Eric Snyder on MongoDB, a NoSQL Database Engine

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Chariot’s own Eric Snyder discusses MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL database. Show Notes MongoDB is built and supported by 10gen Information on BSON, a Binary format similar to JSON: http://bsonspec.org/ Document oriented datastore. Documents are JSON-like. Storage is really BSON, a binary representation of JSON. Supports ad-hoc querying (like relational) Queries are expressed as BSON documents. You … Read More

DevNews #28 – Web Frameworks, Amazon goes DNSing, Refining Ruby, and more

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Eric and Ken talk about Amazon’s new DNS server, Route 53, discuss Matt Raible’s excellent web frameworks comparison study, discuss resources for Scala from the Basement Coders, talk about a new mixin feature request around the Ruby language, and more. Disclaimers: Chariot is a SpringSource partner, and uses Amazon and Google services. The opinions of … Read More

TechCast #58 – Adobe’s James Ward on Flex 4, AIR 2.5 and more

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James Ward has been a guest on numerous podcasts (ETE Evening Podcast – 2010, Episode 34, Episode 18). He is here this week to give us the state of the state in Adobe’s Flash-based RIA technologies, including Flex 4, Flash Catalyst, Air 2.5, and Adobe’s support for HTML 5 and CSS 3.  We discuss mobile … Read More

BizCast #5 – Mobile Application Developer Seminar – Don Coleman on State of the Art

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Today’s conference session is a talk from this week’s Mobile Application Developer seminar series, held by Chariot Solutions, in Philadelphia. The talk, “State of the Art for Mobile Application Development”, was given by Chariot’s Don Coleman, who develops both enterprise and mobile applications in a variety of platforms and languages.  In this talk, he surveys … Read More