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

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 Eric and Ken do not reflect anything other than their viewpoints. Enjoy. Raible Designs | My Comparing JVM Web Frameworks Presentation from Devoxx 2010 InfoQ:…

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

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 platform technologies as well, including how Air is being targeted as the mobile flash platform for Android, the Blackberry tablet, and iOS. Links: First Steps…

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

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 the current landscape of APIs and platforms, and gives his perspective on where things are today, and where they may be moving to in the…

DevNews #27 – Java, Python and the Mobile Don

This week’s show includes BREAKING NEWS (we need some sort of web effect for this) – Apple is joining the Open JDK.  Should really mix things up. Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X | Business Wire Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit • The Register PhoneGap Build Pyspread Django 1.3 Alpha 1 Released Socializing Spring Applications | SpringSource Team Blog Dan Allen’s Open Letter to the JCP Executive Committee calling for JCP reform – TheServerSide.com Worth…

TechCast #57 – SpringOne 2GX Recap

Recap session with Chariot’s Gordon Dickens and Dmitry Sklyut. Chariot is a SpringSource Education and Consulting partner. Topics Keynote Spring Core Spring Data Grails and Reddis git.springsource.org Spring Integration Roo 1.1 release Ken Sponsor Note Visit Chariot Solutions’ Education Calendar for details on upcoming training courses in Spring, Maven There is still time to register for our Mobile Event and our Continuous Integration event, both held in the Philadelphia area.  

DevNews #26 – Everybody is a Legacy Framework, Apple JDK Deprecation, IBM drops Harmony, mass hysteria

Ok, folks.  So many things happened in the past week that we needed to get an episode out to talk about them. Not that Eric or me have any line into correct reasoning behind anything, but we wanted to talk, so here it is:  our Cats-and-Dogs episode! We have several debates raging in Java-land right now, between the “Spring is a legacy framework” bruhaha, the movement to OpenJDK by IBM, and Apple’s deprecation of the OS X JDK.  We attempt…

TechCast #56 – Mark Fisher on Spring Integration

Interview with Mark Fisher – SpringSource, a division of VMWare on Spring Integration Hosts:  Ken Rimple & Gordon Dickens Mark Fisher is an engineer at SpringSource, a division of VMWare, who leads the Spring Integration project.  He is a Spring consultant, contributor to the core framework, and works on projects such as Spring Flex Integration and the Spring AQMP project.  A long time member of SpringSource, back to the Interface21 days, Mark has deep roots in what makes Spring tick….

DevNews #25 – Java in Stasis? Applying a chainsaw, revving Hibernate and other saucy topics

Do you know why you’re binding those HQL parameters? Want to make the simplest AppEngine application in Groovy? How about learning about why you’re such a bad programmer (that includes all of us, according to the post). All this and more in today’s Developer News for Thursday October 7, 2010. The Future of Java: forking, death, or stasis Do You Know Ruby’s Chainsaw Method? Uncle Bob Martin’s – “Clojure – Up Close and Personal” Coté’s People Over Process » Liferay…

DevNews #24 – A triple shot of Python, RESTful Rails, and NoSQL GORM and Reddis

We’ve all been very busy of late.  Just got a chance to catch up and so we have lots to talk about in episode #24. Links Python Package Index : jellyfish 0.1.2 Pyjamas – Python Javascript Compiler, Desktop Widget Set and RIA Web … The Go Programming Language PostgreSQL: News: PostgreSQL 9.0 Final Release Available Now! Jeff’s Blog – Building a fast, lightweight REST service with Rails 3 End Times and the Release of Java 7 – TheServerSide.com Announcing GORM…

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