TechCast

TechCast #83 – Andres Almiray on AsciiDoc and Markdown

We talk to Andres Almiray, Griffon creator, about AsciiDoctor, the new tool for converting AsciiDoc documents to PDF, as well as other formats and tools. Major topics include features of asciidoc documents, code snippets, formatting and indentation, book generation, and more.

TechCast #81 – Recap of the StrangeLoop 2013 conference with Joe Berger, Dan Boykis and Anatoly Polinsky

In this podcast, I am joined by Dan Boykis and Anatoly Polinsky, two of our Chariot consultants who attended The Strange Loop conference in September. I also have some reflections from Chariot consultant Joe Berger, provided via email. Strange Loop is a 2-day conference with wraparound tutorials, and also contained a language “un-conference” by Alex Payne.

TechCast #80 – Magnolia CMS and the Blossom Spring MVC Module – Boris Kraft and Tobias Mattsson

Magnolia CMS is a content management system written in Java that has a long history. Created more than a decade ago, it has evolved into a platform with a significant user base and a large number of third-party extensions that the team dubs ‘modules’. In this podcast, we speak to Magnolia CMS’s CTO, Boris Kraft, … Read More

TechCast #79 – Chariot’s Sujan Kapadia and Ken Rimple talk about OSCON 2013

The TechCast is sponsored by Chariot Solutions Education Services – for training in Scala, Spring, Grails, Android, Maven and more. We aren’t just slide turners, either. Ask us about interactive mentoring and semi-structured learning as well. The TechCast this week was devoted to Sujan’s trip to OSCON 2013. He and a number of other Chariot … Read More

TechCast #78 – Andrew Larkin on Xooie, Open Source at Comcast

The tech cast is brought to you by Chariot Solutions education services. If you’re on a development team working in Java, Spring, Maven, Hibernate, Scala or Android, we’re here to help. For onsite training, one-on one or group mentoring, or to attend one of our public classes, visit us on the web at chariotsolutions.com/education. This … Read More

TechCast #77 – Adobe’s Fil Maj on PhoneGap and Cordova.io – cross-platform Mobile

This week’s interview features Fil Maj, of Adobe’s PhoneGap project. PhoneGap is a cross-device runtime platform for hosting HTML and Javascript applications on tablets, phones and other hand-held devices. Chariot’s consulting practice director Don Coleman joins us as he’s worked with Phil on phone gap and plugins, so he lends a hand guiding the conversation. … Read More

TechCast Special Event – Announcing the 2013 Philly Enterprise Hackathon Contest

PHILLY ENTERPRISE HACKATHON! APRIL 2-19, 2013! (got your attention?) This podcast episode is an interview with three leaders of the 2013 Philadelphia Enterprise Hack-a-thon contest, which is being launched at Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise on April 2-3, 2013. The interviewees are: Mike Schellhase – Director of Field Applications – Bentley Systems Phil Moyer … Read More

TechCast #76 – AngularJS with authors Lukas Ruebbelke and Brian Ford

Lukas Ruebbelke and Brian Ford, both speaking at Philly Emerging Tech this April, are co-authors of the forthcoming Manning book, AngularJS in Action. They are currently preparing for their first Manning Early Access release, or MEAP. When Brian was working at Google as an intern, he was exposed to the Angular framework and learned quite … Read More

TechCast #75 – Interview with Rod Johnson Part 2 – Focus on Scala

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