TechCast

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

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

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

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

TechCast #57 – SpringOne 2GX Recap

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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 … Read More

TechCast #56 – Mark Fisher on Spring Integration

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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 … Read More

TechCast #55 – Interview with Boris Bokowski on Eclipse e4

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Today we speak with Boris Bokowski, a committer on the Eclipse Platform UI project, and a Senior Software Engineer at IBM.  His participation in Ecilpse dates back to Eclipse 1.0, when he coded the CVS client for the IDE. We discuss Eclipse e4, an incubator for new technologies on the Eclipse project.  There are several … Read More