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

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

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

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

ETE 2010 #9 – Linda Rising – Deception and Estimation

We are pleased to release this recording of Linda Rising’s talk on Deception and Estimation.  This is a one-hour talk, and is a good talk about how we deceive ourselves in a number of ways in life in general, and of course in the estimation process. From the abstract: “Cognitive scientists tell us that we … Read More

ETE 2010 #8 – Bonnie Aumann – Are your developers BSing you?

Bonnie Aumann is an agile project manager and customer advocate for Algorithmics. Her ETE 2010 talk is entitled “Are your developers BS’ing you?” In this talk, she tries to cut through the potential blame game and IT culture issues by practicing rapid feedback and response, and Agile techniques. Her abstract “A question I’m often asked … Read More

ETE 2010 #7 – Audrey Troutt – Influencing your way to Agile

  Our ETE 2010 Session today is “Influencing your way to Agile” by Audrey Troutt. Audrey Troutt is a Software Engineer at the Drexel Math Forum.  She can be reached on twitter at @auditty. In this talk, Audrey describes ways to approach your team members, bosses, bosses bosses, and other types in a more productive, influential … Read More

ETE 2010 #6 – Write once, run on any phone

ETE Session #6 is “Write Once, Run on Any Phone” A session with Chariot’s Aaron Mulder and Kevin Griffin. They discuss three popular mobile frameworks that allow developers to write the software one time and deploy it to each phone platform supported by the framework. Rhodes, Titanium and PhoneGap are featured. Slides for the presentation … Read More

ETE 2010 #5 – Social Media – Why Should I Care? Panel Discussion.

Today’s ETE 2010 Session is another panel discussion: Social Media – why should I care? (session details). Panelists: Skip Shuda – CEO, Team and a Dream Chip Rodgers – VP and COO, SAP Adam Coomes – President, Infegy Erik Harbison – Senior Director of Interactive Marketing, TrueAction Ken Rimple – Director of Education, Chariot Solutions Disclosure: Chariot Solutions collaborates on social media efforts with Team and … Read More

ETE 2010 #4 – Panel Discussion – Challenges with Mobile Development

Today’s ETE 2010 session is a panel discussion I chaired on mobile application development.  Panelists were: Adum Blum – @AdamBlum – RhoMobile, a re-targetable mobile application development platform Joe Conway – Big Nerd Ranch (Apple mobile developer, trainer, mentor, co-author of iPhone Programming) Andrew Oswald – Chariot Solutions, developer of the ETE Android application representing … Read More

ETE 2010 #3 -Thursday Evening Podcast with speakers from ETE

We held an open podcast on the evening of April 8th at the happy hour reception of the 2010 Philly Emerging Tech show.  I had invited James Ward and Michael Cote to sit with me, and see what developed.  Well, beyond the happy hour food and beer, which flowed freely, so did the conversation.  Adam … Read More