Thu, 19 November 2009  Ben Alex carved out some time to talk to me about the SpringSource Roo project, a very interesting and different take on Convention over Configuration Frameworks.All of the major prior frameworks seem to use dynamic and meta-programming tricks to get work done. Ben's team focused on taking advantage of the Java platform, and hence Roo is a fast, java-and-AOP solution for getting things done using existing APIs like JPA and Spring's APIs. Applications are built using a command-line shell (even with code completion, just hit tab!) but in the end, they are just maven-based Spring projects. You can find out more about Roo itself by visiting www.springsource.org/roo Mentioned in the podcast is the book "The Humane Interface" by Jeff Raskin. Ben says that reading that book helped him form the basis for his ideas about Roo. Ben Alex can be reached via twitter as @benalexau, and the #roo hashtag gets quite a workout. We also suggest visiting the forums, as JIRA issues posted there are generally answered promptly. Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource education and consulting partner. Direct download: ChariotTechCast-2009-11-19-Ben-Alex-Roo.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:26 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 17 November 2009  Today's guest is Manik Surtani, from the JBoss Infinispan project. Infinispan is a data grid project that grew out of JBoss Cache, and is able to dynamically ramp up and down cache nodes at will. Manik discusses the various features of the engine, including querying, monitoring, scalability, and more. Visit the Infinispan project site at www.jboss.org/infinispan Infinispan tweets on the @Infinispan username, and you can watch all tweets related to Infinispan at #infinispan. If you are in Antwerp, Belgium attending DEVOXX '09, head on over to the announcement page and register with this URL. JBoss is a Chariot Solutions partner. Comments[0] |
Mon, 26 October 2009 A recap of the events of the last two days of SpringOne, with Brent Baxter and Dmitry Sklyut.
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Thu, 22 October 2009 Gordon Dickens is a consultant and trainer with Chariot Solutions. We caught just before the wrap-up on Thursday to see Gordon's impressions (ask him to do Charlie Chaplain)…
Gordon discusses Spring 3.0 & Java 6, JPA 2 support, Spring Integration, Spring Roo, Grails, and more.
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Thu, 22 October 2009 Here is another perspective on SpringOne from Chariot Solutions' Brent Baxter.
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Tue, 20 October 2009 Gordon Dickens is a consultant and trainer with Chariot Solutions. We caught up in the early afternoon on Tuesday to catch up on Rod Johnson's keynote and topics around Spring 3.0, Grails, and some other things.
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Tue, 13 October 2009 Chariot's Eric Snyder works in both Java, Spring-based applications as well as with dynamic platforms such as Ruby on Rails. He brought CouchDB to our attention earlier this year, and we thought we'd share some information about it with our listeners. Apache CouchDB is a RESTful web-centric document-based database system written in Erlang. It can be used either directly using RESTful mechanisms or via a wrapper API in a number of languages.Resources:
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Mon, 21 September 2009 Our guest on this episode is Andres Almiray, key contributor to the Groovy Griffon project at CodeHaus. Griffon is an MVC framework and application development platform for building Swing-based applications, and can be configured to execute Applets, Java Applications and Web Start projects.Andres talks about the Griffon MVC framework, plugins, Addons, event dispatching, and a lot more. Resources Griffon home http://griffon.codehaus.org Griffon Mailing Lists The Grails project, the starting point for the core of Griffon The Griffon Team Andres Almiray - http://www.jroller.com/aalmiray Danno Ferrin - http://shemnon.com/speling/ James Williams - http://jameswilliams.be/blog/entry/index Guillaume Laforge http://glaforge.free.fr/weblog/ Jim Shingler http://jshingler.blogspot.com/ Josh A. Reed http://josh-in-antarctica.blogspot.com/ You can follow twitter updates from the team at @theaviary Be sure to leave us feedback via twitter (#techcast) or email (techcastfeedback@chariotsolutions.com) Ken Direct download: ChariotTechCast-41-Andres-Almiray-Griffon.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:20 PM Comments[0] |
Fri, 11 September 2009 Disclosure: Chariot is an integration partner with the OSA.Panelists Nick Halsey - Marketing and Product Management at JasperSoft Debbie Moynahan - Community management and marketing for Fuse Open Source @ Progress SW Deb Woods - Product management at Ingres Anthony Gold - President of Open Solutions Alliance and board member of Blue Nog, CEO of Healthy Humans Resources
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Fri, 28 August 2009 A discussion with Jon Kern and Corey Haines about Agile, Pair Programming, Software Craftsmanship, and more.Show Notes:
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Fri, 14 August 2009 Rob Harrop is the lead engineer on SpringSource dm Server, and is a key contributor at SpringSource. He co-authored Pro Spring, a seminal work in helping developer understand how to best use the Spring Framework. In this podcast, I talk to Rob about OSGi and the Spring dm Server. We discuss the state of OSGi development, how it differs from traditional web-based Spring application development, and recent advancements in the technology. We also briefly discuss the recent merger announcement with VMWare corporation. Point of disclosure: Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource development and training partner. Show Notes:
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Tue, 11 August 2009 Our interview with Alex Miller focused on his work on Java Concurrency and also on Terracotta, the clustering technology which replicates graphs of Java objects between multiple Java virtual machines. Developers working in environments needing high concurrency should definitely review the most recent Java Concurrency API. Here are links to some of the topics we spoke about:
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Fri, 17 July 2009 I had a great conversation with TechnicallyPhilly's Sean Blanda last week. We talked about how the Philly IT scene is still lively, and about how he and his two compadres Brian James Kirk and Christopher Wink gather and write up news on their lively and informative website.Technically Philly covered our Philadelphia Emerging Tech show in the spring (article here). Some of our topics of conversation have related articles:
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Wed, 15 July 2009 Last week I had the pleasure of hosting a roundtable chat over drinks with four of our integration experts. I wanted to discuss some of the issues facing companies today, including how to approach integration projects, and when to use technologies like SOA ESB platforms. My guests were:
We had some interesting discussions around open source tools. Key Topics:
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Mon, 13 July 2009 Today's guest is James Ward, of Adobe Systems. James is a technology evangelist on Flex and AIR solutions for Adobe. We talked about the upcoming Flex 4.0 SDK, Flash Builder (the new name for Flex Builder) and other topics such as remoting, AMF and various implementations of the AMF format.This is a good podcast to listen to if you are interested in the future of Flex, as there are some significant changes and improvements on the horizon. Items of note:
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Wed, 13 May 2009 JSR-299, the API formerly known as WebBeans, is a Java-based configuration and dependency injection system for the Java EE platform. In fact, the JSR has been renamed as such with the short name JCDI, and the original title 'webbeans' went to the reference implementation, which is being led by my guest, Pete Muir of Redhat/JBoss.Pete and I discuss the JSR, what features it brings to Java EE, where to find information about the specification, and the WebBeans reference implementation. Links to information related to the episode:
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Wed, 29 April 2009 Grails is a convention over configuration web framework, written in the Groovy dynamic language and based on the widely adopted Spring and Hibernate frameworks. In this TechCast, I sit down with Chariot's Gordon Dickens and Brent Baxter and discuss the relative merits of developing applications on the platform. We talk about the Groovy language, the productivity of building applications on the Grails platform, available plugins, and overall uses for the platform.Grails Training at Chariot on May 11 We are running a one-day seminar on Grails at Chariot on Monday, May 11. Sign up using the promotional code 'techcast' and receive 50% off the cost of the seminar. Visit the course information page for details. Groovy key points
Visit the grails kickstart page to walk through many of the topics we've talked about, including:
Groovy/Grails Books
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Wed, 22 April 2009 This podcast episode is a recording of Michael Tiemann's keynote presentation from the 2009 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference. Michael is RedHat’s VP of Open Source Affairs, and has a long history in working on open source projects. He is the president of the “Open Source Initiative,” and has served as the CTO of RedHat, and founded the first open source software company, Cygnus.Michael’s talk focuses on "Exonovation", or innovation from an open community, and how it can make a product even better than a closed, controlled, proprietary effort. It is a very interesting talk, and for those who want to follow along with the slides, you can go to http://www.chariotsolutions.com/slides/pdfs/ete2009-ExonovationTieman.pdf Books discussed during the talk:
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Wed, 22 April 2009 I had been listening to Leo Laporte's tremendous This Week in Tech (or MacBreak Weekly) podcast, and found out about SquareSpace.com from the show. The crew was raving about how easy it was to use to publish web content, and how it blew away Wordpress in terms of productivity. So I set up a free trial for my personal account and was also suitably impressed.
In doing research I found that SquareSpace is a Java-based platform, so, since the Chariot TechCast focuses on successful Java platforms, it made for a great fit. I did an interview a few weeks ago with the creator and co-founder, Anthony Casalena, who is responsible for the technology backing the site. You'll hear how Anthony created the site primarily to solve his own frustration with using blogging tools, and how the technologies are applied to serve a large number of customers on a handful of actual servers. During the lineup of the interview, SquareSpace offered us a sponsorship, and we accepted. If you use the keyword 'TECHCAST' during your free trial to register for a plan, you'll get 10% off the cost of any of their plans. Technologies mentioned in the podcast:
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Fri, 10 April 2009 On today's show, we feature the Manning author's Q&A forum. Marjan Bace is the co-founder of Manning Publications, which publishes books on a wide variety of technical topics. Last year at ETE, Marjan assembled the web framework shootout (if interested... part 1, part 2). This year Chariot asked him to assemble an author’s forum, where he takes questions from the audience on writing books for publication. The panelists are Dan Allen, author of Seam in Action, David Black, author of Ruby for Rails and the upcoming title, The Well-Grounded Rubyist, and John Resig, author of the upcoming Secrets of the Javascript Ninja. This is a very interesting look at what it takes to write a book, what it demands of you, and what you end up learning in return. Marjan, Dan, David and John did a great job. Direct download: ChariotTechCast-2009-04-10-Manning-Author-Forum.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:18 AM Comments[0] |
Thu, 9 April 2009 Today’s show is a recording of the Philly Emerging Tech session by Jason Van Zyl, of Sonatype. Jason is the creator of Maven, a java build tool that works using a set of conventions and plugins. This talk focuses on the current challenges in building OSGi based modular applications using Maven, and how the Tycho project enables easier integration between headless builds from tools such as Hudson, the Maven POM, and the Eclipse IDE. You may download the presentation at http://www.chariotsolutions.com/slides/pdfs/ete2009-MavenAndTheFutureofOSGi.pdf Links: Comments[0] |
Tue, 7 April 2009 One of the highlights of the 2009 Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference was our afternoon keynote from Jascha Franklin Hodge, from Blue State Digital. Mr. Franklin Hodge cut his social media teeth working on the Howard Dean campaign. Blue State Digital built and managed the Barack Obama campaign website, which provided news, email correspondence, coordination with official and unofficial leaders on events, YouTube and video/audio media, and more. This keynote highlights the successes of properly using the internet and social media to run a successful campaign including contrasts with the McCain effort as well as discussion of lessons learned. A copy of the presentation slides is being processed, and will be made available soon. For now, you can view the slides from an earlier presentation at MIXX Canada, on Slideshare. Comments[0] |
Thu, 2 April 2009 Andy Hunt is co-founder (along with Dave Thomas) of the Pragmatic Programmers. Their seminal book, The Pragmatic Programmer, gave every developer a nudge, and started their publishing company, The Pragmatic Bookshelf.Andy's latest book (his seventh) is Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, Refactoring your Wetware. His keynote at 2009 Philly Emerging Tech covered topics from the book, and was a fantastic walk down memory lane (sorry, couldn't resist). Seriously, folks, his talk was all about maximizing your ability to learn and retain knowledge. Here are some great books he mentioned:
The second part of the podcast includes audio from the Destruction Zone. Pictures were posted at our ETE Flickr Group. The company, Wondergy, allowed us to tear apart old fax machines, printers, computers and cell phones, and worked with Chariot to line up green recyclers to haul it all away. You'll hear a little audio, although distorted, of the bashing of a copier, as well as an interview with Wondergy's Ken Fink, on how the project came together. Comments[0] |
Wed, 1 April 2009 In this podcast, we speak to JBoss's Emmanuel Bernard on the future of validation using JSR-303, the Bean Validation framework. JSR-303 aims to provide an annotation-driven mechanism to mark plain old java beans with annotations, such as @NotNull, @Min, @Max, and can support custom validation annotations as well. JSR-303 is part of the Java EE 6 suite of JSRs and will be used automatically out of the box by frameworks such as JSF 2.0. Emmanuel also goes into some detail about the current state of Hibernate Search. Useful links:
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Tue, 17 March 2009 Last Thursday I had an opportunity to sit down with Dan Allen and talk about the Seam Framework.
Dan was a great resource for learning about Seam. This is the second of
a two-part interview, where we focus on the future of Java EE 6, including JSR-299, formerly known as WebBeans, and how Seam will change as the Java EE specification evolves. We also discuss varying front-end technologies such as Flex and AJAX, and a bit about workflow. Resources we mentioned in the talk include:
His upcoming talk at the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference on March 27th covers implementing Security in Seam. Dan is the author of Manning's book, Seam In Action, which can be purchased in paper or PDF form. He recently became a Red-Hatter, which he blogs about at his blog/website, www.mojavelinux.com. You can also find him on in.relation.to, a blog site running on JBoss Seam that covers topics such as Seam, JBoss Tools, WebBeans, Eclipse, and RichFaces. His twitter ID is #mojavelinux. You can follow the Chariot TechCast on twitter as techcast, and visit chariotsolutions.com for more information about our company. Comments[0] |
Mon, 16 March 2009 Last Thursday I had an opportunity to sit down with Dan Allen and talk about the Seam Framework. Dan was a great resource for learning about Seam. This is the first of a two-part interview, where we focus on the Seam framework itself, how it differs from Spring and other frameworks, and how it marries JSF and POJO as well as EJB components, providing a stateful view of the world and making programming easier for APIs such as Java Persistence.His upcoming talk at the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference on March 27th covers implementing Security in Seam. Dan is the author of Manning's book, Seam In Action, which can be purchased in paper or PDF form. He recently became a Red-Hatter, which he blogs about at his blog/website, www.mojavelinux.com. You can also find him on in.relation.to, a blog site running on JBoss Seam that covers topics such as Seam, JBoss Tools, WebBeans, Eclipse, and RichFaces. His twitter ID is #mojavelinux. Comments[0] |
Wed, 18 February 2009 Today, I speak to San Fransisco based consultant Chris Richardson, author of Manning's POJOs in Action, and creator of Cloud Tools and Cloud Foundry, both tools created to simplify working with Amazon Web Services for Java and Grails applications.Chris and I speak about the growth of Cloud Computing, as well about his projects. We also discuss the increased adoption of Groovy and Grails as a rapid development platform. Pertinent links: Amazon Web Services Cloud Tools Cloud Foundry Grails Thanks to Chris Richardson for coming on the show. A reminder for our upcoming Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference, hosted in Philadelphia, PA, on March 26 and 27. With over 50 speakers across a wide variety of topics, it is fast becoming the East Coast event to see. Tickets are selling fast, so to reserve your seat, visit www.phillyemergingtech.com today. Archives of the show, as well as show notes, can be found on our website, techcast.chariotsolutions.com. You can email feedback to techcastfeedback@chariotsolutions.com. Comments[0] |
Thu, 4 December 2008 Day two of SpringOne is recapped here by our three Chariot consultants in the field: Rich Freedman (greybeardedgeek.net), Michael Pigg and Dmitry Sklyut (itdependstm.blogspot.com) all give us their take on the sessions of the day. Topics covered include the Spring Tomcat server offering, Spring DM, the keynote, Spring MVC, upcoming Java EE features in Spring 3.x, and more.Direct download: ChariotTechCast-Reporter-Notebook-Spring_One-2.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 7:46 AM Comments[0] |
Tue, 2 December 2008 Chariot is bringing you coverage from the 2008 SpringOne show floor. This initial podcast, recorded today with Rich Freedman, reviews the Rod Johnson keynote, including Spring 3.0 features, the upcoming "Application Configurator" and more. Direct download: ChariotTechCast-Reporter-Notebook-Spring_One-1.mp3 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 10:54 PM Comments[0] |
