Tue, 9 April 2013
Our first podcast from Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise is our Javascript frameworks panel. Led by Robert Hansen, author of GWT in Action and host of our prior Web Framework shootout in 2011, it includes developers who contribute to Meteor, Backbone, Ember and AngularJS, four Javascript frameworks that cover the gamut between all-in one platforms to comprehensive client-tier frameworks to strongly focused and less-comprehensive and more configurable ones. Panel members
Robert Hansen - moderator Sponsored by the Chariot Education Services Team.
Direct download: ETE-2013-Conference-Session-1-Javascript-Panel.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 5:51pm EDT |
Wed, 6 February 2013
Joel Confino is a long-time consultant at Chariot Solutions. He has spent the last four years working with a large enterprise, here named ABC Corporation, rolling out a new development platform and build process. Joel was one of two speakers at our event, which also included Sonatype's Jason Van Zyl. Joel's focus was building in competitive advantage by choosing to implement continuous integration tools such as Maven, Nexus, Jenkins, and Sonar.
Direct download: Chariot-Conference-Session-CI-Competitive-Advantage-Joel-Confino.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 11:25am EDT |
Fri, 16 September 2011
Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 - #3How MongoDB Helps Visibiz Tackle Social CRMSpeaker - Mike Brocious - Lead Architect, Visibiz From the ETE Session Abstract So you’ve heard about MongoDB and it sounds really sweet (BTW, it is!). Now you’re thinking about using it in your application. We can’t tell you if it’s right for your application, but we can tell you how we’re using it at Visibiz and that might help you with your implementation. This presentation provides a use case of MongoDB at Visibiz. It first discusses why we chose to use MongoDB as our application’s primary datastore (what were the relevant application requirements and perceived benefits). It then covers how we’re using MongoDB in the application, touching on schema design of the primary collection and listing several secondary uses for it in the architecture. We also touch on lessons learned, as well as pros and cons.
Direct download: How_MongoDB_Helps_Visibiz_Tackle_Social_CRM.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT |
Wed, 14 September 2011
Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 - #2Doing the Mundane a Million Times a MinuteSpeaker - Mark Chadwick, Invite Media/Google From the ETE Session Abstract When dealing with high-volume distributed systems, even the most mundane tasks can be daunting challenges. This talk describes some of the steps, as well as missteps, made while building such a system. It will work through the discovery of such pain points, as well as describe their resolutions with specific technologies or patterns. Over the course of three years, Invite Media built a high-volume system for serving online advertisements from the ground up. Some of the more interesting challenges revolved around operating routine services at scale, such as distributing requests, logging diagnostics, and keeping track of simple transactions. This talk will dive into some of these problems, showing the evolution of simple systems at scale, with a strong bias towards cloud-hosted applications. It will include details about the discovery and resolution of bottlenecks we experienced, as well as specific technologies and pattens discovered in the process. It may serve as a springboard for ideas when building distributed cloud-based systems, as well as hone a sense of when components may be reaching their tipping point.
Direct download: Doing_the_Mundane_a_Million_Times_a_Minute.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 11:30am EDT |
Wed, 17 August 2011
Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 - #1Polyglot Persistence for Java DevelopersSpeaker - Chris Richardson, VMware From the ETE Session Abstract Relational databases have long been considered the one true way to persist enterprise data. But today, NoSQL databases are emerging as a viable alternative for many applications. They can simplify the persistence of complex data models and offer significantly better scalability, and performance. But using NoSQL databases is very different than the ACID/SQL/JDBC/JPA world that we have become accustomed to. They have different and unfamiliar APIs and a very different and usually limited transaction model. In this presentation, we describe some popular NoSQL databases – Redis, SimpleDB, MongoDB, and Cassandra. You will learn about each database’s data model and Java API. We describe the benefits and drawbacks with using NoSQL databases. Finally, you will learn how the Spring Data project simplifies the development of Java applications that use NoSQL databases. |
Fri, 12 November 2010
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 future. Links
Direct download: MobileAppDeveloper-11-10-2010-Don-Coleman.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 1:18pm EDT |
Fri, 30 July 2010
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 are hardwired for deception. It seems we are overly optimistic, and, in fact, we wouldn’t have survived without this trait. With this built-in bias as a starting point, it’s almost impossible for us to estimate accurately. That doesn’t mean all is lost. We must simply accept that our estimates are best guesses and continually re-evaluate as we go, which is, of course, the agile approach to managing change. Linda Rising has been part of many plan-driven development projects where sincere, honest people with integrity wanted to make the best estimates possible and used many “scientific” approaches to make it happen – all for naught. Re-estimation was regarded as an admission of failure to do the best up-front estimate and resulted in a lot of overhead and meetings to try to “get it right.” Offering examples from ordinary life – especially from the way people eat and drink – Linda demonstrates how hard it is for us to see our poor estimating skills and helps work with the self-deception that is hardwired in all of us." Thanks to Linda Rising for speaking at ETE 2010 and letting us publish her talk.
Direct download: ETE-2010-9-LindaRising-DeceptionAndEstimation.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 8:00am EDT |
Mon, 28 June 2010
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 is how a non-technical manager like me can tell when their software team is pulling one over on them. This seems to be especially true of enterprise managers and points to structural problems with command and control development methodologies. The principlesof whole team interaction and the practices of rapid feedback and response in Agile seem to create an alternative culture in which things "just work." Explicit tag warningYou'll hear the word "B.S." in long form several times in this talk, so anyone offended by this term should not tune in. However, it's done in context, and is very tasteful. Resources
Direct download: ETE-2010-8-Aumann-Are-Your-Developers-BSing-You.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 3:56pm EDT |
Wed, 23 June 2010
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 way. She discusses common pitfalls and traps, and the talk is very informative as well as entertaining. At the end of the session she takes audience questions. Her slides are available online.
Direct download: ETE-2010-7-Troutt-InfluenceToAgile.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 2:59pm EDT |
Thu, 17 June 2010
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 can be found here. |
Fri, 4 June 2010
Today's ETE 2010 Session is another panel discussion: Social Media - why should I care? (session details). Panelists:
Disclosure: Chariot Solutions collaborates on social media efforts with Team and a Dream
Direct download: ETE-Session-5-Social-media-Why-care.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 3:42pm EDT |
Fri, 28 May 2010
Today's ETE 2010 session is a panel discussion I chaired on mobile application development. Panelists were:
Enjoy. Ken
Direct download: ETE-Session-4-MobileDevelopmentPanel.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 11:39am EDT |
Sun, 18 April 2010
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 Coombs from Infegy sat down with us, and later Ed Burns from Oracle joined the table. We had a great time with a wide ranging conversation. I hope you enjoy it. Standard disclaimer for a live broadcast: Of course, the opinions expressed are our own, influenced by food and beer, and not those of our employers... Links
Guests
Thanks everyone!
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-ETE-2010-Evening.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 11:33am EDT |
Wed, 14 April 2010
Chariot TechCast ETE Podcast #2 - the Web Framework Shootout of 2010Warning: NSFW Our last web framework shootout at ETE was in 2008, and we felt it was high time for another meetup. Since then, Rails and Merb have merged, JSF 2.0 was released, Grails has become more mature, Spring has moved into annotation-driven configuration in a big way, and there are still a ton of choices for an architect to make when choosing a web framework. This year the shootout is led by Robert Hanson, author of Manning's GWT In Action, who was a speaker on last year's podcast. This is a Not Safe For Work download, as it involves some cursing and stronger statements, but overall it's no worse than you'll hear when meeting up with a few of these guys at a bar. Slides have been published by Robert on his website. We will have them soon as well as a large number of slide decks at chariotsolutions.com/downloads/presentations. Speakers in this shootout include, in no particular order:
All told, we have representatives arguing for Rails, Grails, Seam, CDI, Spring, Spring MVC and JSF, but also discuss JavaScript "we are solving problems from 10 years ago," component abstraction -vs- scripting on the page, the eternal Java versus Ruby debate, and many more. Music for the podcast was performed by Chariot's Andrew Oswald.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-ETE2010-WebShootout.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 4:52pm EDT |
Mon, 12 April 2010
Chariot Solutions TechCast - ETE 2010 Conference Session #1 - Keynote Session from Michael Coté, analyst from RedMonk I first ran into Michael Coté's work back in 2008 when we put together the Chariot Cloud Con East conference. Among the many grandstanding blogs about cloud computing at the time, RedMonk was a place we could go to read about emerging trends, such as Platform as a Service and Software as a Service. Useful links:
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-ETE2010-Keynote-Cote.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 4:58pm EDT |
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.
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Show Sponsors:
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-2009-04-ETE-Michael-Tiemann.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 4:10pm EDT |
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.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-2009-04-10-Manning-Author-Forum.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 10:18am EDT |
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. |
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. |
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.
You can find Andy's writing on the Pragmatic Bookshelf or on his blog, toolshed.com. For a mind map of his key topics, click here. |
Tue, 21 October 2008
Today's podcast is a redux of last Friday's "Fall Forecast, Computing Among the Clouds" panel discussion. Moderated by Ken Rimple (me), our guests were
The panel discussed various aspects of cloud computing, including administration, scalability, security, tools and various strategies. It's a good listen, with lots of interesting debate and dialog. Enjoy the show. Please email your comments to techcast-feedback@chariotsolutions.com. Show notes will be available within a few days. Thanks, Ken
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-10-21-2008-Cloud-Forum.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 8:00am EDT |
Wed, 28 May 2008
Commerce 360 CEO Lucinda Holt discusses technology waves and how organizations use them to their advantage. She compares four competing movements in adoption a new or disruptive technology: Custom development, Tooling, Applications and Platforms. She gives many examples from her own past and offers thoughts on how to "ride the waves" that may be appropriate for your organization. The presentation, once loaded, can be accessed at our presentations page It is a shockwave file, which should open in your browser. Click on the blank screen to start the slides. If you cannot run the presentation, you should install the latest Macromedia Flash player. |
Tue, 20 May 2008
Today we feature the second of a two part session from the 2008 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference. The session, entitled "Web Framework Shootout," was assembled and moderated by by Manning co-founder Marjan Bace and was one of the highlights of the conference. Speakers included Yehuda Katz, Chad Davis, Max Carlson, Robert Hansen, Bear Bibeault, Chris Richardson, Dan Allen, Emanuel Bernard, Peter Armstrong and Obie Fernandez. Quite a group! |
Thu, 15 May 2008
Today we feature the first of a two part session from the 2008 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference. The session, entitled "Web Framework Shootout," was assembled and moderated by by Manning co-founder Marjan Bace and was one of the highlights of the conference. Speakers included Yehuda Katz, Chad Davis, Max Carlson, Robert Hansen, Bear Bibeault, Chris Richardson, Dan Allen, Emanuel Bernard, Peter Armstrong and Obie Fernandez. Quite a group! |
Wed, 30 April 2008
This presentation, by Rossen Stoyanchev from SpringSource, was delivered at the 2008 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. Rossen discusses changes in the Spring Framework version 2.5, concerning Java and J2EE, AspectJ, OSGi, Annotation-driven configuration, Spring MVC, and new testing support with the TestContext framework.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-2008-04-30-Spring2.5.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 12:21am EDT |
Thu, 3 April 2008
Today's show features Aaron Mulder and his Introduction to Rails talk. It was recorded at Chariot's 2008 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. You can find many of the presentations in the Downloads section of Chariot's web site, www.chariotsolutions.com. |