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Fri, 4 October 2013
TechCast #81 - Recap of the StrangeLoop 2013 conference with Joe Berger, Dan Boykis and Anatoly Polinsky
In this episode, we discuss the StrangeLoop 2013 conference.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-Episode-81-2013-10-03.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 7:30am EDT |
Wed, 28 August 2013
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, and to Magnolia engineer Tobias Mattsson. We first speak with Boris Kraft about the history of Magnolia CMS, and discuss some of the basics of the platform. Then we interview Tobias, who is the author of the Blossom module. This package provides a Spring MVC web context, which can export content to the CMS from non-traditional sources such as enterprise application data. It uses Spring MVC and annotation-driven classes to expose any data you'd like as content for your project Tobias is speaking at the upcoming SpringOne/2GX summit in Santa Clara, CA. His topic will be Spring and Web Content Management. More Resources
Direct download: TechCast-80-Magnolia-and-Blossom-2013-08-28.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 11:03am EDT |
Fri, 26 July 2013
Sujan and Ken talk about Sujan's trip to OSCON this year. Major themes included Data Science, Functional Programming, and Cloud Services. Show notes on our blog pages.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-Episode-79-Sujan-Kapadia-OSCON-2013.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 1:59pm EDT |
Tue, 16 July 2013
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 week we feature a Philadelphia developer, Andrew Larkin, who works at Comcast as an engineer specializing in accessibility for their various web platforms. He is currently working on an open-sourced Javascript component framework, Xooie, which provides drag and drop, tabbing, and other features and features support for add-ons and additional components. Comcast is actively looking for external developers to contribute to Xooie and other projects. You can find their open source projects on GitHub at github.com/comcast. Andrew runs the Philly Accessibility Meetup which discusses how to design and develop technology that can be used by everyone. Their August 5th, 2013 meeting will discuss five simple rules for accessibility.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-Epsiode-78-Andrew-Larkin-Xooie-And-Comcast.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 3:30pm EDT |
Tue, 23 April 2013
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. I hope you enjoy this podcast.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-Episode-77-Fil-Maj-04-23-2013.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 4:33pm EDT |
Wed, 20 February 2013
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 a lot about it. So much in fact, that he developed the AngularJS Batarang, a Chrome debugging tool, and helped to launch their documentation site, also written in Angular. Lukas has been working for over ten years as an application developer, starting with programming languages such as ActionScript and Flash, and then moving into the Javascript/HTML 5 world. He came upon Angular and also enjoyed working with it, as it just made sense to him. In this TechCast episode, we'll discuss this framework, which helps developers put together browser-centric HTML and Javascript applications. We'll find out the major components, such as a very easily understood Model View Controller framework, the ViewModel or $scope, and other features such as services and the all-powerful Angular directives. Topics mentioned include:
Books mentioned:
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-76-AngularJS-With-Lukas-Ruebbelke-and-Brian-Ford.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 12:34pm EDT |
Tue, 11 December 2012
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 it, complexity vs readability, the "No Frameworks" movement, and more. If you want to listen to Rod's history working on Spring, have a listen to episode 74. Advertisement - my co-host for this episode, Michael Pigg, is running TypeSafe's Fast Track to Scala course at our training facility in January 2013. Use the discount code 'techcast' and save $200 on your seat. Full disclosure: Chariot is a TypeSafe and SpringSource/VMware training partner.
Direct download: TechCast_Episode_75-RodJohnson-Scala_Views-Part-2.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 10:25am EDT |
Mon, 10 December 2012
This interview is a walk through the lead up to and the creation of the Spring Framework with no founder Rod Johnson. Recently, Rod left the company sponsoring Spring, VMware Corporation, and joined up as a board member of TypeSafe to advise them on the future of Scala and other projects. The podcast, then, is broken into two parts - the first part focuses on Rod's history in creating Spring, what makes it compelling, and how it has developed over the years. The next part, which will appear on TechCast #75, will focus on Scala, a language that has become more popular of late. Rod is currently advising TypeSafe, the sponsors and creators of Scala, and he has been working on a project for several months totally written in the Scala language. Disclosure Note - Chariot Solutions is a VMware consulting and value-added training center partner. Enjoy this two-part interview. Best, Ken Rimple
Direct download: TechCast_Episode_74-RodJohnson-HistoryOfSpring-Part-1.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 2:05pm EDT |
Tue, 9 October 2012
This techcast episode features the open source PDF API developer Bruno Lowagie. His iText library has been used by many Java developers. One of the earier open-source Java APIs, iText was originally written to provide PDF version 1.3-compliant output. This was not the first API that Bruno created to handle PDF, as we'll hear in the interview, and also not the first to be open-sourced. We'll hear how Bruno has participated in the PDF specification, has worked with various document management concerns including encryption, forms processing, and long-term archiving of PDF document formats. One very interesting section concerns how he approached licensing, and some of the challenges faced by developers when they are looking at dealing with open-source users versus paying clients, and how that informs the decisions of his company has he moves the library forward. For information about the iText library, in both the commercial and open-source licensed versions, you can visit itextpdf.com.
Direct download: Chariot-Techcast-73-Bruno_Lowagie-2012-10-08.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 11:33am EDT |
Fri, 8 June 2012
Regular listeners will recognize Jamie Allen's voice from a number of podcast episodes at Chariot. He recently left us to join Typesafe, the sponsors of the Scala language, Akka, Play and other items that make up the Typesafe stack. We discuss a number of topics, including:
For information about scalathon, head over to the event page at http://scalathon.org/2012/ Chariot is a Typesafe training partner.
Direct download: TechCast-Episode-72-Jamie-Allen-Typesafe-Scala.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 5:27pm EDT |
Mon, 19 March 2012
Brian Fox is a longtime open source contributor, having worked on Maven 2 and overseeing the development of Maven 3. He is the VP of Engineering at Sonatype, and currently leads the Nexus repository project. The team has just released version 2.0, which includes support for the growing .NET open source community and the NUGET library manager. We discuss the evolution of Maven and repository management, the Nexus repository manager, and key features in 2.0, such as the new smart proxy and the advent of Sonatype's new repository license intelligence and health awareness. Topics covered:
More information about Nexus and NuGet here. http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2012/03/03/sonatype-repository-now-supports-net-framework.aspx Chariot is a Sonatype consulting and training partner. Thanks to Brian for speaking to us today on the Techcast. You can find Brian's blog entries for Sonatype at http://www.sonatype.com/people/author/brian/. Nexus is available at nexus.sonatype.org. You can find him on twitter at AT brian underscore fox, You can find out more information about Nexus at nexus.sonatype.org.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-Epsiode-71-Brian-Fox-2012-03-19.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT |
Wed, 7 March 2012
Here is our interview with ETE keynoter Alex Payne. His talk, Emerging Programming Languages: a Tour of the Horizon" will be featured on April 11 at 8:30 AM. Links will be updated over time, I wanted to get this out early. Alex will be speaking in depth about some emerging languages at ETE. This show is a quick introduction to some of the things going on in the industry, but not as comprehensive as Alex's talk will be. We hope to see you there, and if you're not attending ETE we should have the talk available online a short time after the end of the conference. Notes: Alex's first real computer : Mac Quadra.
Where to find Alex - Twitter - @al3x Produced by Chariot Solutions Education Services Upcoming courses through June online now at chariotsolutions.com/training_events. More classes added for summer soon.
Direct download: Chariot_TechCast_70-Alex-Payne-ETE-2012-Keynoter.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 2:29pm EDT |
Mon, 6 February 2012
This is the first in a series of podcasts centered around speakers for the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. My guest today is Alex Hillman. He is a leader in the co-working movement who helped found Independents Hall, known by the shortened name IndyHall (indyhall.org). We discuss how Alex got into technology entprenuership, his technical background, how he involved himself in the co-working movement, and we also preview the subject of his talk, Enterprise Makeover: turning cost centers into profit centers. Links:
Direct download: TechCast-69-ETE-2012-Alex-Hillman-Interview.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 6:30am EDT |
Tue, 3 January 2012
Kohsuke Kawaguchi (@kohsukekawa) is the creator of Jenkins, a continuous integration tool he wrote a number of years ago as a way to verify that he checked in his files and didn't affect his multi-developer build. It is safe to say that Kohsuke wasn't the only one with that problem. A huge hit, the Jenkins CI server, which at the time was known as Hudson, reached a wide adoption level, with people installing it officially and even under their desktops in many IT development shops. Kohsuke discusses the challenges in developing a tool like Jenkins, which changed names after the new owner of Sun, Oracle, decided that it owned the trademark to the Hudson product name. Oracle has contributed Hudson to the Eclipse foundation, and Kohsuke has continued developing Jenkins, sticking to a build per week strategy, conducting all team meetings in an open IRC forum, as well as documenting project status on their website, jenkins-ci.org. We talk about current efforts, including supporting the plug-in developer community, writing plugins in Ruby, the CloudBees projects he's working on, and more. Thanks again to Kohsuke and Lisa Wells, who lined up the interview. Show Notes
Direct download: ChariotTechCast_68_Koshuke_Kawaguchi_Jenkins.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 2:33pm EDT |
Thu, 13 October 2011
In this episode, Ryan Campbell joins Ken to talk about the CloudBees development platform, Dev@Cloud, and Java runtime platform, Run@Cloud. Dev@Cloud can host private maven snapshot and release repositories, your GIT or SVN version control, and hosted Jenkins CI testing. For information about CloudBees or about the platforms, including hosted Hudson and open source CI instances, visit them on the web, at cloudbees.com. We originally lined up CloudBees for our fall Continuous Delivery conference. ** Edit by Ken Rimple - removed some incorrect information **
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-Episode-67-CloudBees-Ryan-Campbell.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 5:31pm EDT |
Mon, 12 September 2011
We continue our interview with Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs. Show notes to follow soon, please refer to information from TechCast Episode 65 for now. Puppet Labs can be found at www.puppetlabs.com, and they are hosting PuppetConf, a conference on the west coast that is not only about Puppet. A word from our sponsor, Chariot Solutions: Mark your calendars: Chariot's DevOps seminar - October 18, 2011 at the Penn State Great Valley campus in the Philadelphia suburbs. We'll have speakers from Chariot, CloudBees, NING, Puppet Labs, Sonatype, and a panel discussion at the end. Lunch is provided as well. Save on our early bird - $75 instead of the already low price of $99. More information on the event page. Also, if Scala is your thing, come to our Fast Track to Scala training in New York City on October 4-5, 2011. Seats are still available but they will fill up fast. The course is taught by Typesafe, the company Martin Odersky formed around Scala and Akka to move the language and frameworks forward. Save $100 by using the coupon code 'techcast' during registration, which can be found at chariotsolutions.com/education.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-66-Eric-Shamow-Puppet-Labs-Part-2-2011-09-12.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 3:38pm EDT |
Sat, 20 August 2011
My discussion this week is with Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs. He'll be presenting at our upcoming DevOps Seminar on October 18th. We took a little time to discuss DevOps in general, and Puppet in some specifics. Part two will be a deeper dive into Puppet itself. Look for that podcast in early September. Resouces, per Eric:
Direct download: Chariot_TechCast_65_0_Eric_Shamow_Puppet_Labs_Part_1.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 12:15am EDT |
Mon, 25 April 2011
Chariot TechCast #64 - Pre-ETE Conversation with Josh Clark and Jonathan Stark on Mobile App Design and Development
Podcast InformationThis 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 intertubes to get their take on mobile app design and development. Both authors are speaking at the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. Jonathan Stark's twitter handle is @jonathanstark, and Josh Clark's is @globalmoxie. Links
Books
Direct download: Chariot-Techcast-Episode-64-Stark-Clark-Mobile-Dev.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 4:03pm EDT |
Tue, 19 April 2011
Brendan McAdams, 10Gen, the company behind MongoDBToday'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 Akka and Lift, and does community outreach and training in MongoDB. Eric Snyder and I sat down to talk to Brendan about the 1.8 release and the MongoPhilly Philly Emerging Tech Week event on April 26. We start by asking Brendan to define MongoDB. If you want to register for the MongoPhilly event and save 20%, register at bit.ly/mongophilly with the offer code 'chariot'. Links
SponsorThis podcast is sponsored by Heroku - they let you deploy and scale powerful ruby-based applications on their rock-solid platform in the cloud. For more information, visit heroku.com.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-Episode-62-BrendanMcAdams.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 8:00am EDT |
Wed, 13 April 2011
Ken Rimple interviews Johanna RothmanMy 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 on April 27-28, 2011. Podcast Topics
Some of Johanna's Books
SponsorThis podcast is sponsored by Heroku - they let you deploy and scale powerful ruby-based applications on their rock-solid platform in the cloud. For more information, visit heroku.com.
Direct download: TechCast-Episode-61-Johanna-Rothman-Pre-ETE2011.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 12:59pm EDT |
Mon, 7 February 2011
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 wide range of scripting languages, from Groovy to JRuby and beyond.
Chariot integration specialist Rod Biresch and I sat down to chat with Ross recently to talk about Mule, the version 3 release, other related topics. Chariot is a MuleSoft partner.
More show notes to come.
Direct download: Chariot-Techcast-Episode-60-02-06-2011.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 12:43pm EDT |
Thu, 6 January 2011
Eric Snyder discusses MongoDB, a document-oriented NoSQL database. Show Notes
=== Sponsor Note === Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference - April 27-28 2011 - is now taking registrations. We have an amazing array of speakers on a wide range of topics, including NodeJS, Ruby, Rails, Scala, Spring, Agile, and more. Visit the site today and take advantage of early bird registration.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-59-MongoDB-Eric-Snyder.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 12:00pm EDT |
Mon, 22 November 2010
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 platform technologies as well, including how Air is being targeted as the mobile flash platform for Android, the Blackberry tablet, and iOS. Links:
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-Episode-58-James-Ward-Adobe-Flex-2010-11-22.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 4:08pm EDT |
Wed, 13 October 2010
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 and the Spring AQMP project. A long time member of SpringSource, back to the Interface21 days, Mark has deep roots in what makes Spring tick. Spring Integration is, as Mark describes it, Spring meets Enterprise Integration Patterns. In this talk, we discuss:
Mark is also working on Spring Integration In Action for Manning, which should be released early next year. He will be doing three talks at SpringOne in Chicago next week, covering Spring Integration, Technologies mentioned in this podcast include:
Disclosure : Chariot is a SpringSource consulting and education partner. Sponsor Announcement The Chariot TechCast podcast is sponsored by Chariot Solutions. Chariot is holding training in various Spring courses before the end of the year, including the Spring Enterprise Integration course, which covers Spring Integration as well as Spring Batch, on 12/7. More details can be found on our training calendar.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-2010-10-13-Mark-Fisher-SpringIntegration.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 10:44am EDT |
Mon, 10 May 2010
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 new features coming as a result of e4, including:
For more information, visit eclipse.org/e4 To read about Boris Bokowski and what he is working on, you can visit his blog: borisoneclipse.blogspot.com
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-55-Eclipse-e4-Bokowski.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 5:58pm EDT |
Wed, 10 March 2010
Gradle is an application assembly and build management platform that provides for convention-based build processes like Maven, but also implements a dynamic, groovy-based scripting and plugin system to make it very easy to customize your builds and perform specific steps at any point along the way. My guests today are Hans Docter, who is the creator of Gradle, and Adam Murdoch who is a committer to gradle, and is the CTO of Gradle Inc, a company founded to support development teams working with gradle in the field. Useful links
This is part one of a two-part series. Thanks for listening. Our podcast audio themes are free theme #3 and #4 from podcastthemes.com Follow us on twitter - and send your feedback to @techcast, or the #techcast hashtag.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-53-gradle-part2-03-10-2010.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 8:02am EDT |
Fri, 5 March 2010
Gradle is an application assembly and build management platform that provides for convention-based build processes like Maven, but also implements a dynamic, groovy-based scripting and plugin system to make it very easy to customize your builds and perform specific steps at any point along the way. Useful links
This is part one of a two-part series. Thanks for listening. Our podcast audio themes are free theme #3 and #4 from podcastthemes.com Follow us on twitter - and send your feedback to @techcast, or the #techcast hashtag.
Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-53-gradle-part1-03-05-2010.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 12:32pm EDT |
Wed, 17 February 2010
Peter Neubauer (Twitter :@peterneubauer) is the COO of Neo Technology and one of the founders of neo4j - a graph-based database engine. We talked about the neo4j project and discussed how it can be used from Java and other languages as an alternative that can provide highly scalable access to related data. Resources
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Fri, 29 January 2010
On this techcast, Brian Sletten describes how the Semantic Web helps to define relationships between interconnected data, discusses the various tools and APIs, and how it is already being used, even without our knowledge. Services like Friend of a Friend (FoaF), tools like RDFa, query tools like SPARQL, are discussed. If you don't know what the Semantic Web is or why it exists, Brian gives us a good overview and it's worth time listening to. Today, the US Government, wikipedia, and other systems are making data available via these mechanisms, as well as online retailers like Best Buy and Tesco. Sponsor - Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise April 8-9, 2010. Still time to register for the early bird special and save! Details at phillyemergingtech.com
Brian Sletten twitters as @bsletten, and works for Riot Games, and is part of the League of Legends team.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-50-Brian-Sletten-SemanticWeb.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 10:49am EDT |
Mon, 25 January 2010
For our 50th episode, I sat down with VMWare/SpringSource's Jeremy Grelle, an Open Source developer who works on the Spring WebFlow project, among others. Jeremy will be speaking about Spring's BlazeDS integration library when he comes to town for the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise Conference in April. We talk about Spring 3.0, and about the following APIs: Spring MVC Spring WebFlow Spring Faces Spring JavaScript Spring's BlazeDS Integration library for Rich Flex applications Thanks to Jeremy for coming on the show and taking the time to talk to us. |
Wed, 20 January 2010
Venkat Subramaniam is a widely acclaimed speaker, author, professor, and creator of Agile Developer, a mentoring and training company.
Music today was provided by FreePodcastThemes.com (free theme #3 is our opener) and by Music Alley. The takeout music was "Jazz Breakfast" from "Gecko 3". Warning - if you download it has a few explicit words mixed in, but it's got a great groove! Artist Information.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-49-Venkat-S-01-19-2010.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 8:00am EDT |
Fri, 11 December 2009
Joe Gregorio, Google Developer Advocate and member of the Google App Engine team, is also working on Google Wave, a new collaborative environment that mixes concepts from IRC, Mail, IM, and document sharing.
Direct download: TechCast-48-Google-Wave-Joe-Gregorio.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 6:00am EDT |
Mon, 7 December 2009
Today's podcast features Jonas Bonér, the creator of the Akka framework. If you've been listening to the podcast, especially to Episode #37 with Alex Miller on Java Concurrency, here is an alternative approach to providing scalability on the Java VM.
Direct download: Chariot_TechCast_47-Jonas_Boner_and_Akka.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 10:51am EDT |
Wed, 2 December 2009
Today's interview features the Groovy luminary Guillaume LaForge. Guiallume's work on improving the Groovy language paved the way for the innovative frameworks such as Grails and Griffon, and showed a whole generation of Java developers to stop worrying and love dynamic programming.
Gaelyk - The Google App Engine framework
Question from twitter user @HamletDRC: @techcast Which JDK7 feature will effect Groovy the most: Closures, Jigsaw, or something else? (question for @glaforge)
Thanks also to lucaxtex for his tweet: lucastex @glaforge incredible work on #gaelyk UrlRoutes! This is getting sweeter each day :) |
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.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-2009-11-19-Ben-Alex-Roo.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 6:26pm EDT |
Tue, 17 November 2009
Today's guest is Manik Surtani, from the JBoss Infinispan project.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-2009-11-17_Infinispan.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 4:34pm EDT |
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.
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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.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-41-Andres-Almiray-Griffon.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 2:20pm EDT |
Fri, 11 September 2009
Disclosure: Chariot is an integration partner with the OSA.
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Fri, 28 August 2009
A discussion with Jon Kern and Corey Haines about Agile, Pair Programming, Software Craftsmanship, and more.
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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.
Coming in October is the SpringOne 2GX conference, and in November we will offer a one-day seminar on Grails, Spring's agile Groovy-based web development platform, with Jeff Brown of SpringSource.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-2009-08-14-Rob-Harrop.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 9:00am EDT |
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.
Enjoy, and thanks, Alex!
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-08-10-2009-Alex-Miller.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 12:00am EDT |
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.
You can read their blogs by visiting their links on Chariot's Bloggers Page.
Feedback always welcomed!
Direct download: Chariot_TechCast_35_-_Integration_and_SOA.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 12:00am EDT |
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.
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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.
Enjoy the interview!
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-33-Pete-Muir-WebBeans.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 6:00pm EDT |
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 framework key points
Other topics:
Chariot Bloggers on Grails
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-04-28-2009-Groovy-Grails.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 10:00am EDT |
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,
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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.
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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.
Show notes are available at techcast.chariotsolutions.com. |
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. |
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. |
Mon, 6 October 2008
This podcast interview features Dan Diephouse of MuleSource. We talk about his work on XFire, CXF and his current efforts with Mule. We discuss WS-* and REST, and other web service integration issues.
Direct download: ChariotTechCast-Dan_Diephouse-10-06-2008.mp3
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Thu, 28 August 2008
If anyone has been listening since our very first Podcast, we covered flex way back in February with our own Peter Paugh. But when we had an opportunity to talk to James Ward of Adobe, a Flex evangelist and someone passionate about Flex as well as Java development, we jumped at the chance.
James Ward's blog and useful information is located at www.jamesward.com. The Flex Show episode 50 is also a good listen... |
Fri, 1 August 2008
This week we feature an interview with Toby DiPasquale of Invite Media. Toby and I discuss the Map-Reduce algorithm, which is the engine that powers Google's indexing and data processing systems. We start off by discussing how Google started indexing pages, using traditional methods such as C/C++ routines. Quickly this became unmanageable, as the amount of data to index outstripped the processing power and traditional data transformation paradigms. |
Fri, 18 July 2008
This week I'm starting an occasional series of interviews on non-Java or non-traditional platform development. I am looking for reasons that people choose Ruby on Rails, Python, and other languages in lieu of Java EE or .NET, especially in startup organizations. This interview features Chris Cera, the CTO of Vuzit (http://www.vuzit.com), which is a document web services startup funded by DreamIt Ventures (http://www.dreamitventures.com), a Philadelphia-area seed funding program. We talk about his experiences with various dynamic languages, including Perl and Ruby, and why he feels Rails is a great development platform for his company. At the end of the interview Chris and I get into a discussion about what makes a good programmer / developer. Thanks for listening. Feedback can be directed to me at krimple@chariotsolutions.com. KR |
Wed, 11 June 2008
A discussion with Peter Paugh, one of Chariot's architects and Rich Internet Application developers, on the current state of GWT. GWT was just revved to version 1.5, and is becoming a good Java-based alternative for writing Rich Internet Applications. Peter and Ken discuss GWT as a platform, the cross-browser compiling mechanism, and other details, and also talk about the controversy surrounding GWT-EXT caused by moving of the license from the LGPL to GPL. |
Wed, 14 May 2008
If you're at all adventurous, you've probably loaded Linux on a PC sometime in your life. Some of us avoid that pain by running (screaming) to Mac OS X, where we have a nice, pretty view of the world behind shiny and metallic, stylin' boxes. |
Tue, 15 April 2008
Today's show features Dmitry Sklyut, a Chariot consultant who is an expert in the Spring Framework and has been researching the OSGi initiative. We talk about OSGi as a platform, the various containers, tooling support, and integration with Spring. |
Tue, 25 March 2008
In this episode, Ken talks to Scott Fraser of Portico Systems. |
Wed, 27 February 2008
Ken speaks to Tom Purcell, an architect with |
Thu, 14 February 2008
Ken speaks to Peter Paugh, a solutions |