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 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

• Buttons are a Hack - Josh Clark's ETE session information
• Building Native Applications with HTML, CSS and Javascript - Jonathan Stark's ETE Presentation
• Josh Clark's blog
• Jonathan Stark's blog
• Charioteer Hiedi Utley's blog posts, which cover a wide range of topics on iOS development.

Books

• Tapworthy - Designing great iPhone apps - Josh Clark
• Building iPhone apps with HTML, CSS and JavaScript - Jonathan Stark

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 github, including the port of Jasmine to the HP WebOS framework, which he also created.

He is speaking at the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference next week, and his talk, Practical Jasmine, will start with a 10 minute quick demo, then dive into real tips on how to best use (see how I didn't use utilize?) the framework.  We spoke last week about a number of topics, including how Javascript is just a bit different than other languages, how the current testing tools didn't meet the needs of Pivotal when they were developing applications on the HP WebOS mobile platform, and about where to go to see well-written Jasmine tests (how about the Jasmine source code itself?)

Resources

• Jasmine Homepage
• Viddler video demonstration of Jasmine in action
• Pivotal on GitHub including Jasmine and Jasmine on WebOS
• The website of Douglas Crockford For crying out loud, read Javascript, the Good Parts, will ya?

Sponsor

This 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.

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 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

• The official MongoDB 1.8 Release Blog Entry
• Mongo Philly 2011 - use offer code 'chariot' to save 20%.

Sponsor

This 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.

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 on April 27-28, 2011.

Podcast Topics

• 90% done and inch pebbles - are you continually 90% done?
• What Lifecycle? Selecting the Right Model for Your Project
• Kanban Development Oversimplified - from agileproductdesign.com
• Park Projects You Can't Staff, For Now
• Partial Commitments to Projects Create Unpredictable Projects

Some of Johanna's Books

• ManageIT! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
• Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management
• Managing Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects

Sponsor

This 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.

Hello there, and welcome to April 1st. Still working on those screenshot URLs from our episode on Friday, but we do have the links from articles we spoke about in the podcast below.

• I bought a Mac. So sue me. | ZDNet - Hee hee, couldn't resist.  Yet another person who walked smack into becoming a mac convert.  Welcome to the club, sir!
• Google Android 3.0 "Honeycomb": Open source no more | ZDNet - Wait, umm... Is Honeycomb closed only to Google's prime hardware partners, or is this something mis-understood?  Or is it not ready to be replicated yet because it's still too early?  Is Google Applifying?
• Useful Bookmarklets for your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch Browser - We use this as a launching board for talking about productivity tools.
• Java Founder Gosling Joins Google - PCWorld Business Center - Fete Complete?  (sic) James Gosling is hired at Google... 
• Participants - Philly Tech Week - Concurrent with Philadelphia Emerging Tech - Technically Philly is running a "Philly Tech Week" with a lot of great sessions. Visit the site and see the events, from ETE to a day of MongoDB and much, much more. Chariot is a sponsor of Philly Tech Week and runs Philly Emerging Tech.

Have a great week.

Ken and Eric

The opinions expressed on our developer news show are wholly those of Eric and Ken, and not official statements from Chariot Solutions.