News you can use

• The coming wave of API wars or something like that
• Well, it was only a matter of time Scala.JS 0.1 released
• Jamie Allen Keynote JAX London 2013 on Lambdas in Java 8
• Cool tool - Agent for Android
• The herd is moving - Paypal moving to JS
• Amazon has plans for a Drone army
• Guy throws out hard drive containing $9M worth of Bitcoins
• Joel hacks with the Ember.js getting started guide @emberjs
• DNA Analysis in Javascript: Making DNA Analysis easy, open, and free
• R2-D2 Mall Cop
• Github introduces expanding context in diffs @github

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Show Notes

• Spring Reactor released, based on lMAX Disruptor
• Groovy 2.2 released
• Mozilla developer creates curriculum to on-board new contributors to Firefox
• Mesos + Docker essentially lets you run Docker containers on a grid of servers managed by Mesos. From DevOps sensei @brianm
• Have you heard about WebComponents
• Link one pre-link text. in- text
• coreos @coreoslinux, Linux for massive server deployments
• ectd, a highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery
• Front end developer reading list 2013
• Ken - review GenyMotion - virtualbox-based Android VM that is fast and adds super cool features
• Google's computers OUTWIT their humans
• New Secure-Filters NPM Module for Simpler Output Sanitization from @goinstant
• Node.js used by The Mail Online to serve 32K Pixels to millions on four servers @clifcunn http://www.nearform.com/nodecrunch/how-node-js-has-revolutionized-the-mailonline

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Show Notes

• Startups fail. Say goodbye to Everpix
• Functional Reactive Programming with Bacon.js - this article refers to the Bacon.JS project. Also, if you're a Java expert check out RxJava
• The skills of academia are attractive to business in data science - hence the newest brain drain
• Charioteer Rich Freedman @greybeardedgeek tip for dealing with designers and PS layers for icons, etc.. - see his github project that builds upon an iOS Photoshop JS
• Rich scored another one - Bootstrap without all of the technical debt using SCSS Bootstrap 3: 50% faster Thanks to @treehouse
• Amazon Kinesis: Process streams of data in real time
• Amazon RDS: Postgres in the cloud!
• AndevCon2013 show recap - Ken (will update with blog post recap once I have one)
• KitKat features listed - nice enhancements for power management, SMS message subscriptions, low power, more
• Every Android developer wants a HP 21 inch slate desktop
• Inception in the browser: PeerServer: A Server in a Browser with WebRTC - The API is here
• Build a Spreadsheet in 20 minutes with Angular.js
• Build a spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of Javascript
• Dart 1.0 released
• Spring releases a reactive framework as part of Spring.io
• “This Just In" - Do Code Reviews. A report from the latest Philly.rb meeting

Links

• "Five tips for big software projects":http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2013/10/5-tips-for-big-software-projects.html
• “Dismanteling the monoliths”:https://engineering.groupon.com/2013/misc/i-tier-dismantling-the-monoliths/ - rails apps converting to Nodejs at Groupon
• I’m taking a stab at lock-free this week - First, my reading took me to Mechanical Sympathy (which we’ve discussed before) and now that there is a JSR for some new constructions - (StampedLock) this site has a great project - https://github.com/mjpt777/rw-concurrency which runs a bunch of benchmarks. All of this came from reading down the rabbit hole to this - from an article where I feel completely stupid. (prn stupid-feeling-reader (http://psy-lob-saw.blogspot.com/2013/10/spsc-revisited-part-iii-fastflow-sparse.html)
• “Bunny Ruby api for RabbitMQ”:http://blog.rubyrabbitmq.info/blog/2013/10/29/bunny-1-dot-0-0-is-released/ goes 1.0
• “Icominer iOS plugin”:http://icoplay.com/icominer-faq/ let’s you monetize free iOS apps via bitcoin mining
• A great writeup on "niche viewship in the age of Netflix and the reviewer's dilemma":http://priceonomics.com/why-movie-critics-hate-tyler-perry/
• Joel's Book Review: “Taming Text”:http://www.manning.com/ingersoll/ provides a nice overview, with code examples, of the techniques used to process unstructured text.
• PredictionIO: Open source “machine learning server” for software developers to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation: http://prediction.io/
• “Using Vertx’s event bus in the browser”:http://vertx.io/core_manual_js.html#using-the-event-bus-from-client-side-javascript
• “Meet BadBIOS - it jumps airgaps between computers”:http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/meet-badbios-the-mysterious-mac-and-pc-malware-that-jumps-airgaps/
• From Data IO 2013 (were you there?) we had a great tear-down of Vert.x by Lance Ball, who is the lead on the Javascript module of the platform. See this “great GitHub repo”:https://github.com/lance/dataIO2013 where he includes both his presentation using HTML slides, but the sample code for some Vert.x modules.

Shout-outs

• Thanks to @tfnico, @lincolnthree, and @mxsb55 for the positive feedback to @techcast on Twitter!

We talk about a good REST tutorial using HATEOAS, how Capchas have been hacked by a machine learning system, the Jboss Forge project, and more.

Links

• A great presentation by Jon Sondow on the Netflix Asgard Project- a Grails application server that deploys to AWS. Highlights include:
  • Obama for America used it to keep its sites rolling and alive
  • Used to be Netflix Application Console
  • It is only one of the open source projects on Netflix's GitHub page.
  • Reasons not to just use the AWS console include - you can hide the keys, customize the deployment model, automate workflow, log changes, and more.
  • Also check out youtube.com/theasgardshow - a regular Q&A show they archive on YouTube.
• The Oboe.js Async Ajax Processing Project -Oboe.js's makes web applications faster by wrapping https's request-response model with a progressively streamed interface. It glues a transport that sits somewhere between streaming and downloading onto to a JSON parser that sits somewhere between SAX and DOM. It is small enough to be a micro-library, doesn't have any external dependencies and doesn't care which other libraries you need it to speak to.
• Is Rubinius X going to push Ruby into the fully functional and async I/O future? - Ken found this by reading a tweet : "Erik Meijer @headinthebox - rubini.us/2013/10/15/int…. Just use Scala. You are wasting your life." Ouch. Reading through we found Rubinius X. Very interesting goals for the future of Ruby. Now how will JRuby and MRI deal with the changes?
• Akka persistence is coming.
• We had to peel Sujan off the ceiling on this one... Apple patent on Touch typing / Multi-touch upheld!!! - Um, what??? We just started to LIKE Android phones!
• Python 3.4 is out - Most of the new packages added directly reflect what’s going on in the software dev world right now including Async I/O, but also including data science research APIs in math, statistics, etc...
• The Free Lunch is Over, Again: Distributed Systems presentation by Andry Gross, Principal Architect at Basho (makers of Riak) is a great read about the future of multi-core distributed programming and how it is taking shape right now.
• I sure hope this is legit: Over 500 free programming books on GitHub - we had fun reading this one on writing unmaintainable code.

Topic List

• Newly OSS’d project Precog: advanced analyics for NoSql
• Angularjs vs Knockout- a great multi-page post comparing a number of features.
• Beyond map/reduce - it's not just about that Google whitepaper.
• 10 reasons to use AngularJS
• Cloud provider Nirvanix shuts down
• An open letter to the community - OpenStack’s future depends on embracing Amazon. Now.
• Hack time! Developing iOS Games on Ruby

The links

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• Codio: A Web IDE (Javascript / HTML, CSS, etc.) that also has support for Parse now
• How about new, more powerful Arduinos, hackahz? - one from Intel, the next is 100x faster than current Arduinos on a Texas Instruments chip.
• The robot overlords have a steed... - Be afraid, be very afraid
• Another IaaS cloud player - Verizon gets into the game.
• Rubinius 2.0 (Ruby implemented in Ruby) - 2.0 will soon implement Ruby 2.1 -
• Eclipse Virgo - Glyn Normington stepping down - but guess who may be taking over the project lead at Project Gemini? Dmitry Sklyut. We quote: “The plan is for Dmitry Sklyut to take over the project leadership of Gemini Blueprint. He has been voted as a committer so far. Then each of Virgo's Gemini dependencies will have a (non-dormant) project lead. Original source article on InfoQ.
• Sauce Labs creates BrowserSwarm - tests across a range of browsers in the cloud, right from your GitHub account.

Or,

"I can't stand a standing desk, but I can chase a running VM..."

This episode is light on iOS, heavy on Java and Javascript, and covers some large-scale processing and machine learning articles to boot.

Topics

• Ain't it good to be right? Nice article on how the JVM still rules - and polyglot is king. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/the-second-coming-of-java
• Speaking of Java, how about some new tools and the direction of the VM? http://jaxenter.com/java-performance-tool-makes-shock-reappearance-48123.html
• Build a Sweet AngularJS Photo Slider - 2 parts - Lukas Reubbelke - http://onehungrymind.com/build-sweet-photo-slider-angularjs-animate/ and http://onehungrymind.com/build-sweet-angularjs-photo-slider-pt-2-ngtouch/
• Two articles from Year of Moo. First, an absolutely extensive article on testing in AngularJS - http://www.yearofmoo.com/2013/09/advanced-testing-and-debugging-in-angularjs.html, and second, coverage of the animation APIs in 1.2 http://www.yearofmoo.com/2013/08/remastered-animation-in-angularjs-1-2.html
• Learning materials: A free, comprehensive textbook on Machine Learning - http://ciml.info/
• Collection of Bootstrap tutorials. http://vidinterest.com/playlist/enbeeone3/bootstrap-3-video-tutorials
• Oracle announces in-memory database with 100x greater query performance: http://www.zdnet.com/oracle-promises-100x-faster-queries-with-new-in-memory-option-for-databases-7000020996
• Stir Desk - Kinetic desk: http://www.stirworks.com/

• Probably the lead story - the Lambda final revisions are in for JDK 8 and Brian Goetz has an informal summary here
• RxJava: Functional Reactive Programming on the JVM (Java, Scala, Clojure)
• Javascript world
  • Angular-sprout -- Builds on angular-seed, basically a modular angular starter project, clone it and go:
  • jQuery 1.11 releasedAaaaarrrrgh!: 1.x is the version that still supports IE 6/7/8, so nice that there are still new things for us poor souls who still have to support old versions of IE
    • Asynchronous Module Definition support
    • performance improvements
    • Bower support
    • and NO API changes!
• IOS world
  • Joel has a hands on with iOS 7: (Joel likes it alot) Personal impressions: at first the cartoons threw me off, but a lot of nice usability baked in...
  • Bugs:
    • Mobile web issues with Safari on iOS 7
    • lock screen bug
    • Fingerprint scanner can be tricked, but did anyone doubt that? Still harder to crack than a 4 digit passcode, right?
  • Four iOS privacy settings you should turn enable immediately
  • Former Charioteer Heidi Utley’s collaborating on a book on iOS 7 that highlights the changes in iOS7 for existing iOS developers (not an intro, but should be a good resource):
• Valve announces Steam OS, a linux-based free gaming-oriented OS that device makers can freely include. Could disrupt the gaming market:
• RSA tells customers to stop using part of its BSAFE product since it has been pwned by the NSA:
  • In the comments section: "All of a sudden, Richard Stallman's continuing tirade about purity of open source, and the need for proper documentation on everything (hardware included) doesn't seem so crackpot now. Hindsight, but yes, we should have listened." Interesting, yes?

This week - it's Not about Furby, but about the new Apple iPhones. Your hosts, Ken Rimple, Sujan Kapadia and Joel Confino talk about whether they'd go out and buy one, whether they still display the same appeal, and what's under the surface that could be a potential game changer.

We also cover former Charioteer Brian O'Niell's Long Tail Treasure trove, a great JavaZone talk about some fantastic APIs he's used, Spring's new YARN framework for Hadoop 2.0, the Go language, $100 tablets, and more robot overlords.

The links

• Want a quick way to create a fast, Netty-based server? Check out this GitHub project, RestExpress
• And more about Netty... Why Netty? Java's Native IO (nio) of course!
• Hadoop 2.0 introduces YARN. But how to ball up some YARN? Let's use Spring YARN for developing Hadoop YARN applications
• Before he went off to the west coast to work for NING and GroupOn, Brian McCallister worked at Chariot. He has a great JavaZone slide deck - The Long Tail Treasure Trove- a set of APIs he's used on various projects. Joel talks about:
  • Xbean Finder - Find all of the classes in a jar that have your custom annotation. It uses ASM for speed and security.
  • Airline - a Java annotation-based framework for parsing Git like command line structures
  • JAnsi - Eliminate boring console output from your Java apps, let’s you do cools, etc...
  • Netflix Feign - Easily write Java clients that consume Web Services (alternative to Jersey, etc)
  • Jackson module afterburner - a Jackson module that uses bytecode generation to further speed up data binding (+30-40% throughput for serialization, deserialization)

  (pause for cheesy marketing) - And if you act now, much, much more!!!

• IP Law and FOSS - one can help the other - an interesting take on how copyright, patents, trademark laws can intersect with open source projects.

• YEAH! Integrating yeoman-style projects into a larger maven build - Addy Osmani comes up with the goods. Making Maven Grunt
• We buried the lead - NSA can get to everything
• Joel brings up the counter-point, an article by ARS.
• Vertx 2.0 Q&A on InfoQ w/Tim Fox - As per last week's episode, Vert.X is an eclipse-hosted, run by Tim Fox at RedHat. Check out The VertX Gradle Template and if you're looking for a good manager for Vert.X, groovy, grails, griffon, etc., have a look at GVM.
• A graphene transitor? wow, that's atomic!
• Ok, beginning coders, how about a coding game - this isn't started yet, but close. Looks SUPER fun.
• Coding craze - going crazy?
• How about a DIMM SSD with ultra-low latency? - wow! Let's order 4 for my macbook! (Coming soon, but Enterprise only)...
• Racket: write your own programming language - a SCHEME-based language to write other languages for educational purposes.
• $65 DIY robot that moves like a bug

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Links, please!

• A nice, involved, deep tutorial on building a fantasy football league manager using AngularJS.
• Vert.X has really come into its own - a great article by JavaWorld on version 2.0.
• Duck, wait for the flash - here is Spring Scala. Now you can not only host scala-based Spring Beans, but define your bean contexts in a handy DSL ala the JavaConfig variant.
• Spock (a groovy-based JUnit behavior-driven testing engine) keeps impressing Ken - he saw an 'old()' method that blew his mind. Several hours later, he got up and posted a link to this Blog article on mrhaki.
• How about an Arduino networking board that can communicate up to more than a thousand meters! Wow! The boards are to be mesh-network capable too.
• Since they're both Spring Geeks, Sujan and Ken spend time discussing this 2011 article on the corner cases around transactional testing in Spring.
• Somebody, go over and poke Progressive Enhancement with a stick. Is it dead yet? Maybe... Read Tom Dale's take on the subject.
• The link we've been waiting for - in London, a lens was formed by a building's curved windowed surface that MELTED A CAR - well a bit. Read this fascinating verge article on it.

• Six technologies you should learn this year
• Yeoman 1.0 is official (1.0.3, actually) - The future of Yeoman.
• In the vista of Ballmer's Microsoft, famous failures but also solid success.
• Keith Gregory - a visit to the kingdom of verbs. This is a funny commentary, which references back to Steve Yegge’s Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns is the source material for Keith’s character’s letter to the Verb Kindgom. Check out Keith's programming resources page for some in-depth reading. (His articles on Git workflow are especially good reads!)
• New Spring releases:
• Spring Batch 3.0 Milestone 1 released - JSR-352 compatibility features, more...
• Spring Security 3.2.0 RC 1 released - adds CSRF support, more via headers and Spring security 3.2.0 RC1 CSRF protection.
• Spring Boot - what, another rapid framework for Spring? - This one is focused on quick starts of projects that can be run as Groovy scripts or JAR projects. A project to watch for 2014.
• Fantastic view into Twitter's re-architecture. This platform reached a new Tweets per second record, and how! And it gave us a really interesting new remoting meta-protocol API.
• It’s Official: The Era of the Personal Computer Is Over - and we don't mean that everyone's gonna get a box of greenbar.

See the shownotes on the podcast page at emergingtech.chariotsolutions.com/devnews.

A recent SSL / TLS vulnerability causes temporary panic in the recording room when Joel knocks over the headphone mixer... But seriously folks, it's a doosie, one we'll be watching over the next few weeks. The mixer mishap is pretty funny though.

Our news items this week:

• 1 http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/ - What, another one? I just got over becoming a craftsman, and that’s after I became more Agile? What’s next, the hyper reactive manifesto? I’m getting it, I’m getting it, geez!!!
• 2 Candy Chat - Javascript multi-user chat (Jabber) client http://candy-chat.github.io/candy/
• 3 Bower recommends you check in your dependencies - Addy Osmani - http://addyosmani.com/blog/checking-in-front-end-dependencies/
• 4 AngularJS - great article on using filters - http://suhairhassan.com/2013/07/25/angularjs-in-depth-part-2.html#.UfpMhKm9KK0 his Part 1 article on the basics is also good http://suhairhassan.com/2013/06/07/angularjs-in-depth-part-1.html#.UfpOY6m9KK0
• 5 REAL-TIME APPLICATION: MULTI-USER CHAT APPLICATION USING NODE.JS, SOCKET.IO, AND EMBER.JS http://blog.jtmoon.com/real-time-application-multi-user-chat-application-using-node-js-socket-io-and-ember-js/
• 6 Don Coleman's bluetooth serial plugin is now approved for PhoneGap Build. https://build.phonegap.com/plugins/23
• 7 Docker Jenkins plugin - https://github.com/georgebashi/jenkins-docker-plugin
• 8 More security nightmares - the HTTPS, SSL and TLS attack that hacks key secrets of an encrypted connection in 30 seconds or less (or the meal is free?) http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/gone-in-30-seconds-new-attack-plucks-secrets-from-https-protected-pages/

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Joel and Ken cover:

• A twitter conversation wherein Scala is bigger than COBOL for job hunters, but not bigger than Pizza Delivery
• Dzone - My Java EE 8 Wishlist
• 160 million credit cards hacked by “high tech” cyber criminal gang over the past decade. Probably one of the most successful/destructive hacking groups ever. Their main technique? Some kind of amazing new technology involving quantum physics and a Delorean? No, SQL injection. Seriously.
• PhoneGap 3 is out - Blog article by Chariot's Don Coleman. Here's a What's new in PhoneGap 3.0 reference article by PhoneGap's Brian LeRoux.
• Twillo and Redis - an incident with billing - always interesting to read war stories from ops...
• Patent Trolls gotcha down? How about Ask killing a patent due to prior art in 15 minutes flat
• Big Data gets into thorny areas of debate for guest workers

• Sim Card Hack exposes potentially - millions of phones, potentially. Here's hoping our phones use Triple-DES encryption.
• Foundation -vs- Twitter Bootstrap - a good overview of both and their strengths. Great comments as well.
• Unix commands for data science That's what i sed, unix util(s) for fun and profit, head to your couch, sit your tail down and grep the podcast for that stuff, isn't that awk?
• Here's a great title - GitHub Helps Clueless Coders Go Open Source - from Wired - most open source projects actually lack a clearly defined license. Zounds!
• Writing a simple script using Grunt to minify and concat your files - oh, and did we mention Yeoman, which uses Grunt and Bower to build full application stacks? Great for experimenting with Backbone, AngularJS, Ember, etc...
• Chariot Blog Corner - Rich Freedman - on Android Cursor options for SQLite databases - if you're just getting going with SQLite and cursors, read up on this topic.

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• New AWS feature - Resource permissions for EC2 RDS http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/07/08/announcing-resource-permissions-for-amazon-ec2-and-amazon-rds/?ref_=pe_395470_31013550_7
• History of tech - Vannivar Bush and Douglas Engelbart intersected - he read Vannivar’s future of tehchnology paper - http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/the-hut-where-the-internet-began/277551/ http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
• Another browser-based IDE, but this one has lots of integration - https://codenvy.com/
• Developers begin to focus new efforts on tablets, phones hold steady http://gigaom.com/2013/07/12/survey-far-fewer-developers-are-prioritizing-smartphone-apps-over-tablet-apps/
• Another potential side effect of big data - bad government policy - http://readwrite.com/2013/07/12/big-datas-dehumanizing-impact-on-public-policy - see Tim O'Rielly's response in the comments, as a counterweight to the original argument.
• It is the end of our world, say prognosticators. Moore's law is truly slowing down and there are side effects - http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/13/your-app-is-slow-because-our-world-is-ending/ Also see http://sealedabstract.com/rants/why-mobile-web-apps-are-slow/ for a source article.
• New AWS feature - Resource permissions for EC2 RDS http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/07/08/announcing-resource-permissions-for-amazon-ec2-and-amazon-rds/?ref_=pe_395470_31013550_7

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It's the Dev News's 50th show today, yep, that's right, we're turning 50. Stay tuned…

Topics

• ARS - You can crack iPhone auto-generated hotspot passwords in seconds - http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/new-attack-cracks-iphone-autogenerated-hotspot-passwords-in-seconds/
• Android phone #s breeched by Facebook app - http://www.darkreading.com/mobile/android-phone-numbers-leaked-by-facebook/240157723 - 
• ARS - The more complex the rules, the more annoying, and is it really more effective than just a longer password with less complexity anyway? http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/06/password-complexity-rules-more-annoying-less-effective-than-length-ones/
• Play with NextStep 3.3 in VMWare! http://osvirtual.net/en/nextstep-3-3-with-drivers-vmware/ - remember, OS X came from this Steve Jobsian seminal operating system.
• Douglas Englebart, inventor of the mouse and many other things, dies. We bring up things he's invented and his ideas from this article - http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/tech/mouse-inventor-dies/?utm_source=buffer&utm_campaign=Buffer&utm_content=buffera349a&utm_medium=twitter
• Also, see http://www.dougengelbart.org/library/books.html
• And see http://outsideinnovation.blogs.com/pseybold/2010/06/improve-your-ecosystems-ability-to-tackle-complex-issues-.html
• Raspberry Pi and Tor = Onion Pie, a simple obfuscator to help make it easier to work securely - http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/4204
• Jonas Boner - http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/building-scalable-highly-concurrent-fault-tolerant-systems-lessons-learned
• IDEs vs Editors yet again - two on the IDE side - Jason Whaley on DZON - suggests just using an IDE for any specific - DZone link - http://agile.dzone.com/articles/just-use-ide
• Second link - referenced in there, a year later w/PyCharm - http://andrewbrookins.com/tech/one-year-later-an-epic-review-of-pycharm-2-7-from-a-vim-users-perspective/
• Eclipse 4.3 is out, name is Kepler - get it here - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ - includes a BPM release, Web Tools Platform and Java EE 7 support, Orion 3.0 for better deployment, BIRT support, Mylin and Gerrit for code review support, and Maven integration with WTP. 
• Check out Atlassian SourceTree (we're not being compensated for this, it's Ken's opinion). http://sourcetreeapp.com

New Philly ETE presentations on http://emergingtech.chariotsolutions.com/tag/ete2013/

• PhillyETE Screencast #29 – The 11th Thing: Generalists, specialists, and how life imitates the decathlon – David A. Black
• http://emergingtech.chariotsolutions.com/2013/07/phillyete-screencast-28-why-are-there-go-programmers-blake-mizerany/

Ken and Joel
(The opinions on this podcast do not represent those of our employer, Chariot Solutions.) 

This week we're reviewing our favorite tools, development and otherwise.

Joel and Ken talk about:

• JSbin.com and JSFiddle.net - two browser-based tools that make fiddling with Javascript easy and fun
• Trello - a good project-board tool.
• Codiqa - a browser-based mobile IDE for PhoneGap/JQuery Mobile
• Apigee - web service / data service hosting platform.
• Cloudbees - mentioned when talking about hosted development tool suites, includes git/svn, wikis, Jenkins, hosting of the app itself, etc...
• Flowdock - A great project team conversation tool.
• Asana - A todo list tool, getting-things-done-style.
• VIM + CI + Janus = simplicity

Referenced:

• Build a Store Locator App with HTML5, PhoneGap & an API-based Backend (webcast recording)

It's the big return of the regular DevNews this week. My co-host Joel Confino and I discuss lots of big data stuff, including:

• They hype it, then they try to kill it - Why Big Data is not truth - just using Big Data techniques doesn’t make it easy to select good data to begin with, or properly apply statistical and scientific methods, but it does make it faster. Joel and I discuss the pros and cons of this article. Speaking of hype, here's the Gartner Research Hype Cycle for ya.
• Joel suggests we may want to eat some Kale - Big Data statistical methods in use to find website issues - Introducing Kale
• Appropos (sic?) of nothing, here's an article that triggered my website security concerns - ever hear of Content Security Policy? Deeper W3C people know about it. It's been implemented in newer versions of Firefox, Chrome, WebKit, Internet Explorer, and other browsers. A draft of version 1.1 has hit, and basically it uses some HTTP headers to turn off/moderate access to embedded scripts and eval() calls. Check it out and add it to your hotlist of security measures.
• Here's an idea: go ahead and try to write an application that reaches over 90% of your smartphone's population. Quick quiz: which one of the major technologies (iOS or Android) would you reach with one version of your software? If you guessed Android, BUZZZT! Maybe not. Turns out iOs is not fragmenting as much as Android is. Guess Apple gets their users to upgrade more. See what Joel and I have to say about it.
• What do you know? Ok, maybe not everything. In fact, definitely not everything. To prove it, Sijin Joseph has put together a web page with a Programmer Competency Matrix. The matrix lays out some areas in which the writer feels a person is not knowledgeable (2^n), has basic knowledge (n^2), has expertise (n), or is a guru (log(n))... I knew we'd get SICP in there somewhere - see the books section.
• We take some time to discuss the article that finally said what we're all thinking. It's time to talk to your Mother in Law - a GigaOm article on LinkedIn endorsements. Wait, this has merit to talk about, because we can claim it's a large amount of data being acquired for use by LinkedIn.
• Netflix is on(to) something. See this fabulous Github IO Page where they list out all of their open-sourced libraries and APIs and use their own movies template to do so. Simply fantastic, and shows their deep commitment to the open source community. One of their most recent contributions is Genie, which manages deploying code to AWS instances and is on Joel's research shortlist.

To leave us feedback on the show, send us a message on Twitter as @techcast, we'd love to hear from you.

Ken Rimple

Chariot's Steve Smith attended Apple's World-wide developer conference last week, and we sat down today to talk to him about it.

Topics

• WWDC ticket ordering process fun
• New hardware releases
• iOS 7 features
• OS X Mavericks
• His view as a mobile developer of iOS over the years including open source projects, etc...

Rebooting this podcast starting THIS WEEK!  I hope to have one developer news every other week, starting today.

This summer has been anything but a vacation, with our training exploding and me spending lots of time in the classroom. I've also penned two updates to Spring Roo in Action, so I've been pretty busy. But I realized we haven't been updating the DevNews, so let's get back to it, shall we?

Links

• The Selfless Debugger (Big Nerd Ranch) http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/793-the-selfless-debugger/ - How the XCode 4.4(.1) debugger has trouble keeping track of itSELF and how to deal with it.
• SpringSource Tool Suite open sourced and moved to GitHub - 3.0 released too - http://blog.springsource.org/2012/08/13/springsource-tool-suites-3-0-0-released-reorganized-open-sourced-and-at-github/
• Chariot Blogger - Chariot's Keith Gregory - http://blog.kdgregory.com/2012/08/taming-maven-dependency-management.html - about the dependency management tag, excludes, and other specialties of the Maven language.
• Keith again with how to set up local repository servers: http://blog.kdgregory.com/2012/08/taming-maven-local-repository-server.html
• Joel Confino in an older post (but I love it) about how to tame your GMail with Groovy - http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2011/08/groovy-script-to-tame-gmail-attachments.html
• Corey Latislaw on setting up the Roboelectric Android debugger plugin with IntelliJ - http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2012/08/integrating-robolectric-with-intellij.html

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• Chariot Solutions Education Services - Training in Spring, Hibernate, Scala, Maven and more. Visit us on the web at chariotsolutions.com/education

Events

• Scalathon 2012

News

• Rod Johnson Leaving VMWare
• Spring project infrastructure maturing
• FuseSource acquired by RedHat

Podcasts

• Java Posse #387 - features NoSQL discussion from the Java Posse Roundup 2012 in Crested Butte, CO
• Chariot TechCast #72 - out on June 8th, Jamie Allen on Scala past present and future

Chariot Authors corner

• Chariot bloggers - Lyle Anderson - two part article series on Flyway Migrations and Maven
• Chariot bloggers - Ken Rimple - Spring Roo and Web Flow on Java.Net
• Chariot bloggers - Anatoly Polinsky - something deeper - Scala: fun with CanBuildFrom - a way of building collections via a type of builder pattern Chariot bloggers -
• Chariot Bloggers - John Shepard - UTF-16 for Grammars - quick code sample printing out some of the standard grammar elements in the unicode UTF 16 character space.

Presentations

• Andrea OK Wright's presentation on Polyglot programming, using Scala as a host language to execute Python code. Extremely well annotated and detailed. A must read if you're thinking of embedding one language within another, as she shows the breadth of techniques available.

Rich Freedman lent some time to talk to Ken Rimple tonight over skype and re-launch the Developer News series, which has been on hiatus since February. Here are some of the topics they discussed:

• Apache Tika - Apache Tika
• Griffon 0.9.5 released - 120 plugins?? Wow...
• Grails 2.0.3 is available
• Apache Tomcat 7.0.27 released with support for WebSockets
• A Computer Scientist in a Business School: The Google attack: How I attacked myself using Google Spreadsheets and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
• Pivotal Labs is said to have been sold ? Tech News and Analysis (ancient link, and yes, they were, and to EMC to boot!)
• The 'T' twitter command-line client
• Oh my ZSH
• The Android Scripting project - pure awesomeness!

The developer productivity tools they mentioned were:

• Notational Velocity - Rich's note taking tool that has an Android API

In this fine episode, we cover:

• Spring Framework 3.1 goes GA | SpringSource Team Blog - Complete non-XML configuration support Environment Profile Support Jackson Message Marshalling Cache Abstraction c: Namespace
• See Gordon's article on Spring 3.1 Profiles here and the c: constructor namespace here.
• Spring Integration Home | SpringSource.org - Supports NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Redis & Gemfire Supports AMQP & RabbitMQ
• HP Announces Open webOS 1.0, Outlines Release Schedule | TechCrunch - Looks like HP is serious, at least in getting WebOS to a wider audience. Question is, can they attract attention enough to make it a viable player in the mobile market, or is Android going to roll over it like a freight train. We'll discuss in the DevNews.
• Riding Rails: Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store - Here ya go, Rails 3.2. Benefit for you - faster development mode!!
• The Top 10 Javascript MVC Frameworks Reviewed | CodeBrief - A good overview of ten MVC frameworks for single-page Javascript applications.
• See a number of mobile articles by our Chariot bloggers, including Steve Smith
• From a list to Details View using Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile (Steve Smith)
• Sorting collections with Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile (Steve Smith)
• Introduction to Backbone.js with jQuery Mobile (Steve Smith)
• Introduction to Sencha Touch (Don Coleman)

Thanks for listening.

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Ken, Gordon and Steve

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Links:

• New York City gets a Software Engineering High School - Joel on Software - How cool is this? Wouldn't it be awesome to go to a tech high-school? Does a degree matter in this day and age as much as good skills and background?
• Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - You can fire up EC2 with data against various public datasets mounted as EBS volumes.
• Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices - SFLC Blog - Software Freedom Law Center - Ok, our ETE regular Toby DiPasquale found this horrid piece of news about Microsoft's Secure Boot for Windows 8, an UEFI patent, and their newfound proclivity to wall up a previously unwalled garden.
• Android Design Guidelines - See http://www.subtraction.com/2012/01/13/android-doubles-down-on-design as well for more on this topic.
• Fusion-io Breaks One Billion IOPS Barrier :: Fusion-io - Wow. 1 Billion I/O per second? We love WOZ. Read on. Brent Ozar, SQL Server guy video cast - covers how they use general rules of high database throughput (solid state drives, everyone a DBA).
• Use try-with-resources: Language Enhancements for the Java 7 OCPJP Exam - So, we have a new form of try statement that allows you to define 'closeable' objects within, that it then automatically closes once the try block finishes. This is a new Java 7 feature, from Project Coin. Read on...
• Chariot Solutions: Introduction to Backbone.js with jQuery Mobile - Our own Steve Smith has written a practical article introducing Backbone.js and jQuery to build a mobile application. A great tutorial for beginners.
• SpringSource/html5expense - GitHub - This is a HTML 5 application demonstrating cross-platform mobile using jQuery and Spring.

Big thanks and congratulations to my co-host Jason Grittman, who is moving to California - this is his last show (as a regular!). Thanks Jason for all of your help! We'll hope to have you back soon from your new roost in Silicon Valley!

Ken

Well, it's a sad day in Chariot DevNews land. We have to say goodbye to Jason Grittman, who is leaving for a new gig on the west coast. 

Show Notes

• Spring 3.1 goes GA - http://blog.springsource.org/2011/12/13/spring-framework-3-1-goes-ga/
• Grails 2.0 Released - http://blog.springsource.org/2011/12/15/grails-2-0-released/
• Grails on Heroku goes beta - http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/12/15/grails/
• Peter Ledbrook on vert.x - http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/groovy-vert-x
• vert.x 0.2 with limited Groovy support - http://purplefox.github.com/vert.x/
• ember.js (formerly amber.js) - http://www.emberjs.com/
• Google Spreadsheet in 10 min with Neo4 - jhttp://blog.neo4j.org/2011/12/neo4j-labs-heroku-neo4j-and-google.html?spref=tw
• Groovy Algorithms - http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2011/11/groovy-algorithms-shunting-yard.html
• Akka Scheduler - http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2011/10/akka-scheduler-actors-with-heartbeats.html
• Scala Actors in Groovy - http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/concurrency_on_the_jvm_using
• Philly ETE 2012 Speaker Lineup - http://phillyemergingtech.com/2012/speakers

Ken & Jason

Welcome to Episode 39!  This week we discussed:

• Cleaning? ? Marco.org
• Roo (in the) Corner - new features in?trunk... - Rimple on Tech - Random Thoughts
• The Elements of Computing Systems / Nisan & Schocken / www.idc.ac.il/tecs
• Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 - Blog ? Stack Exchange

Enjoy!

This week we catch up with all of the world's news in what normally is a quiet August. Then we discuss some new releases in the Firefox world, the new Java Lambda decision, Java 7 features, and a warning about Java 7 and Lucene.

Hosts:  Jason Gtitman and Ken Rimple

Show Notes

• Lamba decision for Java (sort of?)
• Software’s Receding Hairline
• Balsamiq
• Heroku for Java
• New Firefox Beta with Enhanced Performance | Future Releases
• Robots Have Taken James Gosling Away From Google
• The day Apple won the Flash fight
• Google to shut down 10 of its products - Neowin.net
• NSFetchedResultsController and Core Data Managed Object Updates « The Other Steve Smith
• [WARNING] Index corruption and crashes in Apache Lucene Core / Apache Solr with Java 7 - Uwe Schindler - org.apache.lucene.java-user - MarkMail

Joining Ken Rimple this week are Jamie Allen (@jamie_allen) and Jason Gritman.  Topics discussed:

• Grails - user - Grails 1.4 is now Grails 2.0
• Countdown to Grails 2.0: Static resources | SpringSource Team Blog
• Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
• Google+ buttons in CSS
• Heroku | Clojure on Heroku
• Ruby Creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto Joins Heroku
• The LMAX Architecture
• productivity - Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware? - Programmers - Stack Exchange
• The Ultimate Power Of Spring Batch by Anatoly Polinsky on Prezi
• Selenium 2.0: Out Now! ? Official Selenium Blog
• HTML5 - Document Outlines

Getting Involved

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Events / Sponsorship

Chariot Solutions sponsors this DevNews episode.  

Training Events in August:

• August 2-5: Zero to Rails 3 Training courtesy of Engine Yard
• August 10-12: Hibernate with Spring training

Find out more about our courses, including Maven, Spring, and Rails, at chariotsolutions.com/education

What a couple of weeks!

The Philly Emerging Tech 2011 Conference really knocked me for a loop. What a great show, and so much to process from it too. We'll have content coming in very soon, including screencasts of close to a dozen sessions. Look for announcements here and on our blog soon.

The news this week

So, we're joined this week by @kgriffin - no, not Kathy Griffin, Kevin Griffin (one's British, the other is on the B-List...) Kevin talks to us about iOS 5, what we know, what we can say without getting in big trouble. We also talk about some other things such as the HTML5 web workers API.

Then, I run through some articles, including Ubuntu's shiny new upcoming Unity desktop, the move by Oracle to open source Java even more by handing out Open JDK 7 as the new JDK RI (I know, right?), the VMWare vFabric internal cloud offering (Chariot is a SpringSource/VMware partner but we're including it because we talked about the Cloud Foundry offering, and this is a contrasting offering). We take Ben Darfler's (@bdarfler) audio feedback on the inaccuracies of our recent reporting about Jenkins and Hudson. Thanks to Ben for that feedback note!

Links

• Riding Rails: Rails 3.1: Release candidate
• www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/workers/basics
• The Modernizr - a Javascript library that lets you detect what features of HTML your browser supports or does not support.
• Comparison of Protobuff, Thrift, Avro, etc : Pure Danger Tech
• VMWare announces vFabric 5 - SaaS for Java apps in a private cloud
• Moving to OpenJDK as the official Java SE 7 Reference ...
• Sonatype Blog " Hudson Survey Results Show Reliability and ...
• Ubuntu moves into its own UI with Unity

Sponsorship/Plugs

• Learn about Chariot's Training Services in Spring, Maven, Hibernate and Ruby.

In this week's episode, we've given Eric a lot of coffee and set him loose on the Google I/O announcements.  We also discuss the new Scala / Akka company, TypeSafe, Hudson being donated to the Eclipse foundation, 7 inch tablets, and Matt Riable's foray into demonstrating Java EE 6 security.

• Raible Designs | Java Web Application Security - Part I: Java EE 6 Login Demo
• Google App Engine Blog: App Engine 1.5.0 Release
• No Market for 7-Inch Tablets? News Begs to Differ: Mobile Technology News ?
• Google I/O 2011
• Upload all file types to any Google Account - Google Apps Developer Blog
• dzone.com - Scala & Akka Creators Launch Typesafe Company for Multicore and Cloud Architectures
• Hudson donated to Eclipse Foundation

The views and opinions expressed by Eric and Ken are their own, and not official viewpoints of Chariot Solutions. That said, enjoy!

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.

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.

We start out this week looking at the career of superprogrammer Fabrice Bellard, and move on to topics as different as RSA seed files and potential compromise, Apple's 10.6.7 update, graphing and data visualization, metaprogramming in Ruby, heck the list goes on and on…

Brought to you by Chariot Solutions Education Services.  This Spring we have a Spring special - our Spring training courses are off-the-hook affordable for the months of April and May!  Save some money and learn how we deliver superior training in Spring, Maven, Hibernate, and much more at chariotsolutions.com/education.  Chariot Solutions is a VMware and Sonatype education services partner.

• Django 1.3 Cheatsheet
• Medihack " Blog Archive " Intend to extend (metaprogramming ...
• In JavaScript, curly brace placement matters: An example ...
• First steps with Node.js « Gridshore
• Cool Groovy aspect in Spring
• RSA’s silence spreads fear about use of SecurID - Technology & science - Security - msnbc.com
• dzone.com - Dear Web Design Community, Where Have You Gone?
• dzone.com - Fabrice Bellard: Portrait of a Superproductive Programmer
• Apple releases OS X 10.6.7, fixes MacBook 2011 graphics bug | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews
• A Sample of 20 JavaScript Libraries for Data Visualization
• InfoQ: Meet the Goliath of Ruby Application Servers
• Xcode3 – Debugging iOS Unit Tests « Hiedi Utley

Welcome to our Developer News, Episode #32. Eric is here in spirit and on assignment. He donated three articles - see if you can see which ones are his!. As usual, our dev news show notes are here, but can be accessed at delicious.com/developernews.32

• Why and when you should use Cucumber
• Java for Mac OS X Update Breaks dev_appserver
• Couchbase Releases iOS Preview
• Why VMware's WaveMaker Acquisition Is a Smart Buy - Application Development - News & Reviews - eWeek.com
• Addressing a Big New Audience: VMware Acquires WaveMaker | SpringSource Team Blog
• furbo.org · Mac App Store guide
• WaveMaker Springs To VMware
• InfoQ: DSL Evolution for Groovy Developers

Sponsors

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All the best, Ken

The TechCast is brought to you this (and every) week by our employer / sponsor, Chariot Solutions.  We have lots of training in Spring and Maven coming up in March, and if you hurry you can enjoy an early bird special rate.  Visit our training calendar at chariotsolutions.com/education.

Links (in no specific order - you can view them also at delicious.com/developernews/31

• Java 7 Fork/Join Parallel Programming
• Google requests re-examination of Java patents - The H Open Source - news
• Bash Completion for Maven + more
• Gordon Dickens is on Spring-based FIRE! Lots of great content.
• Rails 3.1 release, rumors about new features - hemju
• BNR iPhone Development - Kindle Version

Sponsor Links

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Ken and Eric

Show notes to follow.  For now, visit http://delicious.com/developernews/30

Ken & Eric

This week's Dev News is brought to you by the letter 'M', as in 'WebM'.  Google has announced that future releases of the Chrome browser will no longer support H.264, instead moving to the new WebM and VP8 codec/format.  So we riff on that for a while.  If you want a really good analysis from people who know Google and video really well, check out the latest episode of This Week in Google from the TWIT network.

We also discuss the App Store trend - both of us have used the Apple Mac App Store, and kinda like it, from a consumer perspective.

Big news in JRuby-land, a big release, we have it covered.  Also we talk about a very nice little feature in Spring's property placeholder configuration that enables default values, right in the XML.  And we follow up with a discussion on Rich Hickey's decision to close financial donations to the Clojure project.

Show notes (until it dies) are currently available on delicious.com/developernews/29.  Ken apologizes for the audio quality as he recorded it on his Macbook Air's internal mic, forgetting to bring his mics back from a recording session with 'da band' this weekend.

Have a good week.

Ken & Eric

Eric and Ken talk about Amazon's new DNS server, Route 53, discuss Matt Raible's excellent web frameworks comparison study, discuss resources for Scala from the Basement Coders, talk about a new mixin feature request around the Ruby language, and more.

Disclaimers: Chariot is a SpringSource partner, and uses Amazon and Google services. The opinions of Eric and Ken do not reflect anything other than their viewpoints. Enjoy.

• Raible Designs | My Comparing JVM Web Frameworks Presentation from Devoxx 2010
• InfoQ: Amazon Route 53, a DNS Server in the Cloud
• Scala Language Tour
• Ruby Refinements: An Overview of a New Proposed Ruby Feature
• App Engine gets Streaming API and longer background tasks
• InfoQ: Spring Integration 2.0 Released

This week's show includes BREAKING NEWS (we need some sort of web effect for this) - Apple is joining the Open JDK.  Should really mix things up.

• Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X | Business Wire
• Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit • The Register
• PhoneGap Build
• Pyspread
• Django 1.3 Alpha 1 Released
• Socializing Spring Applications | SpringSource Team Blog
• Dan Allen's Open Letter to the JCP Executive Committee calling for JCP reform - TheServerSide.com
• Worth Repeating: Your Application is NOT Lightweight If... - TheServerSide.com
• RSpec best practices
• Spring Web Flow 2.2.0 Released | SpringSource.org

This podcast is brought to you by Chariot Solutions.  We're hiring!  Visit our recruiting page for more details. 

Sponsored Events:

• December 1, 2010 @ Conshohocken Marriott - Continuous Integration for the Enterprise
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Ok, folks.  So many things happened in the past week that we needed to get an episode out to talk about them. Not that Eric or me have any line into correct reasoning behind anything, but we wanted to talk, so here it is:  our Cats-and-Dogs episode!

We have several debates raging in Java-land right now, between the "Spring is a legacy framework" bruhaha, the movement to OpenJDK by IBM, and Apple's deprecation of the OS X JDK.  We attempt to take no side, but we also leave no stone unturned (or is that Tern unstoned) in our efforts to open up debate on these topics...

Links

• Russian Army Upgrades Its Inflatable Weapons
• Lincoln Baxter - Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The age of Frameworks is Over
• Matt Raible - RE: Moving from Spring to Java EE 6: The Age of Frameworks is Over
• A follow-on Post on RedHat's site which links to a seminar - and the SlideShare presentation
• Apple Deprecates its JVM - Another view on Apple and Java
• IBM moving to OpenJDK - Slashdot Developers Story | IBM and Oracle To Collaborate On OpenJDK
• NOSQL in the house… Riak 0.13 Released

Standard Podcast Disclaimers:

• The views expressed are not those of Chariot Solutions, and are opinions of Ken and Eric
• Chariot Solutions partners with JBoss and SpringSource

Send feedback to us on twitter!  @techcast for the show, or @krimple for Ken, @time2code for Eric

Thanks,

Ken and Eric

Do you know why you're binding those HQL parameters? Want to make the simplest AppEngine application in Groovy? How about learning about why you're such a bad programmer (that includes all of us, according to the post).

All this and more in today's Developer News for Thursday October 7, 2010.

• The Future of Java: forking, death, or stasis
• Do You Know Ruby's Chainsaw Method?
• Uncle Bob Martin's - "Clojure - Up Close and Personal"
• Coté's People Over Process » Liferay evolving beyond portals – the app server vacuum – Quick Analysis
• InfoQ: Revving Up Your Hibernate Engine
• Grails - 1.3.5 Release Notes
• thejavajar » Blog Archive » Gaelyk: Routes + Parameters + Binding = Simple Controller
• Daily Dose - Helios First Service Release
• You're a Bad Programmer. Embrace It. | Agile Zone
• Drools 5.1 Released

Have a great week!  - Ken and Eric.

Sponsored by: Chariot Solutions Events and Training for Fall/Winter 2010/11:

• Event: Chariot Solutions Mobile Application Development Series - Tuesday November 9th 8:30 - 10:30 AM
• Training: Core Spring Training - November 9 - 12, 2010
• Training: Enterprise Integration with Spring - December 7 - 10, 2010
• Training: Rich Web Applications with Spring - December 14 - 17, 2010
• Training: Hibernate with Spring - January 11 - 14, 2011

We've all been very busy of late.  Just got a chance to catch up and so we have lots to talk about in episode #24. 

Links

• Python Package Index : jellyfish 0.1.2
• Pyjamas - Python Javascript Compiler, Desktop Widget Set and RIA Web ...
• The Go Programming Language
• PostgreSQL: News: PostgreSQL 9.0 Final Release Available Now!
• Jeff's Blog - Building a fast, lightweight REST service with Rails 3
• End Times and the Release of Java 7 - TheServerSide.com
• Announcing GORM for Redis | SpringSource Team Blog
• Apple's new developer terms: What's in, what's out | Mobile | iOS Central | Macworld
• Green Unicorn - Welcome
• Statement by Apple on App Store Review Guidelines

Upcoming Events

• October 5 - Core Spring Training @ Chariot Solutions 
• October 12 - Continuous Integration for the Enterprise

(Sorry for the delay between shows lately.  It's the summer, and I was away on vacation...)

Especially THIS week, the opinions of Ken and Eric do not reflect the opinions of Chariot Solutions...

Speaking of this week, here are the links, found also on delicious.com at delicious.com/developernews/23

Links you can use!

• Release Notes - Grails - Version 1.3.4 - HTML format - jira.codehaus.org
• Headius: My Thoughts on Oracle v Google
• Quite the firestorm : On a New Road
• InfoQ: Oracle Sues Google Over Java in Android
• A List Apart: Articles: Good Help is Hard to Find
• Rails 3 Interview « Envy Labs

Blog / Podcast Disclosure:  we have partnered or worked in various capacities with a number of the companies mentioned in the show, including Sun, Oracle, Google and SpringSource.

Thanks to Kevin Griffin for joining Eric Snyder and myself this week.

Articles of interest

From http://www.delicious.com/developernews/2:

• Django and NoSQL Databases Revisited « myNoSQL
• Using PGP Encryption with Mule
• Chariot Solutions: Machine Learning: Google Prediction API
• Continuous Deployment, Code Review and Pre-Tested Commits on Digg4 ...
• Sharding in Grails | Groovy Zone
• Python Package Index : webapp2 0.2
• Getting started with Chef -- A tutorial
• Listen to Brian Fox discuss Maven 3 on BasementCoders.com
• Eclipse 4.0 SDK released - there is an updated tutorial available..

The Chariot DeveloperNews is sponsored by Chariot Solutions. In September we are running a number of training courses in the Spring Framework, including Enterprise Integration with Spring and Hibernate with Spring. We are also running two one-day Maven courses - an Intro and Advanced course. Check our course calendar at www.chariotsolutions.com/education.

In the DevNews today...

• CouchApp Evently Guided Hack w/ CouchDB
• Announcing djangoembed, rich media consuming and providing with Django
• Andres Almiray's Weblog : Weblog
• Daily Dose - Rails 3 Arrives at First RC Station
• Spring MVC 3 Showcase
• GORM Gotchas (Part 3)
• Michael Hartl’s Rails 3 Tutorial Book

Sponsor Moment:

We are sponsored / supported by our employer, Chariot Solutions, a leader in development and integration services in areas such as Java, Spring, Flex and Ruby on Rails.  Visit chariotsolutions.com/education to see our online training calendar.  We're hosting courses in Spring and Maven this fall.  Check us out today.

Podcast Disclosures:

We are partners with SpringSource, SonaType and Engine Yard, all of whom which may have been mentioned either directly or indirectly in this podcast.

Ken & Eric

• Understanding iOS 4 Backgrounding and Delegate Messaging @ Dr. Touch
• mxcl's homebrew at master - GitHub
• Homebrew: OS X's Missing Package Manager | Engine Yard Ruby on Rails Blog
• amf.js – A Pure JavaScript AMF Implementation
• The Incredible, Growing, Commercial Hadoop Market — GigaOM Pro
• Another Chance To Win a TShirt: What Are The Major Milestones in Java Persistence? | Javalobby
• Eucalyptus Closes $20M Round
• Are You A Starter, A Finisher Or An Implementer? | Javalobby

For the full list of developer news URLs we considered, head over to delicious.com/developernews/20

Ken & Eric

Chariot Developer News Episode #19

Hosts: Ken Rimple and Eric Snyder

The watchword this week is Release... Many releases upcoming or out, including FireFox 4 beta/preview 1, Tomcat 7 beta 1, and the upcoming Passenger 3 and GMail with HTML 5.

Links are not being loaded to delicious yet, so here they are in their glory!

• MRHaki on Groovy and clearing time from a date.
• The Road to Passenger 3.
• Firefox 4 Article.
• Apache Tomcat 7 Beta 1 is released!
• The Memory Leak protection article Ken was babbling on about.
• The mrhaki article on Spock.
• The Spock Project Page.
• Eight Open-Source Business Models.
• HTML 5 Coming to GMail.

Today's episode is #18.  We discuss a number of technologies.  LINKS, provided by the code snippet below!

• Git Reference
• Cloud Performance Comparison
• Pyro 4.0 released
• Google I/O 2010 - BigQuery and Prediction APIs
• Groovy++ in action: DSL for embedding HttpServer | Groovy Zone
• 11 Creative Ways to Avoid Becoming a Workaholic
• Groovy/Grails Talk - Adding Feeds With Grails Plugins
• Groovy Goodness: Strip Leading Spaces from Lines with Margin - Messages from mrhaki
• Five Really Handy Google Command Line Tricks

GEEK OUT!

If you're curious, here's how we fetched and converted the list from delicious rss using Groovy Console

def feed = new XmlSlurper()
      .parse("http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/developernews/18")
  println "<ul>" 
  feed.channel.item.each { feedData ->
      println "<li><a href='${feedData.link}' " +
       ">$feedData.title</a></li>"    
  } 
println "</ul>"
return null 

Enjoy,

Ken & Eric

PS - Standard disclosure:  Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource partner.

Our development news episode today is brought to you by the letter 'C'.  C is for Cloud.

Links:

• Using gradlew (the Gradle Wrapper) for Easy Gradle Execution: http://mrhaki.blogspot.com/2010/05/gradle-goodness-use-gradlew-for-easy.html
• Cucumber, a brief overview: http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/joeydotnet/archive/2010/06/01/cucumber.aspx
• Using OpenID authentication on App Engine: http://blog.notdot.net/2010/05/Using-OpenID-authentication-on-App-Engine
• What's a plugin-oriented architecture (Grails plugins and web slices):  http://blog.springsource.com/2010/06/01/whats-a-plugin-oriented-architecture/
• Using SpringSource Tool Suite 2.3.3.M1 with Roo and GWT: http://blog.springsource.com/2010/06/02/using-springsource-tool-suite-2-3-3-m1-with-roo-and-gwt/
• The Self Destruct File: http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2010/05/the-selfdestruct-file.html
• Recording of Grails/Terracotta webinar... : http://dave-klein.blogspot.com/2010/05/recording-of-grails-terracotta-webinar.html
• Watch AS34J - ActionScript for Java Developers by James Ward: http://www.jamesward.com/2010/05/17/watch-as34j-actionscript-3-for-java-developers/

Upcoming Events @ Chariot:

• Hans Dockter on Gradle - Chariot Pizza and Beer night 6/11/2010 @ 5PM in Fort Washington, PA.  It's a twofer - we're running this as a Philadelphia Groovy Grails User Group session as well.  Details:  http://www.phillygroovy.org/calendar/13662235/ hurry!  Seating is limited to 25.
• Introduction to Maven and Maven Intermediate training at Chariot 6/15 & 6/16, 2010
• From Zero to Rails 3 - Rails training w/Engine Yard using pair programming and pair training techniques!  Save $800 off the normal price for this one-time introductory offer.

Your bi-(hopefully)weekly dish of developer news, served up fresh and hot.  Well, ok, one day later than originally recorded.

An un-expergated version of the links is available at http://delicious.com/developernews/16

Links

• My Common Git Workflow - http://yehudakatz.com/2010/05/13/common-git-workflows/
• PyPy - what a name - Python written in Python.  How very meta of you!  http://alexgaynor.net/2010/may/15/pypy-future-python/
• Django 1.2.1 released - now with multi-database love. http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/may/24/121/
• Dive into HTML 5.  FANTASTIC web site that goes through the history of HTML, and what HTML 5 is all about.  Also a forthcoming book.  http://diveintohtml5.org/
• 7 lessons learned while building reddit - http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/5/17/7-lessons-learned-while-building-reddit-to-270-million-page.html
• Flex and Java Differences:  Getters and Setters.  Flex has properties, Java doesn't.  Read up.  http://www.jamesward.com/2010/05/07/flex-and-java-differences-getters-setters/
• Java exceptions and Flex - Cornel Creanga on DZone - actually talking about BlazeDS and Java exceptions - http://css.dzone.com/news/java-exceptions-and-flex
• Upcoming sessions on Rails Conf from RailsEnvy - http://blog.envylabs.com/2010/05/rails-3-tutorials/
• Maven 3.  3? Wait a minute!  Yes, 3.  What's new in Maven 3.0 from Matthew McCullough - summarized by Matt Raible.  http://java.dzone.com/articles/whats-new-maven-30-matthew

Chariot Training Events (shameless but relevant plug) related to the show

• June 15 - Sonatype Maven 101 - Introduction @ Chariot in Philly
• June 16 - Sonatype Intermediate Maven 201 - Learn about CI tools, repositories, site reporting, plugins, multi-module projects more.
• June 22-24 - From Zero to Rails 3 with Engine Yard - A complete Rails 3 for beginners course, taught on our fab 22" iMac machines, pair programming AND pair teaching!  Save over $800 now on introductory course pricing.  Hurry, space is limited.
• Official SpringSource Core Spring 3.0 training August 10-13 - A chock-full course from SpringSource on Spring, including overviews on Spring Security, remoting, ORM, AOP, and more.

Partners discussed in this podcast:

• Sonatype
• SpringSource
• Engine Yard

It has been quite a dry spell in podcast land for the listeners.  We've been recovering from running Philly ETE last month, and are just starting to dig out.  Content will now start coming out in regular frequency again on the Techcast. *Phew!*

This DevNews edition is more of a housecleaning of links than before.  The full list we put up there is at delicious.com/developernews/15, but we only cover about 9 links or so...

News Items (covered today)

• Zen Coding - templates for a variety of IDEs for HTML/CSS productivity - here is the IntelliJ article
• Ruby Equality - Do YOU know the four types of Ruby equality check?
• Netbeans 6.x Java EE 6 quickstart on netbeans.org
• SpringSource new announcements - RabbitMQ purchase, GemStone purchase, Webflow 2.1.0 milestone 1 release, and read up on Spring's Spring EL feature in Spring 3.0
• Actor-based concurrency with Python using Pysage
• Microsoft embracing HTML5 and CSS3 for IE 9.0!  H.264 hardware-enabled encoding for Windows Mobile is coming...  BTW, here's WebKit's main page.
• The RedCar JRuby IDE
• 7 Reasons to Hate Your Code by Yield Thought
• Testing your GWT Code

The usual podcast disclaimer:  The opinions expressed on the DevNews are those of the participants, and not official positions of Chariot Solutions.  Also, we discuss a few technologies from our partners.  Partners of Chariot Solutions include

• SpringSource / VMWare
• JBoss, a division of Redhat
• Engine Yard

Panelists today:  Ken Rimple & Eric Snyder

Sorry for the late notice, gang.  Since I run the techcast and I'm consumed with various education admin / teaching responsibilities this week, we're going to take a break for one week.  We will resume next week, and will also start pushing some ETE podcasts as well. Stay tuned, and as always, thanks for listening to the techcast!

Until we can load the show notes, please visit 

http://delicious.com/developernews/14

Thanks,

Ken, Eric & Gordon

Lots of topics this week.  Shownotes are available on delicious.com/developernews/13 as well. Submit your story ideas as tag "devnewsideas" and we'll look for them before each show.

• South 0.7 Released
• Python 2.7 Release
• The future of CSS: The Flexible Box Model
• MGG 254: Storage, AirDisk, 10.6.3 Woes, SD Cards, and WebKit
• Groovy 1.7.2 - Three Features Worth the Upgrade | Javalobby
• Mercurial: Early Thoughts | Javalobby
• [Not covered on the TechCast] Wow. This is big news. The father of Java has left Oracle : Time to move on... : On a New Road
• Spring batch has an upload facility that can take spring configuration data : Uploading Job Configurations to Spring Batch Admin | SpringSource Team Blog
• Jason Seifer has moved on and is doing a podcast called The Ruby Show with Dan Benjamin. The new show is at 5by5.tv/rubyshow, the existing railsenvy.com website is empty : Rails Envy

Thanks for listening.  You can head over to the DevNews forum at PhillyEmergingTech to leave feedback or discuss the show.  Forums:

Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource and EngineYard partner (relevant partners for this podcast episode.

Ken Rimple & Eric Snyder

Show notes available at 

delicious.com/developernews/12

Hope to see you at ETE 2010 - if not, please visit the techcast site, or chariotsolutions.com for news about show recordings and video.

Ken & Gordon

Bookmarks available on delicious.com/developernews/11

As always, social bookmarking on delicious.com for the devnews

delicious.com/developernews/10

However, here are the links...

Links:

• EIP 'Loan Broker' Reference Implementation (Part 1) | SpringSource Team Blog
• Guillaume Nodet's blog: Spring-DM, Aries Blueprint and custom namespaces
• Ehcache 2.0 Offers Grails Integration & Scaling Without Code Changes | IndicThreads
• Why doesn't (JPA, JMS, JTA, EJB, JSF, CDI) work? JEE is "Too …
• Google releases skipfish, an application security tool | Googling Google | ZDNet.com
• Grails Goodness: See Test Output on the Command Line - Messages from mrhaki
• SpringSource launches Tomcat Expert site

Follow us on twitter.  Official news:  @techcast and @chariotsolution - Ken Rimple is @krimple, Gordon Dickens is @gordonad

Partner Disclosures

• Chariot has consulting and/or education partnerships with SpringSource and JBoss

Due to all of my various time constraints, this is the "Brown Bag" edition of the Developer news - now without jazz!

Our show bookmarks can be found on:

www.delicious.com/developernews/9

Thanks,

Ken, Eric (apparently earlier I wrote Scott) & Gordon

Links to follow soon…  You can read the devcast bookmarks at

http://delicious.com/developernews/8

Thanks,

Ken, Brent, Eric and Gordon

Developer news segments are a weekly program, run by Chariot's application developers and architects.  This week we discuss PyCon 2010 with Eric Snyder.

Links can also be found on delicious.com at delicious.com/developernews/7

Submitting a news link?  Just add one with the public tag 'devnewsideas' and we'll try to incorporate it into the show.

Note:  Sorry about the audio in this show - we need to set up better mics for a multi-guest recording...

Links for this show:

• PiCloud | Cloud Computing. Simplified.
• PyCon 2010 Videos
• Relative Popularity of languages in job market
• The Rails Upgrade Handbook
• Using a Codec in a Grails unit test
• Flex Performance on Mobile Devices
• An introduction to GPARS
• Building Portable RIAs with Flex and PDF

Thanks from Ken, Brent, Eric and Gordon!

All DevNews bookmarks are available at 

  delicious.com/developernews/6

Thanks for listening!

Ken & Brent

Sponsorship:  Our sponsor this week is the Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference.  Early bird registration is extended - get your tickets this week - more information, including our schedule, is available at phillyemergingtech.com.  Speakers include Uncle Bob Martin, Michael Cote, and many, many others.

You can find the articles we've bookmarked at Delicious.com.  Our URL for this week is:

delicious.com/developernews/5

As always, you can bookmark items of interest on delicious.com and add the tag "devnewsideas" and we'll try to incorporate them into the show.

Ken & Brent

We have a bevy of good links this week.  As usual, Brent and Ken put together their favorite web links on delicious.  Review them here:  delicious.com/developernews/4

Sponsors from this episode include SpringSource, Sun, and EngineYard.

Chariot Developer News episode #3 - February 1 2010

News Links:

You can follow all of our links on Delicious.  Head over to delicious.com/developernews/3 for the details.

Disclaimers:

The opinions expressed by Ken and Brent do not necessarily form policy decisions at Chariot, for the US State department, or in the Federation of Planets...

Ah, disclosure law.  Partners discussed in the podcast:

• SpringSource
• EngineYard (forgot it in the audio stream but we talked about Rails 3)
• Sun (discussing the Oracle merger)

Feedback:

• Brent Baxter can be reached via his blog: brentbaxter.com or twittered at @brentbaxter
• Ken Rimple can be reached at the all-encompassing rimple.com, or via @krimple
• Send us feedback publicly using #techcast on twitter, or leave a comment on the blog, or privately via email (techcastfeedback at chariotsolutions.com).

Upcoming Events:

• Philly Emerging Tech - early bird special, save $$$ before February 15!  
• Philadelphia Spring User Group Meeting - February 11th - at Chariot Solutions, 515 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 202, Fort Washington PA.  Details at the Philly Spring site.

Developer NewsCast #2 - January 25, 2010 Hosts: Brent Baxter and Ken Rimple Our news links can be found at http://delicious.com/developernews/2 Disclosures related to show content: Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource, Sun and JBoss Partner.

This is our first Developer News podcast episode. We hope you like it. Links can be found by browsing our Delicious tags. Head over to www.delicious.com/developernews/1 for the links that made up today's show. Leave us feedback on twitter with #techcast, or email techcastfeedback@chariotsolutions.com.

A recap of the events of the last two days of SpringOne, with Brent Baxter and Dmitry Sklyut. Show notes will be available soon. Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource partner.

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. Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource consulting and training partner.

Here is another perspective on SpringOne from Chariot Solutions' Brent Baxter.

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. Chariot Solutions is a SpringSource consulting and training partner.

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.

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.