Hosts Ken Rimple and Sujan Kapadia are back with this week's dev news: from VIM 9, a push to banish the leap second, and why we all need to know a bit of SQL.

The boys are back in town! After running through some dev news, host Ken Rimple and Chariot consultants Chris Birster and Drew DeCarme discuss their takeaways from the recent Remix Conf, which took place in Salt Lake City, Utah.

In this episode, we share an exclusive conversation with Ashley Williams. Ashley is a current member of the Rust Core team. She is the founder of the Rust Foundation and served as its first executive director. She has served as a leader or member of the Rust crates.io, infrastructure, and community teams, WebAssembly working group, and the RustBridge and Increasing Rust's Reach programs.

Ashley has been the original author and lead maintainer of many popular developer tools in the Rust ecosystem, from Cloudflare's wrangler, to wasm-pack, cargo-generate, and several others. Previously, Ashley was a leader of the Node.js Community Committee, founded the NodeTogether educational initiative, and served as the first Individual Membership Director of the Node.js Foundation (now OpenJS Foundation).

Ashley has worked at npm, Mozilla, and Cloudflare. Ashley studied Neuroscience and Philosophy and was originally a middle school science teacher in NYC.

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This podcast episode is an interview with three leaders of the 2013 Philadelphia Enterprise Hack-a-thon contest, which is being launched at Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise on April 2-3, 2013. 

The interviewees are:

• Mike Schellhase  - Director of Field Applications - Bentley Systems 
• Phil Moyer - Managing Director of Technology @ Safeguard Scientific
• Satwik Seshasai - VP of Engineering at NextDocs

Hey, all. Gordon and I cooked up a few tasty items for your digestion this week. We've got

• Take your programming course with a grain of salt, please - A developer takes a college course whereby strict consequences are dished out for not following "the" rules. is this wrong?
• http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/118703/where-did-the-notion-of-one-return-only-come-from/118717#118717 - brought up in the discussion.
• Dreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Mentioned in the discussion
• McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Advanced Git?-?O'Reilly Media - A great video tutorial on Git that relates to our discussion of the Grails 101 video.
• O'Reilly: Mastering Grails 101 Video - What brought us to talk about the videos in the first place...
• Spring Roo 1.2.1.RELEASE available - Yes, it's updated again. This time, no book changes required (beyond search/replace) - yay!
• Heroku makes sharing SQL data as easy as URL - And it's so freakin' hip.
• Grails 2.0.1 Available... - An update is available to Grails that includes 80 bug fixes and other items.
• Get Started with Java on Heroku - A nice site to launch a fully configured application, ready to host on Heroku, with a variety of frameworks including Spring and Play.
• Specializing Generalist - You, sirrah, are a Specializing Generalist. I hope you can find it in yourself to cover for me while I'm gone. I'm also a Specializing Generalist, and my specialty is in generalizing about specialties. Seriously though, I tend to agree on this angle for staffing teams in general... Ken

Recap session with Chariot's Gordon Dickens and Dmitry Sklyut.

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Topics

• Keynote
• Spring Core
• Spring Data
• Grails and Reddis
• git.springsource.org
• Spring Integration
• Roo 1.1 release

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