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DevConnections 2010 – First Day Impressions
DevConnections 2010 is my first Microsoft technologies centered conference in a long time, probably since VBITs in 1999. Having been out of the realm of Microsoft development, I hadn't heard much...
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DevConnections 2010 – Day 2
Day two of DevConnections 2010 I started off in a session titled: IIS 7.5 for Developers -by STEVE EVANS @scevans. This session was really good, Steve is very comfortable and kept the pace of the...
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JRebel Sponsors My Movember
As you may know, I'm growing a Mustache for the Movember campaign being put on by the Prostate Cancer Society. Well, the good people at Zero Turnaround have out done themselves by offering to give...
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Episode 23 – Interview with Shay Banon of Elastic Search
Going into our interview with Shay Banon we didn't know much about Elastic Search. I know I for one hadn't realized it was a completely Open Source project, I think the .com in the web address threw...
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Episode 24 – Move over Java, Introducing The Fantom Language with Brian and...
Our very own Basement Coder Justin Lee arranged for an interview with the creators of the Fantom language: Andy and Brian Frank. It's no coincidence the Frank's share the same last name, they are...
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Scala Language Tour ( Tutorial )
As a follow up to previous posts on Scala (Scala, a cursory glance and Scala and Akka an Interview with Jonas Boner) I've put together a Scala Language Tutorial. This was presented on November 25th...
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Episode 25 – Interview with Shaun Walker of DotNetNuke
While at Dev Connections 2010 I had the privilege to interview Shaun Walker the creator and founder of DotNetNuke (or DNN for short), a .NET based Content Management System (CMS). Content Management...
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Episode 26 – Modern Day Mainframes: Interview with Craig Mullins
Ever since we did Episode 7 -Why are Mainframes Still Around? we were left with the realization that really all the podcast involved was a bunch of non-mainframe programmers making speculations about...
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Episode 27 – Hudson, Oracle, Raible and AstyCrapper
There is a bit of a kerfuffle going on between the Hudson Continuous Integration project and our friends at Oracle over a change in licensing and the trademarking of the name: HudsonCI. It has gotten...
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Episode 28 – Pass By Magic, Mac App Store & Apache leaving the JCP
Well first off a big Happy New Years from all of the Basement Coders! We were on hiatus during the month of December but are back full force with brand new episode. This episode focuses mostly on a...
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Episode 29 – Contractor vs Employee
Got the skills to pay the bills? Every employee has wondered what it'd be like to be a contractor at some point. Maybe even dreamed of being one. Now reverse the roles and you don't find many...
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Epidsode 30 – Productivity Systems
Let's face it, in this business there are two types of people: Those that deliver and those who don't. What you may not know is that the differentiating factor could be as simple as whether or not a...
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Episode 31 – Jenkins, Amazon Elastic Beanstalk and UBB
If you remember back in Episode 27 we discussed the then unfolding news that Oracle had trademarked the name "Hudson". Well, now the Hudson folks have up and left, renaming a fork of the Continuous...
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Episode 32 – Benefit of Dynamic Typing, PS3 Jailbreak, Verizon iPhone
I caught a thread on the Scala-User mailing list recently where a person asked what the "Benefit of dynamic typing" was. Might be a bit of a one sided debate on a Scala list considering Scala is...
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Episode 33 – Java is a Dead End from Stockholm’s Jfokus Conference
Mike Gualtieri, an Analyst, wrote an article for Forrester (i.e. the people your boss listens to instead of you) about how Java has outlived it's usefulness as a business language. Troll much? It's no...
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Episode 34 – Interview with DuckDuckGo’s Gabriel Weinberg
Gabriel Weinberg is someone I've wanted to interview ever since I first heard of the DuckDuckGo search engine. I've always been intrigued by search technology and was pretty impressed by the fact that...
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We’re still alive!
Just a quick update to let you know we are still alive and will be recording once again very soon.
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Episode 35 – We’re Back, Ceylon, Rails + CoffeeScript and TSSJS 2011 recap
We're Back! Wow, it's been a while! We're back though and apologize for the long delay between casts. I had to edit this cast really quick, so if I missed anything (like links for the show notes) let...
View ArticleEpisode 36 – Software Engineer vs Gardener and are .NET programmers really...
In today's episode, Jason, Justin, Guillermo and Craig discuss: We announce our 500th Twitter follower! The TIOBE index came out with a new edition, Java, C++ top the charts Expensify CEO remarks on...
View ArticleEpisode 37 – So you Broke the Build
Everyone has probably done it, you've broken the build. Now you might feel the need to apologize. Should you? Or is it an excusable act, assuming you only do it once in a blue moon? We'll share some...
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Remember our CrashPlan contest!
Just a reminder... Each cast The Basement Coders will be giving away a free 1 year Crash Plan Central unlimited subscription to a lucky listener. All you have to do is follow these steps: Follow...
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Episode 38 – Prairie Dev Conf, TDD, BDD & Kanban
On today's episode Craig along with special guests Marc Jeanson and Sean Kowaski share their experience at the Prairie Developers Conference. Topics include: Test Driven Development Behaviour Driven...
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Episode 39 – Google+, Github for Mac (and Zed)
They did an awesome job on UX Google+ Well Google+ is upon us, and at the time of our taping we were just getting our invites. We've had a chance to test drive it a bit since then and it does look...
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Apache Wicket Cookbook Review
Some Background... This review of the Apache Wicket Cookbook is interesting because, as it turned out, I was asked to write this book originally! I had been singled out based on my contributions to...
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Introduction to Functional Programming
Recently I started a local user group called the WfPG - Winnipeg Functional Programming Group. The mandate is simple: Learn Functional Programming paradigms and languages, in a friendly and helpful...
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Win a free pass to JavaOne 2011!
The Basement Coders (all of em!) will be at JavaOne this October in beautiful San Francisco. As well Justin, Jeff and Craig will be presenting! And folks as a reward for listening, following and...
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Episode 40 – Our thoughts on Mac OSX Lion
On today's episode we share our thoughts on the new Mac OSX Lion. Arstechnica did a brilliant 19 page review the minute Lion was released, and being the fan boys we are a majority of the Basement...
View ArticleEpisode 41 – Interview with Igor Minar of AngularJS
.nohover a:hover {text-decoration:none;} < angular /> This is our first podcast to introduce video! There were some bumps and I learned a lot (all explained in the first 3 minutes of the video)...
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Episode 42 – Steve Jobs Resigns, Linux turns 20, HP TouchPad
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Episode 43 – Interview with Prashant Deva of Chronon Systems
Prashant Deva is not some hipster "brogrammer". No, he's about as hard-core geek, John Carmack-level coder. He's the fellow that brought us ANTLR Studio, to give you some bearing on his skills. While...
View ArticleEpisode 44 – David Pollak: Scala’s not for the Proletariat, HP TouchPad is...
In today's episode we cover a wide range of topics from David Pollak's (creator of Lift) view that "Scala is only for a certain class of developer", the HP TouchPad gets a second chance(?) and RSS may...
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Clojure Training Nov 6-8 2011
Clojure Training Nov 6-8 2011 Back in our Jfokus cast, Neal Ford was really passionate about Clojure. This made me very interested as well. Our friend over at MavenThought is delivering Clojure...
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Strange Loop 2011 Day 1
September 18th-20th 2011 In this Episode Basement Coders Craig and Jason along with Marc Jeanson, Amir Barylko and Sebastián Galkin recap their Day 1 conference experiences at Alex Miller's Strange...
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Delivering on Promises, Moving Java Forward: Henrik Stahl at JavaOne 2011
As you may remember last year at JavaOne, we had the privilege to interview Oracle's Product and Strategy lead for the Java Platform, Henrik Stahl. The entire theme of JavaOne this year was "Moving...
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The Basement Coders welcome Heath Kesler aboard!
We have a new Basement Coder! Heath Kesler (the guy on the left) has been a long-time friend of the podcast and will be coming aboard to help increase the number of casts. With such busy schedules,...
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Episode 47 – Fork You Growl! Interview with Perry Metzger
For those who may not know, the developer of Growl, that great little notifier app for OSX decided they should be paid for their work. There is one slight problem however. Growl is Open Source...
View ArticleEpisode 48 – Better Late than Never – JavaOne 2011 Recap
Well I think our livers have finally recovered from JavaOne 2011. Out of the Basement Coders gang Craig, Jeff and Justin all presented there talks, which you can find here: Justin Lee: The not Java...
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Episode 49 – Paperless Offices & Java is not the new COBOL
In this episode, Jeff walks us through how he setup his business to be almost completely paperless. He talks about the software, hardware and workflow he uses to accomplish this. Here are a list of...
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Episode 50 – Interview with Josh Long of VMWare – SpringSource
The Spring Framework is the defacto Swiss Army Knife framework for Java. If you know Java, but don't know Spring, you don't *really* know Java. One of the top reasons to use Spring is, although vendor...
View ArticleEpisode 51 – Just the cast Mam
It's been a while! In this episode (recorded all the way back in February 2012) we have a good old fashion organic Basement Coders podcast. Heath Kesler, Jason Whaley, Guillermo Castro and me Craig...
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Episode 52 – JRebel, LiveRebel and OSGi with Jevgeni Kabanov
Jevgeni is a good friend of the Basement Coders, I know one of the reasons I look forward to JavaOne is because I know him and his ZeroTurnaround team will be there. They always have the most rocking...
View ArticleEpisode 53 – Interview with Erkki Lindpere – Scala Sink or Swim
As mentioned in our previous cast with Jevgeni Kabanov, a fellow by the name of Erkki Lindpere from ZeroTurnaround wrote a three-part series of blog posts titled "Scala Sink or Swim". Basically a set...
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Infographic: Microsoft Ballmer’s Failures
Interesting infographic of the how Microsoft has stagnated since Ballmer's reign began. You have to wonder why though, Gates was totally late out of the gate (pun intended) on company vision...
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Episode 54 – Interview with Jeff Atwood
Hi! It's been a while. Well to make up for it, we have a great interview with Jeff Atwood! Jeff's contribution to the internet has left quite the footprint. Not only is he the prolific blogger behind...
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Episode 55 – Google I/O and Google Glass
Wow, it's been a while! Well we're back with a brand new cast. Our castmate Guillermo Castro (aka JavaGeek) is heading off to Google I/O 2013. There is at least one easter egg on that site, if you...
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Episode 56 – Google I/O 2013 Recap
Today we discuss Guillermo's Google I/O 2013 adventures. He's also blogged about the conference over at JavaGeek.org! Enjoy!
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Apple: Good artists borrow, great artists steal
Online MBA produces some interesting articles and I was sent this video the other day. Thought I'd share it with you. One thing I'd like to mention about the iPod is it was the first player that could...
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Episode 57 – And we’re back! EVE Online, Japanese and Conferences
Well remember when we told you folks we were just going to go down to the corner store for a pack of smokes, and then kind of never came back? Well we're back! Hopefully we can be friends again. EVE...
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Episode 58 – Make Code not War… The battle of the sexes in Tech
On today's show Guillermo, Heath and I talk about everything from be "careful not to offend" and sexism in the workplace to my startup and the Scala-based technology stack I chose. Heath brought up a...
View ArticleEpisode 59 – On Bitcoin and kids gaming
On this episode Guillermo and I don't do much development talk, but instead we chat about Bitcoin and how Guillermo's mining machine is doing. Also, what is the appropriate time to get your son or...
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