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Episode 14 – Apache Camel
In this episode Craig, Jeff, Justin, Guillermo and Jason explore Apache Camel which is a Java based Enterprise Integration Patterns implementation (EIP) stack. EIP establishes a set of patterns which...
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Great Stack OverFlow question about experiences with writing Wicket code in Scala answered by Peter Thomas. To paraphrase: * certainly a lot less boilerplate and less 'noise' * Scala feels like a very...
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Episode 15 – The Personalities of IT (and how to deal with them)
In this episode Craig, Jeff, Justin, Guillermo and Jason explore their experiences with the Personalities of IT. We all know, our profession has some really odd-birds, everything from know-it alls,...
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Episode 16 – Scala and Akka an Interview with Jonas Boner
In this episode Justin and Craig have the privilege of speaking with Jonas Bonér about Scala and Akka. Jonas is a highly intelligent guy who's worked at Terracotta, BEA and was a founder of...
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Interview with James Gosling
Edit: The transcript can be found here Picture a Sunday Evening, you've just arrived from where ever you hail from to San Francisco. You got up at some ungodly hour to catch your flight, only to learn...
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Transcript of our Interview with James Gosling
The James Gosling Interview was pretty tough to hear at points, what with all the background noise. Here is a transcript of the conversation so you can clear up some noisier parts of the cast. Special...
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The Future of Java Rides on Guys Like These: Interview with Oracle’s Justin...
Edit: The transcript can be found here Once again we present another special Basement Coders podcast Live from Oracle's JavaOne conference in San Francisco. We sit down with Oracle's Justin Kestelyn...
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Transcript of our Interview with Justin Kestelyn and Henrik Stahl
The interview with Oracle's Justin Kestelyn & Henrik Stahl, although pretty decent in audio quality, had more than a few requests for a transcription. So Craig Tataryn (that's me!) hammered out a...
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Episode 19 – JRebel Jevgeni Kabanov “Bares All” for the Basement Coders
Jevgeni, Justin, Jeff, Craig(bottom) You know when you meet someone and you automatically "click"? Well, that's how the Basement Coders felt when they met the Zero Turn Around (ZTA) folks at the...
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Episode 20 – JavaOne 2010 Recap
P.S. Checkout Basement Coder JavaGeek's personal blog for more JavaOne recap information. Welcome to our "JavaOne 2010" Recap episode! We had a great time at JavaOne! The best part was that since...
View ArticleNeat Grep Trick – Displaying File Name in find Results
So I've been hacking on some Scala in my spare time, and one of the problems I've been having is finding proper IDE support for the language. I like being able to ctrl-click or cmd-click on a class or...
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Episode 21 – Interview with Cedric Beust
Cédric Beust is probably best known for his creation of the TestNG Java testing framework. It arose at a time when JUnit (the defacto standard for Java testing) was becoming stagnant. Testing...
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My Movember Contribution: Ask me about my mustache
I was recently at a Meetup called "Secret Handshake" up here in Winnipeg. It's a Meetup for "Creatives" which they leave very open ended to interpretation (writers, graphic artists, software...
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Episode 22 – Free Java
Jeff sporting his "Java - Just Free It" digs Do you know what the Free Java movement is? It's not exactly cut-and-dry. Essentially it's a movement which wants more community rather than autocratic...
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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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