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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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