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

Brian Fox is a longtime open source contributor, having worked on Maven 2 and overseeing the development of Maven 3. He is the VP of Engineering at Sonatype, and currently leads the Nexus repository project. The team has just released version 2.0, which includes support for the growing .NET open source community and the NUGET library manager. 

We discuss the evolution of Maven and repository management, the Nexus repository manager, and key features in 2.0, such as the new smart proxy and the advent of Sonatype's new repository license intelligence and health awareness.

Topics covered:

• Maven 3.0 and futures
• Maven central
• Nexus repositories
• Some Nexus architecture considerations
• Nexus 2.0, repository abstractions, NUGET
• Nexus Pro enhancements in 2.0

More information about Nexus and NuGet here. http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2012/03/03/sonatype-repository-now-supports-net-framework.aspx

Chariot is a Sonatype consulting and training partner.

Thanks to Brian for speaking to us today on the Techcast.

You can find Brian's blog entries for Sonatype at http://www.sonatype.com/people/author/brian/. Nexus is available at nexus.sonatype.org.

You can find him on twitter at AT brian underscore fox, You can find out more information about Nexus at nexus.sonatype.org.

Here is our interview with ETE keynoter Alex Payne. His talk, Emerging Programming Languages: a Tour of the Horizon" will be featured on April 11 at 8:30 AM.

Links will be updated over time, I wanted to get this out early.

Alex will be speaking in depth about some emerging languages at ETE. This show is a quick introduction to some of the things going on in the industry, but not as comprehensive as Alex's talk will be. We hope to see you there, and if you're not attending ETE we should have the talk available online a short time after the end of the conference.

Notes:

Alex's first real computer : Mac Quadra.

• Alex on Sitepoint podcast #39
• The Strange Loop Sept 23-25 2012 where Alex is helping drive the emerging languages track.
• Google Go! http://golang.org
• Scala
• Haskell
• Google Go
• Dart
• Kotlin
• R programming language - in last few years, surged for big data

Other topics mentioned

• David Unger manycore > 24 (1000) cores
• Portland State University
• Non determinism / cache coherency

Where to find Alex

- Twitter - @al3x
- web: http://al3x.net/

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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

This is the first in a series of podcasts centered around speakers for the Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference. 

My guest today is Alex Hillman. He is a leader in the co-working movement who helped found Independents Hall, known by the shortened name IndyHall (indyhall.org). 

We discuss how Alex got into technology entprenuership, his technical background, how he involved himself in the co-working movement, and we also preview the subject of his talk, Enterprise Makeover: turning cost centers into profit centers.

Links:

• Beanstalk - a web-based project version control hosting platform
• IndyHall.org - a co-working collective in Philadelphia that Alex Hillman helped to found
• coworking.com - a web site devoted to the concept of co-working

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.

Sponsors:

Chariot Solutions Sponsors the Chariot TechCast. Visit Chariot Solutions on the web at chariotsolutions.com and learn about our project consulting, mentoring and training services. 

Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise is happening on April 10-11, 2012. Early Bird specials run until mid-February. Grab your tickets before they all sell out. See the amazing speaker list, including Yehuda Katz, Matz (creator of Ruby), Douglass Crockford, and many more. 

Ken, Gordon and Steve

DevNews #41 is brought to you by Chariot Solutions, leaders in software development in mobile, web, and integration, as well as mentoring and training. Find out about our services at chariotsolutions.com.

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. 

Kohsuke Kawaguchi (@kohsukekawa) is the creator of Jenkins, a continuous integration tool he wrote a number of years ago as a way to verify that he checked in his files and didn't affect his multi-developer build. It is safe to say that Kohsuke wasn't the only one with that problem. A huge hit, the Jenkins CI server, which at the time was known as Hudson, reached a wide adoption level, with people installing it officially and even under their desktops in many IT development shops. 

Kohsuke discusses the challenges in developing a tool like Jenkins, which changed names after the new owner of Sun, Oracle, decided that it owned the trademark to the Hudson product name. Oracle has contributed Hudson to the Eclipse foundation, and Kohsuke has continued developing Jenkins, sticking to a build per week strategy, conducting all team meetings in an open IRC forum, as well as documenting project status on their website, jenkins-ci.org.

We talk about current efforts, including supporting the plug-in developer community, writing plugins in Ruby, the CloudBees projects he's working on, and more. Thanks again to Kohsuke and Lisa Wells, who lined up the interview.

Show Notes

• The Jenkins Project web site - http://jenkins-ci.org
• CloudBees, cloud development, CI, and hosting - http://cloudbees.com
• Testing Jenkins, from Jenkins - the CI site for Jenkins itself and other Jenkins related projects: http://ci.jenkins-ci.org
• Writing Jenkins plugins - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugin+tutorial
• Writing Jenkins plugins, this time in Ruby! https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+plugin+development+in+Ruby
• Kohsuke's web site - http://kohsuke.org
• Jenkins official twitter username: @jenkinsci

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!