Gradle is an application assembly and build management platform that provides for convention-based build processes like Maven, but also implements a dynamic, groovy-based scripting and plugin system to make it very easy to customize your builds and perform specific steps at any point along the way. My guests today are Hans Docter, who is the creator of Gradle, and Adam Murdoch who is a committer to gradle, and is the CTO of Gradle Inc, a company founded to support development teams working with gradle in the field.

Useful links

• The gradle.org website
• Adam and Hans' Gradle Inc. developer support site
• Follow Gradle news on twitter - @gradleorg on twitter

This is part one of a two-part series. 

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Thanks,

Ken, Brent, Eric and Gordon

Gradle is an application assembly and build management platform that provides for convention-based build processes like Maven, but also implements a dynamic, groovy-based scripting and plugin system to make it very easy to customize your builds and perform specific steps at any point along the way.

My guests today are Hans Docter, who is the creator of Gradle, and Adam Murdoch who is a committer to gradle, and is the CTO of Gradle Inc, a company founded to support development teams working with gradle in the field.

Useful links

• The gradle.org website
• Adam and Hans' Gradle Inc. developer support site
• Follow Gradle news on twitter - @gradleorg on twitter

This is part one of a two-part series. 

Thanks for listening.  Our podcast audio themes are free theme #3 and #4 from podcastthemes.com

Follow us on twitter - and send your feedback to @techcast, or the #techcast hashtag.

Developer news segments are a weekly program, run by Chariot's application developers and architects.  This week we discuss PyCon 2010 with Eric Snyder.

Links can also be found on delicious.com at delicious.com/developernews/7

Submitting a news link?  Just add one with the public tag 'devnewsideas' and we'll try to incorporate it into the show.

Note:  Sorry about the audio in this show - we need to set up better mics for a multi-guest recording...

Links for this show:

• PiCloud | Cloud Computing. Simplified.
• PyCon 2010 Videos
• Relative Popularity of languages in job market
• The Rails Upgrade Handbook
• Using a Codec in a Grails unit test
• Flex Performance on Mobile Devices
• An introduction to GPARS
• Building Portable RIAs with Flex and PDF

Thanks from Ken, Brent, Eric and Gordon!

All DevNews bookmarks are available at 

  delicious.com/developernews/6

Thanks for listening!

Ken & Brent

Peter Neubauer (Twitter :@peterneubauer) is the COO of Neo Technology and one of the founders of neo4j - a graph-based database engine.  We talked about the neo4j project and discussed how it can be used from Java and other languages as an alternative that can provide highly scalable access to related data.

Resources

• neo4j home page
• The top 10 ways to get to know neo4j
• Presentation landing page for Tobias Ivarsson - Python and neo4j at PyCon
• Social querying with Gremlin, the Graph Programming Language project - example using DBPedia
• How gremlin and neo4j work together 

Sponsorship:  Our sponsor this week is the Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference.  Early bird registration is extended - get your tickets this week - more information, including our schedule, is available at phillyemergingtech.com.  Speakers include Uncle Bob Martin, Michael Cote, and many, many others.

You can find the articles we've bookmarked at Delicious.com.  Our URL for this week is:

delicious.com/developernews/5

As always, you can bookmark items of interest on delicious.com and add the tag "devnewsideas" and we'll try to incorporate them into the show.

Ken & Brent

We have a bevy of good links this week.  As usual, Brent and Ken put together their favorite web links on delicious.  Review them here:  delicious.com/developernews/4

Sponsors from this episode include SpringSource, Sun, and EngineYard.

Chariot Developer News episode #3 - February 1 2010

News Links:

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Disclaimers:

The opinions expressed by Ken and Brent do not necessarily form policy decisions at Chariot, for the US State department, or in the Federation of Planets...

Ah, disclosure law.  Partners discussed in the podcast:

• SpringSource
• EngineYard (forgot it in the audio stream but we talked about Rails 3)
• Sun (discussing the Oracle merger)

Feedback:

• Brent Baxter can be reached via his blog: brentbaxter.com or twittered at @brentbaxter
• Ken Rimple can be reached at the all-encompassing rimple.com, or via @krimple
• Send us feedback publicly using #techcast on twitter, or leave a comment on the blog, or privately via email (techcastfeedback at chariotsolutions.com).

Upcoming Events:

• Philly Emerging Tech - early bird special, save $$$ before February 15!  
• Philadelphia Spring User Group Meeting - February 11th - at Chariot Solutions, 515 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite 202, Fort Washington PA.  Details at the Philly Spring site.

On this techcast, Brian Sletten describes how the Semantic Web helps to define relationships between interconnected data, discusses the various tools and APIs, and how it is already being used, even without our knowledge.

Services like Friend of a Friend (FoaF), tools like RDFa, query tools like SPARQL, are discussed. If you don't know what the Semantic Web is or why it exists, Brian gives us a good overview and it's worth time listening to. Today, the US Government, wikipedia, and other systems are making data available via these mechanisms, as well as online retailers like Best Buy and Tesco.

Sponsor - Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise April 8-9, 2010. Still time to register for the early bird special and save! Details at phillyemergingtech.com