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!

In this episode, Ryan Campbell joins Ken to talk about the CloudBees development platform, Dev@Cloud, and Java runtime platform, Run@Cloud.  Dev@Cloud can host private maven snapshot and release repositories, your GIT or SVN version control, and hosted Jenkins CI testing.  

For information about CloudBees or about the platforms, including hosted Hudson and open source CI instances, visit them on the web, at cloudbees.com.

We originally lined up CloudBees for our fall Continuous Delivery conference.  

** Edit by Ken Rimple - removed some incorrect information **

Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 - #3

How MongoDB Helps Visibiz Tackle Social CRM

Speaker - Mike Brocious - Lead Architect, Visibiz

From the ETE Session Abstract

So you’ve heard about MongoDB and it sounds really sweet (BTW, it is!). Now you’re thinking about using it in your application. We can’t tell you if it’s right for your application, but we can tell you how we’re using it at Visibiz and that might help you with your implementation.

This presentation provides a use case of MongoDB at Visibiz. It first discusses why we chose to use MongoDB as our application’s primary datastore (what were the relevant application requirements and perceived benefits). It then covers how we’re using MongoDB in the application, touching on schema design of the primary collection and listing several secondary uses for it in the architecture. We also touch on lessons learned, as well as pros and cons.

Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 - #2

Doing the Mundane a Million Times a Minute

Speaker - Mark Chadwick, Invite Media/Google

From the ETE Session Abstract

When dealing with high-volume distributed systems, even the most mundane tasks can be daunting challenges. This talk describes some of the steps, as well as missteps, made while building such a system. It will work through the discovery of such pain points, as well as describe their resolutions with specific technologies or patterns.

Over the course of three years, Invite Media built a high-volume system for serving online advertisements from the ground up. Some of the more interesting challenges revolved around operating routine services at scale, such as distributing requests, logging diagnostics, and keeping track of simple transactions.

This talk will dive into some of these problems, showing the evolution of simple systems at scale, with a strong bias towards cloud-hosted applications. It will include details about the discovery and resolution of bottlenecks we experienced, as well as specific technologies and pattens discovered in the process.

It may serve as a springboard for ideas when building distributed cloud-based systems, as well as hone a sense of when components may be reaching their tipping point.

We continue our interview with Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs.  Show notes to follow soon, please refer to information from TechCast Episode 65 for now.  

Puppet Labs can be found at www.puppetlabs.com, and they are hosting PuppetConf, a conference on the west coast that is not only about Puppet.  

A word from our sponsor, Chariot Solutions:

Mark your calendars:  Chariot's DevOps seminar - October 18, 2011 at the Penn State Great Valley campus in the Philadelphia suburbs.  We'll have speakers from Chariot, CloudBees, NING, Puppet Labs, Sonatype, and a panel discussion at the end.  Lunch is provided as well. Save on our early bird - $75 instead of the already low price of $99.  More information on the event page.

Also, if Scala is your thing, come to our Fast Track to Scala training in New York City on October 4-5, 2011.  Seats are still available but they will fill up fast.  The course is taught by Typesafe, the company Martin Odersky formed around Scala and Akka to move the language and frameworks forward.  Save $100 by using the coupon code 'techcast' during registration, which can be found at chariotsolutions.com/education.