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Episode 53 – Interview with Erkki Lindpere – Scala Sink or Swim
As mentioned in our previous cast with Jevgeni Kabanov, a fellow by the name of Erkki Lindpere from ZeroTurnaround wrote a three-part series of blog posts titled "Scala Sink or Swim". Basically a set of things you should know before considering Scala for
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Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 52 – JRebel, LiveRebel and OSGi with Jevgeni Kabanov
Jevgeni is a good friend of the Basement Coders, I know one of the reasons I look forward to JavaOne is because I know him and his ZeroTurnaround team will be there. They always have the most rocking booth at JavaOne and instead of it being manned by PRcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 51 – Just the cast Mam
It's been a while! In this episode (recorded all the way back in February 2012) we have a good old fashion organic Basement Coders podcast. Heath Kesler, Jason Whaley, Guillermo Castro and me Craig Tataryn were in attendence. Also stay tuned for Episodecraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 50 – Interview with Josh Long of VMWare – SpringSource
The Spring Framework is the defacto Swiss Army Knife framework for Java. If you know Java, but don't know Spring, you don't *really* know Java. One of the top reasons to use Spring is, although vendor supported, it's open source software. Navigatingcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 49 – Paperless Offices & Java is not the new COBOL
In this episode, Jeff walks us through how he setup his business to be almost completely paperless. He talks about the software, hardware and workflow he uses to accomplish this. Here are a list of software/hardware Jeff and Guillermo use: Devon Thinkcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 48 – Better Late than Never – JavaOne 2011 Recap
Well I think our livers have finally recovered from JavaOne 2011. Out of the Basement Coders gang Craig, Jeff and Justin all presented there talks, which you can find here: Justin Lee: The not Java that's not Scala -- Alternatives for EE Development Jeffcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 47 – Fork You Growl! Interview with Perry Metzger
For those who may not know, the developer of Growl, that great little notifier app for OSX decided they should be paid for their work. There is one slight problem however. Growl is Open Source Software. It's not like we've never seen this before. Acraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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The Basement Coders welcome Heath Kesler aboard!
We have a new Basement Coder! Heath Kesler (the guy on the left) has been a long-time friend of the podcast and will be coming aboard to help increase the number of casts. With such busy schedules, the Basement Coders sometimes find it tough tocraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Delivering on Promises, Moving Java Forward: Henrik Stahl at JavaOne 2011
As you may remember last year at JavaOne, we had the privilege to interview Oracle's Product and Strategy lead for the Java Platform, Henrik Stahl. The entire theme of JavaOne this year was "Moving Java Forward", and boy is it ever! The vibe at thecraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 35 – We’re Back, Ceylon, Rails + CoffeeScript and TSSJS 2011 recap
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 me know. Today we're talking about our experience at TSSJS 2011,craig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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AstyCrapper strikes again!
Today I got a call from a telemarketer that wanted to sell me business consulting. Of course, I just had to say "Oh yeah, hold on... let me transfer you to the person who handles that." Little did she know that I have delegated the Old Coot (Jordan) tojgenender
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Strange Loop 2011 Day 1
In this Episode Basement Coders Craig and Jason along with Marc Jeanson, Amir Barylko and Sebastián Galkin recap their Day 1 conference experiences at Alex Miller's Strange Loop 2011 in St. Louis, MO. Conference and pre-conference workshop speakerscraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Clojure Training Nov 6-8 2011
Back in our Jfokus cast, Neal Ford was really passionate about Clojure. This made me very interested as well. Our friend over at MavenThought is delivering Clojure training up here in Wonderful Winnipeg! For all you Minneapolis folks this is a simplecraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 44 – David Pollak: Scala’s not for the Proletariat, HP TouchPad is resurrected, RSS is poisonous & JavaOne winner!
In today's episode we cover a wide range of topics from David Pollak's (creator of Lift) view that "Scala is only for a certain class of developer", the HP TouchPad gets a second chance(?) and RSS may be extremely poisonous to your productivity (duh?)craig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 43 – Interview with Prashant Deva of Chronon Systems
Prashant Deva is not some hipster "brogrammer". No, he's about as hard-core geek, John Carmack-level coder. He's the fellow that brought us ANTLR Studio, to give you some bearing on his skills. While preparing for this podcast I 1) realized he nevercraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 42 – Steve Jobs Resigns, Linux turns 20, HP TouchPad
.jobs A:link { color:red; } .jobs A:visited { color:red; } .jobs p { color:white; padding-right: 10px; } .jobs { width: 700px; height:593px; background: black; padding-right:10px; } In this Episode Craig has former cast member Alex Demko on to speakcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 practices were evolving, and TestNG was keeping up andcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 41 – Interview with Igor Minar of AngularJS
< angular /> This is our first podcast to introduce video! There were some bumps and I learned a lot (all explained in the first 3 minutes of the video) but all-in-all it didn't turn out that bad. If you haven't heard of Angular, and chances arecraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 40 – Our thoughts on Mac OSX Lion
On today's episode we share our thoughts on the new Mac OSX Lion. Arstechnica did a brilliant 19 page review the minute Lion was released, and being the fan boys we are a majority of the Basement Coders had it installed as soon as the App Store couldcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 supporting Independent Media we want you give you a chancecraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 setting. So much of the time when learning Functionalcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 the 5 days of Wicket. The offer was made back in 2009craig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 39 – Google+, Github for Mac (and Zed)
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 like a serious contender for Facebook and possibly Twitter! The amount of control youcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 Development Kanban and much more! Also, Alex Millercraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 @bcoders on Twitter Follow @CrashPlan on Twitter Enter ourcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 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 of our own techniques on how to minimize your buildcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Episode 36 – Software Engineer vs Gardener and are .NET programmers really Inferior?
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 developers who list .NET on their resume will not becraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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.craig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 just one guy could create and maintain a searchcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 surprise it caught fire becoming Forrester's widestcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 statically typed and you'd think its users would prefer thecraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 Integration Software to "Jenkins". Jason already alludedcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 person has a trusted system in place which allows themcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 Contractors worth their weight dreaming of becoming employees.craig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Qwest gets crapped on!
I canceled Qwest for my business due to the nickel and diming along with high rates. So I moved to VOIP. Not even a month off Qwest and they send a telemarketer to try to get me back. They need to talk to the person who makes the decision for phonejgenender
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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Astycrapper craps on another one!
I checked my asterisk spool directory and a little gem popped up. A telemarketer from CPC (Crescent Credit Card Processing) wants my business real bad. He called from 314-627-5503. Looks like he was already in the black list so guess who answered thejgenender
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 concept in Java which, as we have found, is not wellcraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 to the point where there is talk of forking thecraig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 why the dinosaurs didn't become extinct in our world?craig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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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 Systems typically allow non-technical people (i.e.craig
Jan 21 2011 08:49 AM
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