Pond Jumpers

About

October 20th, 2010

Working from both sides of “the pond“, the Pond Jumpers (Greg & Russ) strive to bring you top notch podcasts about the world of open source.

Greg Turnquist, co-host/producer

Greg is an active participant in the Open Source community and wiki evangelist. While working during the day as a senior software engineer at SpringSource, he spends his spare time leading the Spring Python project, implementing Spring’s powerful concepts in a pythonic fashion. He wrote Spring Python 1.1 and is currently working on Python Testing Cookbook.

He has contributed patches to several projects including: MythTV, Spring, Spring Security, Mediawiki, and TestNG’s Eclipse plug-in. He is also a firm believer in Agile software practices, especially test driven design. He also spoke at the Spring One Americas conference. He completed a master’s degree in Computer Engineering at Auburn University, and lives in Melbourne, FL in the United States with his family.

You can view Greg’s profile on LinkedIn or follow him on twitter.

Russ Miles, co-host

A self-confessed open source advocate and polyglot programmer, Russ Miles is Managing Director and principal executive consultant at Open Credo.

At OpenCredo he leads a company of passionate open source experts who provide unbiased, honest arbiter advice across a wide and varied collection of open source technologies in order to execute the most productive, high quality and cost-effective software development.

Prior to OpenCredo Russ gained experience of enterprise development throughout all tiers of application architecture including high performance and usability presentation tier services for the Search and Mobile Portal industries right through to maximum availability application and data services for the Defence industry. Most recently he was one of the team of consultants at SpringSource.

Russ is an advocate of convention-over-configuration as a productivity technique and is an active contributor to the Grails plug-in ecosystem. He is also a keen contributor to open source projects as well as being a prolific author including: “AspectJ Cookbook”, “Learning UML 2.0″ and “Head First Software Development”.

Russ earned a master’s degree in Software Engineering degree from Oxford University, and now lives in Lewes, United Kingdom with his family.

You can view Russ’s profile on LinkedIn, check out his blog, or follow him on twitter.