Pond Jumpers

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Russ and I interview Clojure guru Stuart Halloway.

Key links include:

• http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/tags/clojure – series of blog postings from Stu about clojure
• http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/9/24/java-next-overview – Stu discusses Java.next
• http://pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure – Stu’s book
• http://www.moxleystratton.com/article/clojure/for-non-lisp-programmers – Clojure tutorial for the non-lisp programmer
• http://gigamonkeys.com/book/ – Practical Common LISP, the on-line book that introduces you to LISP with real world problems to solve
• http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html – Paul Graham’s series of articles about LISP
• http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/lisp-wins and http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/04/lisp-is-not-acceptable-lisp.html – Steve Yegge’s articles about LISP

Thanks

• To contact us:
  • Visit our web page at http://pondjumpers.com.
  • Send us a message through our Contact form.
  • Follow us at http://twitter.com/pondjumprs.
• I give special thanks to the Skype Call Recorder team, who have made it easy to record Skype phone calls.
• Please send us feedback or contact us about a potential interview. We love talking about anything open source.
• All writings and recordings produced by Pond Jumpers are published through a Creative Commons attribution/non-commercial/share alike license and copyrighted by Greg Turnquist (twitter) and Russ Miles (twitter).
• The content of this podcast and website does not represent any of the companies mentioned nor their opinions.
• The intro and exit music is the upbeat rock song “Sweet Romana” and purchased from opuzz.com, the site for royalty free production music.

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Today, Russ and I interview Eclipse guru and SpringSourcer Andy Clement about the groovier Eclipse.

Key links include:

• http://blog.springsource.com/2009/07/30/a-groovier-eclipse-experience/ – blog article announcing alpha release as well as technical details about this new joint compiler.
• http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions/greclipse/snapshot/e3.4 – location of Eclipse 3.4 plugin bits
• http://dist.codehaus.org/groovy/distributions/greclipse/snapshot/e3.5 – location of Eclipse 3.5 plugin bits
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin+V2+FAQ – FAQ about the new Eclipse plugin for Groovy

Thanks

• To contact us:
  • Visit our web page at http://pondjumpers.com.
  • Send us a message through our Contact form.
  • Follow us at http://twitter.com/pondjumprs.
• I give special thanks to the Skype Call Recorder team, who have made it easy to record Skype phone calls.
• Please send us feedback or contact us about a potential interview. We love talking about anything open source.
• All writings and recordings produced by Pond Jumpers are published through a Creative Commons attribution/non-commercial/share alike license and copyrighted by Greg Turnquist (twitter) and Russ Miles (twitter).
• The content of this podcast and website does not represent any of the companies mentioned nor their opinions.
• The intro and exit music is the upbeat rock song “Sweet Romana” and purchased from opuzz.com, the site for royalty free production music.

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In this episode, Russ and I interview David Pollack, the creator of Lift, the scala-based web framework.

Key links include:

• Beginning Scala – the book
• http://liftweb.net – Lift web site
• http://demo.liftweb.net – Lift demo (very good demo!)
• http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb – Lift’s google group
• http://freenode.net #lift – Lift IRC chat channel

Thanks

• To contact us:
  • Visit our web page at http://pondjumpers.com.
  • Send us a message through our Contact form.
  • Follow us at http://twitter.com/pondjumprs.
• I give special thanks to the Skype Call Recorder team, who have made it easy to record Skype phone calls.
• Please send us feedback or contact us about a potential interview. We love talking about anything open source.
• All writings and recordings produced by Pond Jumpers are published through a Creative Commons attribution/non-commercial/share alike license and copyrighted by Greg Turnquist (twitter) and Russ Miles (twitter).
• The content of this podcast and website does not represent any of the companies mentioned nor their opinions.
• The intro and exit music is the upbeat rock song “Sweet Romana” and purchased from opuzz.com, the site for royalty free production music.

The podcast that inspired me to launch this one, The Java Posse, mentioned us during the listener feedback around 1:04 (one hour:4 minutes) into Episode 262. Go and tune in. And by the way, the rest of their material is really awesome as well.

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Tune in for an introduction to this podcast, along with an interview with the developers of Spring Integration.

• The Pragmatic Programmer is the source of the statement “learn a new language every year.”
• Spring Integration web site and Spring Integration forum
• Enterprise Integration Patterns book
• Spring Batch
• Ready about a Groovy DSL for Spring Integration – May 2009 issue of Groovy Mag
• Dive Into Python – absolutely fabulous book for getting started with python
• mp3car.com – location for information on building a carputer.
• Spring Python and its blog site

UPDATE: This podcast has two parts:

• The introduction is about 12 minutes, with Russ and me talking about our own backgrounds, particular with regards to open source. We talk about things like Spring Python, dynamic languages, a brief mention of carputers, and other geeky things. This way, you can know who we are, and what sort of material to expect in the future.
• After that is the interview with Mark and Jonas, and constitutes the bulk of the podcast, followed by closing credits. I figured you may want to know this, so you don’t think you are listening to the wrong podcast.

Thanks

• To contact us:
  • Visit our web page at http://pondjumpers.com.
  • Send us a message through our Contact form.
  • Follow us at http://twitter.com/pondjumprs.
• I give special thanks to the Skype Call Recorder team, who have made it easy to record Skype phone calls.
• Please send us feedback or contact us about a potential interview. We love talking about anything open source.
• All writings and recordings produced by Pond Jumpers are published through a Creative Commons attribution/non-commercial/share alike license and copyrighted by Greg Turnquist (twitter) and Russ Miles (twitter).
• The content of this podcast and website does not represent any of the companies mentioned nor their opinions.
• The intro and exit music is the upbeat rock song “Sweet Romana” and purchased from opuzz.com, the site for royalty free production music.

We are currently putting together a podcast, jam packed with open source news and interviews amongst top OS tech leaders! We are also getting this website configured as well. Stay tuned!