Pond Jumpers

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This episode was recorded at the October Nashville Java User Group meeting. I gave a presentation titled 7 Reasons to use Spring. For future meetings, visit the site listed below to see topics, times, and locations of future meetings.

Links

• http://nashvillejug.posterous.com
• http://springframework.org

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.
• 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 Ramona” and purchased from opuzz.com, the site for royalty free production music.

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In this episode, I mention some news items about Jython, Ruby, and Rails. Then I get into a generalized discussion about the value of dynamic languages and how some people’s tendency to dismiss them is really a form of premature optimization.

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.
• 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 Ramona” and purchased from opuzz.com, the site for royalty free production music.

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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 Ramona” 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 Ramona” 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 Ramona” 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.