Pond Jumpers

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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.

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