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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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.