Pond Jumpers http://pondjumpers.com the international podcast for open source developers Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:06:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Working from both sides of "the pond", we strive to bring you top notch podcasts about the world of open source. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles contact@pondjumpers.com contact@pondjumpers.com (Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles) Pond Jumpers by Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. the international podcast for open source developers open, source, podcast Pond Jumpers http://pondjumpers.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/coverart.jpg http://pondjumpers.com Episode 10: JavaScript, dart, and other web development stuff http://pondjumpers.com/2011/10/14/episode-10-javascript-dart-and-other-web-development-stuff/ http://pondjumpers.com/2011/10/14/episode-10-javascript-dart-and-other-web-development-stuff/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:02:02 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=135

In this episode of Pond Jumpers, my fellow co-worker Josh Long joins me to discuss various Javascript libraries and frameworks, and their recent growth in the open source world.

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]]> http://pondjumpers.com/2011/10/14/episode-10-javascript-dart-and-other-web-development-stuff/feed/ 0 In this episode of Pond Jumpers, my fellow co-worker Josh Long joins me to discuss various Javascript libraries and frameworks, and their recent growth in the open source world. Links http://www.appcelerator. In this episode of Pond Jumpers, my fellow co-worker Josh Long joins me to discuss various Javascript libraries and frameworks, and their recent growth in the open source world. Links http://www.appcelerator.com/products/titanium-mobile-application-development - Titanium http://dojotoolkit.org/ - Dojo toolkit http://jquery.com/ - jQuery http://www.phonegap.com/ - PhoneGap http://www.prototypejs.org/ - Prototype http://www.sencha.com/products/extjs/ - ExtJS http://script.aculo.us/ - Scriptaculous http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/mvc.html - Spring MVC 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). 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. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no 59:54 Episode 9: Open discussion about software development, git, Spring, and more http://pondjumpers.com/2010/12/06/episode-9-open-discussion-about-software-development-git-spring-and-more/ http://pondjumpers.com/2010/12/06/episode-9-open-discussion-about-software-development-git-spring-and-more/#comments Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:43:14 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=132

It’s been at least six months since Russ and I chatted and recorded a podcast episode together. In this episode, we do some catching up. We also talk about all kinds of things including:

  • Development with distributed systems like git
  • Conference stuff, like QCon and SpringOne/Spring 2GX
  • The benefits of Spring-ifying web apps
  • Working at SpringSource and Open Credo (and how we love it!)
  • Nashville Java User Group
  • Russ’s up-and-coming podcast for Open Credo

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]]> http://pondjumpers.com/2010/12/06/episode-9-open-discussion-about-software-development-git-spring-and-more/feed/ 3 It's been at least six months since Russ and I chatted and recorded a podcast episode together. In this episode, we do some catching up. We also talk about all kinds of things including: Development with distributed systems like git It's been at least six months since Russ and I chatted and recorded a podcast episode together. In this episode, we do some catching up. We also talk about all kinds of things including: Development with distributed systems like git Conference stuff, like QCon and SpringOne/Spring 2GX The benefits of Spring-ifying web apps Working at SpringSource and Open Credo (and how we love it!) Nashville Java User Group Russ's up-and-coming podcast for Open Credo Links http://nashvillejug.posterous.com 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. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no 58:23 Episode 8: 7 Reasons to use Spring http://pondjumpers.com/2010/12/01/episode-8-7-reasons-to-use-spring/ http://pondjumpers.com/2010/12/01/episode-8-7-reasons-to-use-spring/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 20:56:30 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=128 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.

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]]> http://pondjumpers.com/2010/12/01/episode-8-7-reasons-to-use-spring/feed/ 1 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 - 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. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no 45:00 Episode 7: Automated testing and mockito http://pondjumpers.com/2010/10/06/episode-7-automated-testing-and-mockito/ http://pondjumpers.com/2010/10/06/episode-7-automated-testing-and-mockito/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:18:57 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=119

This episode is a quick discussion about the benefits of mockito and how it helps with testing, mocking, and stubbing.

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]]> http://pondjumpers.com/2010/10/06/episode-7-automated-testing-and-mockito/feed/ 1 This episode is a quick discussion about the benefits of mockito and how it helps with testing, mocking, and stubbing. - News http://mockito.org/ - The mockito project http://blog.dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/ - Dan North's introduction of BDD This episode is a quick discussion about the benefits of mockito and how it helps with testing, mocking, and stubbing. News http://mockito.org/ - The mockito project http://blog.dannorth.net/introducing-bdd/ - Dan North's introduction of BDD http://code.google.com/p/mockito-python/ - Mockito for Python http://pythontestingcookbook.posterous.com - Track the development of my latest book writing endeavor, which includes exploring mockito for Python 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. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no 9:17 Episode 6: Dynamic language discussion http://pondjumpers.com/2010/09/20/episode-6-dynamic-language-discussion/ http://pondjumpers.com/2010/09/20/episode-6-dynamic-language-discussion/#comments Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:34:29 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=111 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.

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  • http://www.jython.org/latest.html – Jython 2.5.2 beta 2 has been released. On September 13th, a new beta release was made. There are several fixes, and you can click on the link in the show notes to get more details.
  • On August 30th, Rails 3.0 has been released.
  • http://twitter.com/OpenJonathan/status/24505763653 – Speaking of Ruby, Jonathon Swartz, the former CEO of SUN Microsystems, has formed a new company, The Picture of Health. They are hiring, and Jonathon Swartz (openjonathon) tweeted back on September 14th that they have Ruby and Postgresql jobs.

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]]> http://pondjumpers.com/2010/09/20/episode-6-dynamic-language-discussion/feed/ 1 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. - News - 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. News http://www.jython.org/latest.html - Jython 2.5.2 beta 2 has been released. On September 13th, a new beta release was made. There are several fixes, and you can click on the link in the show notes to get more details. On August 30th, Rails 3.0 has been released. http://twitter.com/OpenJonathan/status/24505763653 - Speaking of Ruby, Jonathon Swartz, the former CEO of SUN Microsystems, has formed a new company, The Picture of Health. They are hiring, and Jonathon Swartz (openjonathon) tweeted back on September 14th that they have Ruby and Postgresql jobs. 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. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no 31:03 Episode 5: Java discussion at devlink conference http://pondjumpers.com/2010/08/06/episode-5-java-discussion-at-devlink-conference/ http://pondjumpers.com/2010/08/06/episode-5-java-discussion-at-devlink-conference/#comments Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:39:03 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=100

This episode was recorded at the devlink conference in Nashville, TN. It was during a java discussion at the open spaces part of the conference, with four people, including myself (Greg Turnquist), Josh Hight, Csaba Toth, and one other whose name I forgot.

P.S. Since moving to Nashville, I am hunting for a Java User’s Group. If you know of one, please send me a message.

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]]> http://pondjumpers.com/2010/08/06/episode-5-java-discussion-at-devlink-conference/feed/ 0 This episode was recorded at the devlink conference in Nashville, TN. It was during a java discussion at the open spaces part of the conference, with four people, including myself (Greg Turnquist), Josh Hight, Csaba Toth, This episode was recorded at the devlink conference in Nashville, TN. It was during a java discussion at the open spaces part of the conference, with four people, including myself (Greg Turnquist), Josh Hight, Csaba Toth, and one other whose name I forgot. P.S. Since moving to Nashville, I am hunting for a Java User's Group. If you know of one, please send me a message. Key links include: http://javaposse.com - a podcast I listen to and recommended to anyone new to Java. 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. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no 49:54 Episode 4: Interview about Clojure http://pondjumpers.com/2009/10/27/episode-4-interview-about-clojure/ http://pondjumpers.com/2009/10/27/episode-4-interview-about-clojure/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:21:42 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=95 Russ and I interview Clojure guru Stuart Halloway.

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]]> http://pondjumpers.com/2009/10/27/episode-4-interview-about-clojure/feed/ 1 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. 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. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no 43:51 Episode 3: Interview about the groovier Eclipse http://pondjumpers.com/2009/08/02/episode-3-interview-about-the-groovier-eclipse/ http://pondjumpers.com/2009/08/02/episode-3-interview-about-the-groovier-eclipse/#comments Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:59:45 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=84 Today, Russ and I interview Eclipse guru and SpringSourcer Andy Clement about the groovier Eclipse.

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]]> http://pondjumpers.com/2009/08/02/episode-3-interview-about-the-groovier-eclipse/feed/ 0 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 tech... 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. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no 26:51 Episode 2: Interview about Lift http://pondjumpers.com/2009/07/27/episode-2-interview-about-lift/ http://pondjumpers.com/2009/07/27/episode-2-interview-about-lift/#comments Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:08:16 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=69 In this episode, Russ and I interview David Pollack, the creator of Lift, the scala-based web framework.

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]]> http://pondjumpers.com/2009/07/27/episode-2-interview-about-lift/feed/ 1 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!) 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. Greg L. Turnquist and Russ Miles no 43:55 Pond Jumpers gets mentioned during Java Posse podcast http://pondjumpers.com/2009/06/29/pond-jumpers-gets-mentioned-during-java-posse-podcast/ http://pondjumpers.com/2009/06/29/pond-jumpers-gets-mentioned-during-java-posse-podcast/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:57:20 +0000 gregturn http://pondjumpers.com/?p=65 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.

#262 – Newscast for June 26th 2009
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