Best Chariot Solutions Podcasts (2025)

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The Ministry for the Future: A Novel, with Kim Stanley Robinson 1:04:38

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The Ministry for the Future is a near future science fiction novel that tells the story of confronting the climate crisis successfully. Listen in as author Kim Stanley Robinson discusses this unique, popular, and fast-paced read.By ANHW

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Academic Writing as if Readers Matter with Leonard Cassuto 56:41

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Do you have a writing project on deck this year? Listen in to the practical and profound advice of Leonard Cassuto, author of Academic Writing as if Readers Matter, just out from Princeton University Press as part of their Skills for Scholars Series. Whether you are writing for work or play, this book will help you not only with useful tips, but al…

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Attack from Within by Barbara McQuade 54:18

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Listen to Barbara McQuade discuss her book, Attack from Within: How Disinformation is Sabbotaging America, to 1) hear how social media, AI, and foreign actors have combined in recent years to spread dis- and misinformation throughout our society and 2) learn what we can do about it.By ANHW

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D2C242: Data Engineering and its Streams, Rivers, and Lakes 47:38

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Keith Gregory teaches Day Two Cloud about data engineering in a way DevOps folks (and hydrologists) can understand. He explains that the role of a data engineer is to create pipelines to transport data from metaphorical rivers and make it usable for data analysts. Keith walks us through the testing process; the difference between streaming pipeline…

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Ain't I A Woman? by Sojourner Truth with Frederique Irwin of the National Women's History Museum 39:06

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Listen in as we visit with Frederique Irwin of the National Women’s History Museum and take a trip back in time to explore the ideas of Sojourner Truth in celebration of Women’s History Month. Our book selection, Ain’t I A Woman? (from the Penguin Great Ideas Series) provides a short and powerful text for your next book club meeting. A photo of Tru…

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The Mission Driven Venture: Business Solutions to the World's Most Vexing Social Problems with Marc J. Lane 34:31

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Are you an investor? A social entrepreneur? Would you like to learn how capitalism is being used to address social problems? Listen in to this fast-paced discussion with Susan Hammel of Cogent Consulting and Marc J. Lane, author of The Mission Driven Venture: Business Solutions to the World's Most Vexing Social Problems. Susan Hammel is the founder…

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Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers, with Crystal Downing 1:13:59

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This month marks the 100-year anniversary of the publication of the first detective novel written by the classic British mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers. Listen in as we sit down with Crystal Downing, author of Subversive: Christ, Culture, and the Shocking Dorothy L. Sayers. If you want to add some literary mysteries to your summer reading, this e…

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Eileen Hunt Botting 49:49

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In 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which is widely regarded as a founding document for women's rights. Join us as we learn about Wollstonecraft's life and work from Professor Eileen Hunt Botting, Editor of the Yale University Press edition of this influential philosophical and intellectual treatise. https://…

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The Devil Never Sleeps with Security Mom Juliette Kayyem 35:12

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This is a must-listen episode on the importance of thinking strategically about critical infrastructure, public health, natural disasters, and preparedness on the home front. Professor Kayyem is the author of Security Mom and The Devil Never Sleeps.By ANHW

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Shakespeare in a Divided America with James Shapiro 53:48

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Listen in as James Shapiro details just a few of his book's surprising examples of how American history is deeply and subtly intertwined with the works of William Shakespeare, whose plays are considered common ground in a society that is sometimes riven with cultural conflicts. https://www.amazon.com/Shakespeare-Divided-America-Plays-Future/dp/0525…

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Under Pressure with Lisa Damour 42:22

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The mental health of our adolescents and teens has been of growing concern in recent years. We spoke with Dr. Lisa Damour about her new book, Under Pressure, and had a thought-provoking and eye-opening discussion about the challenges our girls face in today's world. Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls: https://ww…

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Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale 40:01

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How can digital technology help us more fully realize Florence Nightingale's goal of having "ready and correct" observational data in the nursing field? Will the digital transformation of nursing help with retention in this most essential profession? Listen in as Lilia Bacu speaks with Dr. Tera Gross, Chief Nursing Information Officer for Mayo Clin…

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The Great Gatsby Graphic Novel Adaptation with Katharine Woodman-Maynard 25:54

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Join us as we speak with Katharine Woodman-Maynard about her graphic novel adaptation of the classic American novel about the roaring twenties, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. We also learn a little about what goes into the production of a graphic novel and about Woodman-Maynards TKAMI initiative, for which she created comics designed to h…

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DevNews #103 – Hello Chakra, Sayonara IE 15:15

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Show Notes Microsoft opens all of your chakras by open-sourcing the core of MS Edge Javascript renderer, Chakra. Tin foil hat portion of our show: Remote Code execution on Trend Micro. This is currently plugged, but still interesting. We also learn that when Jeff visits the dark corners of the internet… for recipes… he always does safely it on a VM…

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DevNews #102 – TACO, terrible testing, and party comets 24:22

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Today I’m joined by Chariot consultants Sujan Kapadia (@SlurpeeOperator) and Eric Snyder to recap what we deemed to be this week’s exciting tech news. Upcoming Events Chariot is sponsoring Clojure Conj, to be held on Nov 16-18 at the Sheraton Dock Street in Philadelphia. We are also co-sponsoring the HazelCast User Group Meetup on November 19th. Jo…

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DevNews #101 – Return of the tin foil hat brigade 25:29

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It’s the long-awaited return of DevNews! Today, Jeff Labonski and I talk all things tech in our first ever live-streaming YouTube show. Upcoming Events November 10th – Don Coleman’s Bluetooth Low Energy workshop. Walk away with your own Arduino hardware. Chariot is sponsoring Clojure Conj, to be held on Nov 16-18 at the Sheraton Dock Street in Phil…

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DevNews #100 – Strap on your tin foil hats, it’s our 100th show! 23:06

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Upcoming Philly Area Events June 20 – Old City, Philadelphia – Ken Rimple @ LibertyJS doing an AngularJS for beginners workshop in the AM June 18 – Agile Philly – Strafford, PA – Exploratory Testing for Mobile Devices June 24 – Agile Philly – Center City, Philadelphia – Agile Transitions June 18 – CocoaHeads – Center City, Philadelphia – Monthly Me…

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DevNews #99 – Docker vulnerabilities, saying hello to Java 9 and farewell to Windows server 2003 21:29

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Today we welcome Jeff Labonski on the show to discuss this week’s developer news. User group announcements: Philly PostgreSQL Meetup on June 4th – Replication Slots: The Game Changer I will be Speaking at the Scotch Plains Java User Group (of the ACGNJ) – Tuesday June 9th, 7:30PM – about ES6 now Wednesday June 17 – Philly New Tech meetup Saturday J…

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DevNews #98 – The scoop: Selerity scoops Twitter earnings, prankster scoops Fiorina’s domain name 25:04

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DevNews is nearing its 100th episode! We may or may not have something up our sleeves to celebrate our ripe old age… but until then, listen as Joel and I discuss: Oops, Carly Fiorina – someone registered your domain name before you did – criticism by domain name Angular 2.0 getting started guides now available for ES5, Dart, Typescript How Selerity…

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DevNews #97 – Day 1 of Philly ETE 2015 20:24

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Annnnnnd ETE begins! Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise is Chariot’s annual tech conference for developers, by developers. To kick off our coverage, I sat down with two of our consultants, Michael Pigg and Sujan Kapadia, to discuss our day, talk about talks, and geek out about all the cool new toys we can’t wait to play with. We discuss… Some…

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DevNews #96 – ng-conf 2015 – day 1 recap – Angular 2, 1.4 and more 45:06

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Salt Lake City, Utah, is a beautiful place to have a conference. The organizers must realize that, as they planned ski trips and other events all around the show. That said, I’ve been locked up in my hotel room for the most part digesting what I’ve learned in Day 1. There is a live stream of the conference, and the YouTube videos are coming quickly…

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DevNews #95 – We talk about new AWS services, Angular JS 2.0 surfaces, and the Apple Car is a thing? 21:21

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In this episode, Ken and Joel talk about Waitr and Protractor, two Jasmine WebDriver APIs, Angular 2.0 surfaces, we talk about Apple’s self-driving car, and discuss a bunch of new Amazon AWS features including Cloud Trail for Route53 and health checks. Stay to the end for our silly Apple Car jokes. Watir – smoke testing your app with Ruby and WebDr…

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DevNews #94 – The triumphant return (again) – Windows all over the place, Chrome 41 beta, Raspberry Pi and more 36:23

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We’re sponsored by Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise – our 10th year! We’ve got an amazing set of speakers and topics, as usual, and so more than worth the early bird of $410 per seat for this fantastic two-day conference! Chromium 41 Beta available – New features rolling out from ECMAScript 6 Microsoft Windows 10 event announcements – we di…

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DevNews #93 – Angular 2.0 news, Ember reaches 1.8.0, and Minecraft to learn programming? 26:38

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Gource — open source visualization tool, example Haydle visualization Ember 1.8.0 — the move to HTMLBars React.js: How does it fit in with everything else? GitHub Enterprise on AWS At AWS ReInvent this week – AWS Lambda – cloud computing functionally– oh and there’s support for Docker via containers Rob Eisenberg leaves Angular team Khan Acadamy ad…

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DevNews #91 – What we know about Angular 2.0 (so far) 36:41

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If you’ve been working with Angular a lot recently, you may have received word about a set of potentially breaking changes in the next major version, 2.0. In this podcast, Ken Rimple, Don Coleman and Joel Confino discuss Angular 2.0, the reason for these changes, and some of the potential impact. We also have an in-depth article on our blog that he…

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DevNews #90 – The semi-triumphant return with ShellShock, Layers or No, AngularJS rethinks, more 31:16

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Finally, we might be seeing the end of stupid software patents The potential downside of the internet of things? As if on cue, ShellShock is a bash vulnerability. A big one Here’s some fun for discussion – Why you should not implement layered architecture – ducking before the clots of dirt fly… We had to get ourselves into the trough of disillusion…

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DevNews #89 – We drag Jamie Allen into the fray for some Reactive Commentary

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Our old pal Jamie Allen was in the neighborhood talking this-and-that about Scala, Akka and other sundry Typesafe products, so we roped him in to do the DevNews. If you want a great flashback, listen to Jamie talk with me and Jonas Boner about his Akka library back in TechCast #47 – that was in 2009, folks! Join Ken Rimple, Joel Confino and Typesaf…

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DevNews 88 – Get your ‘Ki’ up so you can be super ‘Swift’, IMO

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A word from Chariot’s content czars Did you originally plan to attend Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise, but you didn’t get tickets in time? Well, wait (no) more, because we’re starting to post videos online – yessir, if you head over to our Screencasts page, you’ll see we’re starting to publish them. Eight so far, but who’s counting.…

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DevNews #87 – JSConf 2014 recap, TrueCrypt bites the dust, Renderman Open Source 39:54

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Well, it’s that time again, when surf and sand evaporate and Ken gets to explain why it was just sooo cool to be on Amelia Island for JSConf 2014. (If you like great locations for conferences AND new technology it’s hard to beat that conference). Ken has his recap coming soon. However, if you want to see him fly a drone with RedHat’s @IanPageHands …

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DevNews 85 – We record ourselves in front of a large ETE audience and news ensues

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Live from ETE 2014 – April 22, 2014 Show Notes Talk with Tracey Welson-Rossman, co-chair of Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise First there was Screech on Saved by the Bell, now Greach * A recent Spanish Groovy/Grails conference Groovy 2.3 introduces traits watch out there, Scala, Java and Groovy are adding some of your features. Thanks…

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DevNews 84 – Embers in the fire, hearts bleeding everywhere, I need a KitKat 41:30

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This week we have some news in the world of security, Javascript framework Ember makes a good appearance, and we have talk of KitKat and SD Cards, as well as the state of mobile processors for Android, Windows, and iPhone (and tablets and notebooks). News Items HEARTBLEED! – interesting take on security from box.com allow users to encrypt ahd hold …

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DevNews 83 – Through a distorted audio channel, we give you Java 8 29:47

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Show Notes Note, we’re switching to an every-other week Java SE 8 officially launched: Java Tutorials page on Java 8 Great features as discussed on this tutorial Also examples on the GitHub repo – https://github.com/winterbe/java8-tutorial Cool new features include: Lambda and functional interfaces (single method with @FunctionalInterface) – lots o…

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DevNews 82 – We discuss Dashing dashboards, our favorite Vagrant, ECMAScript 6 (look, ma, CLASSES) and of course we rant… 42:54

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Dashing, an OSS Dashboard framework from Shopify FSF joins with Software Freedom Law Center against software patents Also – Unlocking the Sky And is this the type of patent we’re talking about? What’s new in Chrome 33? It’s not just a James Bond Character, now Q is a language the beta directory of Gradle Plugins Countdown to Windows XP Expiration M…

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DevNews #81 – Distortion, crypto flaw in iOS and Mac, imperative to functional and more 31:56

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So it’s the day of badly recorded audio, forgetting to hit record, and some pretty serious certificate bugs to pay attention to in iOS/OS X… Links (in no apparent order): Got several Google accounts and wanna sync them? – neato! So, someone can explain what this is? – Something called Dotty – looks like a sandbox for a less complex version of Scala…

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DevNews #80 – We talk Javascript goodness, Java8 time, CMS, SMS, SOS! 41:33

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The augment library – classical inheritance for object design in JavaScript. Good if you’re not on the functional Javascript bandwagon. JSJ Podcast on large single page apps – JavaScript podcast on large singled page apps Javascript Module Loaders Considered Harmful Side note – Angular ngConf – performance considerations Java 8 new date and time ap…

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DevNews #79 – My So-called $8000 Spun Nylon 3D Printed Lamp 36:03

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GopherCasts – short Go Language tutorials in the spirit of egghead.io, railscasts, and others… Google Opens up Chromecast with new streaming SDK for iOS, Android, Chrome – App Developers, start yer streamin! Dija hear Woz’s comment about how Apple should make an Android phone? – let’s think about that for a moment. Nah, maybe not. Glyph a personal …

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DevNews #78 – Don’s NFC programming book, we’re snowed in, and what about Julia? 34:06

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We're all snowed in this week. We start by discussing our favorite work-remotely tools… Discussed are: Google Hangouts FlowDock Google Docs/Drive Github Wiki Plunker Trello Links of Note Undocumented Secrets of $scope.$watch – for a great basic article on what Angular does to process data in scopes and provide dirty checking, read this good overvie…

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DevNews #77 – I bet you can’t run that Kanban Board on a DEC Rainbow… 32:59

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Wherein we start by discussing Michael Winslow, playing with reverb, and Eric mentions a DEC Rainbow. Topics include improvements to Node in 0.12, a Ruby/Rails children’s book kickstarter, leaving Scrum for Kanban, and more… News Items Python 3.4 Beta 3 Released And you think you have a lot of drives laying around – Backblaze discusses what drives …

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DevNews #76 – HAML-esque JS templates, a monitor for $400, what’s the world coming to? 33:31

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Show Notes Sponsors Chariot Solutions Training Services, offering courses in AngularJS and the Spring Framework in February. Haydle – increase your team's productivity by capturing information normally stuck in email and in their heads. News Links HAML-esque JS templates Slim and Emblem Go by example Rails users looking to use Angular? Look no furt…

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DevNews #75 – Go Go Angular to BSON Land to pick up MongoDB 42:56

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Links Hating that infinite scroll? Some people do, some don't. Hear our takes. GoAngular v2– AngularJS integration for GoInstant github repo, screencast @goinstant Promises vs Callbacks in JS from Callbacks, Promises, and Coroutines oh my! by @domenic Angular Sprout is a seed project for Angular apps that helps you keep your project structured modu…

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DevNews #74 – Our 2013 recap, 2014 guesses and much more 26:54

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Ken and Joel give their "predictions" and "recap" of 2014, which is purely their version, but somebody's got to do it. Also, we talk tools for testing in NodeJS, namely Mocha and Chai, some linux and regex visualization websites, a < $300 ChromeBook announced by Toshiba at CES, writing and posting HTML content on GitHub using gh_pag…

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DevNews #73 – Grunt JS Tutorial, Ubuntu for Android, UI vs Command Line, and more… 26:38

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Ken and Joel wrap up the year with a bit of conversation about smart watches, whether you’re a user of tools or conversationalist with your code, and a number of other little ditties. Join in on the conversation and post your comments – we’ve enabled commenting on our shows so go ahead. Or if social media is more of your thing, go ahead and click o…

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Developer News #72 – The Winter Break Edition with Historical Videos, new Google Sheets 18:32

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Public Service Announcement – The DevNews team be offline until the week of January 30th getting some much needed R&R. Here’s something to tide you over until then. Rear Admiral Grace Hopper on David Letterman – She worked 43 years in the Navy, was assigned to the Mark 1 at Harvard – the very first computer, during WW2. She wrote the manual for the…

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DevNews #71 – Roblox, one hour of code, Google’s robot army and more 34:44

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Apologies for the audio quality – we all got stuck offsite today so my podcasting rig is not available. News Items Roblox: A whole ecosystem that lets kids build video games that other kids play Designing WebApps offline-first Also checkout store.js, a wrapper around a number of Javascript storage engines. Big-’O’ notation defined in layman’s terms…

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DevNews #70 – Droids and flying robots taking over the world and Scala.JS 32:43

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News you can use The coming wave of API wars or something like that Well, it was only a matter of time Scala.JS 0.1 released Jamie Allen Keynote JAX London 2013 on Lambdas in Java 8 Cool tool – Agent for Android The herd is moving – Paypal moving to JS Amazon has plans for a Drone army Guy throws out hard drive containing $9M worth of Bitcoins Joel…

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DevNews #69 – Google Machine Learning Becomes Sentient – or does it just love shredders? 50:57

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Don’t forget to rate us as one of your favorite tech podcasts on the LifeHacker blog article – we’d appreciate it! Show Notes Spring Reactor released, based on lMAX Disruptor Groovy 2.2 released Mozilla developer creates curriculum to on-board new contributors to Firefox Mesos + Docker essentially lets you run Docker containers on a grid of servers…

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DevNews #68 – Clouds and Androids abound, reactive ones! 51:12

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Help us spread the word – Go to the LifeHacker Favorite Podcasts post and spread the word. That's http://lifehacker.com/the-best-informative-brain-boosting-podcasts-worth-sub-1464783451 or if you're typing this, emergingtech.chariotsolutions.com/shoutout (ok, not much shorter, but we're working on it! Show Notes Semi-regular disclaimer – the opinio…

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DevNews #67 – Monoliths begone, lock free APIs, Bunnies and RabbitMQ, and computer viruses by air 47:04

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Links "Five tips for big software projects":http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2013/10/5-tips-for-big-software-projects.html “Dismanteling the monoliths”:https://engineering.groupon.com/2013/misc/i-tier-dismantling-the-monoliths/ – rails apps converting to Nodejs at Groupon I’m taking a stab at lock-free this week – First, my reading took me to Mecha…

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DevNews #66 – RESTful tutorials, CAPCHAs and Machine Learning, a million to win a hackathon and more… 30:37

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We talk about Newton – a pure Javascript Physics engine AI Startup says it has defeated captchas Got a great mobile app idea? You can win $1M in the SalesForce hackathon Elixir – a “groovy” for Erlang? We talk about JBoss Forge The post DevNews #66 – RESTful tutorials, CAPCHAs and Machine Learning, a million to win a hackathon and more… appeared fi…

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DevNews #65 – Apple’s patent for touching glass with fingers is upheld? 32:02

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Links A great presentation by Joe Sondow on the Netflix Asgard Project– a Grails application server that deploys to AWS. Highlights include: Obama for America used it to keep its sites rolling and alive Used to be Netflix Application Console It is only one of the open source projects on Netflix’s GitHub page. Reasons not to just use the AWS console…