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 to @mscharhag!
• Keith Gregory, Chariot consultant, discusses Brian Goetz’ non-keynote talk on Java 8 and Lambdas, Camille Fournier’s ZooKeeper talk, the Groupon discussion on rewriting pieces and rewriting around an API.
• Sujan Kapadia and Keith Gregory disussed the refactoring of monoliths in this show as a theme, then discussed Jeff Hodges’ refactoring strategies.
• Discussing Joel Spolsky’s keynote with Keith – taking a rational approach to growing a community and troll slashing. Referred to the Joel and Jeff Atwood podcasts and a bit on the process at Stack Overflow.
• Rofl – ok, here’s what happens when you post your PASSWORD online
• So now that there are too many JS build tools (Grunt, Gulp, Broccoli, others, we have potential data loss issues with Broccoli using OS X due to Hard Links. Upgrade and be safe!
• JavaScript 101 – IFEE
• Bye bye code generation that you can see – say hello Spring Boot
• Did you know Java 8 can join strings thanks again, @mscharhag
• Joel’s ETE session picks
• Sujan’s ETE session picks

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