Cloud Closures and Server-side JavaScript Injection – DrunkAndRetired.com Episode #165

Boobs

Charles asked me to think of some ways you’d use sandboxed JavaScript on the server side – I jump right in with some examples:

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We’ll see if any of it helps Charles out with his talk.

DrunkAndRetired.com #151 – "BAM! What's in your UNDERPANTS?!?!"

Tuna Steak

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In this two episodes in one episodes, Charles and I embed an episode of RIA Weekly into an episode of DrunkAndRetired.com. It’s like a taco in a hamburger wrapped in a slice of pizza.

Here’s a brief summary:

  • Detroit’s motto is actually “Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus”, which means “We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes” in English.
  • Check out The Bladerunner game FAQ I wrote long ago.
  • Charles gives his love to DonkeyTron 5000.
  • Since both of us have heard the NPR coverage of Detroit this week, I (re-)ask Charles, “what’s up with Detroit?”
  • This gets us into a discussion of the villains plans to tear down the old city and build a new one in movies like Darkman, Robocop, and Bruce Sterling’s recent book The Caryatids, which I give a brief overview of.
  • Don’t forget Charles’ upcoming talk at the Ann Arbor JUG! Charles will try to address Pete F.’s desire for a recording.
  • Charles discusses his concept for “TwitterDick.com,” that is, seeing how much social media ego you have.
  • This leads us to propose the DrunkAndRetired.com Listener Market Research Omnibus Survey. Want to participate, just tell us!
  • For a detailed summary for the RIA Weekly episode, see the RIA Weekly #49 show-notes.

Charles on JavaScript

The Wrong Way to Drink

Charles has been developing and giving a talk on using JavaScript over the past few months. He gave it up at the Detroit Java User Group, and it looks like he’ll be giving it at the Ann Arbor Java User Group next week, Tuesday April 28th. Charles has been perfecting the “every-day” use of JavaScript for awhile, as you know if you’ve been listening to the podcast, and this talk is a good sum-up of all that work and knowledge.

Here’s the summary:

Charles Lowell will show why JavaScript is like no other major language when it comes to embedding into an application. Drawing from personal experience, Charles will present a treatment of the JavaScript object system and philosophy.

He will demonstrate how to use JavaScript to implement a scriptable webservice and demonstrate the ability to add and remove properties to native java objects and classes.

Episode 136 – Cracks in the Web UI Powerbase


In this episode, while I’m State-side, Charles is still in Finland. Thus, we start out talking about the wood-burning sauna he’s been using. We then jump into a discussion of Chrome, and then I float the theory that there’s major cracks in the dominance of web-only UIs – what with RIAs and the iPhone.

We wrap up with a special production from Charles.

Episode 130 – Pooping Your Way to Cleanliness

Pickled Okra

In this episode:

  • We start out talking about Charles’ “cleansing” efforts, which sound terrible if you like food, but he’s down for it.
  • I then tell Charles about how I like FriendFeed a lot now-a-days. As I say in the podcast, you guys should join and link up with me so I can get more content to read.
  • Charles then talks about how dealing with ruby and Java deployments is annoying and we wonder out-loud about how easy it is to deal with PHP installs – which is probably debatable given crap you’ve had the deal yourself.
  • I then detail how a little jaunt to iUseThis.com stuck me a desktop optimization rut, esp. after I found AppFresh.

  • Finally, we learn that Charles is selling one of his iMacs and – shocker! – probably going to get a ThinkPad.

Thanks to John Arley Burns for sending over the Starcontrol sounds.

Episode 127 – Puppet, Skinless Bodies, Rational Tools, Getting Sick of Ajax

Clown Cup

In this episode, we start out talking about Puppet (whose patron company, Reductive Labs is a RedMonk client). I then re-cap the Our Bodies exhibit Kim and saw, we move onto a short discussion of using Rational Tools from Charles’ consulting days (I’ll be at RSDC next week). We wrap up with Charles’ growing distaste for Ajax, but his lack of anything else to use.

Episode 126 – Coding by Contract, Sessionful SMS, Fixing Windows

Micheladas at Arrandas

This week – download hereCharles and I start by talking about coding by contract. Then we move to the use of a persistent session with SMS systems like BrightKite (check out my BrightKite profile here) and how that might be, you know, something cool. Finally, we talk about what’s up with Windows and if Microsoft could pull an OS X with it, that is, start from scratch, more of less.