This week – download here – Charles 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.
In this episode, I Coté calls in from JavaOne. We talk about the news of the show and, of course, some other stuff, like poop.
In this episode, we start out talking about Coté’s desire to get an office or desk somewhere – maybe the co-working people in town will be something, maybe some ones else! Then we talk about ESBs – as Coté is going to MuleCon next week – and GameOn League’s own home-brew bus.
This week’s episode, we bring you the exciting conclusion to last week’s cliff-hanger. The gem library is Java MultiMethod. Charles tells us all about it, and Coté, as if not listening to Charles, struggles to understand the why of it, but then gets it after just one repetition.
We leave you with yet another cliff-hanger.
In this episode, a flu-stricken Coté mostly nods along to Charles comments about using the command pattern across the command line, web pages, and testing.
Sadly, Charles ‘net connection gave out mid-explanation, so we’ll have to leave you with a “to be continued” for next week.
After a Christmas break hiatus, we’re back with a quick episode on jQuery and then tales of Charles getting his debit card account hacked.
I start asking Charles if jQuery is a, sort of, JDOM like way of manipulating web pages. Charles then explains the declarative (to me, XPath-like) syntax of jQuery’s selectors. Once you select the “bag of nodes” from your web page with jQuery, you can then execute code over each of those nodes. Sort of like the inverse of using a foreach loop over a collection of items. Instead, as Charles explains, there’s this big old jQuery JavaScript object that you graft new JavaScript methods (or “extensions”) onto.
As we joke about, this way of coding is sure to drive OO-purists crazy. Also, we clarify the origins of the Subzero/Sub-zero character from The Running Man to Mortal Combat.
Charles then tells us about his recent Christmas vacation and the bummer of having someone hijack his debit card. Thankfully, Silva and he have gotten new credit cards now to stave off the annoyance of getting your checking account directly hacked.
Sounds like fun, huh?
In this episode we talk about a whole passel of things, most interesting of which are:
Finally, go check out DFoF!
(This episode edited by Coté.)
In this episode, Charles and I talk about daiquiris and cigars in Munich; Miller High Life & Mickey’s when it comes to Charles’ decreased beer snobbery and my grandfather; giving away software to sell it; Charles take on Green IT: “turning out the light when you take a shit…wait…after you take shit”; and finally the recent WordPress acquisition, Gravatar.
(This episode edited by Coté.)
Oh, and happy halloween!:
In this episode, Charles and I spend some time talking about Erlang, specifically, what the hell is up with it being such a buzz-language now.
In addition to that, we talk about some non-code stuff which I’ve forgotten.
(This episode edited by Charles.)
In this episode, Charles narrates opening his Halo hemlut pack, we hear about OSGi and Eclipse Equinox, and then get an update on GameOnLeagues.com.
