Ken Rimple's Random Thoughts

I have been absolutely thrilled with the roster of speakers on the TechCast. This show is with one of my favorite speakers, Venkat Subramaniam. Venkat is a long-time Groovy proponent, but is quick to point out that he uses other languages, and always strives to use the right tool for the job.

Here is the link to the show notes page : Episode #49 - Venkat Subramanaim

In this interview we talk about the adoption of languages such as Groovy, Ruby and Scala, and hear a few good stories along the way.

Venkat is speaking this year at our Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference (April 8-9) on Domain Specific Languages.

Up next we will feature Jeremy Grelle from SpringSource on thier web and RIA initiatives, and just afterward Brian Sletten on the Semantic Web. I hope you are enjoying listening to these interviews as much as I am recording them.

I've just started a new series of podcasts called DevNews - things Charioteers are reading, interested in, or generally want to share with our listeners.  You can listen to the NewsCast (episode 1) and also review the links at our delicious page.

We hope you enjoy, and find something useful in each news cast.

Ken

We are excited to announce the opening of the 2010 Philadelphia Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference, being held on April 8 − 9, 2010.  The event will be held downtown at the Society Hill Sheraton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The show promises to be a great one.  With keynotes from "Uncle Bob" Martin, a founder of the Agile movement and Michael Cote, analyst with RedMonk, several evening events, five rooms of speakers in technologies from Agile to Dynamic Languages, Management to Web Services and more, this is one of the premiere conferences on the east coast this spring.

Speakers for the conference include: Dan Allen (JBoss/RedHat), Jeff Barr (Amazon), David A. Black (Ruby Power and Light), Joe Conway (iPhone instructor, Big Nerd Ranch), Scott Davis (ThirstyHead.com), Joe Gregorio (Google), Yehuda Katz (Engine Yard), Jon Kern (Software Architect, Agile Mentor), Brian Marick (Agile Consultant), Alex Miller (Terracotta), Alex Payne (Twitter), Chris Richardson (SpringSource), Venkat Subramanium (Agile Developer, Inc. founder), James Ward (Adobe) and many more.

To register, visit phillyemergingtech.com

Disclosure : I work as the Education Director for Chariot Solutions, which organizes this conference.

I'm blessed with a bevy of great guests this month.  Our first two shows of December are:

• An interview with Groovy savior and developer of Gaelyk, Guillaume LaForge.  We talk about Guillaume's involvement in the Groovy language and details how you can develop Google App Engine web applications using Gaelyk, a Groovy-based library.
• A deeply technical interview with Jonas Boner, the creator of the Akka framework.  Akka provides access to both Actors and Software Transactional Memory, in the form of Transactors.  So, you can mix approaches between transactional memory, message-based asynchronous processing with Actors, and the combination of the two.  Very interesting podcast and complements Episode #37 well (like a good wine and cheese)...

Enjoy!

Ken

Very interesting article from Gavin King. Essentially my original opinion on Seam, based on interviews this Spring with a number of JBoss developers, is that it would be cannibalized to help the Java EE 6 spec.

Gavin says that EJBs are now needed less (only for exposing web services) and that Weld - the maybe 4th name for JSR-299 would take the injection technology.

Also he goes on to say that JSF 2 really took it's major shift in simplicity from Seam (no more page beans config file) and that the Seam programming model will be the JavaEE programming model.

The full article here:

http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/11/weld10