Chariot Developer News

Chariot Developer News


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DevNews #60 - Somebody buy Joel a Furby
September 17, 2013

This week - it's Not about Furby, but about the new Apple iPhones. Your hosts, Ken Rimple, Sujan Kapadia and Joel Confino talk about whether they'd go out and buy one, whether they still display the same appeal, and what's under the surface that could be

DevNews #59 - Bugs made of paper and graphine transistors - does the NSA know?
September 09, 2013

YEAH! Integrating yeoman-style projects into a larger maven build - Addy Osmani comes up with the goods. Making Maven Grunt We buried the lead - NSA can get to everything Joel brings up the counter-point, an article by ARS. Vertx 2.0 Q&A on InfoQ w/Tim Fo

DevNews #58 - The London Eye - of Sauron
September 03, 2013

The Developer News is sponsored by Chariot Solutions Education Services. Get trained in Scala, Spring, Grails, Maven, Nexus, and more. Links, please! Note - I accidentally named Don Coleman our "Director of Development" when in fact, his official title is

DevNews #57 - Wherein we decide that PCs are dead, Java VMs still scream, and we want Keynote for Android
August 26, 2013

We know Keynote for Android will never happen, but keep listening until you hear about Ken's encounter with a keyboarded, and moused, Android tablet in a remote assignment somewhere in Amish country... Quick sponsor note - registrations are now available

DevNews #56 - Wherein we go shopping for drones…
August 19, 2013

Well, not really, but did you know the US public and corporations can't buy non-military drones for corporate use yet? But it's coming. Soon, you may be pulled over by a flying saucer who wants your ID. Here are our news items... Matz speaks about the

DevNews #55 - In which our titles are shorter, and we ask, why not Javascript?
August 13, 2013

In this episode, we discuss Javascript, javascript and more javascript... But, we also discuss DBaaS (YAaaS acronym), a tasty infographic, a set of web frameworks reviewed by the people who bring you JRebel, and more. Javascript - the future dominant

Chariot Developer News Episode #54 - Wherein an HTTPS vulnerability makes us drop our gear
August 05, 2013

A recent SSL / TLS vulnerability causes temporary panic in the recording room when Joel knocks over the headphone mixer... But seriously folks, it's a doosie, one we'll be watching over the next few weeks. The mixer mishap is pretty funny though. Also,

Chariot Developer News Episode #53 - wherein Joel and Ken dislike everything
July 30, 2013

Joel and Ken cover: A twitter conversation wherein Scala is bigger than COBOL for job hunters, but not bigger than Pizza Delivery Dzone - My Java EE 8 Wishlist 160 million credit cards hacked by “high tech” cyber criminal gang over the past decade.

Chariot Developer News Episode #52 - SIM Card Hacking, JS tools, Unix tools for BigData
July 22, 2013

Show Links Sim Card Hack exposes potentially - millions of phones, potentially. Here's hoping our phones use Triple-DES encryption. Foundation -vs- Twitter Bootstrap - a good overview of both and their strengths. Great comments as well. Unix commands for

Chariot Developer News Episode #51 - More dev history, new Web IDE, Big Data debates, and more
July 15, 2013

New AWS feature - Resource permissions for EC2 RDS http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2013/07/08/announcing-resource-permissions-for-amazon-ec2-and-amazon-rds/?ref_=pe_395470_31013550_7 History of tech - Vannivar Bush and Douglas Engelbart interse