The Conversations Network no development,digest,programming,technology The Conversations Network webmaster@conversationsnetwork.org (The Conversations Network) http://spokenword.org/r?u=http://www.spokenword.org/playlist/14 Once in a while a real gem comes along that I want to recommend to people. You can expect this to be low-volume (maybe an episode a month), but (I hope) fairly interesting. en-us Copyright (c) 2008, The Conversations Network Sat, 15 Nov 2008 04:43:12 CST Conversations Network Custom RSS Generator 4.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss webmaster@conversationsnetwork.org (The Conversations Network) webmaster@conversationsnetwork.org (The Conversations Network) http://www.spokenword.org/program/306 Guy Kawasaki has a long history working in technology, both in established companies and as an entrepreneur. He worked for Apple at the time of the development of the Macintosh and later returned as an Apple Fellow. In this keynote speech, he gives what he believes are the important stages towards successful innovation. He presents the steps in both a humorous and intelligent way, showing what companies must do to be successful. Wed, 3 Oct 2007 00:00:00 CDT GigaVoxMedia-1867 0 http://www.spokenword.org/program/31 Relating anecdotes from the past, Kent Beck, the father of Extreme Programming and JUnit, reflects back on the impact his ideas have had in the last 20 years, especially with respect to the history of Test Driven Development (TDD), Design Patterns, and Extreme Programming (XP). According to him, good ideas take about that much time to mature and come to fruition. Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/episode-3759 0 http://www.spokenword.org/program/6858 The Singularity is near; it will arrive in 10, 50, or 100 years depending on whom you talk to. Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, examines the value of expertise in predicting the future, and discusses his thoughts on artificial general intelligence, based on his past experiences at NASA and current work with Google. Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/episode-3397 future,science-technology 2008 http://www.spokenword.org/program/116 Software concurrency is hard to get right, and the main tools programmers have to deal with it are over 30 years old. Simon Peyton-Jones of Microsoft Research discusses a new technique called Transactional Memory that is simple to program and removes many of the possibilities for error inherent in traditional concurrent programming. Look for Transactional Memory to be more important as multi-core programming becomes standard. Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/episode-3368 0 http://www.spokenword.org/program/20068 Ben Rushlo of Keynote Systems discusses how organizations should work to make their websites better. He talks about the status of the web and reviews how perceived performance is often different from actual performance. He gives tips for better operation and gives a number of suggestions that companies can use to improve their sites. Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 CDT http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/episode-3879 business,internet-web,softwareDevelopment 2008 http://www.spokenword.org/program/22519 Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte, CO. This discussion covers topics like re-use vs. re-write, abandoned software projects, static and dynamic languages, project vibrancy, bugs and defects and lots more.Abandoned open source projectshttp://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/08/02/0039217&mode=thread SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/ Java.net - http://java.net/ Google code - http://code.google.com/hosting/ Code scavenging in the enterprisehttp://www.informs-sim.org/wsc02papers/099.pdf http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/30/code_scavanging/ Google code searchhttp://www.google.com/codesearch Do it right the second time?http://www.amazon.com/Right-Second-Time-Benchmarking-Practices/dp/1563271753 Larry Wall - Post Modern Programminghttp://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html John Ousterhout on scripting and higher level programminghttp://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html  DRY - Don't Repeat Yourselfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Networkhttp://www.cpan.org/  Koders.comhttp://koders.com/  POJO classes in Java EE 5http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/shannon_qa.html http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=BenefitsJavaEE5  Static typing vs testinghttp://www.mindview.net/WebLog/log-0066 http://osteele.com/archives/2003/08/test-versus-type  Findbugs static analysishttp://findbugs.sourceforge.net/  Glazed Listshttp://publicobject.com/glazedlists/  Google Collections Libraryhttp://code.google.com/p/google-collections/  Java Dynamic Proxieshttp://unserializableone.blogspot.com/2007/08/make-use-of-java-dynamic-proxy.html http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/21463  The wall of typesafe erasurehttp://viewfromthefringe.blogspot.com/2007/11/wall-of-erasure.html http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/04/foiled-by-erasure/  Java reflection APIhttp://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/index.html http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/02/12/reflection-in-action.html  Scala traitshttp://www.scala-lang.org/node/126  Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse Theme Music: Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI), written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney. Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad. Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626 Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:21:00 CST http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=401248# Interview,Podcast,carlQuinn,developers,dickWall,interviews,java,joeNuxoll,technology,torNorbye 2008