Who knew that Chariot had a microcomputer revolutionary connected to a consultant on our staff? Turns out, we do. Bill Mensch co-invented the 6502 processor, the chip that launched the Apple 1, Commodore VIC-20, and many other devices - all in our backyard.

Upcoming Philly Area Events June 20 - Old City, Philadelphia - Ken Rimple @ LibertyJS doing an AngularJS for beginners workshop in the AM June 18 - Agile Philly - Strafford, PA - Exploratory Testing for Mobile Devices June 24 - Agile Philly - Center City, Philadelphia - Agile Transitions June 18 - CocoaHeads - […]

Today we welcome Jeff Labonski on the show to discuss this week's developer news. User group announcements: Philly PostgreSQL Meetup on June 4th - Replication Slots: The Game Changer I will be Speaking at the Scotch Plains Java User Group (of the ACGNJ) - Tuesday June 9th, 7:30PM - about ES6 now Wednesday June 17 […]

DevNews is nearing its 100th episode! We may or may not have something up our sleeves to celebrate our ripe old age... but until then, listen as Joel and I discuss: Oops, Carly Fiorina - someone registered your domain name before you did - criticism by domain name Angular 2.0 getting started guides now available […]

Annnnnnd ETE begins! Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise is Chariot's annual tech conference for developers, by developers. To kick off our coverage, I sat down with two of our consultants, Michael Pigg and Sujan Kapadia, to discuss our day, talk about talks, and geek out about all the cool new toys we can't wait to […]

Ionic is a cordova-based mobile application development framework. Using AngularJS as the core web framework, sass for CSS simplification, and the ngCordova library, Ionic makes building cross-device applications easier. We talked to Mike about Drifty's earlier tools such as Codiqa, how they came up with Ionic, and about its use of Angular and other technologies. […]

Colin Eberhardt is a 2015 Philly Emerging Tech speaker who will address Swift and ReactiveCocoa. Swift debuted last year as a replacement developer language for Objective-C on apple's platforms. ReactiveCococa is a framework developed by GitHub to handle any kind of asynchronous activity in the Cocoa platform. Colin makes the case that while Swift is […]

On the show today, Java Performance tuning expert Monica Beckwith. Monica worked at Sun and Oracle as a performance engineer, and contributed a lot of optimizations and tuning advice to the JDK Hotspot team. She is an Performance Tuning consultant today, working on advising clients on how to best balance aspects such as throughput, latency, […]

In TechCast 85, we talk to Tom Igoe, one of Philly ETE's 2015 Keynoters. Tom is an associate arts professor at NYU in their Interactive Telecommunications Program, and talks to us about the program itself, physical computing, and the Arduino, a board that he was instrumental in getting founded back in 2005.

Salt Lake City, Utah, is a beautiful place to have a conference. The organizers must realize that, as they planned ski trips and other events all around the show. That said, I've been locked up in my hotel room for the most part digesting what I've learned in Day 1. There is a live stream […]