Chariot Developer News

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March 13, 2014DevNews 82 – We discuss Dashing dashboards, our favorite Vagrant, ECMAScript 6 (look, ma, CLASSES) and of course we rant…
Dashing, an OSS Dashboard framework from Shopify
FSF joins with Software Freedom Law Center against software patents
Also – Unlocking the Sky
And is this the type of patent we’re talking about?
What’s new in Chrome 33?
It’s not just a James Bond Character, now Q is a language
the beta directory of Gradle Plugins
Countdown to Windows XP Expiration
Man denies he’s Bitcoin founder
Great long-form analysis and commentary of this on TWIT
A Programmer’s Guide To Data Mining
Comp Sci Papers We Love Twitter @paperswelove
Vagrant 1.5 Preview – Vagrant Share
ECMAScript 6 includes immutability, classes, comprehensions, more
Cellphone unlocking bill === Total Sham
Standard disclaimer – the opinions of the DevNews team are their own, and do not reflect those of Chariot Solutions. We welcome your opinions as well, please tweet and include @techcast or send us a dm.
Chariot Events @ Philly Tech Week
AngularJS Hack-a-Thon – Tuesday April 8th, $50 @ Chariot in Fort Washington, PA
Modern JS Build Tools Hack-a-Thon – Thursday April 10th, $50 @ Chariot in Fort Washington, PA
Keith Gregory's talk on AngularJS in Philadelphia – TBA…
Chariot Talks Tech at WHYY, also Tuesday April 8 at 6:30 PM. Free! Hear what we've been doing at the most recent Chariot Day internal conference!
The DevNews is Sponsored by
Chariot Solutions Training Services – Providing training in Scala, Spring, Grails, AngularJS, Maven, and more.
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February 25, 2014DevNews #81 – Distortion, crypto flaw in iOS and Mac, imperative to functional and more
So it’s the day of badly recorded audio, forgetting to hit record, and some pretty serious certificate bugs to pay attention to in iOS/OS X…
Links (in no apparent order):
Got several Google accounts and wanna sync them? – neato!
So, someone can explain what this is? – Something called Dotty – looks like a sandbox for a less complex version of Scala?
To this I say ‘Gack!’ – Critical crypto flaw in OS X and iOS – Anyone with a Mac or iOS device should read this…
XKCD got it a while ago
Learning From Apple’s #gotofail Security Bug
According to TechCrunch article, market research shows Android accounts for 70% of phone sales – interesting breakdowns at bottom.
Wow, TestFlight will no longer support Android applications in March – is this a good idea?
From Imperative to full Functional with Java 8 in a few examples
Coffitivity. Keep from being distracted with a coffeeshop in your phone or on your desk…
Or try Drunk Ron Swanson
Generate a changelog based on merged pull requests or commit messages. From http://www.reddit.com/r/programming
Netflix pays Comcast for a faster connection
Internet exchange points aren’t new
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February 17, 2014DevNews #80 – We talk Javascript goodness, Java8 time, CMS, SMS, SOS!
The augment library – classical inheritance for object design in JavaScript. Good if you’re not on the functional Javascript bandwagon.
JSJ Podcast on large single page apps – JavaScript podcast on large singled page apps
Javascript Module Loaders Considered Harmful Side note – Angular ngConf – performance considerations
Java 8 new date and time api
Developers: Are you tough enough? 23 skills for any developer – Normally I hate, hate, hate these roundup lists, but this one is actually pretty good advice for an up-and-coming developer.
Twilio SMS Receive – Crazy Simple
Enjoyable CMS using Statamic + Github + Webfaction
S3 web hosting
Pistachio + Evernote
Rogue DNS Servers and March 8th – You could lose DNS – Check your DNS servers to make sure you’re not using a Rogue DNS or you’ll lose your DNS access on March 8th. Really.
Hilarious and informative inside post on platform architecture and eating your own dog food: Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant
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February 10, 2014DevNews #79 – My So-called $8000 Spun Nylon 3D Printed Lamp
GopherCasts – short Go Language tutorials in the spirit of egghead.io, railscasts, and others…
Google Opens up Chromecast with new streaming SDK for iOS, Android, Chrome – App Developers, start yer streamin!
Dija hear Woz’s comment about how Apple should make an Android phone? – let’s think about that for a moment. Nah, maybe not.
Glyph a personal mobile theater, floating LCD panels in the sky, Beats by Dr. Theopolis, or is it a tron helmet? You decide.
SnowShoe Stamps: create physical objects that unlock digital assets on your phone, you get order a free developer’s kit… Joel did!
What to try out 3-D printing but don’t have a 3-D printer? There are 3-D printing services like Cubify’s cloud service – By the way, someone at Chariot told Joel about these cool dice, for those of us who know what a d20 is… https://www.google.com/search?q=thorn+dice
FlappyBird calls it quits – We laughed ourselves silly for a few really funny Amazon reviews in the same spirit – http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001250201, http://www.amazon.com/review/R2VDKZ4X1F992Q
Promises in Wicked Detail – the best blog title, ever. Also references promisejs.org. Essential reading if you're learning how to write code that uses promises APIs.
Plugs…
Chariot Training – We have training coming up in Scala, Spring, AngularJS, and more.
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2014 Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise – April 22-23, 2014. A NOT TO MISS EVENT. Click through, check out our speaker list, and get your ticket before they’re all gone.
Joel & Ken
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February 04, 2014DevNews #78 – Don’s NFC programming book, we’re snowed in, and what about Julia?
We're all snowed in this week. We start by discussing our favorite work-remotely tools… Discussed are:
Google Hangouts
FlowDock
Google Docs/Drive
Github Wiki
Plunker
Trello
Links of Note
Undocumented Secrets of $scope.$watch – for a great basic article on what Angular does to process data in scopes and provide dirty checking, read this good overview.
Chrome Apps now available for iOS, Android https://chariotsolutions.com/blog/post/googles-new-mobile-chrome-apps-framework/
Big changes to Erlang: gets maps and some other stuff
New language – Julia – proports to be a technical computing library and using the LLVM and not needing a linking step – it runs machine code on the fly – see http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/02/julia
Lighttable goes open source in the latest release
iOS8 Healthbook and Open Data
Lenovo buys Motorola from Google
Beginning NFC by @doncoleman – join us at our book signing! Details and to RSVP here
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January 28, 2014DevNews #77 – I bet you can’t run that Kanban Board on a DEC Rainbow…
Wherein we start by discussing Michael Winslow, playing with reverb, and Eric mentions a DEC Rainbow. Topics include improvements to Node in 0.12, a Ruby/Rails children’s book kickstarter, leaving Scrum for Kanban, and more…
News Items
Python 3.4 Beta 3 Released
And you think you have a lot of drives laying around – Backblaze discusses what drives it has and how they perform
Performance improvements in Node 0.12.x are really interesting
Hello Ruby- a Ruby on Rails story & workbook for children [Kickstarter]
A good review of how a company threw out Scrum and went to Kanban
You got IDE in my web browser The best web Bootstrap online editor
From the news today, Google and Samsung sign patent sharing agreement
Available online – the MIT Open Courseware bookshelf
RESTful micro framework in Go – sleepy – in 94 lines
Hydra, a distributed data storage and processing system, is now OSS
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Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise – April 22-23, 2014. Tickets are selling very fast, so get yours before they're all gone.
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January 20, 2014DevNews #76 – HAML-esque JS templates, a monitor for $400, what’s the world coming to?
Show Notes
Sponsors
Chariot Solutions Training Services, offering courses in AngularJS and the Spring Framework in February.
Haydle – increase your team's productivity by capturing information normally stuck in email and in their heads.
News Links
HAML-esque JS templates Slim and Emblem
Go by example
Rails users looking to use Angular? Look no further than this awesome year-long retrospective of Angular on Rails – specifically some great discussion of the challenge of tooling support, Karma, etc…
Elixir and the Internet of Things – Handling a Stampede
The Gamification of the Office Approaches
Akka FSM! Scala Akka FSM and Programming Akka’s Finite State Machines in Scala
Workflow – Automate your iOS tasks – presented at MHacks 2014, a 3 day hackathon at the University of Michigan
A kickstarter for a $15 Arduino compatible GPS with awesome specs
4K is for programmers
Chariot Blog Posts
Steve Smith – Mocking a server-side API with Charles and Node.js
ANTLR4 Grammar – https://chariotsolutions.com/blog/post/antlr4-grammar/
Android Data Sync – https://chariotsolutions.com/blog/post/android-data-sync/
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January 13, 2014DevNews #75 – Go Go Angular to BSON Land to pick up MongoDB
Links
Hating that infinite scroll? Some people do, some don't. Hear our takes.
GoAngular v2– AngularJS integration for GoInstant github repo, screencast @goinstant
Promises vs Callbacks in JS from Callbacks, Promises, and Coroutines oh my! by @domenic
Angular Sprout is a seed project for Angular apps that helps you keep your project structured modularly vs monolithically
@Duckylove83 @codeorg Chariot's @techcast "Our organizer wrote about her experience getting started here. Resources included: learn how to code without leaving your browser"
Discussion – online learning and MOOCs
Storing state on the phone? Mobile banking app leaks data to phone
watch.rb is a simple script to watch a folder for changes to files, then reload Chrome
MongoDB is causing agita
Umm… Remember Ken's rant about Node Bower not being a curated repository? It's the argument of the dependency management in several languages and platforms. See time for Ruby to have a secure repository.
Haydle question of the week: what is the best way to install npm on Mac? For answers, listen to our discussion.
Sponsors
Chariot Training Services – this month there are specials on two public courses – AngularJS Fundamentals on Feb 19-20 and Core Spring on Feb 25-28. Register now and save!
Haydle – make your team more productive by capturing information normally stuck in email and in people’s heads, check out our 3 min explainer video at Haydle.com.
We welcome feedback – post on our forums, or on twitter.
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January 06, 2014DevNews #74 – Our 2013 recap, 2014 guesses and much more
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Ken and Joel give their "predictions" and "recap" of 2014, which is purely their version, but somebody's got to do it. Also, we talk tools for testing in NodeJS, namely Mocha and Chai, some linux and regex visualization websites, a < $300 ChromeBook announced by Toshiba at CES, writing and posting HTML content on GitHub using gh_pages, and more.
Correction
In DevNews 71 – I stated that pocket was a replacement for Instapaper. This is completely incorrect. It is the replacement for Read it now, not Instapaper
Articles
The state of Python 3 is not so good – here's one person's opinion of why that is the case… Agree or disagree, feel free to post comments on the podcast epsiode page! From @alex_gaynor
Speaking of command line users – check out explainshell – a great way to learn what a complex shell command does. Via Dave Fecak. Other great unix tool ‘understanders’ include http://debuggex.com for regular expressions. See Also: Visual Regex
Testing in NodeJS with mocha and chai – from TutsPlus.
Under $300 chromebook from Toshiba at CES 2014 – the ultimate conference notebook?
You’ve used GitHub for your projects, but have you ever used Github Pages? Read this tutorial to find out how and learn Jeckyll for developing content as well.
Ubuntu now comes with nginx as well as Apache
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December 30, 2013DevNews #73 – Grunt JS Tutorial, Ubuntu for Android, UI vs Command Line, and more…
Ken and Joel wrap up the year with a bit of conversation about smart watches, whether you’re a user of tools or conversationalist with your code, and a number of other little ditties.
Join in on the conversation and post your comments – we’ve enabled commenting on our shows so go ahead. Or if social media is more of your thing, go ahead and click on the Twitter, Facebook or Google+ links to post your thoughts there.
Links
Digital Ocean's volume destroy feature doesn't scrub volume files by default when destroying them. Discussion helps to firm up reason for opposition, with good input and debate from Digital Ocean contributors as well as fog users/committers.
Using AngularJS mocks to rapidly prototype without a working HTTP backend server – nifty trick and one that isn’t obvious…
Are you an Apple developer with a subscription to developer.apple.com? If so, check it out – ‘tech talk’ tutorial videos available from Apple.
Slightly older (November 1st) but this is a good starting guide to using GruntJS for your builds. Grunt JS Workflow Tutorial. From @iammerrick.
Got a Nexus device with a lot of disk space and a hankering to hack? Ubuntu Dual Boot for Android is now available in preview. Ok, hackers with a phone you don't mind rooting and risking, go at it!
Developers – Are you a tool user or conversationalist with your code? thnks to Dan Boikus – @danboykis for that one.
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FAQs about Chariot Developer News:

How many episodes does Chariot Developer News have?

The podcast currently has 47 episodes available.