Illegal Argument

Join Mark, Greg, and Peter for the first recording of the year where we discuss some of the recent Scala rants by Paul Phillips, along with build things...

• Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 We're Doing It All Wrong by Paul Phillips
• Scala Collections: Why Not?
• Intra Repository Review Builds with Gerrit and Apache Maven

A semi "solo" cast where both Greg and Mark actually agree with other other, and stretch out a discussion way beyond its limit... a fun chat tho...

• The proper way to use Sublime Text Minimap
• An introduction to the Smalltalk Browser
• The Trouble With Types

Dealing with the ghost of projects past…

• Python for Delphi
• Why I don't use a Parser Generator
• If you're not embarrassed by your first release - you released too late.
• Paying for tooling and/or compilers - when did we stop having to do it?
• Netty 4 at Twitter: Reduced GC Overhead
• LMAX Disruptor - High Performance Inter-Thread Messaging Library
• MOVDBZ - Move-Decrement-BranchIfZero - Page fault based processing.
• Call Me Maybe: Split-brains and The Perils of Network Partitions.

Sit back and get your pause buttons ready for an extra long, "double episode" of Illegal Argument with a somewhat embedded, disjointed interview/discussion with Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant all about Typed Clojure, Clojure In Clojure, and the recent Indegogo funding campaign.

• JavaOne 2013 Keynotes
• Java Powers The Smart Home
• Original Typed Clojure Episode
• Redline SmallTalk - Interview with James Ladd
• Typed ClojureScript Playground
• Typed Clojure prevents Null Pointer Exceptions
• Nil Punning (Or Null Pointers Considered Not So Bad)
• Pristmatic Schema
• Overloading Considered Harmful
• Evil Code of the Day: variance and overloading
• The Future of Programming - Bret Victor
• OpenMirage - Cloud Operating System - write Xen operating systems in OCaml.
• HalVM - The Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine, or HaLVM, is a port of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler toolsuite to enable developers to write high-level, lightweight virtual machines that can run directly on the Xen hypervisor.

• Java 7u40
• Java 7u40 breaking applets
• Lucene issues with 7u40
• Java 8 Developer Preview
• DWR
• OSGi Application Framework
• JsonSchema
• Literally now means figuratively

• Designing APIs - from the REPL to Application
• Clojure after the honeymoon ( pdf slides )
• Database Migrations
  • dbng from Mark Derricutt
  • git-migration experiment also from Mark Derricutt
  • MyBatis Migrations
  • Liquibase

Join Mark, Greg, and new co-host Peter as we discuss Language Productivity and Estimation.

• Using Scala will make you less productive - Is Productivity King? There are many more things in “development” which will lower your productivity than the language you eventually implement the solution in. I (Mark) think I made the comment I've never seen scala as being "a more productive language", but a more flexible, adaptable, etc. language which may lead to more productivity, but productivity is WAY more the sum of intangible parts of development
• How do you measure productivity in a language, and when should you expect to get results, e.g. 6 months, 1 year, 2 years - 5 years?
• Is there a correlation between small, modular, artifacts and static typing? does having a contract get better with smaller service ( even if generic type contracts )
• Is static typing a fractal cost on your code base. The better you write your code the more cost you incur?
• Static typing suits large method and class as you pay the tax less times?
• How do you determine the productivity of a new language?
• Statically typed javascript (typescript)

• How does switching languages affect how you handle time estimates?
• How do you handle time estimates in general? (Mark) I’ve often seen it said rather than just estimate how long it will take, estimate how long it will take Person X to do it ( if they’re doing the work, taking into account things you know about their productivity/skill level/work load etc.) - you may know Clojure/Scala well, but with DevY is to do the work and not yet fully up to skill with the toolset.....
• Development estimates are only accurate if you are maintaining velocity. What error margin and corrective multiplier is reasonable?
• What methods of estimate generation are good? Planning poker can be slow, but can be a great method of generating estimates.
• Function Point Calculations as a confirmation guideline
• How far out do you estimate, and how does YAGNI play into this.

• John Carmack post on Static Analysis
• Sonar
• What's in your stack?
• Ops vs Support vs Devs

In this epic episode, we talk process with guest Peter Cummuskey.